Dear Abbie, Thank you very much for your emails on this elusive John MURRAY. I have check through all the census that are on line but have not had any success and would greatly appreciate your look-ups for him in California. On re-reading my original email I may not have made myself 100% clear. I am researching this man for a modemless friend and I am from, Melbourne, Australia and this is where John MURRAY eventually married. I have no evidence he married/had children in USA. From the evidence I have it would appear that he left England and probably arrived in New York, and from there eventually made his way to San Francisco and then Australia. To have an American Seaman's Certificate stating he was born in New York he would either have had to falsify his documentation, but may have also become an American Citizen. I have searched all the available sites (that I know of) for any evidence of a vessel "B....St. Mary" leaving San Francisco for Port Phillip in 1855. The Agent's name was J.J. Southgate and I have found that they were Commercial Merchants in Pacific Street, San Francisco in 1852, were at Pacific & Davis in the 1853 City Directory, and shown on the 1857 Assessors List as Southgate & Mitchell. Thank you for your offer of assistance it is greatly appreciated. If you need any info. from Australia please let me know, and in the meantime have a very happy Christmas and New Year. >From a warm and sunny Melbourne, Australia Regards, Mary of Melbourne Researching, FOSTER, Coventry >Aust - PRITCHARD,Coventry>Aust GEOFFREY,Bloomsbury, Middlesex>Aust - ORCHARD, Warminster, Wiltshire>Aust STUART,Aberdeen, >Aust - EDWARDS,England>Aust GREATZ,NSW>Aust - PFITZNER, Prussia>Aust WILLIAMS,CUNNINGHAM, HUMPHREYS,MULVAHILL >Aust ,