Dear Josie It is a very very long way to Sydney. Joking aside both families were on the Cornwall The Cornwall left Dartford on Sunday 5th May arriving at Gravesend the same evening. Sunday 12th May when two steam boats took us down to Margate Rd We hove too off Deal to discharge Mr Rees the pilot. Very cold as we passed the Isle of White May 14th Plymouth bearing NW Sept 1st 1839 At 6 30 am we entered Sidney harbour the most beautiful scenery burst upon the sight with the town of Sidney in the distance Nine males and nine females died on board Not surprising as they would have been well over 100 years old A beautiful day in Sydney today about 30c Regards Jilda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josie Mackie" <josie.mackie@tesco.net> To: <eng-ken-woodchurch@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH] emigrants > That's interesting, Jilda. (Leaving aside the fact that the voyage took > 100 > years and 4 months!!! :-) ) I was told by one of the Hukins' descendants > that they left on 1st May 1839 and arrived at Sydney 1st September. I > can't > believe that there were two ships going the same place at the same time or > perhaps there were??? Dartford is only a few miles up the coast from > Gravesend (about 7?...difficult to tell on my large scale map): would the > Hukinses have been on board for 11 days before the Hamptons got on at > Gravesend? Anybody know??? I wonder why they didn't get on board > together? > best wishes, Josie > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jildawhiddon" <jildawhiddon@unwired.com.au> > To: <eng-ken-woodchurch@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 10:24 AM > Subject: Re: [ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH] emigrants > > >> The Hampton family left from Gravesend 12 5 1839 and arrived Sydney 1 9 >> 1939 >> to live in sunny N S W >> Regards Jilda >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Josie Mackie" <josie.mackie@tesco.net> >> To: <eng-ken-woodchurch@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 7:07 AM >> Subject: Re: [ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH] emigrants >> >> >> > Dear Bob, >> > The Hukins family left England for Sydney from Dartford. The year was >> > 1839. >> > best wishes, >> > Josie >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.7/1062 - Release Date: >> > 10/10/2007 5:11 PM >> > >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-KEN-WOODCHURCH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.14.7/1062 - Release Date: > 10/10/2007 5:11 PM > >