I was wondering if any one can help me regarding this query. If a ship departs from Cape of Good Hope for Australia, does that mean this is the only place it collected passengers. My case in point: the ARMIN left Cape of Good Hope 1858 to arrive Sydney 1858 with two of my target German immigrant steerage passengers. On the crew and passenger list it doesn't name them but lists them as single male and female INTERMEDIATE German immigrants. The people in question are Christopher Martin or Martin Christopher Ruprecht born 1837 Waldbach Wurttemberg and Friedericke Rosina Rapholt/Raphold/Rapold/Rapbold (there seem to be many variations of the name, she would have been pregnant and it is suggested by one source she gave birth to a daughter soon after arrival in Sydney. So if they embarked at the Cape of Good Hope, how did they get there? If by another ship from a German port how do I find this out, or could the Armin been en route to the Cape of Good Hope and had picked up the hundreds of German immigrants at a German port by arrangement? I cannot quite see the disembarkation of hundreds of poor immigrants with their goods and chattels walking from one ship to another in SW Africa! Any assistance is welcome, Dale Gough