This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAMPSON, Edward and Eliza Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VUh.2ACIB/119.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Hello Lee, Look forward to you contacting me regarding your line coming through Desdemona Ann HAMPSON, born 1851 Newark, New Jersey. Do you know what ship the family sailed on to Australia from the U.S.? Also, what date and year they arrived? Do you know why they left the U.S.A. for Australia? Was it because of the Gold Rush? Any information you can give re the history of this family, would be very much appreciated. Was an inquest held into the death of Edward HAMPSON the father in 1868 and at the time of his death, was he on duty as a Police constable? Look forward to hearing from you. Also, did Arthur Pringe and Mary Amelia STEWART (nee HAMPSON) have any children? Regards, Janice. Belrose, Sydney.