Try www.originsuk.com They have a lot of databases on different ships and often with articles to accompany. Best of luck, Al in Chester >From: Ruza Trivan <ruzat@bemail.com.au> >Reply-To: IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com >To: IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [IRELAND] Family history assistance please >Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:00:24 +1100 > >Hello Ireland List, > >Researching from Australia (with difficulty). Family name is O'Neill >which makes the research doubly hard (like looking for needle in a >haystack!) > >An early settler to Australia ( husbands forbears) migrated from Ireland >aboard the ship 'Peterborough' which departed Plymouth and arrived Sydney >4 May 1879. > >Is there any way I can find out from which port this family may have >embarked in Ireland and is there any migration details kept about families >which left the country? > >Are there any books which detail possible reasons why a husband, wife and >three small children would leave their homeland around the period late >1800's? > >James O'Neill was from Fermanagh and his wife Roseanne McKenna from >Tyrone . > >Any help or advice about how I might proceed would be gratefully received. > >Best wishes >Ruza and Terry O'Neill >Breamlea (west coast Victoria - Australia) > > >==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== >Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup >volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L >http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/ >

Hello Al (in Chester) Thanks for that. I'll give it a go. Cheers from Oz Ruza On 21/01/2006, at 2:36 AM, alex hinchliffe wrote: Try www.originsuk.com They have a lot of databases on different ships and often with articles to accompany. Best of luck, Al in Chester > From: Ruza Trivan <ruzat@bemail.com.au> > Reply-To: IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com > To: IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IRELAND] Family history assistance please > Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:00:24 +1100 > > Hello Ireland List, > > Researching from Australia (with difficulty). Family name is > O'Neill which makes the research ................................... > > James O'Neill was from Fermanagh and his wife Roseanne McKenna > from Tyrone . > > Any help or advice about how I might proceed would be gratefully > received. > > Best wishes > Ruza and Terry O'Neill ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/