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)