Hi Tony, SA shipping records are available at http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/SAassistedindex.shtml You need to look at each individual ship so a bit time consuming. Regards, Brenda On 17/01/2013, at 10:57 PM, "Tony O'Grady" <tonyogrady26@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks again Peter. It's always helpful to be forced to retrace your steps and recheck your material. Adelaide remains a possibility but the SA records are pretty thin. I fear that their records may not have survived. > > I have used Trove pretty extensively for this family. Lots of interesting material but not on their arrivals. > > It looks if St. Senans in Kilrush has to be the next step. > > Many thanks, > Tony. > > > On 17/01/2013, at 9:00 PM, "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > >> Tony, >> >> You're right. There's nothing obvious. >> >> Jane McGrath had to be here by 1853 when, by your records, she married. >> The only possibility in Assisted Immigrants is an 1852 arrival via Lady >> Elgin. But the other McGraths on the ship are names like Deborah, James, >> Nathaniel and Mary. >> >> I did similar logic for Bridget before 1853 and there's no match on >> ages. >> >> So the possibilities are >> a) Unassisted (Highly unlikely I would think) >> b) Disembarked in Adelaide, Hobart or Sydney >> c) All travelled separately (Again highly unlikely) >> d) Horribly mistranscribed >> e) Shipping papers don't survive. >> >> I don't think I can help. The only other suggestion might be to search >> Trove newspapers which may include them in shipping news. >> >> At least you know they were here and have all the Australian data on >> them. And I can give you a personal guarantee they travelled by boat. >> >> Peter >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-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 IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Hi Brenda, Thanks very much for that information. I will start work on it straight away. Tony ................................................................................................................. On 17/01/2013, at 11:22 PM, Brenda Pilson <brendapilson@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Hi Tony, > SA shipping records are available at > http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/SAassistedindex.shtml > You need to look at each individual ship so a bit time consuming. > Regards, > Brenda > > On 17/01/2013, at 10:57 PM, "Tony O'Grady" <tonyogrady26@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks again Peter. It's always helpful to be forced to retrace your steps and recheck your material. Adelaide remains a possibility but the SA records are pretty thin. I fear that their records may not have survived. >> >> I have used Trove pretty extensively for this family. Lots of interesting material but not on their arrivals. >> >> It looks if St. Senans in Kilrush has to be the next step. >> >> Many thanks, >> Tony. >> >> >> On 17/01/2013, at 9:00 PM, "Peter R Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >> >>> Tony, >>> >>> You're right. There's nothing obvious. >>> >>> Jane McGrath had to be here by 1853 when, by your records, she married. >>> The only possibility in Assisted Immigrants is an 1852 arrival via Lady >>> Elgin. But the other McGraths on the ship are names like Deborah, James, >>> Nathaniel and Mary. >>> >>> I did similar logic for Bridget before 1853 and there's no match on >>> ages. >>> >>> So the possibilities are >>> a) Unassisted (Highly unlikely I would think) >>> b) Disembarked in Adelaide, Hobart or Sydney >>> c) All travelled separately (Again highly unlikely) >>> d) Horribly mistranscribed >>> e) Shipping papers don't survive. >>> >>> I don't think I can help. The only other suggestion might be to search >>> Trove newspapers which may include them in shipping news. >>> >>> At least you know they were here and have all the Australian data on >>> them. And I can give you a personal guarantee they travelled by boat. >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-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 IRL-CLARE-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 IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message