Thanks for your suggestions Peter. So far I have not been able to find any trace of them in the Vic. or NSW shipping indices let alone any original arrival records but I will keep looking. I have been reluctant to start with the Kilrush parish records when there is still no firm evidence that that is where they came from but it now looks as if I should tackle them after all. Tony On 16/01/2013, at 11:35 AM, Peter R Booth <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> wrote: > Tony, > > Do you have the exact shipping details? Have you looked for original > documents rather than just extracted index data? I believe they are in > Victorian State Archives. I live in Sydney, so have never been able to > access them. > > I've seen the NSW equivalents which are brilliant sources of data, > especially for assisted immigrants, which most were. Depending on the date, > early Port Phillip (Melbourne) arrivals were kept in Sydney. > > There are two sets of papers, the shipping line and the papers relating > to assistance. NSW Archives has recently digitised the shipping papers. But > you need to look at both. Many you will find on Ancestry. > > Somewhere in all of that you should find an townland and perhaps names > of parents or relatives in Australia. > > 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