Hi Olwyn Probably you have seen this card for John BECK in the MacDonald Index which refers to the move to Otago but unfortunately it doesn’t say anything about his origins. https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/708306 This card for John WAKELIN gives the pax list as a source for him. https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/718359 Peter From: Peter Dillon Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:19 PM Cc: new-zealand Subject: Re: [nz] Ann BECK ( =John WAKELIN ) Hi Olwyn I don’t know. Some trees have assumed that John BECK on the ship is related to Ann BECK the wife of John WAKELIN on the voyage but I haven’t seen the proof of it. I haven’t had a go at them yet. Presumably John’s death registration should give his parents as long as it wasn’t too early. Could be like Ann though, her’s just said her father was Richard the bricklayer and that she was born in Leicestershire, mother unknown. I haven’t located an original scan of the passenger list, just a summary online (at your pages I think!). An item in the MacDonald Index at Canterbury Museum quoted a pax list for the voyage as a source, so maybe that is at Archives NZ in Peterborough St in Chch seeing as lots of them were transfered there some years ago. Doesn’t come up on Archway though. Peter From: Olwyn Whitehouse Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2017 3:40 PM To: Peter Dillon Cc: new-zealand Subject: Re: [nz] Ann BECK ( =John WAKELIN ) Hello Peter, I like your idea of adding information like this to the mailing list archives. Was John and Sarah BECK and family, passengers on the Travancore to Lyttelton in December 2850 related to Mrs. Ann Wakelin nee Beck? They settled in Winton, Otago. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nzbound/images/Travancore.jpg