Hi listers, i would welcome some more help please. My ancestors were Adam Moore b Ireland 1818- Lisburne, County Antrim and Charlotte Richardson aka Kerr/Carr who was born c 1820 County Tyrone. Both were convicts. I have traced them from Ireland to VDL, their lives in Tasmania, then to Port Fairy in 1849 where they stayed for 3-4 yrs. I have not been able to find a record of a coastal ship carrying them from Port Fairy to Melbourne. My next piece of information is on Auckland Area Passenger arrivals where I located the son, Adam Moore who was born in 1853 in Victoria- but no birth registration. He is listed, along with his wife Catherine Moore nee Lynch on the addresses to Sir George Grey, as having been born in or arrived in NZ in 1853. Catherine was born in Northland c 1852. So this information ties in the Adam Moore and Charlotte and family as arriving in NZ in 1853. I also have their signatures and DOB/Arrival from Archives NZ. I believe that Adam and Charlotte had 3 boys born in Victoria Mathew c 1849, Robert c1851 and Adam c 1853- and there are no birth registrations. Have tracked and located the sons, their mariages, family, deaths and events in newspapers I have no knowledge of the name of the ship they sailed on from Australia. However I have concentrated my searches in Auckland including the newspapers, and perhaps the search area needs to include Otago area. I am grasping at straws here! The copies of death printouts for Adam and Charlotte have no personal/family information , nor any years in NZ. Adam died in Jan 1883 in Auckland hosp and Charlotte died April 1882 also in the hospital. Ages at death are 66 Adam, and 62 Charlotte . There is a significant newspaper article in Auckland papers on 18 Aug 1881 which lists the family composition for Adam the butcher. It confirms his wife's name and the names of his 3 sons who were born out of wedlock, and notes thatAdam failed in his legal effort to sue his 3 sons for lack of financial support because in the court's eyes "they were illegitimate" ! My major brickwall is in not knowing exactly when they arrived in NZ and on which ship, and for this I need your assistance please. Adam worked as a butcher and he is variously listed on Jury lists and Charlotte was successful in 1865 in gaining a tender to do the laundry for both the Auckland hospital and Asylum . I have a lot of information but vital arrival details are missing Any assistance would be much appreciated . Chris Melbourne

On 4/02/2017 4:41 PM, Chris wrote: > Hi listers, > > i would welcome some more help please. > > My ancestors were Adam Moore b Ireland 1818- Lisburne, County Antrim and Charlotte Richardson aka Kerr/Carr who was born c 1820 County Tyrone. Both were convicts. > I have traced them from Ireland to VDL, their lives in Tasmania, then to Port Fairy in 1849 where they stayed for 3-4 yrs. I have not been able to find a record of a coastal ship carrying them from Port Fairy to Melbourne. > > My next piece of information is on Auckland Area Passenger arrivals where I located the son, Adam Moore who was born in 1853 in Victoria- but no birth registration. He is listed, along with his wife Catherine Moore nee Lynch on the addresses to Sir George Grey, as having been born in or arrived in NZ in 1853. Catherine was born in Northland c 1852. So this information ties in the Adam Moore and Charlotte and family as arriving in NZ in 1853. I also have their signatures and DOB/Arrival from Archives NZ. > > I believe that Adam and Charlotte had 3 boys born in Victoria Mathew c 1849, Robert c1851 and Adam c 1853- and there are no birth registrations. Have tracked and located the sons, their mariages, family, deaths and events in newspapers > > I have no knowledge of the name of the ship they sailed on from Australia. However I have concentrated my searches in Auckland including the newspapers, and perhaps the search area needs to include Otago area. I am grasping at straws here! Some years ago I found my GGF's arrival in NZ in 1869, by scanning the complete set of arrivals on microfiche IN REGISTER ORDER! As it was a computer print-out, I'm amazed that it hadn't been sorted by names. Brian Fleming, Melbourne