Can anyone tell me how the Danish passengers aboard the 1872 "Ballarat" (London-Napier) got to London? Did they all travel as a group, or did they travel independently? Thanks. Pip. -- Norsewood Cemetery & Settlers' Genealogies Project www.norsewoodcemetery.co.nz PO Box 4307 Palmerston North NEW ZEALAND

Hi Pip I have had a look at http://www.emiarch.dk/search.php3?l=en which is the database of the Copenhagen police emigration register. Each of the families that I have checked came from different places in Denmark and each family had a different contract number indicating that they travelled as an independent family group. It may be different for the single men who could have travelled in small groups of men all from the same parish. Emigration agents operated throughout Denmark and made their own passage arrangements for the people that they had recruited. The police register was to keep the agents honest - not to keep a list of who was migrating. Ian Westergaard In Fine & Mild Central Otago ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pip [www.norsewoodcemetery.co.nz]" <pip2004@maxnet.co.nz> To: <NZ-HAWKES-BAY-N-POVERTY-BAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: [HB-PB] 1872 "Ballarat" (London-Napier) with Danish Passengers > Can anyone tell me how the Danish passengers aboard the 1872 "Ballarat" > (London-Napier) got to London? Did they all travel as a group, or did > they travel independently? > > Thanks. > > Pip. > > > -- > Norsewood Cemetery & Settlers' Genealogies Project > www.norsewoodcemetery.co.nz > PO Box 4307 > Palmerston North > NEW ZEALAND > > > > ==== NZ-HAWKES-BAY-N-POVERTY-BAY Mailing List ==== > Hawkes Bay/Poverty Bay Website > http://mywebpage.netscape.com/julieannatnz/NZHBPBindex.html > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > >