GRANT: I noted that you help with the "down under" mariners' lists. Anything on the SS Moeraki? My grandfather was ship's steward and we have been unable to uncover whatever happened to him. KEITH On 16-Jul-04, at 2:01 PM, PERTHSHIRE-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > PERTHSHIRE-D Digest Volume 04 : Issue 135 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Re: Shipping Scotland to New Zeala ["Grant E. L. Buttars" > <GButtars@ta] > #2 Re: [PERTH] Re: Shipping Scotland [James Irvine Robertson > <jamesir@on] > > Administrivia: > TO SEND MESSAGES TO THE LIST PLEASE USE THE ADDRESS BELOW > > PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to > > PERTHSHIRE-D-request@rootsweb.com > > with ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE > > in the subject line and as the message. > > THE EMAIL ADDRESS YOU SEND FROM WILL BE UNSUBSCRIBED. > > It is imperative that you have some type of antivirus software > installed, running and up to date on your computer. > > Rootsweb does not allow html coding or attachments to go through the > mailing lists. Please set your email to only send Plain Text to the > list. > > Contact the list manager at PERTHSHIRE-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ______________________________ > > > From: "Grant E. L. Buttars" <GButtars@taybank.freeserve.co.uk> > Date: July 15, 2004 1:52:01 PM EDT > To: PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Shipping Scotland to New Zealand. > > >>> If any of you are looking for ancestors leaving NZ and coming to > Australia >>> in the mid to late 1800's try oz mariners site. I help do the lists >>> for >>> this site and we have quite a few ships from Dunedin and Auckland to >>> Sydney. Address is http://www.mariners.records.nsw.gov.au > > I think this should be http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ > > Regards, > ============== > Grant E. L. Buttars > Dundee, Scotland > http://www.taybank.freeserve.co.uk/ > > ______________________________ > > > From: James Irvine Robertson <jamesir@onetel.com> > Date: July 15, 2004 3:33:32 AM EDT > To: PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PERTH] Re: Shipping Scotland to New Zealand. > > > This is an extract from a 2,500 word letter which may be of interest. > The > writer, Dr CA McDiarmid, returned to Scotland where he practiced > medecine. > > Melbourne, Port Phillip, April 14th 1840 > My Dear Alexr, I know not how I am to acquaint you of the melancholy > loss > which I have sustained since I came on board & the misfortune to lose > - It > is with feelings of heartfelt pain and deep loss that I have to inform > you > that God has seen proper to take my beloved Clementina to himself. She > died > on the 23rd of January after an illness of five weeks & 4 days about > 1,000 > miles to the westward of the Cape of Good Hope. The immediate cause of > her > death was Cramps in the stomach...I have lost one whom I valued more > than > life itself...The Tomatin goes from here to China & will not likely be > home > for 6 or 7 months. We were as comfortable on board as it were possible > when > aboard ship. The captain was very kind to poor Clementina and did all > in his > power to make her comfortable. He and all the cabin passengers felt her > death very much and I may say all on board. Our cabin passengers were > very > agreeable & we were all very happy together till God saw proper to > make a > break in our little circle. There was a great deal of sickness amongst > the > passengers, They brought both smallpox and measles on board the both of > which broke out about 12 days after we left Campbelltown, They got the > smallpox at Greenock and the measles at Fort William, 8 children & 4 & > adults died of both diseases & 4 children who died got over the > enraptured > stages very well but were either carried off by secondary fever or > dysentery. Were it not that the diseases were brought on board we > would not > have had more than 4 deaths among the passengers & these 4 were > children who > were sickly when they came on board. There were no births. It is a sad > thing > to treat infectious diseases on board, especially under the line. We > arrived > at Adelaide on the 9th March making a voyage of 120 days from > Campbeltown. > We left Adelaide on the 28th March and landed here on the 8th April, > Adelaide is a wretched place... The Glen?lly arrived here yesterday > with > emigrants from Greenock, she is obliged to serve quarantine in > consequence > of having fever on board. PS I forgot to mention that the servant we > engaged > at Greenock turned out a black sheep, she was an excellent servant but > so > very drunken that we were obliged to turn her off about a fortnight > after > sailing. All the other single women on board were bad characters, so > we were > obliged to do without. > >> From: "Grant E. L. Buttars" <GButtars@taybank.freeserve.co.uk> >> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 18:52:01 +0100 >> To: PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [PERTH] Re: Shipping Scotland to New Zealand. >> Resent-From: PERTHSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com >> Resent-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:53:56 -0600 >> >>>> If any of you are looking for ancestors leaving NZ and coming to >> Australia >>>> in the mid to late 1800's try oz mariners site. I help do the lists >>>> for >>>> this site and we have quite a few ships from Dunedin and Auckland to >>>> Sydney. Address is http://www.mariners.records.nsw.gov.au >> >> I think this should be http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ >> >> Regards, >> ============== >> Grant E. L. Buttars >> Dundee, Scotland >> http://www.taybank.freeserve.co.uk/ >> >> >> ==== PERTHSHIRE Mailing List ==== >> -------------------------------------------------- >> Remember to change the subject line to reflect >> YOUR message to the list. >> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/SCT/PERTHSHIRE.html >> -------------------------------------------------- >> >> >>