Gabrielle Baker wrote: > HI, > > The passenger list will be lodged in the Australian State that was > the final destination of the ship's voyage. This ship though it > stopped at Portland, could have had a final destination of Geelong, > Williamstown/Port Phillip (all in Victoria), Sydney (New South > Wales), or even Launceston or Hobart (Tasmania). > > The Public Record Office of Victoria and the NSW Archives have the > passenger lists online (I think the Tasmanian Archives have some from > memory), but many who paid their passage are not listed. The > tendency was to name those who got assisted passage as well as the > VIP's. many of my ancestors (including my Argyll one) do not appear > on any list as they came steerage, or 'swum over' as we like to say > down under. > > Sometimes the way in which you find the ship happens in the most > unlikely of places. If you find these people in other (non-BDM) > Australian records sometimes you will find mention of the ship. I > have seen hospital registers that cite the ship a person arrived > in. Victorian Death certificates ask how long the deceased was in > the colony and this can be used to track back to a likely year of > arrival. > > regards > > > Gabrielle Baker We are beginning to work through the very limited archives of the our local library for the Ardchattan parish. We get about an hour and a bit once a week if we are good! One thing they have is some of the local papers. And in them are the ships advertised for the upcoming passages -- would it be useful to pick these names and dates up? We are in the 1888's at the moment. Jill > > > > > > At 11:44 PM 21/11/2006, you wrote: >> Keith Dash wrote: >>> The passenger list of the "Flora McDonald", which sailed from >>> Liverpool on 21/4/1852 and arrived at Portland, Victoria, on >>> 18/8/1852 included 132 emigrants from Argyll. Unfortunately, the >>> list is not more specific as to whereabouts in Argyll they came >>> from. Two families, a total of 15 people, have been identified as >>> coming from Coll, but the origins of the other 117 are unknown. Any >>> information on emigrants from Argyll on the "Flora McDonald" would >>> be much appreciated. >> >> >> Is there a list of names? >> >> >> regards >> Jill Bowis >> www.benderloch.org.uk/forum - Ardchattan history, geology, ecology, >> genealogy, weather, webcam, local forum >> www.kintaline.co.uk - where we are, what we do: Kintaline Plant and >> Poultry Centre