The following is an excerpt from "Paisley A History" written by Sylvia Clark which I thought might be of interest to some of the people on the list who are looking for their ancestors who came from Paisley to New Zealand. "There was a standard routine for leaving Scotland [for New Zealand]. A party would assemble at Gilmour Street station and take the train to Glasgow. At the Broomielaw they would join emigrants from Glasgow on a steamer to Liverpool, England where they all crossed (on the ferry-boat built by Blackwood and Gordon of Paisley) to the Emigration Depot at Birkenhead for the checking of papers etc... Three Paisley men were among the survivors of the Manlius, Greenock to Port Philip in 1842 which arrived with 155 of the original 308 emigrants sick from typhus." Sorry folks, no names of emigrants listed. For anyone interested in seeing pictures of Paisley and learning a little of its history, I would recommend "Pictorial History of Paisley" compiled by David Rowand. ISBN No.0-907526-55-1 Alloway Publishing Price: Eight pounds. 50 Regards Janet, Ontario --------------------------------- Have a question? Yahoo! Canada Answers. Go to Yahoo! Canada Answers