Thank you Janet, Les and to everyone else who has responded. I will look forward to checking out the sites you have mentioned below Janet. Kindest regards Joy > On 21 Nov 2013, at 9:22 pm, "Janet" <cilurnum@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I endorse what Jean has said about your information. Thank you. > Out of curiosity I have checked the archives and found these > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SCT-ISLEOFMULL/2010-01/1264542200 and there > are others that might contain information; it is always worth searching there > There are also lists here: > http://surnamesupersearch.com/passenger/index.html > http://www.scotlandsfamily.com/ships-passengers.htm > There's a search engine on this page and its not only Aberdeen > https://www.abdn.ac.uk/emigration/user-guide.html > I think this site might be worth having a look around http://www.theshipslist.com/ but > your search will have to start Scotland and hope there's something that includes Mull > travellers. > > Janet > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <leshorn@ythanonich.freeserve.co.uk> > To: <sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:44 PM > Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Immigration to Australia (via Liverpool) > > > EliZabeth asked > > "I too have wondered how they would have travelled from Mull to Liverpool. Also, my > McDONALD family from Skye was also on that ship, so they had travelled even further." > > There were regular sailings between the Clyde and the west coast ports. Originally by > David Hutcheson then his son-in-law David MacBrayne. Whilst the Caledonian Steam Packet Co > ran the steamers in the Clyde and, amongst others, down to England. It's the merger of > these two companies which form today's CalMac. > > The earliest railways in Scotland and England were unconnected. Before the Caledonian > Railway, the quickest journey between Glasgow and London would have been Glasgow to > Liverpool by sea and then Liverpool to London by train. From March 1841 it was possible to > catch the train between Glasgow and Greenock, then travel between Greenock and Liverpool > by sea; (and then to London by train) > > Hope this helps > Regards > Les > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SCT-ISLEOFMULL-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the