Hi In 1857 Robert & Helen Beattie and family sailed from Greenock to Melbourne, Australia. What manner of transport would they have taken to get to Greenock from Stranraer? Robert was a wine and spirit merchant with three small kids and an unassisted passenger so presumably had some money available for transport. Would it have been train, or coach or a combination of these or ship around the coast? I have been unable so far to find a log to say if the ship collected emmigrants from the Liverpool Emigration Depot so it may in fact have been there that they actually came on board. regards Pauline Melbourne, Australia