I am searching for possible descendants of or information on the following:- Henry Power, born to Michael Power & his wife, Margaret [nee Martin] on or about 16th April 1857. He was baptised in the R C Church of St John, Ballygunner [Parish of St John] on 19th April 1857. I have the baptismal record. The sponsors at baptism were John Martin and Honor Rourke, and the priest who officiated was Rev P Nolan. The address of Michael and Margaret Power at the time of their son's birth was Spring Garden Alley, Waterford City, Ireland, that in the 1850s consisted of 27 houses and some other properties. Family tradition is that Henry Power emigrated to Australia and may have gone gold mining. I have no evidence of this, and I have no other information about Henry Power. Judy Webster has no kindly found for me a record on the passenger list of the ship, FLORENCE, that sailed from Plymouth, England, on 12th February 1876. The list has an entry for a free passenger, Henry POWER, age 19 years. The ship reached Townsville on 17th June 1876. I have a photocopy of the relevant extract from the passenger list, and the manuscript writing is very clear - the name is Henry POWER. Unfortunately, confusion enters thereafter in that the Immigration Agent's List for the ship, Florence, at Townsville shows Henry POWELL being employed for a period of 3 months from 11th July 1876 at a wage of £35 per annum. There is no Henry POWELL on the passenger list of the Florence - only Henry POWER, and there is no record of a Henry POWER being subsequently employed. Are they the same person? If so, which surname is correct - POWER [per the passenger list of the ship, Florence] or POWELL per the immigration agent's employment list? My own view is that the Henry Power on the passenger list of the Florence that sailed from Plymouth on 12th February 1876 and that reached Townsville on 17th June 1876 is likely to be my Henry Power. I say this for a number of reasons as follows:- 1.. The age is correct - my Henry Power was born on or around 16th April 1857 [I have documentary evidence of his baptism on 19th April 1857]. He would have reached his 19th birthday during the course of the voyage of the Florence. 2.. Family memory is that Henry Power "ran away to sea" when he was about 16 years of age. If that is true, at age 19 he could well have been unable to pay his own passage to Australia, and it makes sense that he would have been a free passenger. 3.. The writing in the ship's record of the Florence is very clear - it is Henry POWER. It is likely that the ship's passenger list would be correct as he probably needed evidence of his name and age for record purposes. 4.. It is very easy to accept that an error could have been made by the Immigration Agent, Bowen. It might well have been that the Agent wrote what he thought he heard the man saying, and accents varied a lot. I heard that there were many tens of thousands of such errors made by Immigration Officials at Ellis Island in the USA, and for the very same reason. 5.. Departure from Plymouth made sense at the time for somebody coming from Waterford, Ireland. If that person "ran away to sea" some few years before, he could well have gone to Plymouth. 6.. My Henry Power had three sisters - no brothers. One sister was my grandmother, who married and remained in Waterford. The other two sisters went to Australia on the SS Waroonga that left London on 5th April 1887 and arrived in Brisbane on 1st June 1887. The two sisters - Ellen Bridget Power and Elizabeth Power - both went immediately to Cairns because they had come as free passengers on the Assisted Immigrants Scheme to Queensland. I think that they may well have been following in their brother's footsteps, although I have no evidence of that. Any assistance will be much appreciated. Dr Con Power [born at Gracedieu East, Waterford, and now living in Dublin, Ireland]