Thanks everyone for your remarks. Here is a quote from a short sketch for Robert Bodily: In December, 1845, he emigrated to Cape Colony, Africa, with his wife and two children, landing at Cape Town, Easter Sunday, 1846. The town had a population of about 10,000. Here he followed the business of an engineer in the royal service for about two years. During that time most of the batteries in Cape castle were rebuilt and every gun reset in the vicinity of Capetown. Are there records on the English side and the African side for passengar ships--or would they have been troop's deployment? Someone seems to known a fairly close departure and arrival time so it may not be so hard to find, if anyone knew where to look. Thanks again all; I have been so impressed with the current set of SA researchers.