----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Bruse" <a.bruse@bigpond.com> To: <THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:46 PM Subject: [TSL] Ship Deserter > An ancestor (by marriage) of mine was said to have deserted his ship in > South Australia. He was a Danish seaman (I assume merchant seaman) named > Jacob Maag. I'm only estimating the time of the incident to be the late > 19th century. Can anyone suggest how I might obtain information about the > man or his ship, please? Hi Allan The National Archives have a naturalisation file for a Jacob MAAG . No idea if he is the same person , but shouldn't think there were that many Jacob MAAGs about in South Australia http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx There is also a brief newspaper ref to this same Jacob MAAGs in the Adelaide Advertiser Mar 1912 http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home Bye MargM Beautiful Central Coast of NSW