----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Christmas" <raychristmas@xtra.co.nz> To: <theshipslist@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [TSL] THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 218 > Hello All, > Could the list owner or Administrator or anyone else who may have the > answer, > tell me why my query to the list, looking for my g-grandfather William > MacDuff or William Harvey > (He changed his name en-route) HAS NOT YET BEEN PUT UP ON THIS WEBSITE ? Hi Ray, Which web site ? This isnt a web site What name was he known by in NZ ? Did he settle and eventually die in NZ ?? Unfamiliar with NZ death certs . Australian ones usually give length of time resident in and often parents names . This can help pin point the year of arrival and some useful info Do you know whereabouts in Scotland he came from ? If you do know, have you checked say in the 1851, plus maybe 1861 Scottish censuses ? > I gave a list of ships taking immigrants across the Pacific from the USA > West Coast to > New Zealand and Australia for the period 1860 - 1868. He originated out > of > Scotland sometime > between 1860 and 1868, so he would have also travelled by ship across the > Atlantic to either the USA > East Coast thence overland to the Calif goldfields OR via the Panama. > The Panama Canal didnt open until 1914 How do you know he travelled via the US and he changed his name en route ?? Bye MargM Beautiful Central Coast of NSW Australia