*new* for TheShipsList website http://www.theshipslist.com/ All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows --------------> <--------------- At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of *new* page links on the Home page. New for December 2008 is . . . o Arrivals: o Emigrant Ships from Liverpool to US East Coast and Gulf Ports, 1856 o Emigrant Ships from Liverpool to US East Coast and Gulf Ports, 1858 These are really neat. I must find some more. Granted, they only cover ships from Liverpool to the US east coast and gulf ports, however, although it is great to find a US passenger list with port of departure, you never learn date of departure on the US arrival records. The dates given in these files are for the date of "clearing" which may or may not be the date of sailing. The date of sailing may be hours or even a few days after the "clearing" of the vessel, often reliant on the winds and tides. [from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea ....... clearance, the document giving permission to sail by the custom house in a port to the master of a vessel going foreign. It is given after inspection of the ship's registry, its crew list and articles, receipts for port charges, the bill of health, and the manifest. The accuracy of all these papers has to be sworn by the master before clearance can be given. A ship is cleared to sail when all these formalities have been observed.] o Passengers: o ship Lord Hungerford, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 28th November 1856 o ship Nabob, from Liverpool to Port Adelaide 23rd December 1856 These are the last two ships with assisted passengers to South Australia for 1856. They follow the trend which developed over the 1856 emigration year with more single young men than single young women which was a total reverse of the 1855 emigration year. Interesting comment here ... .... From the Lord Hungerford, three families, 20 single men, and two single women, in all 32 souls, sailed immediately for Melbourne, no attempt having been made by these people to find employment in the colony ; but I am gratified to learn that this is the only ship, during the quarter, from which this species of emigration has taken place..... The LORD HUNGERFORD sailed from Plymouth. The NABOB sailed from Liverpool, so find people emigrating from the Northern English counties, Scotland and Wales, although there is a good smattering of Irish. I'm having fun learning more about these families from the 1851 census' and from FreeBMD, although some are definitely hiding ... maybe in plain sight, but without being personally connected, I can't always be sure of the findings, so I don't add those comments. If you recognise any families / people, who are wrongly recorded, please let Robert or I know. ... also, If anyone is able to furnish corrections or additions (like maiden names) to any of the South Australia Lists, please write to Robert or myself. Also if you know that any family or individual did leave for Victoria after arrival at South Australia then we'd like to know that too, so it can be added as a note to the list. Please share this *new* for TheShipsList website email, with any other list to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those list members (in other words, on-topic). Enjoy ! Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/