*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 June 2008 is . . . o Passengers: o CANADA & US o Chambly - 28th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 27th September 1829 o Chambly - 29th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 1st October 1829 o Chambly - 30th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 6th October 1829 o Chambly - 31st trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 10th October 1829 o Chambly - 32nd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 16th October 1829 o Chambly - 33rd trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 21st October 1829 o Chambly - 34th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 27th October 1829 o Chambly - 35th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 3rd November 1829 o Chambly - 36th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 7th November 1829 o Chambly - 37th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 14th November 1829 The last of the CHAMBLY lists for 1829. I'll be starting the 2nd half of the JOHN MOLSON lists next. 1829 was a wonderful year for steamboat records as there are surviving records for FIVE boats. If you've checked the index page, you'll probably think I can't count as there are only four shown . . . but, there is another on the next microfilm reel, so I'll add that (the ST. LAWRENCE) at a later date. :-} o Passengers: o SOUTH AUSTRALIA o barque Constantine, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 1st July 1855 o ship Octavia, from Southampton to Port Adelaide 19th July 1855 o ship South Sea, from Plymouth to Port Adelaide 30th July 1855 Lots and lots of young women on these three ships, most of them Irish. The SOUTH SEA even has a lot of single young men, also mostly Irish, which was unusual as the regulations ca. 1853 states in part >>> 2. The separation of husbands and wives and of parents from children under 18 will in no case be allowed. 3. Single women under 18 cannot be taken without their parents, unless they go under the immediate care of some near relatives. Single women over 35 years of age are ineligible. Single women with illigitimate children can in no case be taken. 4. Single men cannot be taken unless they are sons in eligible families, containing at least a corresponding number of daughters. >>> (you can find the full transcript of the qualifications for assisted passage, on the index page .. http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/SAassistedindex.htm ) The SOUTH SEA even includes two Mariners . . . I've never seen that before. Whether they were "distressed seamen" given passage to a safe port, or seamen landed as immigrants, I don't know. Now ... as well as my standard request (below) for corrections or additions to any of the lists, I send out an S.O.S. for help with the OCTAVIA list !! There was no surviving "official" list, only the newspaper list. Robert and I have done our absolute best to fill in the gaps which began with "Mr. & Mrs. XXXX and xx children," so please pass this *new* email to any list you belong to where we might be able to get some help from those listers . . Robert, a reminder for you to send it to AUS-SAGEN <grin> 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. 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/