HI, Found this on the following site Go to http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ and then click on search. When the search box comes up, type in stowaway, and you get 300 ships that arrived in Sydney with stowaways on board. The first 3 ships I looked at came from Liverpool, Auckland and Hokitiki (wherever that is). There is ships information and date of arrival. If you go to back and type in "born at sea" using inverted commas you get 13 hits. Most of them are crew whose nation was 'born at sea'. However, you do get some children born at sea, such as a child named infant Delaney. His/her parents and 2 siblings were one the ship "Jeanie Dove" which arrived in Sydney from Port of OVALAU? in 1860. Again, type in "died at sea" and you get 38 hits. The first ship. the AMHERST OF SYDNEY, WM LEE, MASTER, BURTHEN 171 TONS, FROM THE SOUTH SEAS TO SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, 21ST DECEMBER 1860 lost 4 crew members on the voyage. type in "death at sea" and you get some more, then try deserters, then discharged and then drowned and get more results. You can also type in a place e.g. "St Helens" and it will tell you what crew members came from there. Could make interesting reading for someone who has lost someone. It is a great site for NSW ships arrivals. It comes up with names, ships, captains and other stuff. Just remember though, if you put in more than one word use "...", otherwise it will pick up every word. Using "...", it will pick up the words together, just like it would in google. Please pass this on to any other list that may have an interest. Thanks Sue in Australia
Hi Sue, Hokitika is port on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. There were many gold mining locations all along the coast which followed the rush to Otago, which in turn followed the rushes to Australia. My grandfather was born at Stafford, very close to Hokitika but there is little other tan a cemetery at Stafford now. Cheers Peter Strauss Melbourne Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Given" <suegiven@vti.com.au> To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:21 AM Subject: [TSL] Stowaways/born at sea/died at sea/deserters/fischarged/drowned > HI, > Found this on the following site > > Go to > > http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/ > > and then click on search. > > When the search box comes up, type in stowaway, and you get 300 ships that > arrived in Sydney with stowaways on board. The first 3 ships I looked at > came from Liverpool, Auckland and Hokitiki (wherever that is). There is > ships information and date of arrival. > > If you go to back and type in "born at sea" using inverted commas you get > 13 hits. Most of them are crew whose nation was 'born at sea'. However, > you do get some children born at sea, such as a child named infant > Delaney. His/her parents and 2 siblings were one the ship "Jeanie Dove" > which arrived in Sydney from Port of OVALAU? in 1860. > > Again, type in "died at sea" and you get 38 hits. The first ship. the > AMHERST OF SYDNEY, WM LEE, MASTER, BURTHEN 171 TONS, FROM THE SOUTH SEAS > TO SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, 21ST DECEMBER 1860 > lost 4 crew members on the voyage. > > type in "death at sea" and you get some more, then try deserters, then > discharged and then drowned and get more results. > > You can also type in a place e.g. "St Helens" and it will tell you what > crew members came from there. > > Could make interesting reading for someone who has lost someone. > > It is a great site for NSW ships arrivals. It comes up with names, ships, > captains and other stuff. Just remember though, if you put in more than > one word use "...", otherwise it will pick up every word. Using "...", it > will pick up the words together, just like it would in google. > > Please pass this on to any other list that may have an interest. > > Thanks > > Sue in Australia > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* A PLACE TO START *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > Passenger Lists on The Internet > http://members.aol.com/rprost/passenger.html > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ >