----- Original Message ----- From: "The Crocker Family" <gcrocker@bigpond.net.au> To: <THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:01 PM Subject: [TSL] abberton > Has anyone been able to access passenger lists for a > ship called the > Abberton which left Port of Gravesend, England in 1839. > I am looking for > George Eld Darby and his wife Sarah who died after > childbirth during the > voyage Hi Kerry Took me a while to sort this out . Would have helped had you mentioned its port of arrival . Came into port of Sydney 3 times 1839 -41 and also to Port Phillip 1844 NSW State Records either at The Rocks, Sydney or out at Kingswood would be only place to have copy of any full passenger lists It didnt carry Bounty passengers so not in the Bounty indexes CD The National Library of Australia has digitised a lot of old newspapers from the 1840s including the Commercial Journal & Advertiser fr 1835 http://www.nla.gov.au/ferguson/14401894/18390821/00050399/1-2.pdf Should be the page from the 21 Aug 1839 , day after the Abberton arrived HTH Bye MargM Beautiful Central Coast of NSW