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From: "Bob Cunning" <>
Subject: Fw: Percy BENSON
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:26:08 +1000

Hello fromMelbourne . I wonder if anyone can assist with my problem.

My Grandfather, Percy Harold Ryton BENSON is known to have been a Ship's
Stoker in June 1907. By April 1908 he was in Queensland when my
Grandmother
and family arrived on R.M.S. "OROTAVA" I see 3 possibilities:

Percy "Jumped" ship in Australia

Worked his passage here

Came here as a passenger Hence my query to this list

I wonder if SKS would have passenger lists for the "OROTAVA" from June 1907
to Dec 1907. I know that it does not necessarily follow that, if he were a
passenger, he would have chosen that ship, but it is worth a try.

Cheers, Bob.

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