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From: "Perplexed" <>
Subject: Re: [PJ] Deaths at sea
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 22:06:57 +1000
References: <422DEADE0091C214@smtp02.syd.iprimus.net.au> <3.0.6.32.20050407232515.00933b10@pop3.free.net.nz>


How do you find out if the Journals are available? And do they cover just
convict ships or could I use them for other relatives who arrived in
Australia?

The convict ship voyages I am interested in are the Royal Sovereign in 1834
and the Waverley in 1839.

Thanks

Anne


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pamela Dowling" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 9:25 PM
Subject: Re: [PJ] Deaths at sea


> Hi David,
>
> At 20:28 7.04.05 +1000, you wrote:
>>The Surgeon Superintendents Journals (if available) are a wealth of info
>>and
>>helped me a great deal. So as other Listers have suggested - it is worth
>>the
>>research on that Journal.
>
> It's always worth researching, that's for sure. I spent a good deal of
> time
> reading/copying from these Surgeon's Journals films a year or so ago, both
> for myself and for a number of other listers. So learned a lot about them
> during this time.
>
> The amount and quality of the detail to be found in these journals does
> vary wildly. It depends a great deal on the man writing the journal, and
> some wrote very minimal journals, and then offered excuses along the lines
> of "truly I did write a log but the dog ate it" to the Admiralty, and in
> some cases the Surgeons' fees were withheld because of their journals or
> lack thereof, or they were not to be given another Surgeon's post.
>
> Some journals would run to 2-3 pages of generalities, some to a hundred
> pages, detailing every case. Some, of course, don't survive, or as I said,
> were never written.
>
> But it's always, always, worth checking them. :-)
>
> Regards
> Pam
> An Aussie transplanted to Rotorua, NZ.
>
>
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