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From: "Lynne Tocher" <>
Subject: Re: VDL Immigration
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 15:26:33 +1100
References: <004201c640e1$47e75500$48ad8790@telstra.com>


My Great Grandmother, Harriet MACROW, was an assisted migrant, arriving in
Launceston in March 1862 as part of the Launceston Immigration Aid Society.
Harriet travelled on "Solway" whose manifest included her sister, (Mary)
Elizabeth Bye & Elizabeth's husband Henry.
Harriet paid a deposit of £1/-/- down (the 2001 value of this amount is
£46.86), I hold the receipt, with the promise to pay £16/-/- in toto,
(£749.74).

Harriet was " introduced " by H. Dowling* i.e. he put the money up front ,
her occupation was given as a housemaid , she could read & write & her
native place was Norfolk. Her occupation was given as "housemaid" , and she
was literate. (* Dowling was the editor of The Van Diemens Land Temperance
Herald" and a member of the Launceston Immigration Aid Society Committee.).

The ship the "Solway" of 946 tons, on which Harriet travelled , was owned by
the famous James Baines , of the Black Ball Line. The migrants came via the
"Solway" to Melbourne, thence "Black Swan" to Launceston where it arrived
9th March 1862..

Harriet's cousin, Judd MACROW, and his family had migrated 1857 on "
Southern Eagle."



Regards,



Lynne


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