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From: "Robyn Shaw" <>
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] dumbo lister....sorry!
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:06:03 +1000
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well, for your info, and many thanks....and for the others who are now
looking over MY shoulder....why i asked, you ask??? i mean how much space
can i use up??

edward evans was convicted of larceny. stealing as a servant. (a bullock,
a sheep?? no idea.) he was in pentonville prison. learned rug and mat
making. came here on the exile ship anna maria. exile as in, you repent,
do your time or a shortened version of it, and never go home again. e.g.
exiled here - sorry ada, this is for others, not you of course.....of
course...grovel, crawl...

mary tremayne on the other hand, left cornwall with mum and dad and
brothers. had her child just as ship berthed in melbourne. it was supposed
to be edward's child, but not sure if while he was in the hulk awaiting his
free trip here, they 'got together' somehow, or she was just pregnant to
someone else....we will never know.

anyway the child was born and christened mary tremayne evans...a technical
error, they were not married at the time. it died a few days later. about
6 months later edward and mary married. had a tribe of kids. 'their' first
child was never mentioned on any siblings certificates, seems it was buried
in melbourne and that was that.
i still think her mother never forgot her. maybe others did.

edward was supposed to be a soldier and porter. came from woolwich. there
was a barracks there as i understand. maybe he pinched a few guns??

why i asked about the double entries is because one family member claims
that another mary evans was the one who had the child. now if there was
only one mary on board, it cannot be. i did find the deaths on board, and
there was a child, but not mary's. it died later.

so really it was just to clarify, if indeed, there could have been two mary
tremayne's on the lysanda on that voyage with mum and dad, or should i say
two mums and dads.

thank you for the explanation. those captains were not always a good lot.
some took all the pots and pans and starved their charges. i am really
amazed that any of our rellies survived to get here in one piece.

you are a treasure honest. i will keep your valuable info in mind for the
next shipment...robyndehood (shaw) t'ba.











----- Original Message -----
From: "Ada Ackerly" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: [GEELONG] dumbo lister....sorry!


> Hello Robyn,
>
> This answer was offered a year ago to a similar enquiry on AVNE group, I
> think. So I repeat it here:
>
> As one who worked on the transcribing of those shipping lists, I will try
> to answer your question
> " I have a passenger in the index listed twice on 2 different fiche /
> pagesfor the same voyage and wondered why. "
>
> I will presume that you are right, and these two entries are of the same
> person, and not another person with the same name.....
>
> Firstly, the passenger lists varied from one single sheet with one single
> passenger, to ten or twenty five pages with hundreds of passengers, and
> these large lists quite likely could extend over the end and beginning of
> two microfiche.
>
> Some lists had a couple of pages on blue stock, the rest on white.
>
> These blue pages often included EXTRA or CONFLICTING information on some
of
> the passengers listed in the white pages ( maybe spelling, maybe age,
maybe
> other information), a sort of duplication of part of the listing on the
> white pages. So the information on both the blue and white pages had to be
> included, even if it was an exact duplication, as they had been filmed for
> the microfiche and were part of the list. And especially so if the
> information varied in any way.
>
> A further complication was that sometimes the blue pages were filmed as
> pages one, two, etc and sometimes they were filmed after the last page of
> the full (white) list. The page numbering on the index shows the order in
> which the sheets were FILMED and appear on the microfiche. With viewing,
it
> can be seen that the blue pages have a slight "greying" of the background.
>
> Sometimes the last pages list particular passengers for specific reasons:
>
> They may have died, been born, fallen overboard and lost at sea. Sometimes
> a passenger has committed a crime. Sometimes they are found to be
lunatics,
> or blind, and the immigration officer considers they may become a charge
on
> the state.
>
> Stowaways are also listed on the last page. Shipwrecked crew members
picked
> up or transferred from a sinking wreck appear on the last page. Members of
> the shipping company travelling on company business are often on the last
> page (or, on a separate "company" sheet used as a last-filmed page).
>
> And on the "Assisted (or Bounty) Immigrants" listings, the last pages
> include girls who have sexually misbehaved (and occasionally a whole
> "depraved" family) or an unaccompanied widow with children.....all of whom
> were judged to not be elligible for their free passage, and their costs
> would be charged to the "importer", who expected to receive his deferred
> "Bounty" payment for commissioning the shipload of workers. Such persons
> were not even allowed to use the immigation barracks, but were thrown on
> their own resources.
>
> Is that a help to you (and to those looking over our shoulders}?
>
> The passenger index was meant to send enquirers direct to the microfiched
> passenger lists, where they can get the port their forebears left, the
date
> they left, length of time the voyage took, the Captain & surgeon's name,
> can look over it to see if there are any families that their forebears
> married into, or who remained friends, or travelled with them in Victoria
> to set up their new life. To see if they are listed as ill on the voyage,
> if the ship was a healthy ship, if it was placed in quarantine, etc.
>
> And the day of arrival sends you to newspaper shipping columns, to see if
> the shipping reporter wrote up the voyage, if the Captain went to court
> because he starved the passengers, if the Doctor is charged with
> incompetence, if the grateful passengers placed a memorial in the paper
> thanking the Captain for his stewardship, etc. Even the weather on arrival
> day can add colour to the arrival.
>
> And then to the Police Gazettes, to see if their luggage was stolen off
the
> wharf before they could start their new life!
>
> Isn't family history detective work fun!!!
>
> Regards, Ada
>
>
> At 08:34 13-12-03 +1000, you wrote:
> >I am totally confused...and confusing i guess also....
> >
> >Got the pro victoria - assisted british immigration.
> >found family tremayne.
> >much of the family is listed twice.
> >now i am sure there were not two cuthberts or mary's etc.
> >
> >index to registers of assisted british immigrants 1839-1871
> >12 results found for tremayne.
> >first two entries are for cutbert then cuthbert. same ship, same book,
but
> >different pages.
> >
> >next two are for james who was 20, then 18. again same book but
different
> >pages.
> >
> >next is john, who is 13 twice.
> >
> >next is mary, 40, then mary 21 (she is the daughter) then mary 40 again,
> >then mary ann who is 22 (same daughter?)
> >
> >then william who is 15, then again he is 16. same book, diff. pages.
> >
> >as far as i can ascertain....cuthbert tremayne married mary morrish.
they
> >came to oz with their grown up children.
> >mary married edward evans. had a tribe of kids.
> >
> >to someone who is brainier than i am, why are they listed twice. are
they
> >really not the same people. i doubt it, but you never know. is there
any
> >way i can find out what occupation cuthbert was. e.g. shipping record
> >somewhere or the 1841 census of england. they came from cornwall.
> >
> >anyone who can offer advice is most welcome.
> >robyn shaw. toowoomba.
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ainslee Hooper" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 11:22 AM
> >Subject: [GEELONG] john evans passed away late november
> >
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > i was wondering if anyoone might have a copy of the geelong
advertiser
> >from last weekend or the weekend before. One of my great uncles John
Evans
> >passed away. In my gedcom file i can't find a John Evans so was hoping
that
> >the death notice might give more of an indication of who the person may
be.
> >I have 12 siblings in that family, some with James as the first name and
> >John as the second name. Any help would be appreciated, thanks, Ainslee
> >
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> regards,
> Ada Ackerly, Melbourne, Australia
> formerly Ackerly DocuSearch
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