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From: Marianne Punshon <>
Subject: Re: lists of British subjects
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 17:05:06 +1000
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20030417181153.00a0a6e0@pop.alphalink.com.au>


My ancestor arrive in Port Phillip in 1855 on the 'Ocean Steed" He was born
in USA and the ship sailed from New York. All passengers are listed as
British subjects. May have been many lazy listmakers. Or was there some
advantage in arriving in Australia as a British subject?


Marianne Tripp Punshon
Victoria
Australia

Researching: Aughey, Fleetwood and Tripp in Australia
Aughey and Miller in Ireland
Tripp in New York State, USA


I've just looked at the "Foreign Inwards" microfiche

Arriving Melbourne 2 Mar 1854 on the "Michel Montaigne" from Mauritius

BOSTON --- (male) 29 years, British subject (everyone on board had this
designation. There were some obviously french surnames, so it may have just
been a lazy listmaker on board!)

So, if this is he (I don't know how old he was when he died, or the year,
as I have not followed the messages religiously, only superficially) then
his designation as "coloured" "black", etc may simply have been that he was
a native Mauritian?

Shot in the dark, I realize. He would not be the first hospital patient
that plucked the name of "ship of arrival" out of the air! How about
"Raisin" that turned out to be "Sultana"? or "Bride of the Morning" which
turned out to be "Sailors Bride"? or (from John Whitehand, "Andrew Mackay"
which turned out to be "Andromache"? The same situation with the
Naturalization records, where rarely is the correct ship of arrival given.

Regards, Ada






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