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From: "Beth Codling" <>
Subject: RE: [AUS-VIC-West] Immigration to W.bool direct? NO
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 20:27:05 +1100
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Thanks Joan for this detailed overview of the times. Obviously my great
granparents were part of that "trawling for labour".Richard (born 1831 and
son of a Cornish farmer) and his new wife Priscilla Harvey arrived in Port
Fairy on the Clara in Dec 1854 and the shipping records state that he was an
agricultural labourer. My research of his children's birth and his death
certificate indicate that he actually ended up working as a quarryman and
stone mason but perhaps he started off on a farm. The shipping records say
that he came "of own accord". I'm not sure if this means he paid his way or
was sponsored in some other way.

I wonder how many overseas ships actually dropped off passengers at Port
Fairy? The Clara had dropped off at Portland too. Your comments Joan would
seem to mean that there might not have been many.

Thanks for your info Joan.

Beth in Melbourne



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