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From: Alan Summerfield <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Germans in transit through London 1880s
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:57:28 +0200
In-Reply-To: <016f01c23932$c7278840$3b444fcb@nfrancis>

on 1/8/02 10:09, NFrancis at wrote:

> I note the discussions about German immigrants to London in the nineteenth
> century and have found them really interesting. My great grandparents Wilhelm
> Carl Friedrich WAHRY, Auguste Charlotte Willhelmine (born MEIER) and their 6
> children sailed from London to Brisbane on the Dorunda on 2 May 1888, arriving
> in Brisbane on 27 June 1888. They had come from Woltersdorf, Pommern which was
> previously Prussia. I wonder why they went via London when there were so many
> regular sailings direct to Australia from Hamburg. I have no idea how long
> they were in London. Does anyone on the list know anything about such
> situations and why immigrants may have travelled this roundabout way? I have
> been unable to find out when or how they left Germany for London.


Maybe they wanted to say their Auf Wiedersehens to friends/relatives in
London before possibly never seeing them again..?

Alan

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