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From: Colin Möhr <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Shipping records
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 15:39:42 +0200
References: <016701c86a3e$6c499f60$6401a8c0@sn2247277093><47AC4590.9010704@gem.co.za>


Hi Derek,
Please keep a lookout for R.T.Crumplin &wife &children from England 1888
possibly aboard ss ARAB along with approx 155 others all from Hampshire.
Thanx.
Colin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Pratt" <>
To: "Adele Meyers" <>; <>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Shipping records


> The Cape Colony had two lots of Aided Immigration in the late 19th
> Century. One has been researched thoroughly by Esme bull covered the
> period 1857-67. I started to transcribe Aided Immigration lists from
> the PWD files in the Archives .
> Archives of the Secretary for Public Works Ref: PWD
> Volume Description Period
> 2/401 Passenger Lists: Lists of Emigrants per various ships 1872 - 1884
> 2/402 - 2/404 Application Forms Received for Aided Immigration 1875 - 1889
> 2/405 - 2/407 Indexes of Applications for Aided Immigration 1878 - 1881
> 2/408 - 2/410 Registers of Applications for Aided Immigration 1882 - 1902
> 2/750 - 2/760 Immigration Papers - including German, Swiss and Scottish
> as well as Agricultural Immigrants 1877 - 1883 and Immigrants from St.
> Helena 1882 - 1884 1873 - 1902
>
> I have a list of names mainly from PWD 2/401 so give me their names and
> I'll check on my list.
>
> Heather your ancestry24.com people haven't transcribe these yet have
> they? The file in the archive is in chaos with bits of papers unbound
> and varying in size etc There are also indices (PWD 2/405-2/407) but
> they are often indexed on the Cape Colony citizen who wanted to import
> workers rather than the immigrants names. e.g Under S for STUTTAFORD
> you will find a list of immigrants Mr STUTTAFORD wanted to bring to the
> Cape with help from the Colonial government.
>
> Derek Pratt
>
> Adele Meyers wrote:
>> Dear List,
>>
>> I am a newcomer to the list.
>> My ancestors left England (they came from Devon) for South Africa,
>> probably Cape Town, sometime between 1881 and 1886.
>> I would like to know if there are any shipping records available between
>> these years.
>> My grandfather left South Africa for Australia (Sydney) sometime between
>> 1908 and 1912.
>> I would also like to know if there are any shipping records from South
>> Africa to Australia.
>> Any help will be a start for me.
>> Bob and Adele Meyers.
>>
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