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From: Derek Pratt <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Shipping records
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:03:42 +0200
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Hi
Sorry no CRUMPLIN.

I'm trying to find a program that will allow me to list all the names of
files in a directory as a text list so I give the names and dates of the
Agent's lists I've transcribed.

What worries me is that very few people (if any) have found their family
from the 777 I have on my list. Makes me think they were all made up!

Derek


Colin Möhr wrote:
> 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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