IMMIGRATION IN THE NLA NEWSPAPERS

Known Immigrants in the family at this time are :

YEAR	SHIP	PERSON/S	FROM	TO
1839	JAMES MORGAN	JANET MACKAY AND CHILDREN INC WILHELMINA MCLEOD	SUTHERLAND SHIRE SCOTLAND	SYDNEY
1849	VICTORIA	WILLIAM  SANDERS AND MARY ANN SKIVINGS (MARRIED COUPLE)	DEVON ENGLAND	SYDNEY
1853	WILLIAM BROWN	JACKSONS		SYDNEY
1853	BEEJAPORE	THOMAS CRAIG , PARENTS AND SIBLINGS		SYDNEY
1853	BEEJAPORE	HURRELLS		SYDNEY

ARTICLES ON EMIGRATION/IMMIGRATION IN NLA NEWSPAPERS:

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article640683  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article640671    http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article640576	MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON IMMIGRATION. MAY l8, 1835 The Superintendent having left the ship before her arrival in Port Jackson, there was latterly no control whatever over the women, and some of them who had been allowed to land, immediately after the ship came to anchor, were picked up quite drunk in the streets of Sydney, on the evening of their arrival.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article639961 The Perth Gazette and… Saturday 10 June 1837, page 918 SYDNEY. IMMIGRATION COMMITTEE. (From the Sydney “Colonist . “ This committee report came out the year before Mary Ann and William Sanders  came on the VICTORIA.    http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article639961	The Government, however, have latterly proposed a measure for the encouragement and promotion of emigration which, if the settlers were at all alive to their own interests and disposed to cooperate in securing them, would be tantamount to the adoption of our original recommendation. For, at a cost for agency which would be altogether insignificant for each individual or family brought out to the colony, the respectable colonists might have seemed through the Government measure we allude to, the immediate introduction of two or three thousand families of virtuous and industrious emigrants of the classes chiefly required in the colony.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article639883	LAND AND IMMIGRATION COMPANY. An experiment has been tried in New South Wales to increase the number of immigrants by the formation of a Land and Immigration Company. The shares to be raised were 5,000, one half to be disposed of in the colony, and the other half to be reserved for capitalists in England. As we are also in need of an augmentation of our numbers, the hint may not be unprofitably applied ;
Archives Investigator	State Records Authority of New South Wales
IMMIGRATION – The Bounty System	Extracted from the:- “Concise Guide to State Archives of New South Wales
Shipping & Passenger Records Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Inc	LIST OF SHIPPING SITES AND EMIGRATIONS.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article639883 The McLeods and Mackays perhaps from the Sutherland Shire !	3rd. In Scotland, and the north of Ireland, where no such contribution could be looked for, but where the lower classes, being more intelligent, industrious and frugal, would be better fitted for roughing it in a new colony, virtuous and industrious families of these classes would willingly bind themselves to pay that amount from the first of their savings after their arrival ; and if in the event of their purchasing land on credit from the Company, this debt were to be chargeable on the land, its repayment would be secured.
http://www.angelfire.com/ns/bkeddy/HIES/1.html _________________________________________________	Highland and Island Emigration Society, HIES _____________________________________
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article642443	In fact, the obstructions, the suspense, and the jobbing of the present system, tend to destroy, the property, if not work the absolute ruin €of the poorer class of immigrants. An individual of this description on his arrival is forced to leave his family in Sydney, whilst he proceeds to explore the north, the south, or the westward, for a suitable location

 

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Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters

http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/index.htm 

Mary-Anne Warner’s site transcribing STATE RECORDS of SHIPS. easy to navigate. Detailed.

There’s many a story to tell . . .

Masters, crew, a stowaway or two; passengers, cabin, saloon and steerage; births at sea, deaths at sea; deserters; vessels with one crew and one passenger and those with 70 crew and hundreds of passengers; simple single sail boats, barques, brigs, large steam ships; whaling voyages, regular coastal passenger trips, voyages from other Australian ports, London, San Francisco, China and other exotic ports – you will find them all here. 

The lists on this site are being transcribed from the State Records Authority of NSW Reels of the Shipping Master’s Office, Inwards Passengers Lists . . . . . . are added to weekly

MELINDA KENDALL : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS

EMIGRATION IN THE 1850s

Ancestors Known to have arrived as EMIGRANTS are

YEAR	SHIP	EMIGRANTS
1839	JAMES MORGAN	WILHEMINA MCLEOD WITH HER MOTHER JANET MACKAY AND HER SIBLINGS
1849	VICTORIA	WILLIAM AND MARY ANN SANDERS
1853	WILLIAM BROWN	WILLIAM JACKSON AND ELIZABETH JOHNSON (HIS WIFE) WITH ONE DAUGHTER.
1853	BEEJAPORE	THOMAS CRAIG WITH HIS PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

 

 

The Sanders are marked on their disembarkation papers as “assisted emigrants”. The 19th century newspapers fill in a good deal of my lack of understanding of emigration in the 19th century. I have images of William Sanders and of Mary Ann Skivings Sanders but none of the other ” emigrants”.

Mary Ann Skivings Sanders and the elderly gentleman seated is BlackBerry Bill Sanders:

NSW STATE ARCHIVES REEL 58.

ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS INWARDS TO SYDNEY PER SHIP ” VICTORIA” ARRIVED 2nd SEPT 1849.

SAUNDERS, William. 26 years. Butcher. Born Kenton Devonshire. Son of William and Elizabeth SAUNDERS- still living in Kenton. C of E  – reads and writes. No relations living in Colony. in good health. Complained of short issue of rations during early part of voyage.

SAUNDERS, Mary Ann. 19 years – farm servant – born Silverton Devonshire – daughter of George and Grace Skivings. Still living in Silverton. C of E – Reads and Writes – no relations living in Colony – in Good health.

The Researcher (whom I think may have been Dick Sanders) has added – ( SAUNDERS should read SANDERS )

THE JACKSONS. from READY OR NOT – compiled by PHIL READY.

On 17th May 1853 a sixty ton ketch, WILLIAM BROWN, had arrived in Sydney from Honolulu. Aboard were immigrants WILLIAM JACKSON and his wife ELIZABETH and one daughter. William who had been born in Nottinghamshire in England was a Coppersmith by trade. On 26th November 1849 , in London he had married EIZABETH JOHNSON who had been born in Norfolk England.

In 1853 William whose trade was very much in demand set up in business in Steven Street, Ultimo. The following year his address appeared in SANDS directory as BAY STREET GLEBE. Julia from whom I descend  was born on 5th June 1860 – listed as Newtown.

THE OTHER 2 FAMILIES OF EMIGRANTS SO FAR TRACKED ARE :

• WILHELMINA MCLEOD who came from SUTHERLAND SHIRE with her mother and siblings : JANET MACKAY.
• THOMAS CRAIG a lad of 8 and his family.

 

DAILY NEWS OCTOBER 7th 1850 LONDON ENGLAND

 

 

 

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WILLIAM BELU JACKSONS DEATH CERTIFICATE

Registration Number	Last Name	Given Name(s)	Father’s Given Name(s)	Mother’s Given Name(s)	District
13652/1937	JACKSON	WILLIAM BELU	WILLIAM BELU	ELIZABETH	PETERSHAM