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Research in Other Countries => Australia => Topic started by: Marcky on Friday 11 July 08 04:48 BST (UK)
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Dear Members.
I'm after information about William Sterland who immigrated from England to Australia on the 'Royal Dane' in 1865. We've been told he died in New Zealand around 1868 but no confirmation has been found. Any information about William (including a passenger list from the Royal Dane) would be great.
Thanks
Mark
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I don't have any info. for you Mark but I just wanted to say that I'm just sorting through a family whose name began as Stirling but it differed throughout family to include Sterling, Stirland, Sterland etc.
I don't know if your William's famly was the same but I just thought that perhaps people could include those names too?? :)
Dawn
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Hi Mark.
Can these people help you with your query?
http://stuart.scss.dyndns.info/FamilyTree/individual.php?pid=I10485&ged=Gregory-Hudson.ged&tab=0
Nicola
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Hi,
I found on board news sheets for 1865 for the Royal Dane. I think that they are on films in libraries in Aus but you may be able to find someone to get copies for you. It would be nice background. http://trove.nla.gov.au/result?q=subject%3A%22Royal+Dane+%28Ship%29%22
www.blaxland.com/ozships/events/3/206.htm shows a 1865 entry for the Royal Dane but McAfee shows potential security risks. I have seen McAfee do this where there were no problems but I didn't check out whether they had the passenger lists.
Nicola
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THE ROYAL, DANE.
The Brisbane Courier. 16th Sept 1865, page 4supplement.
The Black Ball ship Royal Dane, 1615 tons, Captain L. Davies, left Gravesend on April 23, and was off Plymouth on the 26th. She passed to the eastward of the Canary Islands, having experienced southwest winds the whole of that distance. The Equator was crossed in longitude 35 deg. west, on May 25, on the 30th day from Plymouth. On June 16th she passed the meridian of Greenwich, and on the 19th she crossed the meridian of the Cape of Good Hope on the 55th day out. In running down the easting she encountered a succession of westerly gales as far as Cape Northumberland, having run down between 42 and 43 deg. 30 min. south latitude. The greatest day's run was 340 miles, and in seven successive days she made a distance of 2028 miles, and in the following week that distance was increased to upwards of 4000 miles. Cape Otway was sighted on July 13, tho 78th day out, and after passing through Bass' Straits she passed Sydney on the I6th, and was signalled off Cape Moreton on the 86th day, on July 21. Thence she proceeded to Keppel Bay to land her passengers, 480 in number, and arrived there on the 25th July. Since then the passengers have been landed, and 140 of the number intended for Brisbane, were
brought down from Rockhampton by steamer. The ship left Keppel Bay for Brisbane on Tuesday August 15, and arrived off Cape Moreton on the morning of the 19th ult., some hours before the Young Australia.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0a0j/
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There were some unclaimed letters at Rockhampton in August 1866 for a William Sterland.
Gerry
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Hi, I am from England, recently moved to NSW, and am researching connections between my family (Sterlands from Nottinghamshire) and William. do you know if these letters are accessible, as they might shed light on his antecedents. His father Thomas Sterland died before the english 1841 census. Many thanks.
Liz Sterland
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Hi Liz,
I don't expect that those letters would now be available after all of these years.
Something else has popped up and that is a newspaper article from the Rockhampton Bulletin and Central Queensland Advertiser for Saturday 6th August 1865 page 2 that mentions a meeting of the total abstinence society at Rockhampton where a William Sterland a recent immigrant off the "Royal Dane" delivered one of the addresses.
This means that we know that William Sterland was in Rockhampton in August 1865 and as an immigrant, as to what happened after this date is difficult to fathom as yet
The newspaper article can be found here (hopefully)
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/51566918?searchTerm="William%20Sterland"&searchLimits=
Gerry
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Hi Mark and Liz,
The following notice appeared the listed editions of the Wellington Independent:
IF WILLIAM STERLAND, formerly of Nottingham, England, will apply to G. W. Woodroofe, Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand he may hear of something to his advantage or if any person knows of his death by giving this information, such as can be relied upon, will be compensated.
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2933, 25 December 1869, Page 5
Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2934, 28 December 1869, Page 5
Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2936, 1 January 1870, Page 1
Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2937, 4 January 1870, Page 1
Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2938, 6 January 1870, Page 1
Wellington Independent, Volume XXIV, Issue 2939, 8 January 1870, Page 1
There are also a couple of other references to "Sterland" that you may like to check out on the above link.
Cheers,
Janet.
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Hi,
There was a birth in 1865 in Queensland.
Thomas Arthur Sterland.
Born: 26th Nov 1865
Reg: 1866/C6159
F: William
M Elizabeth Killingley.
I can't see a marriage between Elizabeth & William in Queensland.
Gerry
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Looks like a marriage in England.
William Sterland & Elizabeth Killingley.
Apr/May/Jun 1855.
District: Basford.
County: Derbyshire/Notinghamshire.
Vol: 7b.
Page: 142.
Gerry
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Possibility of an 1861 Census record.
Address 199 Blackburn Rd, Parish of Old Accrington, County of Lancashire.
William Sterland, head, 30, Draper, born Nottingham.
Elizabeth Sterland, wife, 28, born Nottingham.
Alpheus Sterland, son, 4, born Nottingham.
John Wm, Sterland, son, 1
If this is our William Sterland then it is possible that he came out to Australia with Elizabeth and his two children Alpheus and John Wm (William) unless they had died before he left.
There is a NSW death for a John William Sterland in 1955 Reg: 22809/1955 with a father William and mother Elizabeth.
There is also a death for a Thomas Arthur Sterland in 1955 Reg: 9921/1954 with a father William and mother Elizabeth. Maybe the Thomas Arthur Sterland who was born in Rockhampton in 1865!
Cant find a death in NSW or Qld for Alpheus Sterland though.
If William did die in NZ around 1868 it is possible that Elizabeth Sterland came back to Australia and settled in NSW and remarried, this is only a theory.
Gerry
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A birth in NSW in 1868 to an Elizabeth & William Sterland.
13445/1868
Emma S Sterland
F: William
M: Elizabeth.
District: Newcastle.
A marriage in NSW of an Elizabeth Sterland & Samuel Harris.
2949/1870
Bride: Elizabeth Sterland.
Groom: Samuel Harris.
District: Newcastle.
Gerry
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Thanks very much everyone. Thanks Gerry for that information on the marriage and the remarriage. Maybe the marriage in England will help trace the link with my Sterland relatives who hail from Nottinghamshire. I haven't found one yet. William's father Thomasdied before the 1841 census so I'm unsure how to trace his birth and his parents.
thanks.
liz
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Hello Liz. Just checked your entries on rootschat. My name is Mark Sterland and I started the thread on rootschat about William Sterland who arrived in Australia in 1865. Below are his details plus details of his father and grandfather. If there is a match with your ancestors let me know and we could swap information. I'd like to go back a few more generations if you have any information.
Thanks
Mark
NAME – William Sterland
OCCUPATION – Draper
BIRTH – 1834 (Bapt 4 May 1834)
PLACE – Nottingham, England
MARRIAGE - 21 June 1855
PLACE – Nottingham, England
DEATH – About 1868
PLACE – New Zealand
his father was:
NAME – Thomas Sterland
OCCUPATION – Lace Maker
BIRTH – 1795 (Bapt 11 Oct 1795)
PLACE – Greasley, Nottinghamshire
MARRIAGE – 28 August 1825
PLACE - Nottingham
DEATH – About 1836
PLACE – Nottinghamshire?
his father was:
NAME – Thomas Sterland
BIRTH – About 1762
PLACE – Nottinghamshire
MARRIED – 4 February 1788
PLACE – Greasley, Nottinghamshire
BURIED – 14 January 1830
PLACE – Greasley, Nottinghamshire
Regards
Mark
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Hi Mark,
Thanks very much for your message. I suspect you are the brother of Richard who've I corresponded with via email. Thanks for the information on your forbears. As I said to Richard it seems hard to believe they are related, however distantly, to mine as mine come from Greasley too. As far as I can see Greasley appears to have been the place where some births, marriages and deaths for people living in the village of Selston were registered. As you probably know there were sterlands in Selston going back to the 16th century. Members of my family lived in a farm in Selston called Jacksdale for hundreds of years (as tenant farmers) but there were many offspring they also farmed elsewhere, just over the border into Derbyshire and some did other things. I guess it is because the Sterlands had been there for so long that there appear to have been many of them in the area in the 18th century and its hard to work out how they were connected. I have to say I have only just started getting interested in this so I'm a real novice at it.
I told Richard a bit about myself and explained that I spend three months in Manly each summer where my husband has family. I came across your ancestors by chance. I have mailed Richard a pedigree chart of mine, which I can mail you if you want. I can be mailed on
regards
Liz
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