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I am trying to get some information about the steamer SS Bendigo that sailed from London to Melbourne, it left London on 18 October 1928 and arrived in Melbourne December 1928. My grandmother Elizabeth Murray from Bridge St, sailed on her and I would like to know if there are any pictures at all of the passengers and other related information. Thankyou
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a picture of the ship, not necessarily in 1928.
Glass plate negative of P&O branch liner SS 'Bendigo' and several ferries on Sydney Harbour, 1928-1934
https://collection.powerhouse.com.au/object/495465
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And a picture and info from P&O:
https://poheritage.com/collections/ab6349aa-1dcd-3195-82f5-980fa2a860a0/
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According to this the ship left London on 8th November 1928
She is noted on the 12th page of the passenger list.
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...and Miss Elizabeth Murray from Bridge Street, Balbriggan, Co Dublin, I.F.S.
(I.F.S Irish Free State)
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Terrific concise reply HMac - straight to the point!
Regards
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OP,
Is this your grandmother's birth record?
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/birth_returns/births_1895/02216/1836602.pdf
2 May 1895 at Dermotstown t/l. MMN Kennedy #433
https://www.townlands.ie/dublin/balrothery-east/balscaddan/balscadden-ed-1901/dermotstown/
1901 census for Murray
House 7 in Dermotstown (Balscadden, Dublin)
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Balscadden/Dermotstown/1263944/
John Murray death 1909
https://www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1909/05444/4523200.pdf
With their uncle, aunts and maternal grandmother - 1911 census
House 1 in Stephenstown (Balbriggan Rural, Dublin)
https://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Balbriggan_Rural/Stephenstown/917/
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See related topic:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=893804.msg7680741#msg7680741
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OZ newspapers.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79494915?searchTerm=ss%20bendigo
Lloyds Register of Steamers 1928 - not sure why French? Lot of techie detail.
https://archive.org/details/HECROS1928ST/page/n145/mode/2up
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Evening Despatch, 8 Nov 1928
Newspaper snippet attached (departure)
OZ newspapers (arrival)
No doubt they behaved like angels en voyage!
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/79499915?searchTerm=ss%20bendigo
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Elizabeth on page 2 of Melbourne 23 Dec 1928 arrival list:
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=12036870&T=P&S=297
FYI only - first page:
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/NAAMedia/ShowImage.aspx?B=12036870&T=P&S=296
More info reg the voyage:
https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/AutoSearch.asp?O=ID&Number=414406
(for some unknown reason various of the brochure pages have been duplicated)
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Thanks everyone for the information. it is much appreciated.
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You're welcome
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You're also very welcome :)
Did you work out your grandmother's date and place of birth?
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Still not 100 percent sure..either born in 1899 to John and Elizabeth Murray (nee Cavanagh) in North Road, Drogheda or born in 1895 to John and Mary Ann Murray (nee Kennedy) in Dermotstown.
For both, there exists family records in the 1901 and 1911 census.
What we do know is that she travelled alone to Australia to start a new life on board the Bendigo in 1928. The passage record states that she was 33, so born in 1895.
Different times of course but to travel all that way, alone and arrive in Melbourne at the peak of summer, not knowing anyone ..it must have been very hard on her.