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Australia / Re: ...Victoria genealogy..RAMSEY
« on: Monday 08 June 15 01:47 BST (UK)  »
The Geelong Advertiser 17.10.48, p2, noted that on October 16 1848 a Mr Ramsay and 5 children arrived per “David”. 
The "David" was a schooner owned by son-in -law Charles McShane.  David Ramsay had been operating as an agent in Hobart for immigrants wanting to go to the Port Philip settlement. Advertisements for skilled farm personnel were placed offering free passage.
The schooner "David" (Risdon built and registered in Hobart) was engaged in trade between what is now Victoria and Tasmania moving shingles and building timbers, immigrants from VDL, meat and livestock from Port Phillip.
The "David" was later wrecked off Point Lonsdale, the wreck is Heritage listed.
David Ramsay is accompanied by one more child than he and Dinah (second wife) seem to have had.  Was the extra child one of eldest daughter Janet's children (wife of Charles McShane)?  Janet  had died 'in childbed' the previous year, baby boy not named.
David appears to have walked out of his pawnbroking business at this time.  David R. apparently moved to Geelong operating a ropeworks. (see earlier refs on Roots Chat)
He was later operating a store in, or near, Ballarat.

TROVE ref for arrival of Ramsay family:
1848 'ARRIVED.', Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1847 - 1851), 17 October, p. 2 Edition: MORNING, viewed 8 June, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article93136257

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Australia / Re: HMS Calcutta 1803-1804
« on: Saturday 06 June 15 04:23 BST (UK)  »
There is a monument to the settlers and Calcutta personnel on Point Nepean Road beach side (on the Sorrento side of the carpark near the visitors centre at Sullivans Bay) which has names of convicts, marines and family members of the Sorrento settlement. (its a 2 sided monument)
Pretty picnic spots nearby.  Beach worth a look too.
The Tasmanian based convict descendants society has lists on their site of the convicts (at least)
The signage for the monument site is easy to miss (plenty of ti-tree) so you need to check it out on a street directory or google maps to get your bearings (nearby intersections) and drive slowly!
As the survivors of the settlement moved to Tassie they are some of the first settlers there too- so if you have early Tasmanian origins you may have Calcutta connections, as I do.



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Australia / Re: TASMANIA RESOURCES
« on: Saturday 06 June 15 03:40 BST (UK)  »
Hi Jamie Lee,
David was on the Claudine 1821 [convict], Dinah the Strathfieldsay [free female assisted immigrant], 1834.
Elizabeth [first wife, used name Lowden in her convict records a.k.a. Watson and Wilson] on ship the Henry 1825.
Daughters Janet born in Scotland, Harriet born in Hobart from the first marriage.
Convict records on line at LINC (search Tasmanian Archives, search by surname (or ship) in name search) Free Access.
David had a second family with Dinah in Hobart and Geelong, noted elsewhere in Roots Chat.
M

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