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Thank you ShaunJ ‘ so i should research where the ships sailed from and to by looking via Lloyds? Samuel was born in PEI ‘ so he may have jumped on board a merchant ship? He would have been only a boy of 12 which apparently wasn’t unusual in those days’ i wonder how much information would be available though as in would he have needed consent or papers signed by a parent??
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Lisa’ yes thats what i thought’ that Samuel was away for a time after marriage.  They wedded in a church but with only 2 witnesses’ Ive never been able to find any wedding notices’ their witnesses were a John Holland and a Mary Taylor’ Im wondering if John was a fellow seaman as in Samuels insolvency case it stated that he loaned $50 pounds to John for his passage to England.   

Thankyou Garstonite’ yes he is my cousin who is also at the same roadblock as myself’ thanking you kindly for you’re help’ the Taylors were quite easy to follow’ unfortunately Samuels side is not 😩

Hello and thank you’ the marriage cert doesn’t state parents names unfortunately 😩.  Also there are no references to family from the small bits of info i have found’ his inlaws the Taylors are always mentioned as in witnesses etc but no other Cameron folk.  His was a very sad life as his wife died after giving birth to their 4th child’ a daughter named Letitia’then he became ill and his children were placed in “ care’ where Letitia died and also James. He was then involved in an insolvency case and was sent to prison for not being able to pay his creditors and then passed at age 45 ‘ buried in a paupers grave 😞.   His sons William and Thomas survived and lived to good ages.  I have had my DNA tested and Im not sure of how it all works yet but states my ancestors came from Scotland mainly  Argyll and Bute?? The Taylor side are from Ireland and i have them right back to the 1600s but this Cameron side stops with Samuel who is my 3rd ggf.  His occupations were stated as miner’ settler and labourer. The medical records that were found did state that he had been in the colony of Victoria Australia for 15 years and that was in 1863’ he died 1868.  He may have enlisted? Maybe got to Australia that way? Thanking you both for your assistance 😊