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Anglesey / Re: Treasure Ship Tragedy - The Royal Charter
« on: Monday 16 August 10 18:05 BST (UK)  »
Hello Hunter51

There's no Benjamin Carr in the Royal Charter listings for the 5 voyages she made to and from Melbourne between 1856 and 1859.  However, a John Watkin Carr, aged 33, arrived on her first voyage in April 1856. The indexes of early passenger lists to and from Victorian ports (usually Melbourne) can be searched online on the Public Record Office Victoria website: www.prov.vic.gov.au/indexes

  --  IRT

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Anglesey / Re: Treasure Ship Tragedy - The Royal Charter
« on: Tuesday 30 December 08 14:22 GMT (UK)  »
Hello
  I'm a new member and have only just caught up on the "Royal Charter" thread. My 3xgt.uncle, James Russell, was one of the returning gold seekers on her final voyage in 1859. He and his family featured fairly prominently in McKee's book "The Golden Wreck". He survived the wreck but lost his wife and 2 young daughters, one of whom was washed ashore at Moelfre and buried locally (and so her death was able to be registered). To compound the tragedy, James' father died 6 weeks later in West Lothian. In 1884 he returned to Australia, where 3 brothers and 2 sisters had settled, and also to the farm in central Victoria that he had "selected" before returning to Scotland. He also pursued some more gold mining ventures before dying at his sister's (my gt,gt.grandmother's) neighbouring farm in 1897.

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