William STERLAND

[Marcky]

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

[dusty_streets]

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

[SaphireBlue]

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

[SaphireBlue]

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

[LoganH]

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/

[Aussie1947]

There were some unclaimed letters at Rockhampton in August 1866 for a William Sterland.

Gerry

[lizsterland]

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

[Aussie1947]

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

[XXXX]

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.