Well, I was going to look at business registers...
but NLA off the air till tomorrow.
So been looking at shipping instead.
Found a few interesting ones.
1861--- Melbourne to Sydney, “City of Sydney” 1st November. Mr Ennis. So John could have been looking for Elizabeth much earlier than I suspected.
1877--- MELBOURNE to SYDNEY, 5th Apr.. Mr ENNIS & child. “City of Adelaide”
don't know who the 'child' would have been. I'd expect any of the older children would have been 'Mr' or 'Miss' , then again, maybe not. Doubt it would have been Emily, 7, or Martha, 4. Unless he'd kidnapped them.
1883 ---“Leura” Melbourne to Sydney. John ENNIS.
1884--- “Rondondo” Melb. To Sydney. Arrived 8 March. Mrs Ennis. Could be a child. There is a "+ child" on line above who is atributed to the passenger above that, but could also have been child of passenger below.
Also aboard, Mr W. DAVIS.
1909--- “Westralia” Hobart to Sydney, arrived 23 Dec. Mrs E. Ennis, Mrs Ennis, Miss C. Ward x 2.
Could be Elizabeth A. B. Ennis, Mrs Henry William Ennis nee Ward and two sisters, Clara &
Catherine Ward.
Gadabouts, aren't they.
or then again...there were a lot of ENNISs about, maybe none are 'mine'.
But like someone said earlier, would make a good novel.
