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Help to decipher passenger record please
« on: Sunday 14 November 10 07:54 GMT (UK) »
Hi

What I can read is:

Sarah Rutherford
? ? Robert & Elizabeth Gillies ??

A native of ? Tyrone (The record doc said "Daruteright" Tyrone but I can't find any such place)

Calling Farm Servant ?

Age 21

None certifying

William Patterson ?

?

presbyterian (? ? Before marriage)

Can read & write a little no complaint

NEXT PAGE

Robert ? months

??
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/KiwiMR2/sarahgilliesjpg.jpg

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Re: Help to decipher passenger record please
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 14 November 10 08:25 GMT (UK) »
Sarah Rutherford
Dr (daughter) of Robert & Elizabeth Gillies both alive

A native of ? Tyrone (The record doc said "Daruteright" Tyrone but I can't find any such place)

Calling Farm Servant dairymaid?

Age 21

None certifying

William Patterson ?

?

presbyterian (Episcopalian Before marriage)

Can read & write a little no complaint

NEXT PAGE

Robert 14 months
MOXHAM/MOXAM - Wiltshire & Surrey
SKEATS - Surrey
BRETT - Kent & County Durham
and
SWINBANK - anywhere

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Re: Help to decipher passenger record please
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 November 10 08:25 GMT (UK) »
Hi Andy :)

The  missing bits:

Dr [daughter] of … both alive
Darnteright is what it looks like to me...
…dairywoman
…episcopalian before marriage

14 months [as at] 31st [of] last month

Can't get it large enough to see what is written after William Patterson.

Hope that helps :)

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Re: Help to decipher passenger record please
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 14 November 10 08:37 GMT (UK) »
Very much so - thanks :-)

episcopalian - so she would have married a presbyterian then, what does that maybe mean? - In ireland does that mean maybe a scottish background? Gillies is quite a common scottish name yeah?

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Re: Help to decipher passenger record please
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 14 November 10 19:56 GMT (UK) »
Hi Andy,
I still can't work out what it says - looks like "tothers" or "to thus", neither of which make sense!

Episcopalians are Anglican protestants; Presbyterianism is Scottish.

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Re: Help to decipher passenger record please
« Reply #6 on: Monday 15 November 10 08:09 GMT (UK) »
Thanks again for your help.

So here is her husband James Rutherford - he may have been of scottish heritage do you think based on the surname (common scottish name) and his religion?

Can you tell he he was "brought out by" ?

Calling is carpenter yeah?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v57/KiwiMR2/1204_70140.jpg

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Re: Help to decipher passenger record please
« Reply #7 on: Monday 15 November 10 14:03 GMT (UK) »
Yes, Carpenter.

Brought out by A B Smith & Co.

Is the name William Patterson Collins?

This is clearer than the other in parts, and suggests that Sarah's health was also recorded as 'very good'.

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Re: Help to decipher passenger record please
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 11 December 10 15:22 GMT (UK) »
Hi
Re the place Sarah Rutherford is native of - could it be Desertcreat which is relatively near Cookstown where her husband is from?  I know it doesn't look like that, but realise that this information is being given to an English or even an Australian official, by someone with probably a strong Irish accent - say it phonetically and you'll see what I mean.
Presume you know that 'no complaint' after the R&W bit means she had no complaint about the voyage out, not that she had no complaint as in disease?
Do we know the date of this?  or the ship?
Denys (France); Rossier/Rousseau (Switzerland); Montgomery (Antrim, IRL & North Sydney NSW);  Finn (Co.Carlow, IRL & NSW); Wilson (Leicestershire & NSW); Blue (Sydney NSW); Fisher & Barrago & Harrington(all Tipperary, IRL)