Abraham Joseph Choury / Khoury c1854 - 1925

[ModGipps]

Abraham married Thecla / Thekla Hadad who was my wifes great grandmother. Their daughters Lillian (Labeba) May and Ellen Nabeha married into the Chambers and Corbin families and lived in and around Modella / Longwarry / Kooweerup. Corbins eventually became Rogers.

I have a copy of Abrhams naturalisation papers dated 28/10/1901 which states that he arrived from Port Said on the ship Australien on the 6th/11/1891. When I chase up the arrivals documentation for the Australien it doesn't appear to have a record of him being on board and arriving in Melbourne in that month (that I can see).
Does anyone have any thoughts how I canresolve this?
Thanks

[shanreagh]

In NZ there are several families, some well known,eg Corban (Wine).  They were Lebanese.

There is a NZ family spelt Chhour (One is an MP at the moment)

[ModGipps]

Thanks shanreagh. Agree that there are many different ways that surname is spelt. Abraham settled in Victoria and didn't travel elsewhere at all - thats not to say there weren't relatives from Syria (as it was at that time) immigrating to NZ.

[maddys52]

This item about the voyage of the Australien mentions its route, including Port Said, and that it stopped via Melbourne.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/135848999

Will keep looking ...

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[ModGipps]

Thanks for the welcome and info.
The Australien is pretty well documented by painting and photographs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Australien_(1889) ), so that bit is relatively easy to track 

[maddys52]

Saloon passengers named here:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8624149

No CHOURY or similar. Have you seen the passenger list for steerage, or a  crew list, maybe he was working?

I note that the Australien arrived Albany on 28 November 1891, so Abraham's dates must be a little out. From what I can see:

3 Nov - Marseilles
9 Nov - Suez
13 Nov - Aden
28 Nov - Albany

Perhaps his recollection of 6 Nov was actually when he boarded the ship, assuming the year was correct.

[Dundee]

Was his youngest daughter born in Cyprus in 1896?

Debra 

[maddys52]

Have found the passenger list now on Ancestry - saloon and steerage, no names like CHOURY. However, I can't see a crew list.

Though looking again at the list of passengers reported in the newspaper, it says 65 passengers in steerage for all ports. There are only 6 on the list of passengers in steerage on the Passenger List. 

[sparrett]

Is this  the same list?

Be sure to move through the pages on the scan.


https://marinersandships.com.au/1891/12/081aus.htm

Sue

Edit. I think this above is not the right voyage .??