UK to Australia 1927

[Bee]

A great aunt emigrated to Adelaide in 1927 at the age 38, the ship's passenger list gives her occupation as a waitress.

Is it likely that she already had an offer of a job or would she have had to find a job on arrival. Unfortunately the passenger list does not state with whom or where she was going to stay.

[Neale1961]

Not enough information available to know.
Was she an assisted passenger or non-assisted?
Why was she emigrating to Australia?
Did she have relatives / friends in Australia who might organised work?
Had she answered a newspaper advert for work?

[sparrett]

As happens even today, some newcomers to a country will arrive with employment arranged and others arrive with sufficient savings to tide them over until employment is found.
Other come for a holiday only.

So, it is not really possible to speculate on an answer to your query.
 

Sue

[aahume]

More detail re her full name , dob, would be helpful: also the ship's passenger list.

[Wayne N]

My grandfather was listed as fireman on the passenger listed when he emigrated from Rotterdam to Australia in 1914 for the second time. His imigration to Australia was complicated  The first time coming to Australia in 1910, he stowed away on a coalship.

Even though he was recorded as a fireman from Rotterdam on the 1914 passenger list and also on his naturalisation papers in 1912 - he worked on the shipping docks in Victoria, Australia as a rigger.

This was also the same for my father's side of the family when emigrating from England to Australia. They had a different occupation once in Australia to what was recorded on the passenger list.

[Bee]

Hello everyone
Rose Ellis b 1888 departed 10/5/1927 London for Adelaide on board Largs Bay.

She married in 1931 and I have all details from that time onwards.

She had a brother Thomas Walker Ellis who emigrated to Australia in 1912, he was born 1887 and died in 1956  (registration district Kimberley Goldfields, Western Australia), haven't been able to trace him between 1912 and 1956.

 If I've got the right person, Thomas travelled on the Narrung and is listed as Thomas W Ellis a farmhand

Any help is much appreciated.

Bee

[PatLac]

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47657306?searchTerm=%22thomas%20walker%20ellis%22

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/46906835?searchTerm=%22thomas%20ellis%22

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/47657306?searchTerm=%22thomas%20ellis%22

He actually died in 1955, death registered in 1956

Surname
Given Names
Sex
Age
Father
Mother
Place of Death
Year of Death
Registration District
Registration Number
Registration Year
Ellis   Thomas Walker   M   69   William ELLIS   Hannah Sarah GEE   Hall's Creek   1955   Kimberley Goldfields   3800020   1956

[Bee]

Thank you PatLac,
That makes interesting reading.

I have inherited a letter that was sent to his niece regarding the distribution of his estate and what each recipient received.
The estate consisted of money in his bank account, proceeds from the sale of his effects and wages due ex Sturt Creek Station.

Thanks again
Bee

[sparrett]

Is this the same Thomas Walker ELLIS who was a chef in Northern Queensland for many years?

1916 to 1919 Thomas Walker ELLIS Longreach Hotel, Longreach. Cook

1921 - Thomas Walker ELLIS Mining Exchange Hotel, Cairns. Cook.
1925- Crane Street, Longreach. Cook

No others of the surname share the addresses.

Sue