Comments on: Byaduk’s First Shoemaker

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:21:52 +0000

Hi Ben, yes I have followed up Mary Ann and also her grandson Rupert Hazell in my post Everybody Happy http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/everybody-happy/
Merron

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:07:33 +0000

Merron
Did you track down any more info on Mary Ann Harman – Try Mary Ann Loates who’s husband was James Loates born 1826.

Ben

By: jennycoates

jennycoates — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 02:42:36 +0000

Hi Ann & Merron,
Ann your comment sent me off on a tangent looking to see if my ‘Shand’ passengers were Methodist. They were Presbyterian but they would also be considered dissenters. I also found ancestors of my husband (Donnisons and Emmersons) on the Shand in 1855. Haven’t worked out a religion for the Donnisons yet but the Emmersons were Presbyterian and neither families were from Cambridge. I have a few examples of families who came out here as assisted immigrants but their passages were paid for by a local squire who evidently was glad to help – or get rid of them!

By: ann odyne

ann odyne — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:03:47 +0000

The village of Hanslope where Wesley preached to my ancestors so convincingly. My Frances lived to 1932 at 96 and is buried at Hamilton.

By: ann odyne

ann odyne — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:59:53 +0000

Hi Jenny & Merron – my Cambridgeshire Simkin family group also rrived via The Shand (naming 2 babies borna at sea, after the ship) and were headed for Digby due to encouragement by Richard Lewis who had arrived 1840′s and done well. They were Wesleyan Methodists converted by Wesley himself so thoroughly that one of their ancestors converted his Hanslope pub to a meeting hall which it still is today.

By: Merron Riddiford

Merron Riddiford — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 04:50:07 +0000

Hi Jenny
Thanks for your comment.
All of the Harmans arrived via the Assisted Immigrants Scheme. They would not have been able to afford to come otherwise. There were a lot who left Cambridgeshire during the 1850s as there wasn’t much for them there. This link to the book “The Australian people: an Encyclopedia of the Nation, It’s People and their Origin”, gives the numbers of people that left during that time.
http://tinyurl.com/7xbbgp4

Merron

By: Jenny Coates

Jenny Coates — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 02:52:44 +0000

Hi Merron,

Have you looked into how the Harman’s came to Australia e.g. some scheme or sponsorship? The family of Benjamin HARPER and Lydia (nee NEGUS) are vaguely related to me by marriage. They came from Melbourn, Cambridge in Jan 1855 aboard the ‘Shand’. Their third son Joseph married Jane Aberline in 1861 and they had children at Wangoom, Warrnambool, Byaduk (1867 & 1869) and Horsham.
Two Melbourn families turning up in the same place might be coincidence but possibly also indicative of some ‘encouragement’ to leave?

Jenny