Family History Stories and Voyages
On these pages you will find the stories and genealogy
of the following families:
- Henderson/Ramsay (Scotland; Edward Henderson emigrated to Australia)
- Atkinson/Burton (England: John and Ann emigrated to Australia)
- Munro/Ellis (Scotland: Joseph Munro emigrated to Australia; England: Maria
Ellis emigrated to Australia)
- MacDonald/Morrison (Scotland: Murdo MacDonald emigrated to New Zealand)
- Voss/Neilson (Denmark: Marx Voss and Maren Neilson emigrated to New Zealand)
and of the ships they travelled on:
- SS Ancona, steamer, of Leith: Italia Line around 1911 (Capt. Edward Henderson)
- Bourneuf, 1495 tons left Liverpool 26 May 1852, arr. Geelong Victoria 3
Sep, Master: Robert Biddy.
- Credenda, 901 tons left Southampton 6 August 1853, arr. Geelong 3 November
1853.
- Cotherstone, barque, 382 tons, length 121, breadth 26.5, depth 16.8 Master:
W. Peterson
- El Ferrol
- Fortune, barque left Liverpool 16 January 1853, arrived Sydney 28 April
1853. Master: McCarthy
- Medina left Tilbury 4 September 1915 for Sydney
- Otranto, Orient line left Freemantle, Western Australia, on 9 July 1912,
left Sydney 20 July, arr. Wellington NZ.
- St Lawrence Denmark to New Zealand
There are also maps which you might find useful:
Scotland counties
Schleswig Holstein
Denmark
New South Wales, Australia (A rough map
showing some of the places Jonathan Atkinson and his family lived in.)