At last we may have a “regular” immigrant who has not jumped the so called “queue”. One great grandmother on Randall's father's side of the family, Mary Ann Green, came from Derbyshire, England at 10 years old with her parents and siblings. They left Liverpool in 1860, arriving in Sydney on 7 January 1861. They came as immigrants on the “British Trident”, a sailing ship which, according to Lloyd's register was “sheathed in felt and yellow metal, partly fastened with iron bolts. There was a crew of 50 and 437 immigrant passengers.
We have yet to find a picture of this particular “British Trident”. The one we have for you does not quite fit the description we have. We do not think it was a submarine “trident” either.
The real reasons for this family leaving Victorian England for the southern “El Dorado” are yet to be uncovered. We do not have the time to visit this part of England this time around and so we will pick up the story another time.
When I was in my 20s I sailed on that Oil tanker.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posing the photo