Assisted Immigrants Index 1839-1896 (NSW State Archives)

Assisted Immigrants Index 1839-1896 (NSW State Archives) · Sydney and Newcastle · passenger lists · other

For “Arrival” 14 MAR 1857 of Thomas Charles

"Thomas | CHARLES | 40 | Beejapore | 1857 | Sydney and/or Newcastle | Reel 2138, [4/4793]; Reel 2475, [4/4966] | and family"

Index row, columns in the source's own order: First Name, Surname, Age, Ship, Year, Place of Arrival, Copy (microfilm reel and archival item), Remarks. "and family" is the index's own abbreviation meaning he is the head of family and his household is listed with him. Four other CHARLES rows on the same ship and year: Sarah 37, Sarah 8, John E 5, Rhoda 3. Age 40 matches a birth of 14 May 1816.

Assisted Immigrants Index 1839-1896 (NSW State Archives) · Sydney and Newcastle · passenger lists · other

For “Arrival” 14 MAR 1857 of Sarah Anne Cole

"Sarah | CHARLES | 37 | Beejapore | 1857 | Sydney and/or Newcastle | Reel 2138, [4/4793]; Reel 2475, [4/4966] | and family"

Index row, columns in the source's own order: First Name, Surname, Age, Ship, Year, Place of Arrival, Copy (microfilm reel and archival item), Remarks. Five CHARLES rows on the Beejapore 1857: Thomas 40, Sarah 37, Sarah 8, John E 5, Rhoda 3. The stated age of 37 is about four years younger than the birth year recorded here; I have not altered the recorded birth.

Assisted Immigrants Index 1839-1896 (NSW State Archives) · Sydney and Newcastle · passenger lists · other

For Michael Sullivan & Julia Collins

O'SULLIVAN Michael | and wife | Age: 33 | Ship: Hereford | Year: 1878 | Sydney | Reels 2141, 2489 || O'SULLIVAN Julia | and husband | Age: 29 | Ship: Hereford | Year: 1878 | Sydney | Reels 2141, 2489

A CHECKED NEGATIVE, recorded so nobody searches this index again. The whole Assisted Immigrants Index 1839-1896 was read for SULLIVAN and O'SULLIVAN (552 Sullivan rows in the index; 28 Michaels and 9 Julias) and this family is not in it. The only married Michael-and-Julia pair arriving at Sydney in the emigration window is the couple quoted here, and they travelled as a couple with no children — the index marks them "and wife" and "and husband", not "and family" — where Michael and Julia Sullivan left Cork with at least six living children born 1864-1874. The three 1877-1879 Sydney ships that do carry a Sullivan "and family" (Annie H Smith, Nineveh, Ellora) have Cornelius, Timothy and Margaret at the head of the household, not Michael. So the family paid its own passages: the unassisted passenger lists for 1875-1880, which are not indexed by name at State Archives, are where they will be found. Quality 1 because the quoted rows are a rejected candidate, not evidence of anything about this family.