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SHIPS & PASSENGER LISTS

The Following pages will consist of Ships that carried passengers whose families can be found on my website. Not all passengers on each ship have been listed as there are various excellent resources available on the Internet that cover this in full. The Ships and families listed on the following pages have been compiled simply to show how 'OUR FAMILIES' arrived in New Zealand and Australia. When fully constructed these pages will show how the families that arrived in Australia eventually migrated to New Zealand or visa-versa. They will give some idea of how some of the families meet on the voyage out and how other families already knew each other before departure from England. One can only imagine the bonds & ties & partnerships that were formed between our founding families during what must have been an arduous and long voyage to the relatively unknown.

To try and tread in their foot-steps I like to imagine what it would be like having 100-300 strangers living in 'our house' for months on end. How would I cope with their illnesses? How would I cope with not being able to pop to the shops for more food and not being able to step outside the door the get away from it all? I can honestly say ... Not very well at all. The vessels that carried our families to the colonies are not much bigger, and even smaller in some cases, than the homes we live in today. To endure what they did is surely an indication of what life must have been like for them before they departed England and that they felt they could endure the hardship of the voyage ... And yet for many of our families it was just the beginning what was to be even greater hardship as they tamed the land and raised our founding families on it.

'HOW BRAVE THEY WERE'