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Re: [TSL] Surey - Sydney, Aust > UK 1819
Marj Kohli <marj@uwaterloo.ca> on 02/20/2010

Bev

I can confirm the Surrey arrival in England. The London Times of Dec 
16, 1819 reported: "By the ship Surrey, Capt. Raine, we have received 
New South Wales Gazettes to the 25th of July last..."

No other mention on her.

Regards..

Marj

At 08:07 AM 2/20/2010, Bev Nethercote wrote:
>Hi List
>
>
>
>The Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for David ALLAN (1780-1852)
>mentions that in July 1819 David ALLAN, his wife Sophia and 8 children left
>Sydney for Europe in the Surrey. I believe they went to London as a daughter
>was born there in Sept 1820.
>
>
>
>I am trying to find a record of them arriving in England. Where do I look?
>I've tried everything I can think of.
>
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>
>Further info for the family -
>
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>
>The family initially came to Australia in 1813 on the Fortune where David
>took up the position of deputy Commissary General of New South Wales. They
>returned to England in 1819 on the Surrey, more children were born and died,
>his wife died, he remarried and more children were born. In 1829 most of the
>family returned to Australia in the Prince Regent to settle, some in New
>South Wales and some in Victoria.
>
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>Details of the family believed to be on the Surrey in 1819 are:
>
>David ALLAN (abt 40) - born 1779 Edinburgh, Scotland
>
>Sophia ALLAN (nee JOHNSTON) - born ? Edinburgh, Scotland
>
>David Hendrie ALLAN (19) - born 1800 Edinburgh, Scotland
>
>Robert Innes ALLAN (18) - born 1801 Edinburgh, Scotland
>
>Henry Blair Watson ALLAN (14) - born 1804 Edinburgh, Scotland
>
>Sophia ALLAN (13) - born 1806 Edinburgh, Scotland
>
>John McMahon ALLAN (10) -  born 1808 Heligoland, Germany
>
>William Osborne ALLAN (9) - born 1810 Heligoland, Germany
>
>Marie Antoinette ALLAN (7) - born 1812 Heligoland, Germany
>
>George Octavius ALLAN (2) - born 1817 Sydney, Aust
>
>Erskine Johnston ALLAN (1) - born 1818 Sydney, Aust.
>
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>When the family returned in 1829, Dvaid Hendrie ALLAN stayed in England.
>George Octavius ALLAN wasn't on the Prince Regent passenger list, he would
>have been about 12 then, so don't know when he returned to Australia.
>
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>Hope someone can help me because I'm going around in circles.
>
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>
>Bev
>
>Kerang, Vic, Oz
>
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