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~ Memiors - Letters - 1800 ~

../../images/bb011.gif Dave Hunter's "Letter to Home!"
  • A letter from John Huddart Norton to his brother, Frederick, following John's ill fated Journey to the California Gold Rush aboard the Fanny, July 14, 1850, San Francisco.




    • ../../images/bb011.gif Letters from an Immigrant
    -- America to Germany und zuruck ... Bertha Starke Geerdts, 1890-1911

  • As a teenager, Bertha Starke left her parents, siblings and homeland, and took the long journey across the Atlantic, then half way across the country, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.




    • ../../images/bb011.gif Genealogy - the armchair hobby? "Shipboard Life, 1844 Style"
  • This was part of a report given before a Parliamentary Committee, London in 1844 when conditions had, unbelievably, improved from the days of the first of the Swan River emigrants in Australia.




    • ../../images/bb011.gif National Library of Australia: Immigrant Diary and Letters
  • Held in the Manuscript Collection under keywords "immigrant diaries".
  • Logbook of a voyage from Liverpool, England to Queensland, Australia on the British Barque Oakhurst, 1898.
  • Transcripts of a shipboard diary from Hugh McLaughlin to David Webster and of letters from David Webster to his family in England giving detailed accounts of immigrant life in Brisbane, Australia, 1873-1874.





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