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Last updated 22 December
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Australia |
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updated with details about those who travelled to Australia and
how they got there. If YOU know
any information that would help me do let me know |
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When and where |
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Alfred Douglas Greathead |
Alfred and Louisa emigrated with their
children to Adelaide in Australia in 1963 |
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Joseph James
Greathead |
Joseph and Sarah emigrated with their four
youngest children, Alfred, Emma, Eliza and Edward leaving the London Docks
on 12 April 1853 and arriving on 6 August 1853 in Australia on "Diana."
Joseph acted as the ships doctor, he was a chemist, and also a Methodist
minister. Joseph produced a handwritten diary of the journey from Shadwell
Basin, off the Thames to Australia |
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Thomas
Greathead |
Thomas and Martha sailed from London 27
December 1856 aboard SS Fontre arriving Cape Town 27 March 1857. They
travelled to Riversdale, Cape by ox-wagon in September 1859, where Thomas
opened a school on the 1 October 1859. They moved to D'Urban, Natal,
in 1856 in SS "Admiral"; and was living in "Hope Cottage", Pinetown,
in1860, where he opened Cheltenham House School, Pinetown. He then went to
Clarendon, Pietermaritzburg where he opened Karkloof College, Fort
Nottingham and Caversham Schools. He was a keen Astronomer. |
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Astle
James Thomas Greathead |
Astle was a postman living with his father in
Wootten Bassett in 1871. He died in Queensland in 1887. I do not
know when or how he got there. Do you? |
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Harry
Greathead |
Harry left London aboard SS Osterley on 16
February 1912 for Brisbane, Australia. He was described as a machinist. His
wife and two daughters followed him in October that year |
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Raymond
Greathead |
Raymond and his wife Margaret went to live in
Australia. He died in 2009 in New South Wales, Australia |
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Robert
Greathead |
I believe Robert emigrated to Australia and
then sent for his nephews Robert and George. Robert and his son George used
to make a tonic called Greatheads mixture that was sold in Australia as a
cure for fevers of all kinds. George was a herbalist. |
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Silas
Greathead |
Silas left Liverpool on 31 October 1929 aboard
the steamship Bendigo. He arrived in Sydney on 2 December 1929. He gave his
last address as 4b Spills Meadow Upper Gornal, Dudley, Staffordshire. Silas
was listed as being 46 years old and a bricklayer. Margaret his future wife,
was on the same boat. Whether they knew each other before the trip is
unclear Margaret was described as having home duties aged 21 |
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