The first ships set out in the last week of February 1836.
Follow their journeys over 45 weeks through the weekly posts from the journals, diaries and letters of those on board.
The first ships set out in the last week of February 1836.
Follow their journeys over 45 weeks through the weekly posts from the journals, diaries and letters of those on board.
[ 25th of December 1836 to 31st of December 1836 ]
We have now reached the end of our story only to find we have arrived at the very beginning of the next story. By the end of this week all nine of our ships have arrived in South Australian waters with the Buffalo arriving in Holdfast Bay on December 28th. As soon as the Buffalo [...]
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Hi Kristy,
We don’t knowif he was a passenger or crew member, but the latter is most plausible. We have searched the archives at Cavan but have not found anything. From family oral history, we believe he arrived in 1842 and was working for John Peake at his winery in thevery beginning of planting vines, which i believe was about 1846. Yes he did serve on the Admella 1857 to July 1858, just before his marriage in September the same year in Pt Adelaide. We believe he had his reception on board the Admella while it was docked in the Port. Still enjoying the weekly updates, kind regards, Mario
we could only imagine – or could we? – what it must have meant to those onboard the John Pirie to have lost all those animals, food and other essentials in that ‘perfect hurricane’ . Reading more ‘Ides of March’ horror stories told by the John Pirie journal writer in his beautiful prose, astounds me. That our ancestors weathered such to give us their dream inheritance in this, our wonderful country…are we deserving? Are we still grateful? Were we ever grateful? Yes. And yes, while we weep we shall also smile…
We would like to thank History SA and the Curatorial Team and all involved in bringing us this very rich history of our early beginnings. Our great-great grandfather Georgios Tramountanas [George North] was the FIRST GREEK to settle in South Australia, arriving in Port Adelaide just 6 years [in 1842] after colonization. These weekly snippets into those times gives us a small idea of what the journey would have been like for him, what he may have encountered here on his arrival and how different were the days of our early Pioneering Ancestors. Again many thanks for this enormous undertaking from the Tramountanas-North Association Inc. Website: http://www.tramountanas1842.org Email: tramountanas@optusnet.com.au
Hi Mario, Many thanks for your comments! I contacted the South Australian Maritime Museum to see whether they held any information on your great great grandfather but they couldn’t find a reference to him in their passengers database. I noticed that he was from a family of shipbuilders and seamen – do you know whether he came out to South Australia as crew or as a passenger? I also noticed that once settled here he served on the SS Admella for a time (luckily before its ill-fated voyage of 1859)!
I hope you continue to enjoy the site.
Regards, Kristy – History SA.