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I am offering lookups for the BISA. It is the first comprehensive index of the people of South Australia who lived in the
Colony during the first fifty years of settlement.The BISA is a good resource to find out where your relatives came from to South Australia.
Just give me as much info as as you can on your relative an i will try and help...thanks Steve

Hi Steve
I have some relatives that went to Australia but I have no idea where to and when, so here goes
James Pringle c 1837 Selkirkshire Scotland
Mary Marshall 1856 Paisley
James Ferguson 1867 Wishaw Lanarks
John Ferguson 1864 " "

Thank you

Sorry Helen and Jeannie,i had a look and couldnt find any of your people.

Thank you for looking

Hi Steven,
Would you please check for James Simpson Stevens about 1850.
Thanks Heather

Heather there are several James Stevens born around that time,have you got more info on him(parents or spouse name perhaps),so that i can narrow it down.

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Hi can you see if William McKinney/McCanney from County Antrim Ireland is in BISA.

Thank you
Teresa

Cheers to you Steven, could you please look up for me, Charles Wills and his wife Elizabeth (nee Haimes I think) she gave birth to a daughter Elizabeth in 1851 in Adelaide. I am looking for more information on them.
Regards Lorri

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Hi Steven,

Could you plese see if there is a James Rammell who came to S Australia c1881.

Thanks in advance,

Gillian

Hi Steven,
Sorry I didn't get back to you. I have been ill.
My James Stevens was born at Rotherhithe and was in his twenties when he arrived about 1850 and about five years later married a Mary Hackett. I have not been able to find shipping records or a marriage in any state for either so was hoping you may have come across something. Their first child, my grandmother, was born on Victorian goldfields in 1856.
. Thanks again ...Heather

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Sorry people but have been busy with real world stuff,anyway Teresa there is no William McKinney/McCanney in the BISA..sorry.

Ok Lorri i have found your Charles here is what is recorded in the BISA:
Wills Charles b: c1821 d 18-11-1903
Buried:Campbelltown SA
Arrived by 1853
Occupation: Gardener,Vigneron
Res:Fourth Creek
Religion: C/E
Married: Eliz b: c1817 d: 6.4.1901
Children:Chas(1845-1866),Mary Ann PARSONS (1847-), Eliz ROGERS (1851-),Emily (1853-),Sarah HART (1854-),Jane ROWE (1858-),Julia(1859-1860)

I think the entry for the child Chas is Charles,let me know if you want me to chase up any of the children Hope this helps.

sorry Gigi,there is no James Rammell who came to S Australia c1881 in the BISA.

Sorry Heather your James Stevens is not in the BISA.

Thanks fro looking Steven.

Gillian

Hi Steven,
Thanks very much for looking for James Stevens anyway.
Heather

Cheers again Steve, many thanks for your time, it was a great result and Charles was known as Chas. With the information you gave I have been able to follow up on the children..
Does the BISA information state where they came from ?
Once again many thanks.
Lorri