Genealogy Chat

My GGG Grandmother Margaret Wilson c1820 was born 'Near Glasgow' to parents John and Mary Wilson (Nee Wallace) who married at Paisley in 1820. If Margaret was born illegitimate she may have been required to use her mother's surname under Scottish law. Somehow she came to Sydney and married David Jones at the C of E Church at Brisbane Waters on 2nd June 1841 under the name Margaret Wilson. I cannot find her under either surname on the Claim a Convict lists so presume she came as a free settler possibly as a bounty girl. If that was the case she may have crossed the Irish sea to where bounty girls were being assembled in Ireland before sailing to Australia. Assuming lists were drawn up do they survive? Fische images of ships manifests are so blury it is difficult to make headway on this can of worms.

LDS, Family search site has an index of Bounty immigrants 1828-1842

This index covers the following series: Persons on early migrant ships, 1828-1832 (4/4823); Persons on early migrant ships, May 1832 - Jan 1833 (4/4824); Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, 1832-1842

You didn't give a name so couldn't try it out.

Persie

Hello, many thanks for that suggestion. What I have found availble thus far is to do with the manifest of the ship. It is the paperwork that was used to assemble the girls who were to go on board the ships that interests me. The ship may have sailed from say Belfast but the girls may have travelled there from other parts of the UK.

You could try

http://www.coraweb.com.au/shipindex.htm

There is a Bounty list on Ancestry as well.

If you google Bounty Immigration there are quite a few web sites and you may just glean something or a guideline to follow.

Persie

Hello everyone, can someone please tell me if the original lists of Bounty immigration girls has survived..
My ggg Grandmother was born in Glasgow and I suspect she travelled to Ireland before boarding a ship to Australia.
Would any record of where these girls haled from survive?