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[TSL] Re Ships manifests & missing children > Hobart Town VDL> c1824
"Ailsa Dee" <ailsa158@optusnet.com.au> on 03/15/2010

Hi All,

This is my first posting to Ships List but I have been reading the '[TSL]
manifests process & "missing" child' postings with interest. Since 'my' ship
and passengers were travelling in earlier times than the ship in the above
discussion, I am not sure if the conclusions about the accuracy of the
manifests applies in my case.

I have a situation where only one child was listed as travelling with the
parents on the ship's manifest. However I think that there should have been
two children travelling with the parents, either all or part of the way. 

The ship departed England in Sept 1823 & arrived in Hobart Town, Van
Diemen's Land (aka Tasmania Australia) in April 1824.  The ship had pulled
in at the Cape of Good Hope for about 6 weeks on its way to VDL.

It is possible that the second child was born on board the ship or even at
the Cape.

My questions are:

1) Am I right in thinking that the Ship's Manifest was written up before the
ship departed?

2) If a child was born on board or at a port of call along the way (say Cape
of Good Hope), was the manifest updated to show the new passenger?

3) How did the local reporter for the Shipping News section of the newspaper
in, say, Hobart Town get the names of the Arrivals from a particular ship? 
	Was he given a copy of the manifest, for instance? Or did he do a
head count of his own, asking names as each family group disembarked?

Looking forward to your help,

Regards,

Ailsa









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