Hi, my husband believes one of his relatives, Catherine Welsh, migrated fom Kirkcudbright to the Falkland Islands some time after her marriage to a shepherd called John Blackley in 1868. Can anyone advise on how best to proceed in finding out more? He has checked the NAS catalogue, e-mailed the Falkland Islands Musuem (no response as yet), checked out www.patbrit.org plus links and ordered a book on the history of the islands .What next?
Lizzie
Emigration to the Falklands 1868-1870?
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Lizzie
Dont know if you have checked the Inbound records but just doing a search for - sir name Blackley, port of departure Port Stanley Falkland Islands it brings up these two who are married. Its a it of a way off the date you are looking at but you may be able to place these.
Name: Adam Kiln Blackley
Birth Date: 14 Jun 1893
Age: 66
Port of Departure: Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Arrival Date: 22 Jul 1959
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: Port Stanley
Ship Name: Aeas
Search Ship Database: View the 'Aeas' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Messrs Jeppesen, Heaton and Company Ltd
Official Number: 0240/91
Name: Janet Agnes Mary Blackley
Birth Date: 8 Jul 1902
Age: 57
Port of Departure: Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Arrival Date: 22 Jul 1959
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: Port Stanley
Ship Name: Aeas
Search Ship Database: View the 'Aeas' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Messrs Jeppesen, Heaton and Company Ltd
Official Number: 0240/91
Going to Main Street, Penpont, Thornhill Dumfriesshire. He is a Sheep farmer on leave.
There are 12 entries for Blackley from Buenos Aires, Argentina one being a John Blackley born c 1851 who is Scottish, doesnt say much more than that.
Dont know if you have checked the Inbound records but just doing a search for - sir name Blackley, port of departure Port Stanley Falkland Islands it brings up these two who are married. Its a it of a way off the date you are looking at but you may be able to place these.
Name: Adam Kiln Blackley
Birth Date: 14 Jun 1893
Age: 66
Port of Departure: Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Arrival Date: 22 Jul 1959
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: Port Stanley
Ship Name: Aeas
Search Ship Database: View the 'Aeas' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Messrs Jeppesen, Heaton and Company Ltd
Official Number: 0240/91
Name: Janet Agnes Mary Blackley
Birth Date: 8 Jul 1902
Age: 57
Port of Departure: Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
Arrival Date: 22 Jul 1959
Port of Arrival: London, England
Ports of Voyage: Port Stanley
Ship Name: Aeas
Search Ship Database: View the 'Aeas' in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Shipping Line: Messrs Jeppesen, Heaton and Company Ltd
Official Number: 0240/91
Going to Main Street, Penpont, Thornhill Dumfriesshire. He is a Sheep farmer on leave.
There are 12 entries for Blackley from Buenos Aires, Argentina one being a John Blackley born c 1851 who is Scottish, doesnt say much more than that.
Scotland - Donaldson / Moggach / Shaw / Geddes / Sim / Gray / Mackie / Richards / Joel / Coull / Mckimmie / Panton / McGregor
Ireland and Scotland - Casey / McDade / Phillips / McCandle / Dinely / Comaskey + various spellings
Ireland and Scotland - Casey / McDade / Phillips / McCandle / Dinely / Comaskey + various spellings
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LizzieS
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Thanks Tracey,
No he had not checked inbound passenger lists. John Blackey had a son Adam (born about 1852) from a previous marriage. It would appear that he did not travel with his family to the Falkland Islands as he is working as a shepherd in Kells parish at both the 1871 and 1881 Census. There are no subsequent Scottish records for Adam so it is possible that he followed on at a later date, married and had a son who he called Adam - the person you found? Anyway my husband has now found an address for the FI Archivist so hopefully that will provide some answers.
Thanks again.
lizzie.
No he had not checked inbound passenger lists. John Blackey had a son Adam (born about 1852) from a previous marriage. It would appear that he did not travel with his family to the Falkland Islands as he is working as a shepherd in Kells parish at both the 1871 and 1881 Census. There are no subsequent Scottish records for Adam so it is possible that he followed on at a later date, married and had a son who he called Adam - the person you found? Anyway my husband has now found an address for the FI Archivist so hopefully that will provide some answers.
Thanks again.
lizzie.