Help needed to check archive entry for Alexander Johnson

[Åsbjørg Susort]

11 minutter siden, Ian Perry skrev:

the most common are Hana, Hetland, Heian, Mydland, Kolnes.

I was about to suggest DNA 😊

All of those names are from the area.

His siblings - Nils Andreas died before 1855, the others have descendants...:

 

Lars Thomas 8/9 1845

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1845, Side 48

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214030949

 

 

Karen Helene 3/2 1849

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1849, Side 143

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214031064

 

 

Nils Andreas 17/12 1850

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1850, Side 194

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214031115

 

 

Jørgen Andreas Richard 13/9 1853

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1853, Side 276

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214031198

Endret Juni 20, 2021 av Åsbjørg Susort

[Ian Perry]

1 minute ago, Åsbjørg Susort said:

I was about to suggest DNA 😊

All of those names are from the area.

His siblings - Nils Andreas died before 1855, the others have descendants...:

Lars Thomas 8/9 1845

 

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1845, Side 48

 

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214030949

 

 

 

Karen Helene 3/2 1849

 

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1849, Side 143

 

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214031064

 

 

 

Nils Andreas 17/12 1850

 

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1850, Side 194

 

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214031115

 

 

 

Jørgen Andreas Richard 13/9 1853

 

Rogaland fylke, Domkirken, Frue, Hetland i Stavanger, Ministerialbok nr. A 15 (1844-1854), Fødte og døpte 1853, Side 276

 

Brukslenke for sidevisning: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20051214031198

 

 

That's great, thankyou Åsbjørg for looking at that for me. I'll go and have another look at the trees I have matches with to see if any of those siblings you gave appear anywhere.

[Ian Perry]

18 minutes ago, Ian Perry said:

 

That's great, thankyou Åsbjørg for looking at that for me. I'll go and have another look at the trees I have matches with to see if any of those siblings you gave appear anywhere.

 

Åsbjørg, I just had a thought. My father said Alexander had jumped ship when he arrived in Australia. He married in Australia in 1868, and was noted on his marriage certificate as living on an island close to Brisbane where he worked as a pilot and probably lived at the lighthouse there. So he could have been living there for a while before he got married. To get to Australia he would have been employed on a ship coming to Australia sometime between 1860 and 1868. Would the Archive have a register of seaman who were employed for this route? Were the ships the Norweigan sailors worked on Norweigan ships? Where did the ships leave from? Which ports did they go through?

 

[Åsbjørg Susort]

17 minutter siden, Ian Perry skrev:

To get to Australia he would have been employed on a ship coming to Australia sometime between 1860 and 1868.

 

He might have employed from UK, Netherland or anywhere else after he jumped ship in Amsterdam. You have no info about what ship he arrived on?

 

I checked register for Haugesund and Stavanger and this was the "closest" to Alexander Johnson I could find. Can't find him in Norwegian sources after this, but don't know what happened to him...

 

Endret Juni 20, 2021 av Åsbjørg Susort

[Ian Perry]

26 minutes ago, Åsbjørg Susort said:

 

He might have employed from UK, Netherland or anywhere else after he jumped ship in Amsterdam. You have no info about what ship he arrived on?

 

I checked register for Haugesund and Stavanger and this was the "closest" to Alexander Johnson I could find. Can't find him in Norwegian sources after this, but don't know what happened to him...

 

 

Oh OK, I see, he jumped ship in Amsterdam not Australia. That makes sense then. He would have worked on a ship out of London perhaps that was coming to Australia. I wonder if there are registers in the UK for sailors going to Australia from London? I'll have to check that with my contacts in the UK. Thankyou Åsbjørg for this idea, I appreciate your help very much.