Annette: I also have ancestors that went to the gold fields in Victoria. The PROV - Public Records Office Victoria might be helpful. https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/where-start
I found that my ancestors traveled in 1852 on the ship called the Water Lily in October. Another place I found them was The Creswick and Clunes Advertiser. The men in the goldfields took each other to court for just about " anything"and those records are in the newspapers. After I found all the times they were listed, I sent to the PROV to get copies of the articles. I also found through the Pioneer Index (I think it's called the "Diggers" i de. Where they married and the record of that giving details of where they came from. Subscribe to the Goldfields list. I don't know how you get on it since Rootsweb is down. It's like the Azores list. People on that list helped me by looking on the Pioneers index, found the ancestors and the marriage info. Learned the bride was abandoned by the first husband and she had a child of 8 years old who died and where he was buried. Learned she died within first year of marriage and eventually got photo of the grave marker. It's been special to get this info but it took detective work and a lot of people who helped. Write me if I can be of more help. There are others on this list who also have ancestors who went to the Goldfields in the same time frame. Maybe google Goldfields of Australia. (?) Best of luck Maria Elena > On Jan 10, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It is very difficult to research Sao Miguel island with its 70 or so parishes > without knowing which parish your ancestor came from. Araujos are all over > Sao Miguel. > > I'd go to your local genealogy society and ask how to trace an immigrant > ancestor in Australia around 1850. Are there censuses, naturalizations, or > other documents that you can look at that might list your ancestor's place of > birth? Any Australian military records, his death record, his obituary, etc? > I'm not Australian so I'm not familiar with what you have for resources to > trace an immigrant ancestor. > > If that work turns up no more than Sao Miguel island, you could turn to DNA. > Understand though that it's not a magic wand. Sao Miguel island is the > largest and we have only a couple of DNA clusters so far on that island. If > you test and match a group of testees who are all researching in a particular > freguesia (village), then you'll know where to start looking. However, it is > most likely that you won't match a clear cluster, but your results will sit > there, attracting more matches over time. While you play wait-and-see you can > work other matches or force matches to happen by testing other family > members. If you do decide to go this route, test the oldest person on your > Araujo line. If that's one of your parents, test your parent first. If your > parents are deceased, but have a living sibling, test them first. If your > parents and their siblings are all deceased, then you are the best candidate > so you could test yourself. You would want to order the Family Finder test at > Family Tree DNA here: https://goo.gl/i34dpE > > If your maiden name is Araujo, then we would want to test someone else too > and with a different kind of test in addition to the one above. > > Good luck, Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:46 AM, Annette <gi...@fox-net.com.au> wrote: >> Can anyone please tell me anything about my 2nd great grandfather, He was a >> farmer and married a lady called Antonia, who we don't know of her last >> name. >> I don't know what parish they came from, only it was Sao Miguel. >> My great grandfather's name was Francisco Batila De Araujo or De Araugo. He >> was born in 1832. >> Francisco ran away to sea when he was 16 years old and ended up on the gold >> fields as a miner in Bendigo Victoria Australia. >> I know of all the children Francisco had and the rest of the family. >> I'm hopeful that someone will know of him or the name De Araujo and what >> part of Sao Miguel they came from. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Azores Genealogy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
