Excerpt from a letter written by John Clack GERRING: Below is an excerpt from a letter written by John Clack GERRING (of New Zealand) to Nicholas LIDDIARD (nephew) of England on 22/06/1990.
"A few years ago we went to Australia for a holiday and spent a week in Sydney. I spent sometime at one of the Archives trying to trace a brother of my mother's. He was Richard Pring SALTER, born at Broadclyst, Devon in 1866. Mother used to say he was the "black sheep" of the family - but didn't tell us why. I suspect he married a girl the family disapproved of, anyway he had a row with his father, William Edward Ratcliffe SALTER, & left for Australia or N.Z. (possibly) somewhere around 1889-1891, I think. I wonder if you could find out from the Archives in Exeter if they have any record of Richard leaving England, especially the ship's name that he sailed on, the date of departure & its destination, including what Australian ports it would call on. At the Archives in Sydney you could get records giving the names of all the passengers arriving in different ships - but I didn't know the ship or the date it arrived."
"A few years ago we went to Australia for a holiday and spent a week in Sydney. I spent sometime at one of the Archives trying to trace a brother of my mother's. He was Richard Pring SALTER, born at Broadclyst, Devon in 1866. Mother used to say he was the "black sheep" of the family - but didn't tell us why. I suspect he married a girl the family disapproved of, anyway he had a row with his father, William Edward Ratcliffe SALTER, & left for Australia or N.Z. (possibly) somewhere around 1889-1891, I think. I wonder if you could find out from the Archives in Exeter if they have any record of Richard leaving England, especially the ship's name that he sailed on, the date of departure & its destination, including what Australian ports it would call on. At the Archives in Sydney you could get records giving the names of all the passengers arriving in different ships - but I didn't know the ship or the date it arrived."
