Website Wednesday - TheShipsList

One of the websites that I have been using for years is TheShipsList. It is a wonderful research asset covering shipping with passenger lists, ship descriptions, shipwreck information and more, has 3500 free access web pages and is constantly being updated with new information. 

Source: TheShipsList. Retrieved from http://www.theshipslist.com/

My 4th Great Grand Aunt Mary Beaver (nee Rhall) and her husband Charles went to California in 1849 on the barque Louisa. Below is an example of the information found about this journey using this web site.

barque Louisa, 307 tons, Captain Mailler
from Sydney, cleared 23rd May sailed 26th May 1849, for California

Mr. Blackenberg	Mr. Suttor	Mr. Bertleson
Mr. J.S. Lloyd	Mr. Freer	Mr. Turner
Mr. R. Orr	Mr. J. Etheridge	Mr. H. Atkinson
Mr. P. Power	Mr.& Mrs. Bradsley & child	Mr.& Mrs. James Johnson
Mr.& Mrs. G. King	Mr.& Mrs. J.G. Cashman & child	Mr.& Mrs. Thomas McKey
Mr.& Mrs. James McCaffrey & three children	Mr.& Mrs. James Wilcox	Mr.& Mrs. R. Bruce
Mr.& Mrs. A. Wilkie	Mr.& Mrs. W. McKenna & three children	Mr.& Mrs. C. Beaver
Messrs. W. Bennett	A. Walsh	S. Whittaker
S. Brock	J. Roulston	J. Green
M. Fitzpatrick	G. Thew	W. Grant
W. Scott	G. Wilson	T. Nester
T. Hughes	T. Holt	G. Bardwell
J. Stephens	H. James	C. Forster
Isaac Male	T. McGee	D. McLean
J. Jebo	T. Armstrong	T. Weigall
Charles Cooper	Samuel Cooper	P. Joyce
H. McCaffrey	R. Redman	J.C. Miller
H. Lee	H. Strong	D. McRae
E. Felton	A. Mayo	R. Collins
C. Ruxton	W. McKenna

Sydney Shipping Gazette, Volume 6, Number 272 (2 June 1849) p. 148

Source:  Passengers sailing between San Francisco & Sydney / and Sydney & San Francisco 1849-1851. Retrieved from http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/california.shtml