Immigration
Arrived at Sydney aboard the barque Sultana as an assisted immigrant with wife Edith Maria and infant son George; age 21, farm labourer from Langley, Essex.
Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaFamily profile
- Born
- 1834
- Died
- 6 June 1880
Biography
In 1856, William King sailed for New South Wales aboard the Sultana with his wife, Edith Maria Dodkin, and their infant son George. The passenger transcription describes him as a farm labourer, aged twenty-one, from Langley, Essex, and names his parents as Joseph and Mary. William and Edith Maria had married at Langley on 7 April 1855. The official New South Wales index dates the ship’s arrival at Sydney to 27 June 1856; the compiled family account gives 28 June.
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