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"Somersetshire" (Ship) - Colonists to South Australia in 1839

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Robert Burfield (1812 - 1878)
Robert Burfield Robert arrived in South Australia on the "Somersetshire" in 1839. He pioneered the Blackwood Belair Coromandel Valley area or as stated Upper Mitcham. Mitcham is a suburb on the flat,...
Eliza Burfield Gaston (1834 - 1905)
Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy : Oct 12 2017, 4:21:56 UTC
Description English: St Nicholas' parish church, Brighton, East Sussex, seen from the southeast on 10 March 2007 Date 25 March 2007 (original upload date) Source Own work Author Hassocks5489 at en.wikipedia Lic: Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:St_Nicholas_Church,_Brighton_01.JPG

Rebecca Gaston (1814 - 1852)
Rebecca Burfield GASTON Charles, Rebecca BURFIELD, Ann arrived in SA 1839-08-24 aboard Somersetshire from London Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy : Oct 12 2017, 4:21:56 UTC
Thomas Goldsmith (bef.1839 - d.)
Edward Goldsmith (bef.1839 - d.)

The Somersetshire 1839 from London with Captain John Jackson and 234 passengers, arrived Port Adelaide on August 24th, 1839

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