Lucy Bell
Lucy Bell, aged eleven, arrived with her family in the Colony of Victoria on 20 April 1855. The Bell family sailed with two hundred and twenty other government-assisted immigrants from Liverpool in England to Geelong in Victoria aboard the ship Sir Charles Napier, a journey that took five months.
Like many other new arrivals to the colony, Lucy's family left the Immigrant's Depot at Geelong 'on their own account' to head to the goldfields. The Bells made their way to a mining area just south of Ballarat.
This list of births and baptisms was kept by the Bell
family. It tells us where the family came from in Scotland, the names
of Lucy's parents and siblings, and their dates of birth. It is dated
11 December 1854 at Tillicoultry, Scotland.
Courtesy of Bell family collection
The Bell family arrived in Australia aboard the ship
Sir Charles Napier on 20 April 1855.
PROV, VPRS 14/P0 Register of Assisted Immigrants
from the United Kingdom [use microfiche VPRS 3502], 1839-71, unit 16,
book 12, folio 56
Unidentified Fully Rigged Immigrants' Ship of the 1850s
Reproduced with permission from the Melbourne
Maritime Museum Polly Woodside, National Trust of Australia Collection
S T Gill, View of Geelong Wharf from the Botanic Gardens,
Lithograph, 1855.
Reproduced with permission from the La
Trobe Picture Collection, State Library of Victoria
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