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Introduction The focus of this Wiki section of the City of Adelaide website is to capture the details of the passengers and crew of the City of Adelaide. The wiki-site will also provide a background and context of their lives - whether they were refugees from a European war; victims of the closing of the Cornish copper mines; hopeful migrants wanting to build new lives in a young country. This is a place where you can find details of: Biographies and Diaries Crew Lists Descendants Family Stories Genealogy Geography & Places History Passenger Lists Ship Information The wiki format will allow you to browse detailed information on all of the above features. If you register and then log in to your account, you will also be able to add and edit articles as well. Presently much of this infomation is contained in the Joomla portion of the site. Progressively, this information will be transferred over to this wiki-site. If you register, you might also be willing to help copying existing information to the wiki-site. Another benefit of registering is that it is possible for you to create a User page and Talk page - just like Wikipedia. That will hopefully assist you in contacting other researchers interested in the same families and people. Being a wiki format, it is possible to work collaboratively with others to create a network of articles about your family and issues that you find interesting. When you create articles about your ancestors, you can link them to other articles about where and when they lived. You can work wholly within this wiki, or you can link your articles to sites on the world wide web. Please register and help build the picture of the life and times of the City of Adelaide. If you have your family history in GEDCOM format, it can also be e-mailed or posted on a CD to the webmaster, who can incorporate the information into the TNG database used in the Joomla website, and which will be integrated into the wiki-site too.

Featured article In 1876, the Nissen Family comprising Hans Christian Nissen, his wife Christine Frederickke Nissen (nee Boisen), and their five children aged 2 to 11, sailed from the port of Kiel in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany (previously Denmark), for England. On 25th May 1876, they then left England for Australia in the City of Adelaide. The family are listed in the passenger list for the voyage. The passengers on this voyage were all assisted migrants from Germany and the passengers were described as labourers - Hans, was a cabinetmaker-joiner. The family regarded themselves as coming from Denmark, however Schleswig, the part of Denmark where that had been living had been annexed as part of Germany in 1864. The Nissen Family received free passage from the South Australian Govenment to migrate to South Australia. After the voyage, the family kept the Passenger's Contract Ticket issued by the Emigration Agent for South Australia, presumably in London. The ticket ended up in the posessions of Maren Nissen, who was the youngest member of the family who travelled on the City of Adelaide - only two years old in 1876. Maren was a keen genealogist, ahead of her time, and kept many scrapbooks recording her family history. These have been passed down in her family, and the ticket survives to this day.

Did you know ... that on the maiden voyage of the City of Adelaide were George and Annie Wilcox, who were married a few weeks before the voyage, and Matilda Methuen who married Peter Waite two weeks after arriving in Adelaide. ... that superior tonnage and a greater spread of canvas provided clipper ships with higher speed. In 1876, an Ocean Race from the English Channel to Australia saw the City of Adelaide keep apace with a much larger clipper - the Bundaleer. They kept in sight of each other for almost the entire voyage. ... that Devitt and Moore were consistently identified as the registered owners of the City of Adelaide, but technically they were only the managing agents in London. ... that during the 1873 voyage of the City of Adelaide to London, the ship drifted so far to the South due to lack of winds that the Captain decided to go the other way around the world ... and the delay meant that heavily pregnant Annie Wilcox gave birth to George Seaborne in Cabin No.2 on 30th January, 1873, just off the Scilly Isles. ... in the 19th century the London to South Australian shipping trade fell mainly into the hands of three firms: A L Elder & Co, Orient Line and Devitt and Moore.