Over the sea
I'm using the theme from 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks of "Water" to inspire this post - I'm going to interpret this as "ancestors who travelled over water to get to Australia" to trace my direct lineage and how they got here. All four of my grandparents were born in Australia, but once we get to great grandparent level, we start to have immigrants: Gaspar Sedgwick/Sigovich - Gaspar (or Jaspar, as some records have him listed), my great-grandfather on my father's father's side, born in 1855 in Cherso/Cres, Austria/modern-day Croatia. It took us a while to figure out his history - we thought he may have changed his name from something like Segvich. We found naturalisation papers from 1900, which indicated he came to Australia in 1874 from "Austria" on the Lady Belmore. Well, I've searched the records of the Lady Belmore and can't find any record of a Sedgwick/Segvich/Legwich or anything similar coming over. But there may be records...