Just a short note on the Callows -- when I looked at the Unassisted Arrivals lists for the port of Melbourne in early 1853 at the Public Record Office of Victoria, I came across Ellen Callow, aged 29, and her son William, aged 10, both disembarking from the "Eagle" ex Liverpool in May. In April, 1853, the only other candidate Callow for 1853 arrived -- "Thomas" (!), aged 30, on board the "Tantivy" (though there was also a 19-y-o John Callow -- presumably no relation? -- who also arrived in May, ... on board the Prince Arthur!).

According to the "Shipping Intelligence" column of Melbourne's "Argus" newspaper of April 15th, 1853, "ARRIVED. 14.-Tantivy, ship, 1040 ton. S. Brewster, from Liverpool Dec. 13. Passengers-cabin; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, M. Caldwell, J. Telford, Esq., surgeon, and three hundred and seventy-one in the steerage," one of whom was presumably your Manxman, William Callow. Who for all I know might have been "Thomas William" or "William Thomas" ... only I'd put my money on a clerical error as the more likely explanation, and I wouldn't be holding my breath for the Public Records Office to correct it. After all, they're quite emphatic that when my forebears disembarked at Melbourne in 1857, their names were spelt "BALCH" rather than "Bolch" ... which will come as a big surprise not only to all the family still in central Germany, who still spell their name the way I do (and the way that they wrote it on the ship's ticket, a copy of which I still have), but also to the 180+ Australian descendants who attended a 150th-year reunion celebration here, back in 2007.