James Bull born: 1829-30 married Eliza Baker 1848 in Biddestone, Wiltshire, England.

Eliza came from the village of Biddestone. She was a labourer and her fathers name was Richard Baker.
 
 
 
 

In early 1849 James 20 and Eliza 17 or 18 years of age boarded a vessel called the Emigrant as assisted passengers and set sail for Australia.

(The Emigrant was the scene of a typhus epidemic in Moreton Bay in 1850. The vessel carried out it’s final voyage to Australia in 1854 where it was sold to foreigners. It was later wrecked in the Avon river near Bristol England in 1905).

James and Eliza docked  in Australia at Port Philip on June 8, 1849. The security of their shipboard community , however discordant, was now gone. Each immigrant reacted differently as part of the assisted migration scheme. 11,662 people came to the colony from Britain in 1848 and 1849 to alleviate the labour shortage in the pastoral industry. This area was known as the Port Phillip district of New South Wales until Victoria’s independence in 1851. The population of Melbourne in 1851 was 23,143.

Upon arrival in Port Phillip, migrants were quarantined in a building in King street Melbourne.
On many occasions after clearance crowded numbers caused overflowing which meant many had to live in tents on the banks of the Yarra river.