EARLY SHIPPING DAYS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17169, 12 October 1923, Page 10

EARLY SHIPPING DAYS.

VOYAGES FROM THE OLD COUNTRY. TALES OF THE EMIGRANT SHIPS. a»ys of New zjulana are recalleft people arl lntsrnhoa In the subject, citizens of the Dominion are descended from the old stock which braved the voyaffes in the sailers of ss. ■saa ssss PASSENGERS BY THE MERMAID. (From the “ Lyttelton Times,” January 9, 1869.) Arrived. -January, Mermaid, ship, 1233 tens, Rose, from London. Passengers - Cabin. Mr and Mrs R. AYilkin, Messrs James David. John Robert, Miss Rachel Wilkin. Mr and Airs Milton, family and servant. Miss Pilgrim. Mr and Mrs Allen. Air Brown, Air Bishop. Second cabin Mr and Airs Patcherfc and family (nine). Air aud Airs Patcliett, jiinr.. Airs Preston, Mr. Airs and Alaster May. Messrs Condcll, Goldsmith, Ogilvic, Drummond. (Government i nimi'granis. Families and children - Farm labourers—Thomas Dench, wife and child, Charles King ami wile, Surrey; John Moore and wife. Essex: AYilliam Prime and wife, Herts; John P. Cole and wife, Cambridgeshire; Charles J. Ban well and wife, Somersetshire: Thomas Stanley and wife, Thomas Caddy and wife. Cornwall; Samuel Clarke, wife and child, Tyrone; Caleb Dally and wife, Cornwall : Henry Rutter and wife, Lincolnshire; Charles Lockhart and wife. Down. _ Schoolmaster- Georg© Peter Kay, wife and two children. Single men Farm labourers—-Henry Beckett. Bucks; James Henderson, Caithness; George Helford, Northampton ; Robert Wallace. Tyrone : John Phillips, Antrim ; Michael Shea, Bryan Connor, Kerry: Rollert Henry, Tyrone: James Holland, Down. Ploughmen—John AATlliams, Montgomery; James Steele, Londonderry; John Co wens, Northumberland : William Thomas, Montgomery; Thomas M’Guire, Fermanagh ; Robert AVhitc, Dumfries; Robert Haslic. Antrim. Labourers James Triggs, Kent: James AF. Shepherd, Norfolk; Edward Lewis, Shropshire; AFichael Corkcry. Shepherds—James Curtin, Waterford ; Edwin Spicer, Berks. Single women Domestic servants—Fanny Smellie, Clara Pratt, Elizabeth Allan, Emma AL Russell. Sarah Payne, Emily Savill, Middlesex: Lucy Leo. Sarah Wise, Louisa "Wilkins, Charlotte Burnes. Surrey; Amy Woodward, Kent; Sarah Tyler. Essex ; Sarah A. Spicer, Berks; Caroline Outran!, Leicestershire; Charlotte Childs, Dorsetshire; Alary A. Shari and. Somersetshire ; Alary Treemar, Pembrokeshire ; Catherine Russell, Cardiganshire; Mary Humphreys, Montgomery ; Dinah Sellers, Cornwall; Catherine Aleuhiniek, Surrey; Catherine Owens, Northumberland; Mary J. and Isabella. Wallace, Tyrone ; Jane if. Walker, Forfarshire; Margaret Finlayson, Rosshire ; Dora Tomler; Louisa Meyer, Alary Kirkley, Hanover; Alary Cherry, Susan Hyland, Alary .1. Hamilton, Down: Alary Johnston, Louisa E. Kay. Charlotte TO. Kay, Antrim; Martha, Margaret A. and Catherine Clarke. Tyrone; Anna AF Donga 11, Antrim : Alary J. Woods. Tyrone ; Alargaret Packer, Elizabeth Al’Dermott, Donegal ; Alary and Honora Kelly, Limerick; Alary Daly. Clare : Hester Henry. Tyrone: Florence Andrews. Lancashire: Eliza. J. Alulliu, Jane and Margaret AFElroy. Tyrone; Alarian M’Mahon, Fermanagh : Isabella Doherty, Donegal: .lone Ramsay, Dorothea Neill, Antrim; Afarv Looey. Armagh; Enna Spuriing. Suffolk; Elizabeth S. Banks. AJiddlesox; Alary T. Dallow, Shropshire. Dairy women- Mary J. AYilson, Leicestershire : Bridget Curtin, "Waterford ; Isabella M’Carten. Tv rone ; Alary Fitzgerald, Kory ; Bridget Kelly, Limerick.

Cooks. —Elizabeth O. and Alartha Wise, Surrey: Eliza Sharpe. Yorkshire; Hannah Cross, Northampton ; Jane M’Alahon, Fermanagh. Nurses—Eliza Ann Pratt, Eliza Lee, Middlesex: Caroline Pogson, Jane 10. Rogers. Surrey. Laundress—Jessie AT Kay, Sutherla wish ire. Catherine Thompson. Charlotte Triggs and five children. Kent. Alatron—F rn nces Pad wick. Summary—Farm labourers 21, ploughmen 7, labourers I. shepherds 2, schoolmaster 1. domestic servants 08. conks o, dairywomen o. nurses 4, laundress 1. matron j. Total 109. Male adults 35, female adults 89. male children 4. female children 2. infant 1. Total souls 131, equal to 127 statute adults.