Lyttelton
Times - 26 January 1861 - MINERVA
The
Minerva
sailed on 17 November 1860 for Canterbury with 100 passengers
-
Chief Cabin -
Mr and Mrs Porter;
Rev.
C.Mackie and Mrs Mackie;
Rev. W.
Fearon, Mrs Fearon and family (10);
Mr and Mrs Allan;
Mrs Izard;
Messrs Tate;
C. and G.Sale;
W.and C.Raine;
Scrivener,
Thomas,
Moore,
Howitt, Thorman and
child;
For Otago - Mr and Mrs McMaster; Messrs
Neilson and Fullarton;
For Wellington - Rev. C.Halcombe
and Mrs Halcombe.
Second
Cabin -
Mr and Mrs Younghusband and
child;
For Otago - Mr Stewart;
For Wellington - Mrs Kyle
and Mr Burton.
Steerage
-
Stephen Brighting, wife and 2 children;
Mary Bighan; Harriet Izard;
J & W.Randall; Robert
Abbott; Robt Ambrose;
Alfred Adams; James
Clark; Vernon Smith.
For Otago -
Margaret Thomson;
For Wellington -
James Marshall, wife and
child; Alexander Steven and
wife; Frances Jeffery;
Johanna O'Brien;
Judy & Mary Mahoney;
Annie Freeman and 3 children;
Mary, Ellen and Catherine Morrison;
Anna Brill; Ann
Jones; Jane Johnston and 2
children;
Amy Hood and 2 children; Margaret
Robb and child;
Malcolm & Peter Walker; Edwin
Cox; Duncan & Thomas Morrison;
John Rice; Robert Baly;
William Wyllie; John &
Elias York; Peter Menzies;
Summary
-
Chief cabin passengers - Canterbury 30;
Otago 4; Wellington 2;
Steerage - Canterbury 13; Otago 1; Wellington
37;
Total 99
Saturday
2 March 1861 - Lyttelton Times
- arrival MINERVA
-
Captain Merryman -
from London -
names in addition to the above passenger list.
Second
Cabin
Mr & Mrs Elden,
Messrs Ord, David, Fabris, Saudry and Mackenzie
Steerage
- Alfred Adams
Lyttelton Times
- Wednesday 8 May 1861
- RHEA
SYLVIA -
arrived on Monday 6 May 1861, left King's
road, Bristol - 15 January
1861 with 115 adult immigrants - 62
males, 43 women, 31 children,
1 infant born on the voyage.
Provincial Government Immigrants
Married couples -
Thomas Cosley, domestic
servant, Worcestershire, wife and child;
John Brock,
mason, Edinburgh, wife and
child;
David Bartram, carpenter,
Staffordshire, wife and 3 children;
Charles Holland, carpenter,
Surrey, wife and child;
Stephen Lawrence, labourer,
jersey, wife and 4 children;
Robert Chudley, gardener, Lancashire, wife
and 2 children;
James Hawker, carpenter,
Somersetshire, wife and 5 children;
Peter McCallum, gardener, Dumbarton, and
wife;
Lawrence Wallace,
labourer, Guernsey, wife and 2 children;
Alexander McCracken, ploughman, Ayreshire, and
wife
Michael Kine, farm
labourer, Galway, wife and child;
Thomas Casserley,
farm labourer, Galway, and wife;
Walter Ford, farm
labourer, Galway, and wife;
John Hepburn, carpenter,
Antrim, wife and child;
Thomas Blakely,
labourer, Antrim, wife and child;
John McIfe,
ploughman, Antrim, and wife ;
Lewis Coutts, farm
labourer, Aberdeen, wife and child;
James Whelan, farm labourer,
Tipperary, wife and 3 children;
William Rineham, farm
labourer, Tipperary, wife and 2 children;
Niel Cunningham,
farm labourer, Down, wife and child;
John Hamill, farm
labourer, Antrim, and wife;
James Hamill
and wife; Archibald Hamill, wife and child.
Single Men -
Wm Robertson, ploughman,
Lanarkshire; Michael O'Brien, farm labourer,
Tipperary;
Charles Richardson,
gardener, Essex;
James Smith, farm
labourer, Down,
Charles, Michael and John Malley, farm labourers,
Galway; Thomas Hamilton, ploughman, Lanarkshire;
William Dove, ploughman,
Lanarkshire; Laughlin McCormack, ploughman,
Arglyeshire;
Archibald McCormack,
carpenter, Dumbarton;
Alexander Dawson,
ploughman, Antrim; Robt. Gibson, ploughman,
Ayreshire;
John Kennedy, shepherd, Wigton;
Wm Murchie, shepherd,
Wigton; Alexander Sandison, farm labourer,
Aberdeen; Alexander McHardy, ploughman,
Aberdeenshire;
James Vickers, farm
labourer, Yorkshire; John Cartif, farm labourer,
Tipperary; Thos. Carroll, farm labourer,
Tipperary;
Henry Stevenson, farm
labourer, Stirlingshire; John Goodall, farm labourer,
Fyfe; George Gay, woolwasher,
Wiltshire;
Edmund Cotter, farm
labourer, Clare; John Kennedy, blacksmith,
Tipperary; Patrick Mulloney, groom,
Limerick;
Hugh McIlray, ploughman,
Antrim; John Dardoo, farm labourer,
Westmeath; Martin & Patrick Gilmore, farm labourers, Galway;
William McIlwraith,
sen. William McIlwraith, jun.
Gilbert and Daniel McIlwraith,
farm labourers, Antrim;
Single Women -
Jane Carigoll,
housekeeper, Edinburgh; Frances
and Lucy Groves,
nursery governesses, Surrey;
Elizabeth Yeomanson,
housemaid, Kent;
Mary Ann Hawker,
Somersetshire; Margaret Mundy, dairymaid,
Lanarkshire; Jane Allen, housemaid,
Argyleshire;
Agnes Taylor, domestic servant,
Argyleshire; Elizabeth Coutts, domestic servant,
Aberdennshire; Jane Holliday, domestic servant, Kent;
Jessie Laurie, domestic
servant, Renfrew; Isabella Smith and 3 children,
Durham; Eliza Kennedy, domestic servant,
Tipperary;
Mary Kelly, domestic
servant, Galway;
Isabella Loft,
domestic servant, Hertfordshire;
Elizabeth and Amelia Joyce, Jersey;
Lydia Cooper,
housekeeper, Sussex, Matron.
Analysis of Trades -
Land - farm labourers, 39;
general do. 3. gardeners, 3;
Stock - shepherds, 2; groom, 1;
Iron - blacksmith, 1;
Stone - mason, 1;
Wood - carpenters 5,
Miscellaneous - servant, 1; woolwasher, 1.
Single women -
Domestic servants - 8; dairymaid -
1, housekeeper, 2; governesses, 2;
housemaids, 2;
Beverley Evans
Christchurch NZ
24 May 2011
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