Blairgowrie
Ship: 1550 tons
Captain: Darke
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Husband
Sailed London May 29th 1875 - arrived Lyttleton August 22nd 1875
The first voyage made by this
beautiful clipper ship, after being launched at Glasgow in 1875, was to Lyttleton where
she landed 430 Government and fourteen saloon passengers. She sailed from London on March
26th and took her final departure from Start Point three days later. Light and contrary
winds prevailed until crossing the equator, and two heavy gales were encountered after
passing the Cape. On August 17th Stewart Island was in sight.Immediately after, a heavy N
E gale was experienced, and then light winds right up to the Peninsula. Notwithstanding
these adverse conditions, the ship anchored off Lyttleton on the 24th August, seven days
after sighting land, and accomplished the passage in 83 days from Start Point. The
Blairgowrie was a vessel of 1550 tons, commanded by Captain Darke. She was built by
Thomson of Glasgow and owned by Thomson and Gray. The vessel made one voyage only to New
Zealand.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
Arrival
of the Blairgowrie
Captains Report
Surgeon Superintendents Report
Our sincere thanks to Michele Cook for transcribing this list and the attachements and sending it to us.
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Cabin Passengers | ||||
Bassett | Mrs Sarah | |||
Miss Madeline | ||||
Mr S K | ||||
Mr W J | ||||
Cardwell | Mr W | |||
Husband | Dr | Surgeon on board | ||
Ellis | Francis | |||
Mrs | ||||
Florence | ||||
Woodfuffe | L R | |||
Sweet | Charles A | |||
Burrows | Mrs | |||
Dawber | Mr | |||
Mrs | ||||
Steerage Passengers | ||||
Families & Children | ||||
Ball | James | 38 | Farm Labourer | |
Truphema | 35 | |||
Charles | 11 | |||
William | 8 | |||
Elizabeth | 5 | |||
Isaac | 2 | |||
Edward | 9 months | |||
Baxter | David | 26 | Perthshire | Joiner |
Margaret | 26 | |||
Berryman | William H. | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Sarah | 21 | |||
Berryman | Richard | 50 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Christianna | 45 | |||
Susan | 10 | |||
George | 7 | |||
Brown | Isaac | Armagh | Farm Labourer | |
Eleanor | ||||
Burgoyne | Alfred | 34 | Cornwall | Labourer |
Mary | 22 | |||
Campbell | John | 29 | Renfrew | Navvy |
Mary | 27 | |||
John | 3 | |||
Jane M. | 3 months | |||
Clark | Alfred | 45 | Warwick | Miller |
Janet | 36 | |||
Ernest | 10 | |||
Herbert | 8 | |||
Edith M. | 6 | |||
Charles | 4 | |||
Edwin | 7 months | |||
Cronin | Daniel | 43 | Cork | Labourer |
Abbey | 40 | |||
William | 11 | |||
Cox | Christopher | 45 | Warwick | Labourer |
Elizabeth | 40 | |||
Eliza | 9 | |||
Sarah A. | 7 | |||
Davey | Jeffrey | 21 | Cornwall | Miner |
Kate | 21 | |||
Dick | Samuel | 35 | Antrim | Miner |
Marion | 31 | |||
Fanny | 8 | |||
John | 6 | |||
Robert | 4 | |||
Samuel | 4 months | |||
Dolan | David | 35 | Labourer | |
Bridget | 35 | |||
Phillip | 7 | |||
John | 5 | |||
James | 2� | |||
Doyle | Myles | 24 | Wicklow | Labourer |
Margaret | 23 | |||
Myles | 18 months | |||
Edwards | Alf O'K | 37 | Sussex | Carpenter |
Annie | 35 | |||
Billy | 9 | |||
Nora | 4 | |||
Margaret | 2 | |||
Evans | Joseph | 32 | Dorset | Labourer |
Mary A. | 36 | |||
Ford | Robert | 31 | Hants | Labourer |
Ellen | 36 | |||
Edward | 6 | |||
Halls | William H. | 20 | Engine Worker | |
Emily | 20 | |||
Hawes | Edward | 29 | Cornwall | |
Grace | 28 | |||
Mary J. | 5 | |||
Samuel | 2 | |||
Higgins | Edward | 24 | Cornwall | Carpenter |
Mary | 25 | |||
Hocking | Geoffrey | 22 | Blacksmith | |
Catherine | 22 | |||
Holihan | Richard | 25 | Kilkenny | |
Mary | 18 | |||
Howard | John | 38 | Northampton | Labourer |
Elizabeth | 40 | |||
George | 10 | |||
Lucy | 7 | |||
John | 5 | |||
Joseph | 3 | |||
Elizabeth | 18 months | |||
Hughes | Thomas | 22 | Armagh | Farm Labourer |
Jane | 22 | |||
Hunt | Thomas C. | 40 | Dorset | Mechanical Engineer |
Mary A. | 38 | |||
Louisa | 9 | |||
Julia A. | 7 | |||
James | George | 27 | Cornwall | |
Susan | 26 | |||
Jamieson | Robert | 24 | Shetland | Farm Labourer |
Joan | 23 | |||
Legg | William John | 20 | ||
Annie E. | 19 | |||
Mann | Joseph | 23 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Ellen | 25 | |||
May | William | 23 | Cornwall | Carpenter |
Grace | 21 | |||
Daughter | Born on Board | |||
Mauder | Abraham | 45 | Warwick | Labourer |
Charlotte | 43 | |||
Alfred | 11 | |||
Emily | 8 | |||
Murphy | Denis | 32 | Cork | Labourer |
Julia | 29 | |||
Eliza | 9 | |||
Julia | 5 | |||
Nennis | William | 30 | Carpenter | |
Emily P. | 28 | |||
Thomas | 7 | |||
William | 2 | |||
Noy | Robert | 39 | Labourer | |
Elizabeth | 39 | |||
Mary J | 1 | |||
Oates | Simon | 24 | cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Eliza | 18 | |||
Page | Thomas | 32 | Gloucestershire | Farm Labourer |
Margaret | 36 | |||
Goerge B. | 18 months | |||
Peckham | William | 41 | Sussex | Labourer |
Mary J. | 41 | |||
Mary E. | 7 | |||
Richard | 3 | |||
Pope | John | 25 | Devon | Farm Labourer |
Charlotte | 26 | |||
Henry | 4 | |||
Alice M. | 2 | |||
Rees | John | 44 | Bucon | Collier |
Ann | 34 | |||
Mary E. | 11 | |||
Rice | 3 | |||
Richardson | George | 22 | Kent | Carpenter |
Annie | 19 | |||
Ella | 2 | |||
George F. | 3 months | |||
Shaw | William | 37 | Guernsey | Labourer |
Rachel | 37 | |||
Elizabeth | 10 | |||
Fredercik | 8 | |||
Edward | 3 | |||
Emma | 7 months | |||
Sheehan | Patrick | 30 | Kerry | Labourer |
Mary | 28 | |||
Alice | 3 | |||
William | 1 | |||
Smith | William | 54 | Warwickshire | Labourer |
Ann | 46 | |||
Lydia | 11 | |||
William | 8 | |||
Smith | Isaac | 22 | Hants | Labourer |
Harriet | 22 | |||
Stubberfield | John | 22 | Sussex | Capenter |
Sarah J. | 22 | |||
John N. | 7 months | |||
Sullivan | George | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 24 | |||
Tresidder | John | 24 | Cornwall | Labourer |
Ellen | 23 | |||
John | 2 months | |||
Warner | Jeffrey | 22 | Cornwall | |
Margaret | 29 | |||
Williams | James | 38 | cornwall | |
Edna | 38 | |||
John | 10 | |||
Jim | 5 | |||
Kate | 3 | |||
Williams | Jeffrey | 23 | Farm Labourer | |
Eliza | 23 | |||
William John | 2 | |||
James | 1 month | |||
Wills | John | 32 | Cornwall | Shoemaker |
Elizabeth A. | 26 | |||
Elizabeth | 10 | |||
William James | 4 | |||
Edward John | 2 | |||
Wright | James | 23 | Aberdeen | Farm Labourer |
Elizabeth | 34 | |||
Colonial Nominated Families & Children | ||||
Barlow | William John | 32 | Down | Miner |
Janet | 35 | |||
Catherine | 10 | |||
William John | 8 | |||
Elizabeth | 6 | |||
Jessie | 2 | |||
Barton | Henry | 36 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
Amelia | 36 | |||
Henry | 6 | |||
Dawber | Jarew | 22 | Suffolk | Porter |
Eliza | 23 | |||
Hayward | Henry | 28 | Suffolk | Farm Labourer |
Martha | 29 | |||
Agnes | 4 | |||
George | 18 months | |||
Henderson | William | 35 | Aberdeen | Carpenter |
Helen | 28 | |||
N. | 9 | |||
John | 5 | |||
James | 3 | |||
David | 1 | |||
Joner | James | 50 | Armagh | Labourer |
Lucy | 50 | |||
McGeown | Arthur | 32 | Armagh | Labourer |
Eliza | 30 | |||
Mary | 8 | |||
Bernard | 4 | |||
John | 2 | |||
Hamish | 8 months | |||
McKay | James | 40 | Antrim | Labourer |
Sarah J. | 36 | |||
Sarah | 10 | |||
George | 7 | |||
Moore | 4 | |||
McMahon | Arthur | 49 | Fermanagh | Carpenter |
Margaret | 47 | |||
Odering | John | 24 | Warwick | Farm Labourer |
Elizabeth | 22 | |||
John William | 6 months | |||
Reynolds | Richard | 47 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Elizabeth | 40 | |||
Silby | Silas | 34 | Cornwall | Mason |
Ellen | 35 | |||
Eliza G. | 5 | |||
Single Men | ||||
Aeyland | John | 20 | Cork | |
Bennets | William | 21 | ||
Berryman | John | 18 | Cornwall | |
Bird | Thomas | 27 | ||
Blakeway | Edwin | 24 | ||
Bodin | James | 18 | Fermanagh | |
Borence | Arthur | 24 | Cornwall | |
Bradley | John | 21 | Cork | |
Bugenshaw | William | 31 | Surrey | |
Bursoyne | William | 13 | Cornwall | |
Carey | Jeremiah | 20 | Tipperary | |
Casey | Patrick | 19 | Cork | |
Clark | Alfred J. | 14 | Herts | |
Clancy | John | 17 | Galway | |
Cleary | Patrick | 28 | Tipperary | |
Colquhoun | Roger | 25 | Lanarkshire | |
Colquhoun | William | 21 | Larnarkshire | |
Connor | Cornelius | 22 | Cork | |
Creigh | Patrick | 25 | ||
Crisp | William | 18 | Middlesex | |
Cronin | Michael J. | 27 | Cork | |
Timothy | 21 | |||
Daly | James M. | 21 | Cork | |
Daly | Matthew | 21 | Kerry | |
Dineen | Park | 23 | Cornwall | |
Downes | Charles | 18 | Essex | |
Doyle | Francis | 30 | Edinburgh | |
Eaton | James | 33 | Middlesex | |
Field | Benjamin | 23 | ||
Fitzgerald | David | 30 | Cork | |
Gallagher | John | 21 | Donagal | |
Garrod | George | 21 | Kent | |
Graham | George | 27 | Roscrea | |
Groves | Richard W. | 21 | Cornwall | |
Hace | George T. | 23 | Cornwall | |
Hamilton | William | 31 | Tyrone | |
Handcock | Enoch | 24 | Stafford | |
Handy | Joseph | 23 | Cornwall | |
Harries | Joseph | 26 | Wiltshire | |
Harvey | Patrick | 32 | Limerick | |
Henry | 21 | Limerick | ||
Hawkins | William | 22 | Gloucester | |
Hill | James | 20 | Down | |
Hill | edward | 23 | Worcestershire | |
Hooper | thomas B. | 24 | Cornwall | |
Hunt | James John | 17 | Dorset | |
Sidney | 15 | |||
Herbert | 13 | |||
Digby | 12 | |||
Johnston | Robert | 21 | Cornwall | |
Joner | James | 29 | Armagh | |
Kear | Lot | 25 | Londonderry | |
Kennedy | Patrick | 21 | Tipperary | |
William | 19 | Tipperary | ||
Langdon | Thomas | 21 | Cornwall | |
Laughlin | Patrick | 35 | Cork | |
Limes | Joseph | 18 | Armagh | |
Lynan | James | 20 | ||
Mackay | Donald | Sutherland | ||
Mander | Andrew | 21 | Warwick | |
Ambrose | 16 | |||
Manhire | William | 19 | Cornwall | |
McCahon | Marshall | 25 | Derry | |
McCarthy | Denis | 21 | Kerry | |
McGuiness | Thomas | 23 | Clare | |
McIntyre | Henry | 28 | Londonderry | |
MacKay | John | 14 | Antrim | |
McLean | John | 24 | ||
McNeill | James | 26 | Down | |
Miles | John | 23 | Gloucestershire | |
Monson | Edward | 22 | ||
Mooney | Peter | 19 | Galway | |
Mounce | Frederick | 23 | Devon | |
Mountjoy | John | 20 | Armagh | |
Murphy | Timothy | 19 | Cork | |
James | 15 | Cork | ||
Murphy | John | 19 | Kerry | |
Murphy | Andy | 21 | Cork | |
Murray | Bernard | 18 | Fermanagh | |
Newman | Sheppard | 19 | Suffolk | |
Noy | Thomas | 12 | Cornwall | |
O'Connor | Jeremiah | 25 | Cork | |
O'Sullivan | Daniel | 24 | Kerry | |
Oliver | Charles | 17 | Kent | |
Pearce | Thomas | 26 | Cornwall | |
John | 18 | Cornwall | ||
Powell | Thomas M | 30 | Yorkshire | |
Roberts | Richard | 21 | Cornwall | |
John | 22 | Cornwall | ||
Robinson | Samuel | 15 | Essex | |
Russell | Roger | 22 | Larnarkshire | |
Shaw | William | 12 | Guernsey | |
Shannon | Robert | 14 | Donegal | |
Charles | 12 | Donegal | ||
Short | Richard | 19 | Devon | |
Somerville | Edward | 17 | Armagh | |
Stevenson | Thomas | 19 | Donegal | |
Stonear | John | 24 | Plumber | |
Sweeney | William | 26 | Kerry | |
Thomas | William | 22 | Cornwall | |
Thomson | James | 35 | Middlesex | |
Thompson | Alfred | 20 | Cornwall | |
Tolan | Neal | 33 | Tyrone | |
Tredwery | John | 15 | Cornwall | |
Wain | Murphy | 22 | Cornwall | |
Walshe | William | 25 | Kerry | |
Watkins | Thomas | 34 | Hereford | |
Whitehouse | John | 28 | Bedfordshire | |
Williams | F L | 27 | Cornwall | |
Williams | Alfred | 18 | Cornwall | |
Winkle | Daniel | 23 | France | Engineer |
Colonial Nominated Single Men | ||||
Anderson | George | 67 | Roscommon | |
Bowler | Michael | 20 | Kerry | |
Brosnan | Denis | 24 | ||
Calder | John | 19 | ||
Cook | William | 19 | England | |
Donohue | William | 21 | Tipperary | |
Dynes | John | 18 | Armagh | |
Foley | Maurice | 22 | Kerry | |
Daniel | 20 | Kerry | ||
Hayes | Patrick | 22 | Limerick | |
Hurt | John W | 19 | England | |
Fred | 16 | England | ||
Daniel | 13 | England | ||
Jones | James | 29 | Armagh | |
Lysaught | Daniel | 42 | Tipperary | |
Edward | 22 | Tipperary | ||
William | 10 | Tipperary | ||
McMahon | Arthur | 16 | Armagh | |
O'Sullivan | Murphy | 24 | Kerry | |
Reynolds | Alfred | 20 | Cornwall | |
John | 16 | Cornwall | ||
Single Women | ||||
Augland | Mary M | 22 | Cork | |
Ball | Ann | 12 | Hamptonshire | |
Berryman | Sarah | 16 | Cornwall | |
Elizabeth | 14 | Cornwall | ||
Bickwell | Sarah | 39 | Warwickshire | |
Kate A | 9� | Warwickshire | ||
Brown | Annie | 20 | Fermanagh | |
Bryan | Maria | 25 | ||
Caddy | Mary | 24 | Cornwall | |
Chappel | Mary J | 25 | Cornwall | |
Clancy | Bridget | 18 | Galway | |
Conner | Honara | 28 | Clare | |
Costelloe | Catherine | 23 | Tipperary | |
Bridget | 21 | Tipperary | ||
Cronin | Catherine | 18 | Cork | |
Ellen | 16 | Cork | ||
Cummons | Mary J | 25 | Tipperary | |
D? | Hannah | 24 | Cork | |
Dick | Janet | 17 | Antrim | |
Dryhurst | Elizabeth | 35 | Warwickshire | |
Ellen | 15 | Warwickshire | ||
Edwards | Annie | 12 | Sussex | |
Farrar | Alice | 24 | Dublin | |
Filby | Kate A | 21 | Middlesex | |
Green | Ellen | 23 | Cornwall | |
Horsley | Elizabeth | 18 | Middlesex | |
Howard | Sarah A | 13 | Northamptonshire | |
Emma | 12 | Northamptonshire | ||
Hunt | Eliza E | 19 | Dorsetshire | |
Sarah J | 18 | Dorsetshire | ||
Mary A | 16 | Dorsetshire | ||
Kiely | Margaret | 19 | Limerick | |
Leonard | Sarah | 17 | Fermanagh | |
Lovely | Emily | 21 | Essex | |
Loyne | Margaret | 21 | Tyrone | |
Lyne | Sophia | 20 | Tyrone | |
Lyon | Agnes | 22 | Stirlingshire | |
Manhue | Jane | 28 | Cornwall | |
Mannix | Margaret | 17 | Galway | |
Martin | Susan | 22 | Cornwall | |
McNeal | Agnes | 21 | Lanark | |
Moore | Jane G | 18 | Londonderry | |
Munage | Mary A | 20 | Fermanagh | |
Munns | Euphemia | 21 | ||
Murphy | Mary | 12 | Cork | |
Noy | Elizabeth | 14 | Cork | |
O'Sullivan | Catherine | 20 | Kerry | |
Pascoe | Eliza | 17 | ||
Phelan | Mary | 17 | ||
Roberts | Elizabeth | 25 | Cornwall | |
Shannon | Eliza | 43 | Donegal | |
Eliza J | 20 | Donegal | ||
Rebecca | 17 | Donegal | ||
Shaw | Louisa | 19 | Guernsey | |
Laura | 14 | Guernsey | ||
Shiniars | Ellen | 22 | Limerick | |
Smith | Fanny | 15 | Warwickshire | |
Ann | 14 | Warwickshire | ||
Strongman | Jane | 26 | Cornwall | |
Swann | Elizabeth | 29 | Surrey | |
T? | Rebecca | 21 | Cornwall | |
Thompson | Mary A | 46 | Cornwall | |
Mary A | 26 | Cornwall | ||
Tredway | Elizabeth | 35 | ||
Vale | Elizabeth | 30 | Middlesex | |
Welsh | Mary | 16 | Cork | |
Williams | Edna | 16 | Cornwall | |
Ellen | 13 | Cornwall | ||
Colonial Nominated Single Women | ||||
Barton | Amelia | 16 | Middlesex | |
Bowler | Margaret | 18 | Kerry | |
Connell | Mary | 40 | Galway | |
Ellen | 20 | Galway | ||
Connor | Mary | 16 | ||
Cookley | Annie | 20 | ||
Daly | Eliza | 20 | ||
Jones | Lucy | 21 | Armagh | |
Kibblewhite | Emily | 19 | Buckinghamshire | |
Lysaght | Bridget | 26 | Tipperary | |
Margaret | 19 | Tipperary | ||
Julia | 17 | Tipperary | ||
McKay | Margaret | 12 | Antrim | |
Reynolds | Elizabeth | 25 | Cornwall | |
Tunstall | Agnes | 32 | Yorkshire | |
COX family: |
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SHAW family: The Shaw family, listed in this shipping list are my ancestors. William and Rachel Shaw are my Great Great Grandparents. Louisa Shaw is my Great Grandmother. Any information regarding this family, would be kindly received. If you have a connection with this family or would like to know more please contact Michele Cook. |
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COSTELLOE family: Catherine (Kate) Costelloe is my Great Great Grandmother - born approximately 1856?. She came to NZ as a domestic servant on the Blairgowrie with her sister Bridget ( the records we have say she was 18 yrs old when she came to NZ although the shipping list says 23). We also have information that suggests Catherine is related to Eamon De Valera (who founded Fianna F�il in 1926 - Ireland's largest political party and was Prime Minister serving several seperate terms.) - Possibly a first cousin? Catherine married Thomas Patrick Murphy (Blacksmith) in Kaiapoi in 1878 and they had 10 children, 7 girls (one of them did not survive - whose name was also Winifred) - Kate, Annie, Flo, Nora, Eddie and Winifred (my Great Grandmother) and 3 boys - John, Tom and Patrick. Catherine is believed to have died in 1911 in Petone - although this is still unconfirmed. Patrick died in 1929 and is buried in a paupers grave in Ashburton. If anyone has any further information on Catherine, her sister Bridget or Patrick Murphy, please email Chrissy Scott. |
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Copyright Denise & Peter 2000 - 2003
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IMCH4/140