Halcione
Ship: 857 tons
Captain: Thomas Bishop
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Popham
Sailed London May 1st 1872 - arrived Wellington July 27th 1872
The Halcione, one of the first iron
full-rigged ships built for the Shaw Savill Company, in 1869, completed twenty- six
voyages to Auckland, Wellington, Lyttelton, Nelson, Bluff, and Napier; and after making a
good run of 89 days to Wellington Heads, on her eighteenth passage out, was totally
wrecked. The Halcione was never a flyer, but she made more than average runs. In 1886 she
made the Bluff in 87 days, under Captain Parker. She also ran to Wellington, under Captain
Bishop on three occasions in 87 days. The ship was built specially for the New Zealand
trade by Steele, of Greenock, her tonnage being 843. In 1888 the vessel's rig was changed
to that of a barque.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
Name | Age | County | Occupation/Comment | |
Cabin Passengers | ||||
Brown | Carey T Esq | |||
Mrs | ||||
Miss | ||||
Miss K | ||||
Charles | ||||
Percy | ||||
Ethel | ||||
Florence | ||||
Ada | ||||
Emma | ||||
Griffiths | Mr | |||
Hatwell | Miss | |||
Henderson | Master F | |||
Master W | ||||
Hould | Miss | |||
Lawson | Mr | |||
Mrs | ||||
Carrie | ||||
Annie | ||||
Nellie | ||||
Miss | ||||
Miss F | ||||
James | ||||
Master W | ||||
McGregor | Miss | |||
Napier-Bell | Mrs C | |||
Child | ||||
Robinson | Mrs W G | |||
Master W | ||||
Ware | Mr | |||
Miss | ||||
Paying Steerage Passengers | ||||
Families & Children | ||||
Burch | Frederick | |||
Mrs | ||||
Deaman | Mark | |||
Mrs | ||||
Child | ||||
East | Edward | |||
Mrs | ||||
Foster | Samuel | |||
Mrs | ||||
Child | ||||
Humphrey | W | |||
Mrs | ||||
2 children | ||||
Webb | George | |||
Mrs | ||||
2 children | ||||
Single Men | ||||
Bartlett | Mr | |||
Beck | Mr | |||
Boddy | Mr | |||
Carvill | Mr | |||
Davis | Mr | |||
Evitt | Mr | |||
Green | Mr | |||
Hedges | Mr | |||
Herbert | Mr | |||
Hitchcox | Mr | |||
Hobbing | Mr | |||
Hunt | Mr | |||
Jones | Mr | |||
Neson | Mr | |||
Penfold | Mr | |||
Mr | ||||
Reading | Mr | |||
Reynolds | Mr | |||
Thomson | Mr | |||
Walker | Mr | |||
Mr | ||||
Willburn | Mr | |||
Williams | Mr | |||
Single Women | ||||
Carver | Miss | |||
Penfold | Miss | |||
Miss | ||||
Assisted Steerage Passengers | ||||
Families & Children | ||||
Abec | Jens P | 32 | Denmark | |
Christiane | 33 | |||
Marie | 5 | |||
Andreas | 3 | |||
Female infant | 9 months | |||
Banks | Richard | 31 | Hamptonshire | Farm Labourer |
Ellen jane | 32 | |||
Esther M | 7 | |||
Mary H | 5 | |||
Elizabeth A | 3 | |||
George | 7 months | |||
Bath | Charles | 22 | Somerset | Woodcarver |
Louisa | 22 | |||
Brodersen | Rasmus | 37 | Denmark | |
Maren | 43 | |||
Henrik | 8 | |||
Christensen | Peter Christian | 31 | Denmark | |
Johanna | 27 | |||
Female | 6 months | |||
Christensen | Niels C | 29 | Denmark | |
Magdalena | 33 | |||
Mads Peter | 6 | |||
Marriane | 4 | |||
Crotaz | Isaac | 29 | Middlesex | Engineer |
Elizabeth | 30 | |||
Ebbett | John | 41 | Cavan | Farmer Bound for Napier |
Jane | 40 | |||
Eliza | 11 | |||
George | 8 | |||
Stewart | Jane | 19 | T/F to single women | Travelled with Ebbett |
Fear | John | 26 | Kerry | Cooper |
Mary Ann | 24 | |||
Margaret L | 9 months | |||
Frecklington | William | 42 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 40 | |||
William | 16 | T/F to single men | ||
John | 14 | T/F to single men | ||
Hall | Richard | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Jane | 22 | |||
Hansen | Anders | 31 | Denmark | |
Ane A | 29 | |||
Ane K | 8 | |||
Hansen | Hans | 32 | Denmark | |
Ane C | 29 | |||
Nielsine | 3 | |||
Infant | 6 months | |||
Herlind | Niels C | 33 | Denmark | |
Bodm | 39 | |||
Hane | 11� | |||
Niels | 10 | |||
Jacobsen | Thor K | 27 | Denmark | |
Christence C | 34 | |||
Anders C | 2 | |||
Dorothes | 3 months | |||
Janicke | Carle | 36 | Denmark | |
Mrs | 35 | |||
Jensen | Mathias | 34 | Denmark | |
Karen M | 34 | |||
Peter H | 6 | |||
Ano J | 3 | |||
Lawry | Thomas | 24 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Caroline | 21 | |||
Lawson | Anthen | 34 | Denmark | |
An� (Petersen) | 31 | |||
Cecelia | 8 | |||
Peter | 6 | |||
Ether | 4 | |||
Infant | 3 months | |||
Leaman | Mark | 24 | Devonshire | Navvy |
Francis E | 20 | |||
Mark J | 9 months | |||
Nielsen | Hans | 33 | Denmark | |
Catherine | 42 | |||
Lars | 11 | |||
Marie | 8 | |||
Karen | 6 | |||
Infant | 9 months | |||
Pearson | Peter | 38 | Nottinghamshire | Labourer |
Hannah | 28 | |||
Mary A | 11 | |||
William J | 4 | |||
Alice | 2 | |||
Infant | Born on board | |||
Prowse | Richard | 27 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Margaret | 29 | |||
Stevens | William | 36 | Sussex | Navvy |
Esther | 31 | |||
Eliza A | 13 | T/F to single women | ||
James G | 8 | |||
Harriet M | 5 | |||
Esther A | 2 | |||
Whitehead | Edward | 29 | Kent | Dairyman |
Hannah | 19 | |||
Alfred E | 4 months | |||
Wittington | John | 27 | Hamptonshire | Labourer |
Sarah | 22 | |||
Williamson | Henry | 27 | Cornwall | Blacksmith Bound for Picton |
Martha | 26 | |||
Mary A | 2 | One of these children died on board. Unsure which one | ||
William Henry | 7 months | |||
Yensen | Nicolai | 31 | Denmark | |
Marie | 31 | |||
Jens | 4 | |||
Infant | 3 months | |||
Yorgensen | Jens F | 41 | Denmark | |
Annette | 38 | |||
Christian | 11� | |||
Emmanuel | 10 | |||
Oscar | 8 | |||
Julius | 9 months | |||
Single Men | ||||
Black | Robert | 21 | Ross | Warehousman & Telegraphist Bound for Picton |
Blackburn | Anthony W | 24 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
Bond | George | 22 | Essex | Labourer |
Blackburn | Anthony W | 24 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
Crawford | Ralph | 32 | Northamptonshire | Shepherd Bound for Picton |
Devinish | George | 25 | Devonshire | Shepherd |
Frecklington | William | 16 | Lincolnshire | |
John | 14 | Lincolnshire | ||
Hammon | Daniel | 20 | Clare | Labourer |
Harrington | Nathaniel | 16 | Kerry | Labourer |
Hewitt | Alfred John | 15 | Middlesex | Labourer |
Jensen | Hans | 21 | Denmark | |
Jepsen | Jargen | 26 | Denmark | |
Johnson | John | 60 | Gloucestershire | Tinman |
Jones | Arthur | 19 | Cambridgeshire | Gardener |
James | 16 | Cambridgeshire | Labourer | |
Keohane | James | 20 | Cork | Labourer Bound for Auckland |
John | 22 | Cork | Labourer Bound for Auckland |
|
Loader | Daniel | 14 | Middlesex | Labourer |
Mahoney | John | 20 | Kerry | Labourer |
McLachlan | Archibald | 23 | Butt | Farm Labourer |
McNamara | John | 26 | Clare | Labourer |
Nielsen | Rasmus | 26 | Denmark | |
Nielsen | Jens | 21 | Denmark | |
O'Leary | Timothy | 23 | Cork | Labourer |
Oliver | Stephen | 22 | Roxburgh | Labourer |
Petersen | Eskild | 21 | Denmark | |
Porteous | Robert | 28 | Edinburgh | Wood Turner |
Rasmus | Niels | 23 | Denmark | |
Scott | William | 21 | Banff | Gardener Bound for Hawkes Bay |
Smith | John | 20 | Mayo | Labourer |
Charles C | 18 | Mayo | Labourer | |
Snell | Isaac | 28 | Cornwall | Labourer |
Sweeney | James | 19 | Leitrim | Labourer Son of Elizabeth Sweeney |
Tan | James C | Kent | Labourer | |
Tomsen | Yens M | 22 | Denmark | |
Walker | George | 27 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
William | 23 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer | |
Webb | Edgar R | 28 | Norfolkshire | Shepherd |
Wellburn | John | 25 | Yorkshire | Labourer |
White | George H M | 22 | Norfolkshire | Carpenter Bound for Napier |
Wright | Hahplia | 31 | Rutland | Labourer |
Wulff | Nicolai F | 26 | Denmark | |
Yensen | C Jens C | 28 | Denmark | |
Single Women | ||||
Beckett | Anne | 20 | Middlesex | Housemaid |
Berjin | Margaret | 20 | Kilkenny | Housemaid |
Bourne | Harriett | 20 | Worcestershire | General Servant Bound for Napier |
Bridle | Hannah | 24 | Hamptonshire | Cook |
Calleson | Maria | 23 | Denmark | |
Christina | 6 | |||
Cunningham | Rachel J | 19 | Devonshire | Cook |
Delaney | Johanna | 23 | Kerry | Dairymaid |
Ellen | 20 | Kerry | Dairymaid | |
Elderkin | Matilda | 18 | Somerset | MATRON on board |
Griffith | Mary | 23 | Lancashire | General Servant |
Hubbard | Mary A | 24 | Dorsetshire | General Servant |
Johnstone | H Anne | 35 | Denmark | |
Keohane | Alice | 15 | Cork | General Servant Bound for Auckland |
Lindey | Maren J | 33 | Denmark | |
Loader | Ann M | 32 | Wiltshire | Laundress |
Daniel | 14 | T/F to single men | ||
Elizabeth A M | 9 | |||
W Henry | 6 | |||
Frederick George | 2 | |||
Mahoney | Ellen | 22 | Kerry | General Servant |
Nielsen | Ane | 25 | Denmark | |
Nutteing | Jane | 21 | Kent | Cook |
Oliver | Maria M | 47 | Middlesex | Cook |
Rasmussen | Maren | 22 | Denmark | |
Richardson | Ellen R | 22 | Somerset | General Servant Bound for Napier |
Ruddell | Eliza | 24 | Armagh | General Servant Bound for Marlborough |
Snell | Elizabeth | 19 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Stevens | Elizabeth A | 13 | ||
Stewart | Jane | 19 | Cavan | General Servant |
Sweeney | Elizabeth | 50 | Leitrim | |
Thomas | Bessie J | 24 | Cornwall | Ladysmaid |
Towers | Christiana | 15 | Renfern | General Servant |
Wilson | Catherine | 20 | Cork | General Servant |
CHRISTENSEN family: |
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Copyright Denise & Peter 2003
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IM15/12
The Wellington Independent July 29th 1872