Lancashire
Witch
Ship: 1386 tons
Captain: A S Mollison
Surgeon Superintendent: Assistant Surgeon Burkitt (74th Regiment)
Sailed London April 4th 1856 - arrived Wellington July 20th 1856 (via
Hobart Town & Sydney)
Auckland August 1st 1856
Arrival of the Lancashire Witch
Name | Age | Details | |
Peebles | Captain | 11th Regiment | |
Servant to above | |||
Burkitt | Assistant Surgeon Surgeon for the voyage |
74th Regiment | |
Leonard | Ensign | 65th Regiment | |
Lewis | Ensign | 65th Regiment | |
Pennefather | Ensign | 65th Regiment | |
247 men of the 65th Regiment | |||
31 women belonging to the 65th Regiment (Wellington Independent says 30) | |||
32 children belonging to the 65th Regiment (Wellington Independent says 31) | |||
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Soldiers of 65th Regiment who arrived by the Lancashire Witch taken
from "Discharged in New Zealand" by Hugh & Lyn Hughes. This list includes 125 soldiers of the 149 mentioned above. |
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Name | Rank | County | |
Bell | Thomas | Private | Down |
Bird | Felix | Private | Somersetshire |
Brown | Charles | Private | Dorsetshire |
Brown | John | Private | Down |
Brown | William | Private | Down |
Burke | Joseph | Private | Meath |
Burns | Edward | Private | Down |
Burns | John | Private | Down |
Cain | John | Private | Meath |
Carmody | John | Private | |
Carr | Charles | Private | |
Clareburt | John | Private | Dorsetshire |
Clear | James | Private | Queens County |
Cleary | John | Private | Somersetshire |
Cokeran | Thomas | Private | |
Collard | John | Private | Wiltshire |
Conway | James | Private | Kerry |
Conway | John | Private | Kerry |
Conway | Patrick | Private | Mayo |
Cook | Joseph | Private | Somersetshire |
Cottam | John | Private | Lancashire |
Crimmins | John | Drummer | Limerick |
Crocker | Thomas | Private | Dorsetshire |
Crozier | Graham | Private | Down |
Cunningham | Patrick | Private | Limerick |
Daniels | John | Private | Tipperary |
Davison | Robert | Private | Down |
Dawson | George | Private | Lancashire |
Day | Martin | Private | |
Deadman | Newton | Private | Sussex |
Dean | James | Private | Yorkshire |
Doran | John | Private | Down |
Dowling | Thomas | Private | Dublin |
Dwyer | Martin | Private | Tipperary |
Edwards | Joseph | Sergeant | Flint |
England | William C | Corporal | Lancashire |
Farmer | John | Private | Somersetshire |
Flynn | Thomas | Private | Cork |
Freeman | Thomas | Private | Lincolnshire |
Garvey | Thomas | Private | Longford |
Geary | George | Private | Down |
Gilligan | Peter | Private | Roscommon |
Goodman | Daniel | Private | Down |
Gordon | John | Sergeant | Belfast |
Graham | William John | Corporal | Down |
Grant | William | Private | Down |
Gray | John | Private | Down |
Green | George Henry | Private | Dorchestershire |
Greenaway | James | Private | Armagh |
Greves | William | Drummer | Staffordshire |
Gurley | William | Private | Down |
Hagan | Patrick | Private | Yorkshire |
Hammond | William | Private | Londonderry |
Hanlin | James | Private | |
Harrison | William G | Corporal | Tyrone |
Heald | George | Private | Yorkshire |
Healy | William | Private | Lancashire |
Heanon | Charles | Private | Down |
Heffernan | William | Private | Tipperary |
Hollier | Samuel | Private | Chester |
Hollinsworth | Thomas | Private | London |
Hull | James | Private | Down |
Hunt | Richard | Private | |
Huntley | James | Private | Somersetshire |
Hutchison | Daniel | Private | Kildare |
Jones | Edward | Private | Louth |
Kavanagh | Patrick | Private | Galway |
Kitchen | John | Private | Armagh |
Knight | John | Sergeant | Somersetshire |
Lawler | William | Private | |
Layther | James | Private | Yorkshire |
Lockerby | Thomas | Private | Dumfries |
McAllister | William | Private | Down |
McAtee | John | Private | Down |
McCormick | Hugh | Private | |
McCracken | James | Private | Down |
McDonald | Michael | Private | |
McGivern | Mark | Private | Down |
McGrath | James | Private | |
McKensey | James | Private | |
McKeown | Patrick | Private | Down |
McKeown | William John | Private | Down |
Malley | Edward | Private | |
Malley | Patrick | Private | Galway |
Mancan | John | Sergeant | |
Mera | Thomas | Private | |
Miller | Caled | Drummer | |
Miller | William | Private | |
Moffitt | Robert | Sergeant | Down |
Mullican | Richard | Private | |
Nesbitt | William | Private | |
O'Flaherty | Thomas | Private | |
O'Neill | Thomas | Private | |
O'Rourke | Patrick | Private | Down |
Osmond | Robert | Sergeant | Dorchestershire |
Osmond | William | Private | Dorsetshire |
Pellican | Thomas | Private | Kelly |
Pickup | James | Private | |
Reid | James | Corporal | Dorchestershire |
Robinson | John | Private | Lancashire |
Robinson | Joseph | Private | Down |
Sanford | John | Private | Dorsetshire |
Sandles | William | Private | Sussex |
Scanlon | Michael | Private | Limerick |
Shlenker | Albert | Private | Glamorgan |
Skelton | Benjamin | Private | Surrey |
Skelton | Henry | Corporal | Surrey |
Smith | Edward | Private | Lancastershire |
Smith | James | Private | |
Smith | John | Private | |
Smith | Walter | Private | Lancashire |
Snelling | William | Private | |
Stack | James | Private | Kerry |
Stevenson | James | Private | Down |
Thompson | Christopher | Private | |
Thornton | Edward | Private | |
Tier | Robert | Private | Down |
Vallily | Patrick | Private | |
Walker | George | Private | |
Walsh | Michael | Private | Limerick |
Whiteside | John | Private | Down |
Williams | Peter | Private | Lancashire |
Williams | Richard | Private | Somersetshire |
Wilson | James | Private | Down |
Wright | William John | Private | Down |
Other passengers by the Lancashire Witch | |||
Butler | Miss | ||
Murphy | Mr | ||
Winter | Mr | ||
Te Hipango | Wiremu (William) | ||
2 children | |||
Copyright Denise & Peter 2002
Reference:
The New Zealand Spectator & Cook's Strait Guardian July 23rd 1856
"Discharged in New Zealand" by Hugh & Lyn Hughes
The Wellington Independent July 23rd 1856
The Wellington Independent July 30th 1856