Westland
Ship: 1116 tons
Captain: Wood
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Russell
Sailed London 21st November 1879 - arrived Lyttelton 21st Febuary 1880
None of the Shaw Savill and Albion
Company's fleet of sailing vessels has a better record than the Westland, a
full-rigged ship of 1116 tons, which for some years attracted world-wide attraction among
ship-masters on the Pacific and Atlantic. Built by Duncan, she was one of the last ships
ordered for the Shaw Savill Company. Westland made 25 voyages to New Zealand
visiting all the major ports including Bluff.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Families and Children | ||||
Allan | Alexander | 44 | Selkirk | Gardener |
Margaret | 44 | |||
Helen | 19 | Selkirk | Domestic Servant | |
Robert | 17 | Selkirk | Labourer | |
Thomas | 15 | Selkirk | Labourer | |
Isabella | 12 | |||
Alexander | 10 | |||
Allan | Charles | 28 | Worcestershire | Tin Plate Worker |
Jane | 30 | |||
Charles | 4 | |||
Minnie | 1 | |||
Bell | Robert | 40 | Durham | Carpenter |
Sarah E | 34 | |||
Sarah E | 9 | |||
George R | 5 | |||
Edward J | 5 months | |||
Brown | James | 45 | Middlesex | Railway Porter |
Amelia | 30 | |||
James | 8 | |||
Herbert | 5 | |||
Arthur | 3 | |||
Jessie A | 8 months | |||
Burgess | Thomas D | 41 | Somerset | Bootmaker |
Mary A | 43 | |||
Herbert | 10 | |||
Ethel K | 9 | |||
Edith M | 6 | |||
Helen A | 3 | |||
Annie M | 1 | |||
Carpenter | Daniel | 32 | Glostershire | Bricklayer |
Mary A | 28 | |||
Davie | 2 | |||
Clarke | James | 35 | Antrim | Farmer |
Mary | 25 | |||
Margaret | 18 | Antrim | Domestic Servant | |
Mary | 7 | |||
James | 5 | |||
John | 3 | |||
Margaret | 2 | |||
Daniel | 8 months | |||
Cooper | George | 30 | Monaghan | Agricultural Labourer |
Eleanor | 30 | |||
Davis | George | 44 | Glostershire | Brickmaker |
Mary A | 40 | |||
Clara J | 21 | Glostershire | Cook | |
Fanny M | 19 | Glostershire | Housemaid | |
Donaldson | Thomas | 40 | Lanarkshire | Labourer |
Helen | 39 | |||
Jane | 15 | Lanarkshire | General Servant | |
Agnes | 13 | Lanarkshire | Nurse | |
Robert | 11 | |||
Maggie | 9 | |||
Agnus | 7 | |||
Doun | John | 35 | Caithness | Railway Porter |
Ann | 29 | |||
James | 1 | |||
Dulop | Alexander | 40 | Down | Agricultural Labourer |
Elizabeth | 41 | |||
Gribben | John | 29 | Cornwall | Agricultural Labourer |
Fanny | 31 | |||
Edward W | 9 | |||
Hillary | John | 40 | Durham | Painter |
Elizabeth | 38 | |||
William A | 17 | Durham | Mason | |
John | 15 | Durham | Mason | |
Albert | 11 | |||
Edith S | 5 | |||
Frederick | 3 | |||
Herbert | 9 months | |||
Howard | Henry | 34 | Warwickshire | Carpenter |
Rose | 32 | |||
Howard | Joseph | 21 | Durham | Goods Porter |
Agnes | 23 | |||
Jennings | Michael | 30 | Kings County | Agricultural Labourer |
Margaret | 25 | |||
Mary | 1 | |||
Bridget | 2 months | |||
Jewell | James | 22 | Devon | Agricultural Labourer |
Martha | 24 | |||
Johnston | Hugh | 20 | Invernesshire | Agricultural Labourer |
Mary | 19 | |||
Margaret | 9 months | |||
Ker | William | 24 | Roxburgh | Carpenter |
Elizabeth | 20 | |||
John W | 2 | |||
Ling | James | 30 | Suffolk | Labourer |
Mary A | 30 | |||
Anne J | 3 | |||
Alice | 1 | |||
Low | Charles | 25 | Middlesex | Painter |
Caroline | 21 | |||
Charles | 1 | |||
Low | Cuthbert | 26 | Middlesex | Painter |
Lydia | 20 | |||
George C | 5 months | |||
McCullogh | William J | 40 | Antrim | Engine Driver |
Sarah | 39 | |||
John A | 20 | Antrim | Tin Smith | |
Margaret | 18 | Antrim | Domestic Servant | |
James | 11 | |||
Sarah | 7 | |||
Francis | 4 | |||
McFelan | Thomas | 26 | Fermanagh | Agricultural Labourer |
Mary A | 24 | |||
Mary A | 5 | |||
Catherine | 2 | |||
McGrath | James | 28 | Tipperary | Agricultural Labourer |
Judy | 26 | |||
Patrick | 1 | |||
McLenaghan | David | 29 | Derry | Agricultural Labourer |
Mary | 29 | |||
John | 6 | |||
Johnston | 4 | |||
Elizabeth | 1 | |||
Moore | James | 44 | Glostershire | Labourer |
Selina | 44 | |||
Benjamin | 16 | Glostershire | Labourer | |
David | 8 | |||
Neill | Charles A | 28 | Surrey | Printer |
Elizabeth | 28 | |||
Horace | 2 | |||
Nicholson | Benjamin | 26 | Northumberland | Agricultural Labourer |
Christiana | 24 | |||
Dorothy | 5 | |||
Elizabeth | 5 months | |||
Norrie | John | 43 | Forfar | Agricultural Labourer |
Catherine | 42 | |||
William | 21 | Forfar | Agricultural Labourer | |
John | 19 | Forfar | Agricultural Labourer | |
Isabella | 14 | Forfar | Domestic Servant | |
Robert | 12 | Forfar | Agricultural Labourer | |
Daniel | 10 | |||
James | 8 | |||
David | 6 | |||
Patterson | Thomas | 34 | Westmorland | Agricultural Labourer |
Louisa | 26 | |||
William | 5 | |||
Payne | John | 30 | Durham | Agricultural Labourer |
Ann | 26 | |||
Lily | 5 | |||
Thomas | 3 | |||
Florence | 1 | |||
Powell | William | 39 | Ayr | Labourer |
Janet | 40 | |||
William | 13 | Ayr | Labourer | |
James | 7 | |||
Margaret | 5 | |||
Richards | Robert D | 39 | York | Engine Fitter |
Caroline | 31 | |||
John | 14 | York | Stoker | |
Roberts | Richardson | 28 | York | Agricultural Labourer |
Hannah | 25 | |||
William E | 4 | |||
Sarah E | 1 | |||
Robinson | Matthew | 34 | Northumberland | Engine Man |
Eva | 25 | |||
Robert P | 4 | |||
John | 2 | |||
Robinson | William | 28 | Staffordshire | Blacksmith |
Elizabeth | 23 | |||
Hannah | 4 | |||
Mary A | 1 | |||
Rogers | George S | 26 | Northamptonshire | Carpenter |
Elizabeth | 24 | |||
George S | 2 | |||
Scales | Robert | 29 | Fermanagh | Farmer |
Eliza | 27 | |||
Thomas | 2 | |||
Shears | Benjamin | 32 | Surrey | Brickmaker |
Annie | 28 | |||
Benjamin | 5 | |||
James | 3 | |||
Annie | 1 | |||
Skinner | Daniel | 31 | Somersetshire | Agricultural Labourer |
Georgina | 27 | |||
Smith | Jeremiah | 27 | York | Painter |
Jane A | 26 | |||
Walter | 5 | |||
Florence | 3 | |||
Louise | 1 | |||
Laura | 4 months | |||
Spencer | James | 42 | Herefordshire | Agricultural Labourer |
Mary | 40 | |||
Emily | 17 | Herefordshire | General Servant | |
Alice | 15 | Herefordshire | General Servant | |
Lizzie | 11 | |||
Amy | 5 | |||
William | 3 | |||
Strong | George | 49 | Middlesex | Compositor |
Christina | 48 | |||
Helen | 16 | Middlesex | Domestic Servant | |
Isabel | 11 | |||
Theophilus | 8 | |||
Stubbs | John | 29 | Staffordshire | Joiner |
Georgina | 29 | |||
Agnes | 5 | |||
Eliza | 3 | |||
Nellie | 1 | |||
Tarling | James | 33 | Glostershire | Agricultural Labourer |
Susannah | 29 | |||
James | 6 | |||
William | 5 | |||
John | 1 | |||
Watson | Gavin | 35 | Lanarkshire | Joiner |
Elizabeth | 35 | |||
Thomas | 14 | Lanarkshire | Joiner | |
Peter | 12 | Lanarkshire | Joiner | |
John | 10 | |||
Janet R | 7 | |||
Margaret | 5 | |||
Whiting | Isaac | 45 | Glostershire | Agricultural Labourer |
Sarah | 40 | |||
Joseph | 18 | Glostershire | Agricultural Labourer | |
Lucy | 17 | Glostershire | Servant | |
Alfred | 15 | Glostershire | Agricultural Labourer | |
John | 13 | Glostershire | Agricultural Labourer | |
Ann | 11 | |||
Martha | 7 | |||
Witts | Robert | 40 | Glostershire | Agricultural Labourer |
Jane | 40 | |||
Willie | 8 | |||
Elizabeth | 5 | |||
Single Men | ||||
Bell | Joseph | 20 | Derry | Agricultural Labourer |
Burnet | John | 22 | Roxburgh | Agricultural Labourer |
Burnes | William | 20 | Fermanagh | Agricultural Labourer |
Chapman | Robert | 23 | Lanark | Agricultural Labourer |
Cookson | Samuel | 16 | Lancashire | Agricultural labourer |
Criglington | John | 17 | Down | Labourer |
Diamond | Joseph | 24 | Derry | Agricultural Labourer |
Dickson | Benjamin | 22 | Down | Carpenter |
Falconer | Joseph | 18 | Antrim | Agricultural Labourer |
Fitzgerald | John | 34 | Kerry | Agricultural Labourer |
Fitzpatrick | Patrick | 20 | Tyrone | Agricultural Labourer |
Ford | Thomas | 22 | Galway | Agricultural Labourer |
Forster | Edmund | 18 | Gloster | Carpenter |
Green | Walter | 21 | Westmorland | Butcher |
Herlihy | Denis | 22 | Cork | Agricultural Labourer |
Hoare | James | 24 | Kerry | Agricultural Labourer |
Kearin | Patrick | 20 | Kerry | Agricultural Labourer |
Keville | James | 20 | Galway | Agricultural Labourer |
McDonald | Herbert | 17 | Surrey | Agricultural Labourer |
McSweeny | Edmund | 20 | Kerry | Labourer |
Daniel | 27 | Kerry | Labourer | |
Molony | Martin | 24 | Galway | Agricultural Labourer |
John | 22 | Galway | Agricultural Labourer | |
Morley | Charles | 32 | Surrey | Horse Collar Maker |
Mustchin | John | 21 | Sussex | Carpenter |
O'Kane | John | 24 | Derry | Agricultural Labourer |
Pearce | William | 19 | Cornwall | Agricultural Labourer |
Pepper | Gardner | 25 | Derry | Agricultural Labourer |
Purcell | Lawrence | 23 | Carlow | Agricultural Labourer |
Robinson | Thomas | 25 | York | Stonemason |
Ronayne | Maurice | 35 | Waterford | Labourer |
Shearsby | Joseph | 25 | Warwick | Labourer |
Gilroy | Thomas | 20 | Leitrim | Labourer |
Sullivan | Martin | 22 | Kerry | Agricultural Labourer |
Travers | Joseph | 25 | Wicklow | Shepherd |
Travers | James | 20 | Wicklow | Agricultural Labourer |
Slown | Hugh | 25 | Tryone | Agricultural Labourer |
Single Women | ||||
Baldwin | Emma | 39 | Kent | Nurse |
Behan | Alice | 30 | Wexford | General Servant |
Bendett | Georgina | 19 | France | General Servant |
Caddy | Elizabeth | 27 | Cornwall | Housemaid |
Caddy | Johanna | 25 | General Servant | |
Cameron | Catherine | 26 | Lanark | General Servant |
Cameron | Janet | 27 | Lanark | General Servant |
Chapple | Alice | 13 | Middlesex | |
Chapple | William | 12 | Middlesex | |
Cole | Martha | 32 | Middlesex | Matron |
Commins | Bridget | 36 | Limerick | General Servant |
Cookson | Elizabeth | 36 | Lancashire | Housewife |
Crompton | Emily Hyde | 23 | York | General Servant |
Curtin | Mary | 21 | Kerry | General Servant |
Daldry | Kate | 29 | Essex | General Servant |
Donaldson | Lizzie | 19 | Lanark | General Servant |
Donnelly | Catherine | 18 | Kerry | General Servant |
Dann | Annie | 23 | Fermanagh | General Servant |
Dann | Elizabeth | 21 | Fermanagh | General Servant |
Ford | Honora | 18 | Galway | General Servant |
Ganey | Kate | 20 | Kerry | Cook |
Ganey | Margaret | 19 | Kerry | Dressmaker |
Hartleton | Agnes A | 19 | Warwick | General Servant |
Hayes | Margaret | 20 | Limerick | General Servant |
Howard | Annie | 23 | Durham | General Servant |
McGrath | Mary A | 21 | Tyrone | General Servant |
Sarah J | 18 | Tyrone | General Servant | |
Marsh | Sarah A | 19 | Durham | General Servant |
Milligan | Jane | 33 | Down | General Servant |
Mary A | 31 | Down | General Servant | |
Morley | Matilda | 54 | Surrey | |
Morley | Flora | 23 | Middlesex | Dressmaker |
Morley | Harriet | 30 | Middlesex | Machinist |
Nelson | Jane E | 17 | Armagh | General Servant |
Nelson | Lucilla | 19 | Armagh | General Servant |
O'Connell | Mary A | 22 | Derry | General Servant |
O'Connell | Sarah | 25 | Derry | General Servant |
O'Connor | Kate | 20 | Kerry | General Servant |
O'Sullivan | Julia | 19 | Kerry | Dairymaid |
Palmer | Eliza | 22 | Surrey | Cook |
Pitts | Catherine | 24 | Worcestershire | Housewife |
Pitts | Maud | 20 | Worcestershire | Kitchenmaid |
Rhodes | Agnes | 27 | York | Weaver |
Rhodes | Rebecca | 4 | York | |
Rooney | Margaret | 19 | Kerry | Dairy Maid |
Sheard | Sarah | 51 | York | Widow |
Sheehy | Helen | 20 | Durham | General Servant |
Slown | Catherine | 20 | Tyrone | General Servant |
Stenhouse | Catherine | 35 | Kerry | |
Stenhouse | James | 11 | Kerry | |
Stenhouse | George | 8 | Kerry | |
Stenhouse | Margaret | 3 | Kerry | |
Sullivan | Ellen | 24 | Kerry | General Servant |
Mary | 22 | Kerry | General Servant | |
Thorn | Clara | 18 | Somerset | General Servant |
Thorn | Sarah | 22 | Somerset | General Servant |
Warren | Elizabeth S | 25 | Dorset | Housekeeper |
Wellington | Eliza | 37 | Cornwall | To Husband |
Wellington | Joseph | 10 | Cornwall | |
Wellington | Emily | 7 | Cornwall | |
Wellington | Ada G | 4 | Cornwall | |
Willmot | Hannah | 31 | Leicester | To Husband |
Willmot | Emma E | 12 | Leicester | |
Willmot | Jemima | 10 | Leicester | |
Willmot | William G | 8 | Leicester | |
Willmot | Mary A | 5 | Leicester | |
Willmot | Thomas H | 3 | Leicester | |
Willmot | Josephine | 1 | Leicester | |
Woodward | Ruth | 16 | Wiltshire | General Servant |
Morley | Sarah | 25 | Middlesex | General Servant |
WATSON family: Gavin Watson, his wife Elizabeth (nee McCallum) and five children were aboard the Westland which arrived in Lyttelton on the 21st December 1880 whereupon it was put into quarantine because of a Measles and Scarlatina outbreak. Gavin came from Larkhall in Lanarkshire, Dalserf Parish, southeast of Glasgow, Scotland. He followed in his father Thomass footsteps as a joiner, and carried this craft to New Zealand. His two eldest sons, Thomas (14) and Peter (12) are noted on the passenger list as also being joiners. John (10), Janet Rae (7) and Margaret Rae (5) completed the family. On arrival in Christchurch Gavin Watson was the Managing Machinist for a few years for a Mr. Daniel Reese, Builder, at the corner of Lichfield and Durham St. before buying the business and forming Gavin Watson & Son, Joiners and Sawmillers later described as Timber Merchants. The N.Z. Post Office directories show Gavin and his youngest son John, continued at the Lichfield address from 1887 to 1925. John was Vice President of the Christchurch Sawmillers Association. After 1925 Gavins eldest son Thomas used the property for Parking Storage and a Car Washing Company. The second son, Peter Watson married Annie Scott and owned a stud farm at Halswell, known as Oaklands from where he raced well-known trotting horses such as Travis Axworthy, winner of the New Zealand Trotting Cup in 1933. Peter Watson also owned the Christchurch Dairy Company which he passed down to his son Gavin, and later grandson also Peter Watson. If anyone would like further information on the Watson Family, please contact Lesley Wootton. |
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CROMPTON Emily Hyde: A single woman passenger on the Westland which departed London for Lyttelton 21 November 1879, Emily Hyde Crompton, the sixth child and second daughter of Richardson Crompton and his wife Hannah, nee Clubley, was christened at Flamborough, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, on 5 October 1855. The UK 1851 census shows the family living at the 124 acre South Lea Farm, Flamborough. Her father died on 24 August 1859. The 1861 census shows that her mother, Hannah, was running the 130 acre Moon Farm, Flamborough. Sometime after 1861 Hannah married Richard Huddleston and four of her children emigrated to the Christchurch area of New Zealand. Firstly Stephen Clubley Crompton (SE Crompton?), the eldest child christened in Flamborough on 28 October 1846, arrived Lyttelton on the Dona Anita (3 January 1865). Later her fourth brother, James William rompton, christened in Flamborough on 10 August 1854, arrived in Lyttelton on 9 December 1871 in the Zealandia. The ship on which her second brother, Thomas Richardson Crompton, christened in Flamborough on 19 October 1848, and who died at Clarendon Farm, Winchester in the County of Geraldine on 19 March 1919, sailed has yet to be traced. Nothing is known of Emily Hyde's life in New Zealand. However she was a beneficiary in the will of Stephen Clubley Crompton who, when he died on 15 July 1924, at Ashburton in the Provincial District of Christchurch, left 'the residue of my estate (approximately UKP 150) to my sister Emily Hyde Leurs of East Eyreton.' Should anyone wish to contribute to the growing family tree of Emily Hyde Leurs (nee Crompton) please contact Richard Crompton or view the family website at www.geocites.com/cromptonrg/cr1815.html |
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TARLING family: James Tarling, the son of Thomas and Sarah TARLING, was born in 1846 in the village of English Bicknor, Glostershire, England. Whilst still in Britain they had three children: James (1873 born Wales), William (1875 born Wales) and John (1878 born Wales). The family emigrated to New Zealand on board this sailing of WESTLAND. On board they experienced the joy of a birth (Dec 10th 1879) and the agony of two deaths: the newborn (Dec 14th 1879) and young John (Feb 12th 1880). On their arrival in New Zealand the family lived in Addington and later in South Malvern. If you have a connection to this family please contact Stuart Moverley |
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WITTS family: Robert WITTS was born in Staunton Gloucestershire in 1839. At Newnham in 1861 he married Jane Hannah WEBB, who was also born 1839. They had two children William (born 1871) and Elizabeth (born 1874). They came to New Zealand on this sailing of the Westland to Lyttelton and settled in Brunnerton near Greymouth. Two further children were born Edith (born 1882) and Isabella (born 1884). Robert was a coal miner. Jane died in 1902 and Robert in 1910 and both are buried in the Brunnerton cemetery. If you have a connection to this family or wish to know more please contact Kevin Violich |
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Copyright Denise & Peter 1999 - 2008
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IM15/372