Berar
Ship: 902 tons
Captain: Hight
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr C L Cunningham
Sailed London May 22nd 1873 - arrived Auckland
September 3rd 1873
Under charter to the Shaw Savill
Company, the ship Berar, 902 tons, made three trips to New Zealand, two to Wellington and
one to Auckland. Leaving London on February 5, 1865, she reached Wellington on May 10, a
passage of 93 days. Her next voyage was to Auckland. She left London on May 22, 1873, and
reached Auckland after a passage of 103 days on September 3. On this occasion she brought
out 308 immigrants, who arrived well, in spite of the fact that it was a large number for
a ship of her size. There were 108 children on board, and of that number three died on the
voyage - two babies and one little boy of five. Dr C L Cunningham was the ships medical
officer. Mr Henry Shepherd, of Herne Bay, who came out in the ship on this trip, tells me
that she brought out some, if not all, of the iron fluming for the Thames water-race.
Among the passengers were also the Mills family, several members of which became so well
known in cricketing circles, namely Messrs. George Mills, Isaac Mills, and William Mills.
The third trip of the Berar was to Wellington. She left London on October 18, 1874, and
made Wellington on January 22, 1875, a passage of 96 days. On this occasion there were
twenty-one deaths from scarlet fever. Captain Hall commanded the Berar in 1865, and
Captain Highho (sic) on the other two trips.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett.
Her name is probably taken from the BERAR (also spelt BIRAR) district east-central Maharashtra state, western India which is famous for its cotton-growing.
Sordid Welcome To Newcomers - the arrival of the Berar
Our thanks to Lyn Dear for sending us this passenger list and for Judith Lattaway for the arrival write-up.
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Families & Children | ||||
Andrews | Richard | 42 | Cornwall | Engineer |
Mary | 38 | |||
Lavinia | 9 | |||
Katie | 7 | |||
Louisa | 5 | |||
Georgina | 3 | |||
Eliza J | 2 | |||
Richard A | 6 months | |||
Bailey | Edward | 39 | Wiltshire | Carpenter |
Georgina | 36 | |||
William | 1 | |||
Barber | William | 29 | Lancashire | Painter |
Annie | 29 | |||
Lucy | 6 | |||
Barry | David | 50 | Cork | Labourer |
Julia | 37 | |||
Patrick | 10 | |||
John | 7 | |||
Beets | William George | 24 | Kent | Bricklayer |
Clara | 22 | |||
William Henry | 3 | |||
Emily Alice | 5 months | |||
Blistow | William | 31 | Wiltshire | Labourer |
Jane | 26 | |||
A W | 3 | |||
William O | 1 | |||
Boles | Thomas | 44 | Derry | |
Catherine | 40 | |||
George | 11 | |||
Anne J | 9 | |||
Brambly | William | 32 | Hamptonshire | Labourer |
Sarah | 22 | |||
Martha | 8 | |||
William C | 6 | |||
James | 1 | |||
Brocklebank | George | 33 | Cumberland | Labourer |
Mary J | 30 | |||
George | 8 | |||
William | 18 months | |||
Bruce | Albert | 25 | Sussex | |
Ann | 36 | |||
Butler | Fred | 30 | Middlesex | |
Emma | 28 | |||
Fred W | 6 | |||
William | 2 | |||
Collins | William | 40 | Suffolk | Labourer |
Eliza | 30 | |||
Mary Ann | 6 | |||
William | 4 | |||
Charles | 1� | |||
Cox | James | 25 | Oxfordshire | |
Maria | 25 | |||
William George | 8 | |||
James E | 2 | |||
Cox | George | 26 | Lincolnshire | |
Sarah | 23 | |||
George | 1 | |||
Crook | George | 31 | Oxfordshire | Labourer |
Alice | 24 | |||
George | 6 | |||
Alice | 5 | |||
William James | 2 | |||
Ada | 3 months | |||
Firth | Nathan | 43 | Yorkshire | Engineer |
Jane | 38 | |||
Rowland | 9 | |||
Joseph | 6 | |||
Ellen | 2 | |||
Oceana Berar Cunningham | Infant | Born on board | ||
Gillson | Nicholas | 25 | Lanark | Labourer |
Helen | 20 | |||
Hanford (Stanford) | William | 30 | Kent | Carpenter |
Emma | 28 | |||
Charles | 9 | |||
Annie | 7 | |||
Herion? | James | 37 | Kilkenny | |
May | 30 | |||
Thomas | 3 | |||
Catherine | 1 | |||
Hughes | James | 33 | Hampshire | Labourer |
Jane | 33 | |||
Alice | 8 | |||
Ellen | 6 | |||
James | 4 | |||
Frederick | 17 months | |||
Hyds | Henry | 23 | Middlesex | |
Sarah | 23 | |||
Harry | 2 | |||
Esther E | 1� | |||
Lock | William | 32 | Hampshire | Labourer |
Jane | 34 | |||
Lowe | William | 32 | Lancashire | |
Wife | 40 | |||
Elizabeth | 10 | |||
Thomas | 8 | |||
Mary E | 5 | |||
May | 3 | |||
Joseph | 1 | |||
May | George | 28 | Huntingdon | Labourer |
Ann | 28 | |||
Mills | Joseph | 32 | Worchestershire | Gardener |
Sarah | 32 | |||
Joseph | 4 | |||
Mary | 2 | |||
Mills | John | 42 | Kent | Brickmaker |
Emma | 37 | |||
Edgar J | 10 | |||
Thomas | 8 | |||
George | 6 | |||
Isaac | 4 | |||
Harriet | 2 | |||
Elizabeth | 3 months | |||
Mills | Henry | 38 | Staffordshire | Blacksmith |
Betsy | 36 | |||
Mitchell | Richard | 25 | Buckinghamshire | |
Sarah M | 27 | |||
William | 2 | |||
Sarah | 3 months | |||
John Thomas | 3 months | |||
Moore | Patrick | 30 | Kilkenny | |
Ellen | 28 | |||
Mary | 3 | |||
Julia | 2 | |||
Movissey | Michael | 39 | Kilkenny | |
Anne | 34 | |||
John | 10 | |||
Martin | 7 | |||
Paterson | Robert | 30 | Lanark | Mason |
Helen | 27 | |||
Marion | 3 | |||
Agnes | 1 | |||
Potterton | Charles | 29 | Yorkshire | Joiner |
Sarah | 31 | |||
Charles W | 6 | |||
May E | 4 | |||
Preston | George | 26 | Kent | |
Annie | 30 | |||
Price | William Charles | 30 | Middlesex | Labourer |
Janet | 30 | |||
Seyeant | Henry | 38 | Middlesex | |
Janet | 35 | |||
Edmund | 11 | |||
Janet | 9 | |||
Eliza | 7 | |||
Alfred | 4 | |||
Herbert | 2 | |||
Caroline | 6 months | |||
Shepherd | Henry | 36 | Shepherd | |
Susannah | 32 | |||
Henry W | 7 | |||
Skudder | Charles | 38 | Surrey | |
Harriet | 40 | |||
Charles H | 1 | |||
Smith | Thomas | 30 | Surrey | Labourer |
Olivier | 29 | |||
William | 8 | |||
Earnest | 6 | |||
Caroline | 3 | |||
Walter | 1 | |||
Smith | John | 27 | Cavan | Labourer |
Rebecca | 22 | Sister of Margaret Fannin | ||
Margaret A | 1� | |||
Strahan | George | 40 | Kent | |
Julia | 39 | |||
Margaret | 11 | |||
Alice | 9 | |||
Verran | James | Cornwall | ||
Helena | ||||
James | 10 | |||
Emily | 9 | |||
Elizabeth | 7 | |||
Thomas | 6 | |||
John | 5 | |||
William | 3 | |||
Walding | John | 40 | Hertfordshire | Bailiff |
Mana | 38 | |||
Whitford | John | 29 | Cornwall | Navvy |
Mary Ann | 23 | |||
William | John | 36 | Cornwall | Blacksmith |
Fanny | 36 | |||
William | 9 | |||
Ellen | 7 | |||
Harry | 6 | |||
Hannah | 4 | |||
John | 1 | |||
Williams | John | 52 | Monmouth | Bailiff |
Temperance | 52 | |||
Willoughby | Henry | 48 | Wexford | Dairyman |
Jane | 42 | |||
Susan | 10 | |||
Henry | 9 | |||
Mary J | 5 | |||
Willoughby | William | 18 | Wexford | Dairyman |
Elizabeth | 18 | |||
Wright | Thomas | 29 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
Elizabeth | 34 | |||
Esther | 2 | |||
Charles | 6 months | |||
Single Men | ||||
Bagley | James | Cornwall | Cooper | |
Barrow | William | Devon | Labourer | |
Biggs | George | 24 | Down | Farmer |
Boles | James | 27 | Derry | Carpenter |
Thomas | 13 | Derry | ||
Chapman | Charles | 22 | Cambridgeshire | Labourer |
Clarke | William James | 16 | Monaghan | Labourer |
Cunningham | 23 | Cork | ||
Fitzpatrick | Patrick | 21 | Limerick | Farmer |
Gay | George | 20 | Middlesex | Gardener |
Harvey | George | 24 | Berkshire | Painter |
Howes | William | 21 | Cornwall | Labourer |
Johns | Thomas A | 21 | Cornwall | Labourer |
Lowe | Abraham | Lancashire | ||
Matthews | John | 15 | Cornwall | |
Mills | John H | 17 | Kent | Labourer |
James | 14 | Labourer | ||
Moore | William | 13 | Kilkenny | |
Patrick | 12 | |||
Nankivell | Samuel | 27 | Nottinghamshire | Signalman |
Nisbet | Thomas | 21 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
Page | Thomas | 16 | Hampshire | Labourer |
Paull | William John | 22 | Cornwall | Carpenter |
Rice | Peter | 22 | Louth | Farmer |
Edward | 20 | |||
Ryan | Thomas | 21 | Donegal | Farmer |
Seyeant | Henry | 16 | Middlesex | Butcher |
Frederick | 14 | Middlesex | ||
Smith | Charles | Cornwall | Cooper | |
Vash | James | 45 | Middlesex | Labourer |
Richard | 20 | Middlesex | ||
Charles | 14 | Middlesex | ||
Albert | 10 | Middlesex | ||
Walding | John | 18 | Buckinghamshire | Labourer |
George | 17 | Buckinghamshire | Labourer | |
Walter | Earnest | 20 | Lanark | Labourer |
Williams | William | 20 | Glamorgan | Shepherd |
Austin | 16 | Glamorgan | Shepherd | |
Willoughby | John | 13 | Wexford | |
Wright | Charles John | 24 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
Colonial Nominated Single Men | ||||
Barry | William | 15 | Cork | Labourer |
Michael | 13 | Cork | ||
Bearsley | William | 21 | Warwickshire | Mechanic |
Casey | John | 18 | Cork | Labourer |
Edwin | Enoch | 21 | Norfolk | Labourer |
William | 19 | Norfolk | ||
Leyden | Edward | 17 | Durham | Bricklayer |
Thompson | William | 18 | Londonderry | Labourer |
Single Women | ||||
Andrews | Elizabeth | 14 | Cornwall | |
Mary | 13 | Cornwall | ||
Boles | Charlotte | 23 | Derry | Servant |
Eliza | 18 | Derry | ||
Sarah | 14 | Derry | ||
Brinnston | Martha | 19 | Hampshire | Servant |
Burton | Mary A | 22 | Gloucestershire | |
Clarke | Margaret | 56 | Monaghan | Dairywoman |
Mary | 14 | Monaghan | ||
Jane | 5 | Monaghan | ||
Cronin | Mary | 18 | Cork | Servant |
Cupps (Gupps?) | Fanny | 23 | Lincolnshire | |
Doherty | Margaret | Limmerick | ||
Donnelly | Mary | 27 | Limmerick | Servant |
Fannin | Margaret A | 16 | Cavan | Servant - Sister of Rebecca Smith |
Firth | Eliza A | 14 | Middlesex | |
Giles | Emily | 20 | Middlesex | Housemaid |
Gow | Isabella | 24 | Cailhuefs | Servant |
Grar | Margaret | 26 | Devonshire | Servant |
Harding | Elizabeth | 27 | Lincolnshire | |
Martin | George | 8 | Lancashire | Travelling with Elizabeth Harding |
Havanagh | Bridget | Middlesex | ||
Hawkins | M | 50 | ||
Herbert | Jane | 38 | Kent | |
Sydney | 1� | |||
Jnoly | Mary | 26 | Limmerick | |
Jones | Mary M | 23 | Denbeigh | Cook |
Kaull | Elizabeth | 24 | Cornwall | Servant |
Kearns | Ann | 35 | Monaghan | Housekeeper |
Lowe | Alice | 14 | Lancashire | |
Matthews | Grace | 35 | Cornwall | Washerwoman |
Mary | 19 | Servant | ||
Ellen | 17 | Servant | ||
Maxwell | Catherine | 19 | Cavan | |
May | Eliza | 18 | Middlesex | Nurse |
McCarthy | Mary | 24 | Cork | Servant |
Mills | Emily | 19 | Kent | Servant |
Sarah A | 12 | |||
Mills | Fanny | 17 | Staffordshire | Housemaid |
Mitchell | Mary | 22 | Cornwall | |
Mitchelson | Eliza | 22 | Durham | Servant |
Monrath | Julie | 54 | Germany | |
Clementine | 23 | |||
Odena | 3 | |||
Carl | 6 months | |||
Montague | Catherine | 18 | Tyrone | Servant |
Murphy | Eliza | 20 | ||
Nisbett | Catherine | 19 | Middlesex | |
Patient | Alice | 19 | Middlesex | |
Rees | Emma | 26 | Dublin | Housemaid |
Rogers | Sarah | 22 | Herefordshire | Laundress |
Spaight | Charlotte | 17 | Dublin | |
Stanford | Louisa | 21 | Kent | Cook |
Taylor | Ann | 29 | Oxfordshire | |
Walding | Eliza | 16 | Buckinghamshire | Servant |
Williams | Mary | 14 | Middlesex | |
Monica | 18 | Middlesex | ||
Willoughby | Sarah | 15 | Wexford | Servant |
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Reference:
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