Cardigan Castle
Ship:1200 Tons
Captain: N Davies
Surgeon Superintendent: Jeremiah Welsh
Departed Gravesend 30th Sept 1876. Arrived Lyttelton, New Zealand 6th Jan 1877.
The Cardigan castle, 1200 tons,
Captain Davies, visited New Zealand twice, Lyttelton being the port of call on both
occasions. Sailing from the Old Country on August 23, 1873, she reached Lyttelton on
November 15, having done the distance in 84 days. On September 28, 1876, she again left
for Lyttelton, arriving there on January 6 of the following year, taking an even 100 days.
White Wings Vol One - Sir Henry Brett
Story of the voyage
Arrival of the Cardigan Castle
Picture
of Cardigan Castle
| Name | Age | Native County | Occupation | |
| Families and Children | ||||
| Bateman | Charles | 49 | Berkshire | Brickmaker |
| Nancy | 35 | |||
| Elizabeth | 7 | |||
| James W | 4 | |||
| Harriet | 2 | |||
| John | 1 month | |||
| Belcher | William | 24 | Northampton | Bootmaker |
| Lydia | 26 | |||
| Bennett | Hugh | 19 | Down | Ploughman |
| Annie | 19 | |||
| Bint | Phillip Thomas | 26 | Berkshire | Carpenter |
| Charlotte | 23 | |||
| Phillip J | 6 | |||
| George | 4 | |||
| James | 2 | |||
| Male child | Born on board 20/11/1876 | |||
| Bourke | David | 27 | Somerset | Farm Labourer |
| Ann | 22 | |||
| Margaret | 18 months | |||
| Butler | James | 44 | Waterford | Farm Labourer |
| Margaret | 39 | |||
| John | 11 | |||
| Burke | William | 30 | Cavan | Farm Labourer |
| Martha | 27 | |||
| Richard | 8 | |||
| John | 6 | |||
| Sandy | 4 | |||
| Anne | 2 | |||
| Coghlan | Micheal | 20 | Waterford | Ploughman |
| Cathrine | 20 | |||
| Ellen | 1 | Died on board 02/11/1876 Pneumonia |
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| Copplestone | Azeail | 27 | Devon | Farm Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 26 | |||
| Arthur | 5 | |||
| William | 1 | |||
| Cox | Issac E | 35 | Glostershire | Fram Labourer |
| Mary | 28 | Died on board 13/12/1876 Softening of the brain |
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| Charles | 7 | |||
| William | 5 | Died on board 02/11/1876 Tabes mesenterica |
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| Lucy | 2 | |||
| Curson | William | 31 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
| Christiana | 28 | |||
| Dunnell | James | 25 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Jane | 20 | |||
| Fisk | George | 27 | Middlesex | Gardener Died on board 01/12/1876 Diphtheria |
| Rose H | 24 | |||
| George | 5 | |||
| Charles | 3 | |||
| Gartery | John | 32 | Wiltshire | Farm Labourer |
| Maria | 29 | |||
| Mary | 8 | |||
| Frederick | 6 | |||
| Ernest | 4 | Died on board 06/01/1877 Tracheitis |
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| Clara | 1 | |||
| Gluyas | William | 26 | Cornwall | Saddler |
| Rosetta | 26 | |||
| Frances | 1 | |||
| Cower | Robert | 24 | Surrey | Hairdresser |
| Henrietta | 21 | |||
| Violet | 1 | |||
| Guy | Alfred | 40 | Cornwall | Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 47 | |||
| Halloway | George | 31 | Surrey | Navvy |
| Hannah E | 26 | |||
| Horgan | Jeremiah | 30 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | 28 | |||
| John | 1 | |||
| Howard | John C | 26 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
| Emily A | 21 | |||
| Jaouenne | Auguste | 36 | France | Coachbuilder |
| Jeanne | 36 | |||
| Ives | 15 | |||
| Hypolite | 12 | |||
| Maria | 8 | |||
| Augustine | 3 | |||
| Anaise | 13 months | Died on board 19/12/1876 Tabes mesenterica |
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| Jane M | 1 month | Died on board 26/11/1876 Atrophy from premature birth |
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| Johnson | Moses | 23 | Ormagh | Farm Labourer |
| Harriet | 22 | |||
| Kear | William | 39 | Glostershire | Farm Labourer |
| Jane | 37 | |||
| Oliver | 17 | |||
| Fanny | 15 | Glostershire | Dressmaker | |
| Mary | 11 | |||
| Sarah | 8 | |||
| William | 3 | |||
| Kennedy | Alexander | 26 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 21 | |||
| Male child | Born on board 18/10/1876 Died on board 01/01/1877 Atrophy from birth |
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| Kennedy | Patrick | 30 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Catherine | 20 | Died on board 16/11/1876 Enteric fever |
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| Patrick | 1 month | |||
| Macaree | Edward | 34 | Middlesex | Painter |
| Sarah | 30 | |||
| Emma | 9 | |||
| Joseph | 7 | |||
| James | 5 | |||
| Elizabeth | 3 | |||
| Charles | 9 months | |||
| Maine | William | 43 | Middlesex | Bootmaker |
| Sarah | 38 | |||
| Ellen | 8 | |||
| William | 6 | |||
| James | 4 | |||
| Eliza | 2 | |||
| Sarah | 4 months | Died on board 30/10/1876 Pneumonia |
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| Marshall | Edwin | 38 | Glostershire | Farm Labourer |
| Priscilla | 37 | |||
| Annie | 11 | |||
| Flora | 6 | |||
| Marshall | Joseph | 37 | Glostershire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 30 | |||
| McCann | Hugh | 27 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Sarah | 25 | |||
| Mundell | John | 27 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Matilda | 23 | |||
| Oldridge | James R | 36 | Dorset | Labourer |
| Sarah A | 42 | |||
| Mary L | 13 | |||
| John Thomas | 11 | |||
| James Charles | 8 | |||
| George William | 2 | |||
| Paisley | David | 29 | Down | Carpenter |
| Eliza | 21 | |||
| Patterson | John | 33 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Margaret | 32 | |||
| Robert | 13 | |||
| Mary | 9 | |||
| Thomas | 7 | |||
| Sarah | 3 | |||
| John | 1 | |||
| Power | Edmond | 30 | Waterford | Ploughman |
| Margaret | 25 | |||
| Patrick | 3 | |||
| Prisse | 2 | |||
| Margaret | ||||
| Female child | Born on board 23/11/1876 Prematurely born during illness of mother (enteric fever) Died on board 01/12/1876 Inanation. Prematurely born |
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| Price | William | 27 | Hereford | Agricultural Labourer |
| Sarah | 25 | |||
| William | 6 | |||
| Rose | 5 | |||
| Elsie | 3 | |||
| Quigley | George | 13 | ||
| Reygate | Edward | 30 | Surry | Labourer Died on board 02/11/1876 Apoplexy |
| Ann | 39 | |||
| William | 9 | |||
| Ada | 6 | |||
| Anne | 2 | |||
| Richards | Robert | 25 | Glostershire | Farm Labourer |
| Sarah | 22 | |||
| Robert R | 3 | |||
| Reuben William | 8 months | |||
| Rogers | Robert Harry | 20 | Hertfordshire | Labourer |
| Mary | 20 | |||
| Female child | Born on board 21/10/1876 | |||
| Saffall | Thomas | 35 | Northumberland | Farm Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 23 | |||
| William | 4 months | |||
| Scoble | William | 22 | Cornwall | Labourer |