Gainsborough
Ship: 900 Tons
Captain: Charlton
Surgeon Superintendent:
Sailed London 25th January 1868 - arrived Lyttelton May 2nd 1868
Having left London on January 25th, Gainsborough encountered a strong gale and was compelled to put into Plymouth, which she left on 8th February. From the 10th April to end of voyage heavy gales were experienced. On the voyage out the ship in one instance covered 300 miles in 24 hours. Gainsborough brought out 96 government immigrants.
Commissioners Report for Gainsborough
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Families and Children | ||||
Anderson | William | 24 | Monaghan | Farm Labourer |
Margaret | 18 | |||
Chapman | Thomas | 51 | Sussex | |
Ann | 47 | |||
Alice L | 8 | |||
Edwin | 2 | |||
Hunter | Arthur | 28 | Shetland | Farm Labourer |
Elizabeth | 22 | |||
Joames | Richard F | 38 | Cornwall | Blacksmith |
Mary | 38 | |||
Matilda | 3 | |||
Mary W | Infant | |||
Nisbet | John William | 41 | Middlesex | Sawyer |
Harriet N J | 26 | |||
Pitt | Walter | 22 | Sussex | Upholsterer |
Sarah | 20 | |||
Alice | Infant | |||
Pountley | Charles | 36 | Middlesex | Storekeeper |
Charlotte | 34 | |||
Louisa F | 7 | |||
Charles J | 6 | |||
Edwin F | 4 | |||
Edward | 2 | |||
George | Infant | |||
Single Men | ||||
Chapman | Alberet | 16 | Sussex | Upholsterer |
Crowe | Edmond | 21 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
Hyde | Thomas | 20 | Huntingdon | Coachsmith |
Charles | 16 | Huntingdon | ||
McDowell | John | 19 | Cavan | Farm Labourer |
Thomas | 16 | Cavan | Farm Labourer | |
William | 14 | cavan | ||
Nisbet | John B | 15 | Middlesex | Labourer |
Read | William | 19 | Norfolk | Labourer |
Scott | James | 21 | Stirling | Labourer |
Stone | Frederick | 19 | Stafford | Domestic Servant |
Thomson | Robert | 19 | Shetland | Farm labourer |
Vaughan | Michael | 22 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Single Women | ||||
Armstrong | Catherine | 20 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
Barnes | Henrietta | 19 | Domestic Servant | |
Chapman | Rebecca | 25 | Sussex | Cook |
Chapman | Emily | 21 | Sussex | Housemaid |
Cousins | Catherine | 20 | Notts | Domestic Servant |
Creighton | Kate | 23 | Dublin | Domestic Servant |
Ellis | Kate | 30 | Sussex | Domestic Servant |
Feeny | Honoria | 25 | Galway | Domestic Servant |
Feeny | Mary | 20 | Galway | Domestic Servant |
Fuller | Annie | 21 | Surrey | Domestic Servant |
Gallagher | Mary | 24 | Mayo | Domestic Servant |
Margaret | 18 | Mayo | Domestic Servant | |
Garnett | Florence E | 18 | Essex | Domestic Servant |
George | Helen | 20 | Surrey | Domestic Servant |
Gilbert | Mary | 24 | Antrim | Domestic Servant |
Haufmann | Jenny | 20 | Prussia | Domestic Servant |
Hawke | Mary R | 20 | Cornwall | Domestic Servant |
Hogg | Emma | 24 | Devonshire | Domestic Servant |
Howe | Lucy E | 23 | Cambridge | Domestic Servant |
Hyde | Rachel | 42 | Hunts | |
Maria | 18 | Hunts | Domestic Servant | |
William | 10 | |||
Kearnay | Margaret | 20 | Mayo | Domestic Servant |
Kelly | Matilda | 30 | Cavan | Matron to Ship |
Kennedy | Mary | 27 | Tipperary | Domestic Servant |
Laws | Fanny M | 23 | Norfolk | Domestic Servant |
Little | Anne | 29 | Lincoln | Domestic Servant |
Lopez | Matilda | 18 | Middlesex | Domestic Servant |
MacKay | Catherine | 25 | Sutherland | Domestic Servant |
MacDonald | Jane | 29 | Dunfries | Cook |
Mahoney | Bridget | 20 | Galway | Governess |
Matthews | Jane | 24 | Middlesex | Domestic Servant |
Mayer | Susan J | 16 | Middlesex | Domestic Servant |
Maynard | Louisa E | 19 | Essex | Domestic Servant |
Medwell | Agnes | 25 | Lincoln | Domestic Servant |
Mills | Mary J | 20 | Monaghan | Cook |
Moffet | Eliza | 18 | Down | Domestic Servant |
Nickson | Annie | 23 | Middlesex | Cook |
O'Hara | Catherine | 28 | Leitrim | Domestic Servant |
Oxspring | Annise | 27 | Surrey | Domestic Servant |
Page | Ann | 28 | Fife | |
Potosky | Annie | 21 | Poland | Domestic Servant |
Prior | Mary Ann | 25 | Essex | Domestic Servant |
Richards | Jane | 27 | Montgomery | Dairy Maid |
Rowe | Elizabeth | 29 | Cornwall | Domestic Servant |
Shearsby | Annie | 23 | Warwick | Domestic Servant |
Stone | Elizabeth | 35 | Stafford | Milliner |
Vaughan | Mary | 20 | Clare | Domestic Servant |
Wells | Ann | 28 | Kent | Domestic Servant |
Wells | Elizabeth | 30 | Londonderry | Domestic Servant |
Williams | Elizabeth | 27 | Cornwall | Domestic Servant |
Colonial Nominated | ||||
Corboy | Judith | 23 | Tipperary | Domestic Servant |
Corboy | Mary | 18 | Dairy Maid | |
HUNTER family: |
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Copyright Denise and Peter 1999, 2000, 2001
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IMCH4/82