Hurunui
Ship: 1012 tons
Captain: Boyd
Surgeon Superintendent:
Sailed London 24th November 1875 - arrived Taranaki 23rd Febuary 1876
The Hurunui, one of five ships built
in 1875 by Palmers and Co. for the New Zealand Shipping Company's flag, was an unfortunate
craft. She had a narrow escape when bound for Otago by colliding in the English Channel
with another of the company's ships, the Waitara, bound for Wellington, and, after sailing
the seas for forty years, was sunk on the 4th May, 1915, off St. Catherine's Point, Isle
of White, by a German submarine.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
| Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
| Families and Children | ||||
| Bell | Frederick | 26 | Lincolnshire | Labourer |
| Jane | 23 | |||
| Catley | William | 41 | Cambridge | Leather Dresser |
| Susan | 37 | |||
| Ruth | 16 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Susannah | 14 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Thomas | 12 | Trans to s/m | ||
| John | 9 | |||
| William | 5 | |||
| Edith | 3 | |||
| Clarke | Charles | 34 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 30 | |||
| Charles | 12 | Trans to s/m | ||
| Sarah A. | 9 | |||
| Rose | 6 | |||
| Henry | 3 | |||
| Lillie | 8 mths | |||
| Cheffings | William | 23 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 24 | |||
| Cook | Thomas | 20 | Linconshire | Farm Labourer |
| Frances | 18 | |||
| Cosgrave | John | 29 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| Johanna | 26 | |||
| Thomas | 2 | |||
| Mary | 6 mths | |||
| Clemence | William H. | 24 | Suffolk | General Labour |
| Ellen | 21 | |||
| Dale | John | 44 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 43 | |||
| Betsy | 16 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Samuel | 15 | Trans to s/m | ||
| Edna | 14 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Mary E. | 12 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Ellen | 7 | |||
| Henry | 6 | |||
| John | 4 | |||
| Driffill | William | 21 | ||
| Margaret | 20 | |||
| Mary A. | 4 mths | |||
| Dixon | Benjamin | 25 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 23 | |||
| Draper | John H. | 23 | Devonshire | Farm Labourer |
| Martha | 21 | |||
| Gibbons | Thomas | 26 | Northampton | Farm Labourer |
| Mary A. | 30 | |||
| Gooch | David K. | 42 | Norfolk | Ploughman |
| Louisa | 37 | |||
| Agnes | 18 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Kate E. | 14 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Ellen | 12 | Trans to s/w | ||
| Louisa | 4 | |||
| Thomas Henry | 8 | |||
| Charles | 2 | |||
| Johnson | Henry | 27 | Notts | Farm Labourer |
| Sarah A. | 24 | |||
| Mary S. | 5 | |||
| Charlotte A. | 3 | |||
| Jones | Absalom | 21 | Warwick | Gardener |
| Charlotte | 21 | |||
| Mack | Thomas | 20 | Kerry | Harness Maker |
| Mary | 19 | |||
| Mahern | John | 39 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | 30 | |||
| Ellen | 6 | |||
| Nicholas | 3 | |||
| John | 1 mth | |||
| McGrath | Patrick | 28 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| Honora | 27 | |||
| Rayner | Richard | 44 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Isabella | 42 | |||
| William | 24 | Trans to s/m | ||
| Hannah | 9 | |||
| Mary J. | 1 | |||
| Richardson | Moses | 42 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Eliza | 30 | |||
| Rising | Robert A. | 31 | Suffolk | Carpenter |
| Louisa | 31 | |||
| William | 6 | |||
| Erik | 3 | |||
| Russell | John | 35 | Dorset | General Labourer |
| Ellen | 33 | |||
| Ellen | 7 | |||
| Frances | 5 | |||
| John | 3 | |||
| Amelia | 7 mths | |||
| Savage | James | 27 | Kent | Labourer |
| Harriet | 23 | |||
| Rose M. | 1 | |||
| Simkin | Frederick | 43 | Suffolk | Labourer |
| Sophia | 42 | |||
| Charlotte | 15 | Trans to s/w | ||
| William Henry | 13 | Trans to s/m | ||
| Kate E. | 9 | |||
| Maude | 6 | |||
| Laura A. | 4 | |||
| Smith | Stephen | 30 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Frances | 31 | |||
| George R. | 4 | |||
| Harry | 2 | |||
| John | 8 mths | |||
| Taylor | Charles | 29 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 24 | |||
| George | 4 | |||
| Charles | 4 mths | |||
| Towers | William | 33 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary E. | 31 | |||
| Elizabeth A. | 7 | |||
| William N. | 5 | |||
| Eliza J. | 2 | |||
| Joseph | 6 mths | |||
| Ward | John William | 28 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Alice | 24 | |||
| George | 2 | |||
| William | 1 | |||
| Ward | George | 22 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Lucy | 20 | |||
| John | 1 | |||
| West | William | 51 | Lincolnshire | Labourer |
| Ellen | 39 | |||
| John R. | 15 | Trans to s/m | ||
| Joseph | 11 | |||
| Sarah | 9 | |||
| Frederick | 8 | |||
| David | 5 | |||
| Ellen | 2 | |||
| Isaac M. | 1 | |||
| Lucy Ann | 1 mth | |||
| Single Men | ||||
| Bradley | Giles | 21 | Kerry | Carpenter |
| Brown | Frederick | 18 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Callaghan | Anthony | 22 | Brecon | Stonemason |
| Carrington | George W. | 20 | Glostershire | Schoolmaster |
| Catley | Thomas | 12 | Lincolnshire | |
| Catley | Robert J. | 47 | Kerry | Gardener |
| Henry R. | Kerry | Dairyman | ||
| Clark | Charles | 12 | Lincolnshire | |
| Clarke | William | 20 | Kent | Labourer |
| Clements | George A | 21 | Essex | Labourer |
| Codd | Benjamin | 14 | Lincolnshire | |
| Henry J. | 12 | Lincolnshire | ||
| Connell | Patrick | 22 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Cosgrave | Jim | 19 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| Cramp | Julian | 20 | Sussex | Farm Labourer |
| Dale | Samuel | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer | |
| Devine | James | 20 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Dixon | Joseph | 28 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Doherty | John | 20 | Kerry | Farm Labourere |
| Doyle | Michael | 25 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| Feahan | James | 21 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Free | William | 26 | Wexford | Farm Labourer |
| Fullalove | George | 27 | Middlesex | Builders Labourer |
| Gibbons | George | 18 | Waterford | General Labourer |
| Grayson | John | 25 | Lincolnshire | Shoemaker |
| Hall | William | 25 | Sussex | Gardener |
| Hiron | Joseph | 21 | Glostershire | Carpenter |
| Hooper | George Henry | 20 | Glostershire | Carpenter |
| Jackson | William | 27 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Jakes | Samuel | 24 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Johnston | Thomas J. | 23 | Kent | Blacksmith |
| Jones | George E. | 21 | Lincolnshire | Labourer |
| Kennedy | George J. | 20 | Lincolnshire | Blacksmith |
| Linder | Stephen | 38 | Norfolk | Farm Labourer |
| Lingley | Jethro | 38 | Suffolk | Farm Labourer |
| Maloney | Edward | 25 | Kerry | Labourer |
| McCarthy | John | 20 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| McCarthy | James | 19 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| McCarthy | Michael | 26 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| Moloney | Michael | 34 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Moore | Edward | 23 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| Morris | John | 20 | Warwickshire | Labourer |
| Murphy | William | 21 | Kerry | Tailor |
| Paddison | John | 22 | Lincolnshire | Blacksmith |
| Page | Charles | 36 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Parkin | Thomas | 30 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
| Pinches | William | 22 | Middlesex | Millwright |
| Radford | Samuel B. | 22 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
| Spence G. | 16 | Middlesex | Carpenter | |
| Rayner | William | 24 | Lincolnshire | Labourer |
| Real | Patrick | 49 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
| Patrick | 18 | |||
| Rilatt | Anthony | 22 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
| Rippins | John M. | 29 | Lincolnshire | Shepherd |
| Rook | William | 24 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
| Sampson | Henry | 20 | Kent | Navvy |
| Sharp | Charles | 39 | Cambridgeshire | Carpenter |
| Simkin | William H. | 13 | Suffolk | |
| Smith | Richard | 26 | Yorkshire | Gardener |
| Sullivan | Patrick | 24 | Cork | Cooper |
| Daniel | 21 | Cork | Cooper | |
| Townsend | Joseph | 25 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
| West | John Reed | 15 | Lincolnshire | Farm Servant |
| Wilson | Edward | 21 | Middlesex | Labourer |
| Colonial Nominated Single Men | ||||
| Linderman | William | 30 | Germany | Cabinet Maker - For Westland |
| Single Women | ||||
| Brown | Laura | 19 | Beds | Domestic Servant |
| Catley | Ruth | 16 | Cambridge | Machinist |
| Susannah | 14 | Cambridge | ||
| Gatley | Sophia | 14 | Surry | |
| Chapman | Frances | 14 | Lincolnshire | |
| Mary Ann | 12 | Lincolnshire | ||
| Copping | Emma | 16 | Kent | Domestic Servant |
| Corfield | Caroline | 23 | Flint | Cook |
| Curzon | Mrs E. | Middlesex | Matron | |
| Dale | Betsy | 16 | Lincolnshire | General Servant |
| Edna | 14 | Lincolnshire | ||
| Mary E. | 12 | Lincolnshire | ||
| Doughty | Caroline | 24 | Lincolnshire | Housemaid |
| Gooch | Agnes | 18 | Norfolk | General Servant |
| Kate E. | 14 | Norfolk | ||
| Mary E. | 12 | Norfolk | ||
| Maloney | Jane | 45 | Kerry | |
| Millar | Eliza | 22 | Wexford | Domestic Servant |
| Moore | Mary | 24 | Limerick | Cook |
| Mary | 50 | Limerick | Housekeeper | |
| Neal | Mary | 27 | Middlesex | Domestic Servnat |
| Peck | Jane | 21 | Suffolk | Domestic Servant |
| Real | Mary | 20 | Limerick | Domestic Servant |
| Simkin | Charlotte L. | 15 | Suffolk | Dressmaker |
| Stodart | Matilda | 26 | Middlesex | Housemaid |
Copyright Denise and Peter 2000
National Archives Reference
IM15/254