Mairi Bhan
Ship: 1315 tons
Captain: P J Massen
Surgeon Superintendent:
Sailed London 5th May 1874 - arrived Otago 25th July 1874
One of the handsomest ships sent out
to New Zealand by the Patrick Henderson Company, an iron clipper built by Barclay and
Curle of Glasgow for Captain P. J. McIntyre of London. She was a well-appointed,
full-rigged ship, with the usual double topsail yards and unusual double top-gallant yards
at the fore and main, and carried an immense spread of canvas. The "Otago Daily
Times" referring to her arrival at Port Chalmers, stated: Her performances during
this her maiden trip entitled her to take rank amongst high-class clippers, she made the
run out in between 75 and 76 days from Glasgow. She was off Otago Heads three days
previous to entering port, and the captain obtained bearings of what he considered was the
enterance to Otago Harbour. The ship was then nearly due south of the Heads, and a distant
about 20 miles. That placed the time of the run out at 73 to 74 days from Glasgow. The
ship, however, did not leave the Tail of the Bank until late on May 7th, so that the
passage was made between 71 and 72 days, and the Snares on 70 days. The passage from
Glasgow to port really occupied 80 days. The voyage which commenced on May 5th, was
destitute of incidents.The name of the Mairi Bhan is Gaelic for "Bonny Mary"
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Families and Children | ||||
Adam | Robert | 29 | Renfrewshire | Labourer |
Mrs | 27 | |||
Hugh | 7 | |||
Robert | 5 | |||
William | 3 | |||
Forsyth | 1 | |||
Arthur | Robert | 26 | Lanark | Carpenter |
Catherine | 28 | |||
Alice | 7 | |||
Bain | Thomas | 39 | Lanark | Joiner |
Margaret | 34 | |||
Thomas | 14 | |||
Harry | 12 | |||
Margaret | 10 | |||
Agnes | 5 | |||
James | 3 | |||
Annie | 4 months | |||
Bell | James | 35 | Lanark | Wright |
Agnes | 35 | |||
Annabella | 12 | |||
James | 10 | |||
Marion | 8 | |||
Alexander | 4 | |||
David | 2 | |||
Bickerstaff | William | 26 | Lanark | Labourer |
Sarah | 26 | |||
Isabella | 5 | |||
Letitia | 3 | |||
Mary | 1 | |||
Blair | David | 24 | Lanark | Vanman |
Mary | 23 | |||
Margaret R. | 10 months | |||
Borthwick | Thomas | 44 | Renfrewshire | Joiner |
Mrs | 42 | |||
Brow | John | 36 | Lanark | Farm Servant and Labourer |
Margaret | 31 | |||
Grace | 13 | |||
John | 10 | |||
Janet | 7 | |||
Margaret | 5 | |||
Brown | John | 30 | Ayrshire | Mechanic |
Agnes | 28 | |||
Brown | William | 28 | Ayrshire | Mechanic |
Euphima | 27 | |||
William | 3 | |||
John | 5 months | |||
Bruce | James | 34 | Shetland | Ag Labourer |
Thomasina | 28 | |||
Buchanan | Thomas | 24 | Lanark | Farm Labourer |
Annie | 24 | |||
Clark | Alexander | 35 | Stirlingshire | Labourer |
Margaret | 35 | |||
Elizabeth | 14 | |||
John | 12 | |||
Janet | 9 | |||
James | 3 | |||
Mary | 1 | |||
Craig | Jane | 38 | Ayrshire | |
James | 18 | Tailor | ||
Maggie | 16 | |||
Andrew | 7 | |||
David | 3 | |||
Martha | 10 | |||
Colvin | William | 31 | Renfrewshire | Boiler Maker |
Margaret | 31 | |||
Coulter | James | 23 | Lanark | Labourer |
Margaret | 21 | |||
William | 3 | |||
Robert | 1 | |||
Darling | Robert | 33 | Edinburgh | Saw Miller |
Eliza | 26 | |||
Darling | John | 21 | Edinburgh | Saw Miller |
Jane | 20 | |||
Day | John | 29 | Lanark | Saddler |
Mary | 20 | |||
Jane | 4 months | |||
Devine | James | 35 | Lanark | Labourer |
Ann | 32 | |||
Mary | 11 | |||
Alexander | 9 | |||
Rebecca | 7 | |||
Matilda | 5 | |||
Child | Infant | |||
Dobbie | James | 38 | Stirlingshire | Labourer |
Eliza | 39 | |||
Jane | 13 | |||
Margaret | 10 | |||
James | 7 | |||
Elizabeth | 5 | |||
Janet | 2 | |||
Dunn | John | 38 | Lanark | Blacksmith |
Matilda | 38 | |||
Robert | 12 | |||
John | 10 | |||
William | 8 | |||
Margaret | 6 | |||
Agnes | 4 | |||
Jane | 1 | |||
Elgin | David | 36 | Mayo | Shoemaker |
Mary | 33 | |||
Walter | 3 | |||
Robert | 6 months | |||
Fraser | John | 37 | Lanark | Ag Labourer |
Margaret | 38 | |||
Margaret | 17 | |||
Helen | 15 | |||
Elizabeth | 14 | |||
John | 13 | |||
David | 7 | |||
James | 5 | |||
Alexander | 3 | |||
Foley | John | 19 | Lanark | Vanman |
Ann | 24 | |||
Fulton | Robert | 26 | Renfrewshire | Labourer |
Isabella | 26 | |||
Robert | 6 | |||
Alice | 3 | |||
Helen | 1 | |||
Gondie | Robert | 23 | Lanark | Blacksmith |
Jane | 24 | |||
Grace | 1 | |||
Gorman | William | 26 | Antrim | Labourer |
Mary J. | 25 | |||
Thomas | 3 | |||
Hall | Aaron | 36 | Lanark | Labourer |
Martha | 33 | |||
Isabella | 9 | |||
Mary | 6 | |||
Jeannie | 3 | |||
Sarah | 1 | |||
Harrigan | Charles | 33 | Lanark | Sawyer |
Mary | 32 | |||
Jessie | 14 | |||
William | 7 | |||
Margaret | 5 | |||
James | 2 months | |||
Holmes | Samuel | 42 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
Jane | 40 | |||
John | 20 | |||
Mary | 18 | |||
Jane | 15 | |||
Margaret | 13 | |||
Ellen | 12 | |||
Samuel | 9 | |||
Robert | 7 | |||
Ann | 4 | |||
Fanny | 2 | |||
Hood | John | 34 | Lanark | Shoemaker |
Jane | 31 | |||
Jane | 7 | |||
Mary Ann | 6 | |||
Hunter | James | 33 | Selkirkshire | Labourer |
Ann | 29 | |||
Ann | 8 | |||
David | 6 | |||
James | 4 | |||
Imrie | Walter | 32 | Edinburgh | Joiner |
Jane A. | 32 | |||
Jack | Alexander | 27 | Edinburgh | Cabinet Maker |
Maria | 27 | |||
Elizabeth | 2 | |||
Alexander | 3 months | |||
Jackson | Hugh | 35 | Lanark | Shoemaker |
Ann | 25 | |||
John | 11 | |||
Elizabeth | 8 | |||
James | 6 | |||
Ann | 3 | |||
Jamieson | John | 43 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
Margaret | 41 | |||
Rebecca | 21 | |||
Margaret | 19 | |||
William | 17 | |||
Sarah A. | 14 | |||
Mary | 12 | |||
Jeffrey | Robert | 29 | Lanark | Labourer |
Agnes | 28 | |||
Mary | 7 | |||
Margaret | 5 | |||
George | 3 | |||
Robert | 1 | |||
Johnson | Alexander | 26 | Lanark | Labourer |
Winifred | 20 | |||
John | 1 month | |||
Johnstone | James C. | 10 | ||
Jane A. | 2 | |||
William S. | 5 months | |||
Johnston | Andrew | 23 | Selkirkshire | Labourer |
Helen | 26 | |||
Robert | 8 months | |||
Leith | Margaret | 46 | Perthshire | |
Jemima | 17 | |||
Henry | 16 | |||
Elizabeth | 14 | |||
Maitland | 10 | |||
Margaret | 7 | |||
Helen | 5 | |||
Jessie | 3 | |||
Matthewson | William | 28 | Lanark | Cabinet Maker |
Isa | 29 | |||
George | 9 months | |||
McCallion | Patrick | 26 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
Mrs J. E. | 24 | |||
Sarah | 3 | |||
Patrick | 2 | |||
Margaret Jane | 1 | |||
McClintock | Peter | 28 | Lanark | Labourer |
Jane | 26 | |||
Thomas | 10 | |||
McColl | Duncan | 42 | Lanark | Joiner |
Agnes | 35 | |||
Dugald | 13 | |||
Christina | 11 | |||
McConnell | Hugh | 39 | Lanark | Tailor |
Catherine | 27 | |||
Catherine | 9 | |||
Helena | 7 | |||
Hugh | 5 | |||
Mary | 2 | |||
McCullough | William | 30 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
Elizabeth | 31 | |||
Alexander | 9 | |||
Hugh | 5 | |||
William | 2 | |||
McFarlane | John | 26 | Lanark | Shepherd |
Margaret | 22 | |||
McKendrick | William | 33 | Lanark | Bricklayer |
Mrs | 32 | |||
John | 13 | |||
McLaren | Peter | 30 | Stirlingshire | Miner & Ag Labourer |
Jean | 26 | |||
Mary | 3 months | |||
McNutt | William | 43 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Margaret | 39 | |||
Mary | 17 | |||
Elizabeth | 16 | |||
Margaret | 14 | |||
John | 12 | |||
Fanny | 8 | |||
David | 7 | |||
Joseph | 3 | |||
McPartlon | Charles | 23 | Lanark | Hammerman |
Elizabeth | 24 | |||
Jane | 9 months | |||
McPherson | Fryse | 22 | Lanark | Labourer |
Mary | 20 | |||
McQueen | William | 39 | Edinburgh | Slater |
Elizabeth | 38 | |||
Robina | 18 | Domestic Servant | ||
James | 16 | |||
Elizabeth | 12 | |||
Agnes | 10 | |||
Silias | 8 | |||
Isaac | 4 | |||
Margaret | 5 months | |||
Merrick | Robert | 30 | Lanark | Carter |
Jane | 24 | |||
Moore | William | 22 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Margaret Jane | 21 | |||
Mulvey | John | 32 | Stirling | Labourer |
Rebecca | 33 | |||
Noel | William | 34 | Lanark | Painter |
Jane | 30 | |||
Kate | 11 | |||
William | 10 | |||
Norbury | George | 24 | Edinburgh | Chimney Can Maker |
Margaret | 26 | |||
O'Neil | James | 34 | Lanark | Labourer |
Mary | 32 | |||
William | 10 | |||
Charlotte | 8 | |||
Mary | 4 | |||
Pattison | James | 22 | Selkirkshire | Joiner |
Mary | 26 | |||
Elspeth | 2 | |||
James | 3 months | |||
Rankin | John | 35 | Ayrshire | Labourer |
Mrs | 34 | |||
Elizabeth | 8 | |||
Marion | 6 | |||
Jessie | 4 | |||
John | 1 | |||
Reid | John | 22 | Derry | Ag Labourer |
Elizabeth | 20 | |||
Henry | 6 months | |||
Rollo | Margaret | 36 | Shetland | Nurse |
Charles | 16 | Shetland | Plumber | |
Rush | Daniel | 27 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Margaret | 30 | |||
Charles | 18 months | |||
Scott | Jessie | 36 | Ayrshire | Engineer |
William | 17 | |||
Margaret | 16 | |||
James | 14 | |||
John | 11 | |||
Robert | 10 | |||
Thomas | 8 | |||
Simpson | William | 20 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
Ann | 25 | |||
Smith | George | 28 | Renfrewshire | Mason |
Mrs | 24 | |||
George | 8 | |||
Thomas | 6 | |||
Sparrow | John | 47 | Renfrewshire | Engine Driver |
Ann | 45 | |||
John | 18 | |||
Robert | 16 | |||
Annie | 13 | |||
Agnes | 12 | |||
Mary | 9 | |||
Jeanie | 3 | |||
Stark | Peter | 31 | Edinburgh | Joiner |
Mrs | 33 | |||
Mary Ann | 3 | |||
Stark | Frank | 26 | Edinburgh | Gardener |
Helen | 24 | |||
Steel | Robert | 30 | Tyrone | Shoemaker |
Mary | 28 | |||
William J. | 3 | |||
Alexander | 1 | |||
Stewart | George | 25 | Selkirkshire | Ploughman |
Mrs | 21 | |||
Thomson | William | 31 | Renfrewshire | Butcher and Flesher |
Marion | 28 | |||
Boyd | 9 | |||
Thomas | 8 | |||
Jane | 6 | |||
Watson | John | 24 | Edinburgh | Brush Manufacturer |
Ann | 19 | |||
Watson | William | 27 | Lanark | Labourer |
Margaret | 25 | |||
Whitten | Edward | 38 | Lanark | Sawyer |
Margaret | 26 | |||
Elizabeth | 15 | |||
Jane | 11 | |||
Mary | 9 | |||
Edward | 2 | |||
Wilson | James | 22 | Lanark | Labourer |
Rossina | 22 | |||
Single Men | ||||
Abrams | James | 23 | Lanark | Labourer |
Arthur | Leslie | 20 | Shetland | Mason |
Brow | Joseph | 30 | Mayo | General Farmer |
Buchanan | David | 22 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Bullick | Thomas | 23 | Lanark | Saddler |
Callaghan | Henry | 26 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Clark | Robert | 20 | Stirlingshire | Labourer |
Clarkson | Thomas | 21 | Lanark | Miner |
Clyde | John | 18 | Stirlingshire | Miner |
Crawford | John | 24 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Cochrane | Hugh | 32 | Down | Watchmaker |
Delap | Samuel | 21 | Donegal | Ploughman |
Duncan | Andrew | 35 | Lanark | Miner |
Duncan | Frederick | 23 | Edinburgh | Turner |
Edgecombe | Samuel | 23 | Lanark | Fitter |
Farnan | Lawrence | 23 | Lanark | Plumber |
Finlayson | Duncan | 33 | Rosshire | Labourer |
Fisher | David | 24 | Lanark | Joiner |
Fraser | James | 21 | Lanark | Ploughman |
Fullarton | William | 20 | Lanark | Mason |
Garrlock | Magnus | 19 | Shetland | Ag Labourer |
Gibson | Thomas | 25 | Ayrshire | Labourer |
Greig | Robert | 21 | Edinburgh | Sawyer |
Hamilton | John | 18 | Lanark | Labourer |
Hart | Robert | 20 | Lanark | Plumber |
Henderson | John | 21 | Lanark | Carter |
Hendry | John | 21 | Lanark | Mason |
Hoban | Thomas | 26 | Lanark | Dyer |
Holmes | Thomas | 24 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
Hyndman | William | 22 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Johnstone | William | 28 | Antrim | Mechanic |
Jones | Thomas | 18 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
Mackie | Robert | 23 | Edinburgh | Labourer |
McArthur | Robert | 22 | Fife | Joiner |
Peter | 24 | Fife | Joiner | |
McAuslan | John | 22 | Lanark | Engineer |
McBride | Walter | 21 | Lanark | Plumber |
McEwan | John | 20 | Lanark | Engineer |
McFarlane | Alexander | 22 | Lanark | Jobbing Smith |
McGeehan | Denis | 32 | Donegal | Sawyer |
McKay | Hector | 27 | Rosshire | Farm Servant |
James | 22 | Rosshire | Farm Servant | |
McNicol | John | 20 | Lanark | bricklayer |
McPherson | Donald | 16 | Lanark | Umbrella Maker |
Meek | Thomas | 22 | Edinburgh | Fireman |
Mills | William | 22 | Lanark | Navvy |
Mitchell | William | 22 | Lanark | Miner |
Moore | John | 20 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
Mulloy | Gideon | 19 | Shetland | Ag Labourer |
Murray | John | 25 | Lanark | |
Neil | Hamilton | 19 | Lanark | Labourer |
O'Hara | Samuel | 16 | Dublin | Gardener |
Putney | Matthew | 21 | Lanark | Plumber |
Reid | William | 20 | Shetland | Ag Labourer |
Riddell | Alexander | 19 | Argyle | Ag Labourer |
Robb | James | 20 | Lanark | Joiner |
Sapsley | Andrew | 17 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
Sawson | George | 19 | Shetland | Fisherman |
Simpson | Robert | 21 | Derry | House Painter |
Sinclair | John | 23 | Shetland | Ag Labourer |
Smith | Charles | 23 | Edinburgh | Plumber |
Wallace | Arthur | 19 | Antrim | Ploughman |
Willison | Alexander | 24 | Lanark | Labourer |
Winton | William | 20 | Lanark | Labourer |
Single Women | ||||
Ballantyne | Jane | 30 | Tyrone | Cook |
Bery | Jane | 32 | Edinburgh | Domestic Servant |
Boyle | Bridget | 22 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
Brown | Margaret A | 20 | Tyrone | Dairymaid |
Burns | Jane | 20 | Renfrew | Domestic Servant |
Callaghan | Bridget | 30 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
Callaghan | Mary | 20 | Londonderry | Domestic Servant |
Campbell | Mary | 22 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
Carr | Ann | 31 | Aberdeen | Farm Servant |
Clark | Margaret | 20 | Tyrone | Cook |
Colvin | Ann | 19 | Lanark | Domestic Servant |
Colvin | Helen | 21 | Ayr | Domestic Servant |
Crosson | Catherine | 25 | Lanark | Domestic Servant |
Duncan | Sophia | 35 | Lanark | Domestic Servant |
Fraser | Margaret | 38 | Aberdeen | Farm Servant |
Loughrey | Mary A | 30 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
Malcolm | Jane | 20 | Renfrew | Domestic Servant |
McArthur | Catherine | 25 | Fifeshire | Domestic Servant |
McCartney | Jane | 23 | Lanark | Domestic Servant |
McClure | Mary A | 26 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
McConnell | Isabella | 21 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
McCullough | Jane | 19 | Antrim | Domestic Servant |
McDonald | Dolina | 18 | Lanark | Domestic Servant |
McIntyre | Janet | 43 | Edinburgh | Nurse |
McKay | Alexandrina | 29 | Ross | Housemaid |
Nicol | Martha | 19 | Stirlingshire | Domestic Servant |
Paterson | Mary | 18 | Edinburgh | Domestic Servant |
Paterson | Helen | 27 | Edinburgh | Domestic Servant |
Sapsley | Margaret J. | 21 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
Simpson | Margaret | 32 | Lanark | Domestic Servant |
Simpson | Eliza S | 26 | Derry | Domestic Servant |
Spalding | Margaret | 20 | Lanark | Tailoress |
Thompson | Bridget | 21 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant |
Mary | 23 | Tyrone | Domestic Servant | |
Waldie | Clara | 17 | Lanark | Nurse |
Watson | Isabella H. | 20 | Lanark | Domestic Servant |
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MOORE Family: William Moore [aged 22], occupation - ploughman, miner. First wife Margaret Jane, nee STEVENSON [aged 21], married in Co Donegal, Ireland they came over in the Mairi Bhan together and settled in Roxburgh, Central Otago where their first child Mary Ann Moore was born in 1875. Williams wife Margaret died in 1876 of osteomalacia (softening of the bones/vitamin D deficiency). In 1881 William married for the second time to Amelia Mary STRINGER from Surrey, England. Their (seven) children were named William Samuel, John, Robert, Lily Ethel, Amelia, Emma, and Gladys MOORE. William died at the age of 60 in Dunedin. He is buried in the Roxburgh Cemetary. If you have a connection with this family or wish to know more, please contact Margaret Moore. |
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Copyright Denise & Peter 1999, 2000, 2001
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IM15/137