Zealandia
Ship: 1116 tons
Captain: White
Surgeon Superintendent:
Sailed London 23 September 1870 - arrived Lyttelton 23rd December 1870
The Zealandia, a fine iron
clipper-built ship of 1116 tons, was built for the Shaw, Savill Co, in 1869 ande made her
maiden voyage to Lytteton. The Zealandia was a beautiful ship, specially designed for
carrying passengers. Her saloon was spacious and lofty and the cabins were unusually large
and well ventilated, having extra large portholes to them. The decoration of the saloon
was extremely chaste. She had some special cabins for families, and a ladies saloon. The
second cabin was on deck and the berths were larger then usual and well lighted. The
Zealandia, after completing 31 voyages to New Zealand, was sold to the Russians. She was
stranded in 1911, and sold to a firm in Nova Scotia.
Source White Wings Volume One Sir Henry Brett
Our thanks to the dedicated researcher who sent us a transcription of this list.
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Families & Children | ||||
Arthur | George | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Ann | 18 | |||
Borland | James | 40 | Tyrone | Saddler |
Emma | 33 | |||
Maggie | 16 | Trans to s/w | ||
Robert | 10 | |||
Emma | 8 | |||
William | 6 | |||
Charles | 5 | |||
Sarah | 3 | |||
John | 4 months | |||
Bourne | John M | 22 | Kent | Farm Labourer |
Fanny | 24 | |||
Edith | 4 | |||
Brown | Francis | 49 | Aberdeen | Ploughman |
Sarah | 40 | |||
Sarah | 20 | Trans to s/w | ||
Jessie | 18 | Trans to s/w | ||
Francis | 16 | Trans to s/m | ||
Alexander | 14 | Trans to s/m | ||
William | 6 | |||
Jane | 4 | |||
Milne | Jessie | 3 months | Travelled with Brown | |
Cowbrick | Sydney | 26 | Middlesex | Coach Maker |
Clara | 21 | |||
Webb | Thomas | 59 | Kent | Farm Labourer Travelled with Bourne |
Sarah | 57 | |||
Davies | Benjamin | 38 | Derbyshire | Moulder |
Elizabeth | 37 | |||
Evans | Edward | 29 | Oxfordshire | Carpenter |
Martha M | 21 | |||
Fanny K | 3 | |||
Fell | Josiah | 27 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
Elizabeth | 27 | |||
Infant | ||||
Gilbert | John | 35 | Buckinghamshire | Millwright |
Caroline | 34 | |||
Henry | 7 | |||
Emma | 4 | |||
Arthur | 9 months | |||
Green | Samuel | 28 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 27 | |||
Clara | 6 | |||
Jessie | 4 | |||
Kate | 2 | |||
Annie | 1 | |||
Griffiths | John | 50 | Derbyshire | Labourer These persons have friends living in Canterbury |
Mary | 51 | |||
Mary JR | 20 | Trans to s/w | ||
Sarah | 16 | Trans to s/w | ||
Samuel | 11 | |||
Griffiths | John JR | 24 | Derbyshire | Smith |
Hannah | 26 | |||
John James | 1 | |||
Cutler | Thomas | 26 | Staffordshire | Forgeman Travelled with Griffiths |
Alice | 26 | |||
Scott | Mary | 61 | Trans to s/w | Travelled with Griffiths |
Yates | John | 23 | Trans to s/m | Travelled with Griffiths |
Norman | Richard | 20 | Trans to s/m | Travelled with Griffiths |
Haines | Michael | 44 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
Ruth | 42 | |||
Swan | Lucy | 3 | Travelled with Haines | |
Hardwick | John | 42 | Buckinghamshire | Farm Labourer |
Hannah | 42 | |||
Thomas | 17 | Trans to s/m | ||
John | 14 | Trans to s/m | ||
William | 11 | |||
Mary | 9 | |||
Catherine | 6 | |||
Amy | 3 | |||
Elizabeth | 4 months | |||
Hayler | James | 34 | Sussex | Farm Labourer |
Mary A. | 26 | |||
James | 7 | |||
Sarah | 1 | |||
Henwood | Thomas | 28 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Emma | 27 | |||
Hicks | Henry | 24 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 19 | |||
Johns | William | 36 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 35 | |||
W. Henry | 14 | Trans to s/m | ||
John James | 11 | |||
George Thomas | 8 | |||
Mary A. | 6 | |||
Jessie | 3 | |||
Albert R. | 7 months | |||
Mayn | James | 30 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Emma | 30 | |||
Mary J. | 11 | |||
John | 10 | |||
James | 7 | |||
Emma | 5 | |||
Elizabeth A. | 2 | |||
Page | John | 48 | Bucks | Labourer |
Eliza | 48 | |||
William | 19 | Trans to s/m | ||
Eliza Jane | 12 | Trans to s/w | ||
Harry | 6 | |||
James | 5 | |||
Rainbow | James | 37 | Bucks | Farm Labourer |
Caroline | 36 | |||
Henry S. | 15 | Trans to s/m | ||
Reed | William | 23 | Devonshire | Smith |
Mary Ann | 24 | |||
Seager | Samuel | 50 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
Mary A. | 54 | |||
Rose | 18 | Trans to s/w | ||
Samuel | 15 | Trans to s/m | ||
Jane | 13 | Trans to s/w | ||
Ada | 11 | |||
Simpson | George | 36 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
Martha | 40 | |||
Henry | 10 | |||
Martha | 7 | |||
Frederick | 4 | |||
Stewart | Kate | 10 | Travelled with Simpson | |
Simpson | John | 47 | Donegal | Ploughman |
Jane | 45 | |||
Mary | 20 | Trans to s/w | ||
Willis | Lewis | 35 | Banff | Shepherd |
Christian | 32 | |||
Wise | George | 29 | Surrey | Farm Labourer |
Ellen | 22 | |||
George R. | 4 months | |||
Single Men | ||||
Arras | Wilhelm | 19 | Bavaria | Farm Labourer |
Breeze | Matthew | 40 | Norfolk | Farm Labourer |
John | 20 | Norfolk | Farm Labourer | |
Brown | Daniel | 21 | Middlesex | Clerk |
Brown | Francis | 16 | Aberdeen | Farm Labourer |
Alexander | 14 | Aberdeen | ||
Calder | William | 20 | Banffshire | Ploughman �8.10 pd in Colony No 1313 |
Caldwell | Thomas | 24 | Derry | Ploughmans |
Callaghan | John | 20 | Cork | Farm Labourer �8.10 pd in Colony No 1318 |
Canavan | George | 25 | Down | Labourer �8.10 pd in Colony No 1303 |
Chick | Peter | 22 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
Corkery | John | 20 | Kerry | Farm Labourer �8.10 pd in Colony Timaru No 9 1 April 1870 |
Dermott | James | 22 | Armagh | Farm Labourer �8.10 pd in Colony No 1298 |
Evans | Richard | 26 | Montgomeryshire | Farm Labourer |
Rowland | 17 | Montgomeryshire | Ploughman | |
Fourdrinier | Alfred | 23 | Middlesex | Labourer |
Gamble | Charles | 20 | Essex | Farm Labourer |
Griebel | Peter | 25 | Bavaria | Farm Labourer |
Haeslip | John | 26 | Cork | Labourer �8.10 pd in Colony No 1266 |
Hardwick | Thomas | 17 | Buckinghamshire | Farm Labourer |
John | 14 | Buckinghamshire | ||
Harris | William | 20 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Hollobon | Alfred | 16 | Sussex | Tinman |
Albert | 13 | |||
Huffey | George | 35 | Suffolk | Couchman Bill for �11.6.8 given Timaru 25, May /70 |
Johns | W Henry | 16 | Cornwall | Labourer |
Leary | John | 22 | Kerry | Farm Labourer �17 pd in Colony No 12 Timaru |
William | 19 | Kerry | Farm Labourer | |
McNae | Richard | 48 | Kirkcudbright | Engineer |
Morgans | John | 21 | Montgomeryshire | Farm Labourer |
Edward | 18 | Montgomeryshire | Farm Labourer | |
Moyle | James | 28 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
William | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer | |
Munro | John William | 23 | Rosshire | Shepherd |
Murphy | Patrick | 27 | Kerry | Labourer |
Nicholls | Moses | 19 | Glostershire | Labourer |
Norman | Richard S | 20 | Leicestershire | Boiler Maker |
Nott | John | 18 | Devonshire | Ploughman |
Osborn | Joseph Richard | 26 | Northampton | Labourer |
Page | William | 19 | Buckinghamshire | Labourer |
Page | Frederick | 19 | Kent | Ploughman |
Patton | Thomas | 20 | Perthshire | Ploughman |
Power | George | 22 | Waterford | Gardener Bill for �13 given No 1277 |
Rainbow | Henry L | 15 | Buckinghamshire | Farm Labourer |
Richards | William | 30 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Seager | Samuel | 15 | Middlesex | Labourer |
Seib | Michael | 20 | Bavaria | Farm Labourer |
Shear | Denis | 24 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Spillane | Thomas | 23 | Kerry | Farm Labourer �8.10 pd in Colony No 10 Timaru 12, April 1870 |
Sullivan | Cornelius | 22 | Kerry | Labourer |
Tudor | David | 35 | Montgomeryshire | Farm Labourer |
Wotten | David | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Yates | John | 23 | Staffordshire | Labourer |
Single Women | ||||
Abbott | Mary | 22 | Bedfordshire | General Servant |
Ahlers | Helena | 25 | Germany | General Servant |
Baland | Maggie | 16 | Tyrone | Nursemaid |
Besley | Maria | 27 | Oxfordshire | Cook |
Brown | Sarah | 20 | Aberdeen | Dairy Maid |
Jessie | 18 | Aberdeen | General Servant | |
Campbell | Flora | 22 | Down | Dairy Maid |
Margaret | 18 | Down | Dairy Maid | |
Carroll | MATRON | |||
Christie | Ann | 19 | Lancashire | Nursemaid |
Corbel | Euphemia | 24 | Rosshire | General Servant |
Cross | Eliza | 27 | Norfolk | Cook |
Dyer | Martha | 38 | Middlesex | |
Emily | 16 | Middlesex | General Servant �8.10 pd in Colony No 1317 |
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Amelia | 13 | Middlesex | General Servant | |
Esselborn | Maria | 22 | Bavaria | General Servant |
Fawkes | Caroline | 20 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Forrest | Catherine J | 29 | Lancashire | Housemaid |
Griebel | Maria | 22 | Bavaria | |
Griffiths | Mary | 20 | Derbyshire | General Servant |
Sarah | 16 | Derbyshire | General Servant | |
Gudex | Magdalina | 20 | Bavaria | Dairymaid |
G�tel | Jakobine | 28 | Bavaria | Dairymaid |
Harris | Jane | 24 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Hollobon | Mary | 40 | Sussex | |
Alfred | 16 | Trans to s/m | ||
Albert | 13 | Trans to s/m | ||
Jesse | 10 | |||
Arthur | 5 | |||
Emily | 4 | |||
Ellen | 2 | |||
Houghton | Kathrine | 17 | Norfolk | Domestic Servant |
Hutchinson | Jane | 21 | Northumberland | General Servant |
James | Matilda | 16 | Cambridgeshire | General Servant |
Jones | Mary | 34 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Jane | 16 | General Servant | ||
Minnie | 9 | |||
William | 4 | |||
Clark | Ann | 60 | Bedforeshire | Travelled with Jones |
Joyce | Mary | 25 | Down | General Servant Coll Nomn 1303 |
Leary | Catherine | 21 | Kerry | Dairy Maid Coll Nomn No 12 Timaru |
Ellen | 16 | Kerry | Dairy Maid | |
McNae | Ann | 21 | Lanark | General Servant |
Miller | Jane | 26 | Lanark | General Servant |
Morcombe | Mary | 30 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Murphy | Margaret | 21 | Kerry | General Servant |
Nicholl | Martha | 19 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Page | Eliza Jane | 12 | Buckinghamshire | |
Patton | Elizabeth | 22 | Perth | Dairy Maid |
Johan | Perth | General Servant | ||
Poff | Johanna | 22 | Kerry | General Servant Coll Nomn Timaru No 1 25, Aug /69 |
Pound | Emma | 27 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Power | Elizabeth | 24 | Waterford | General Servant Coll Nomn 1277 |
Roberts | Louisa E | 20 | Buckinghamshire | General Servant |
Robertson | Alexander | 21 | Ross | General Servant |
Russell | Anne | 26 | Orkney | General Servant |
Timpson | Charlotte | 25 | Surrey | Cook |
Scott | Mary | 61 | Lancashire | |
Seager | Rose | 18 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Jane | 13 | |||
Simpson | Mary | 20 | Donegal | General Servant |
Stuart | Selina | 26 | Somersetshire | Housekeeper |
Frances A | 6� | |||
Web | Emma | 19 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Mary Scott: John Lee & George Scott had arrived in New Zealand on board the ship Ramsay in June 1870. Later that year, on board the Zealandia, Mary (nee Yates), John Lee and George Scotts mother sailed to join her sons, together with her daughter Alice, and Alices husband Thomas Cutler. Thomas was to assist the two brothers in the cottage building. They travelled in the party of the Griffiths family, but I am not sure of this relationship. In 1871 a third brother, William (b. 1836) a foundryman, with his wife and 5 children sailed on the Zealandia (sailed 8.9.1871, arrived Lyttelton 9.12.1871) to join the family and become the third Brother of Scott Brothers Limited. Moses Scott (b. 24.8.1834) also joined Scott Brothers, but to date I have been unable to find the ship on which he emigrated. However there is a written notation against William Scotts name on the Zealandia 1871 sailing, which says "and brother" which could point to Moses. Should you wish any more information on this family, please contact Lesley Wootton. |
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WISE family: My Great Grandparents, George & Ellen (nee VOAK) WISE and their son George Richard came out on the Zealandia to Lyttleton. The WISE family settled in Christchurch along with 5 of George's siblings and his father who came out on various ships over a ten year period. The Zealandia was a particularly fast iron clipper ship, and made the voyage in days. This was one of the faster journeys to NZ and some incredible distance records were set. In one period of 17 consecutive days they sailed 5044 miles (8000kms). This is further than the Whitbread round-the-world yachts of recent years were capable of. If you have a connection to this family or are interested in diaries relating to this voyage (Bruce has copies of two diaries) please contact Bruce Crowther |
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Copyright Denise and Peter 2001 - 2003
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IMCH4/93