Elizabeth WRAGG 1795-1886

Matriarch, Transportation, Exodus

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Memorial at Scone, NSW

Elizabeth WRAGG was born 1795 in Wirksworth, eldest of 7 children. She married John ALLSOP and had 9 children in 16 years. Her middle daughter was convicted of stealing shoes and transported to Australia in 1840 (in convict ship Surry). In 1851 Elizabeth's husband died, and in 1858 she migrated (in sailing ship Castilian) with 18 members of her family to New South Wales, running in to a terrifying hurricane in the roaring forties. In 1860 she was followed by another 8 family members (in sailing ship Hannah More). Elizabeth died in 1886 in NSW at 91, with 9 children and 60 grandchildren, leaving only 12 in Derbyshire. Her monument also remembers her eldest daughter and husband. Elizabeth's convict daughter was a child's nursemaid, became a servant to Rev. Morse, and married another convict. Only 4 ft 9 ins tall, with red hair, she had 11 children in 25 years. It is said she and her husband saved up the money to pay for her mother to join them in Australia. Later she became a "Horseback Nurse" to her area, and died at 92 (her mother's age).

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Surry 1811-1842, 461 tons.

Castilian 1856-1868, 1064 tons.

Hannah More 1856-1866, 1129 tons.

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1775W 1770Md 1776Md 1772 John 1791W Ann James 1795W Ann ALLSOP=====v=====ASHOVER WRAGG=====v=====ROOSE 1833W | 1836W 1819W | 1819W | | |-----|-----|--|--|-----|-----|-----|------|-----|-----|------| |-----|------|-----|------|------|------| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1792 1793W 1796W 1798W 1800W 1802W 1805W 1807W 1810W 1812W 1817W 1795W 1797Md 1799W 1803Md 1809Md 1810Md 1812Md Joseph John Henry Hannah Ann Sarah Richard Jane Mary Samuel Charles Elizth James John Dorothy Mary Hannah Peter | | Ann | | | | John 1817W #Elizabeth ALLSOP==========================v==============================WRAGG 1851Duf | 1886Sc | |-------|---------|-------|-----------X-------------|------------|-------------|----------| | | | | | | | | | 1817W 1819W 1820W 1821W 1823W 1825W 1827W 1829W 1833Derby #Mary *Ann Henry James @Elizabeth #Jane #Hannah #John #Emma 1892Sc 1878NSW 1820W 1883Blp Ann 1915NSW 1925NSW 1905NSW 1909NSW m1859Sc m1839Alk m1845Df 1915NSW m1848Alk m1853StW m1854StW m1856Derby 1817 *John 1826Litt m1842NSW 1826Ma #William 1831Lou #Samuel Robert YEOMANS Catherine 1807Bk #Joseph GREGORY #Sarah BENNETT BELL 1880 WALKER John ELKS | SWIFT | 1890 | 1911 MARSLAND | | 1914NSW | | | 1877 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 41*John 46 John 42 Mary J 49#Charles 55#Emily 55#Mary J 58 Elizabeth 46*Ann 49 William 44 John 52#Emma 60#Mary J 57#John 60 Anges E 49*Mary 51 Anne 46 Henry J 54#John(dv) 62 Hannah 60 Edward 62 Emma 50*William 53 Mary 47 Emily A 56#Ann 65 Mildred 62 Fanny 64 Bertha 52*Elizabeth 56 Thomas 50 Thomas 59 Betsy 67 Male 63 Sarah 66 Samuel 56*Arthur 60 Elizab 52 Isabella 61 Jane 69 Henrietta 66 Emma 68 Clara 60 Peter 63 Joseph 54 William 64 Mary 68 Betsy 71 Ada 67 George 57 Peter 66 Joseph R 69 Annie 73 Ella 67 Eliza 60 Helen E 75 Lucy 78 Frank 69 Henry 62 Esther M (all in NSW) (all in Dby) 67 Susan R (all in NSW) Passenger Listed: @=Surry 1840, #=Castilian 1858, *=Hannah More 1860 Places in England: W=Wirksworth, Md=Middleton, Df=Duffield, Derby=Derby city, Lou=Loughborough Alk=St Alkamund (near Derby), Bk=Blackburn, Ma=Mansfield, StW=St Werburgh, Litt=Littleover Places in Australia: Sc=Scone in NSW,

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Surname Firstname Age Ship Year Arriving Remarks ALLSOP Elizabeth Anne 17 Surry 1840 Port Jackson NSW Transported for 7 years ALLSOPP Elizabeth 62 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and daughter ALLSOPP John 29 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ALLSOPP John 1 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ALLSOPP Mary 40 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and mother ALLSOPP Mary Jane 3 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ALLSOPP Sarah 27 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ELKS Anne 2 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ELKS Charles 8 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ELKS Emma 6 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ELKS Jane 32 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family ELKS John 4 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family. Died on voyage (dv) ELKS Joseph 31 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family GREGORY Anna 31 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family GREGORY Emily 3 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family GREGORY Mary Jane inft Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family GREGORY William 34 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and family BENNETT Emma 26 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and husband BENNETT Samuel 26 Castilian 1858 Sydney and/or Newcastle and wife YEOMANS Anne 40 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family YEOMANS Anne 14 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family YEOMANS John 39 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family YEOMANS John 18 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family YEOMANS Mary 11 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family YEOMANS William 10 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family YEOMANS Elizabeth 8 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family YEOMANS Arthur 4 Hannah More 1860 Sydney and family -------------------- 'Castillian' was a full rigged ship, built in 1856 at New Brunswick, USA, her owners were Miller & Co, her Master was Harrington, her tonnage was 1064 tons, and she was registered at London. She sailed from Albert Dock, Liverpool on 11th March 1857. -------------------- 'Online' microfilm of shipping lists -------------------- srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS5316/4_4795/Castilian_%2013%20Jun%201858/4_479500097.jpg&No=8 for ALLSOP Elizabeth and Mary on "Castilian" on 13 June in 1858 -------------------- srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS5316/4_4795/Castilian_%2013%20Jun%201858/4_479500091.jpg&No=2 for ELKS Joseph, Jane, Charles, Emma, John (dv), Ann on "Castilian" on 13 June in 1858 -------------------- srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS5316/4_4795/Castilian_%2013%20Jun%201858/4_479500092.jpg&No=3 for GREGORY William, Hannah, Emily, Mary Jane on "Castilian" on 13 June in 1858 --------------------- srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS5316/4_4795/Castilian_%2013%20Jun%201858/4_479500090.jpg&No=1 for ALLSOP John, Sarah, Mary Jane, John on "Castilian" on 13 June in 1858 --------------------- srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS5316/4_4795/Castilian_%2013%20Jun%201858/4_479500090.jpg&No=1 for BENNETT Samuel, Emma on "Castilian" on 13 June in 1858 -------------------- srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS5316/4_4796/Hannah%20More_6%20May%201860/4_479600049.jpg&No=5 for YEOMANS John, Ann, John, Ann, Mary, William, Elizabeth, Arthur on "Hannah More" on 6 May in 1860 ------------------- www.jenwilletts.com/searchaction.php?page=1&ship=surry%201840&firstname= for Elizabeth Ann ALLSOP: 1. Age 18. Child's maid from Derbyshire. Tried 26 October 1839 and sentenced to 7 years transportation for stealing shoes. Two prior convictions. Fair ruddy and freckled complexion with red hair and grey eyes. 2. Born 1822. 4ft 10in. Slight build, fresh complexion, red hair, blue eyes. Admitted to Newcastle gaol 3. John Marsland age 35 arrived per 'Minerva', application to marry Elizabeth Allsopp age 19 arrived per 'Surry' 4. Marriage of John Marsland to Elizabeth Allsop ------------------- Girl "Castilian ALLEN" was born at sea and named after the ship. See emails for more about this.

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From: elks.tribalpages.com/family-tree/elks/7804/210/Elizabeth-Allsop-Family#moreinfo_ About Allsop, Elizabeth Ann, Convict "Elizabeth Alsop was born 14-7-1823 at Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England, and Baptised on 3-8-1823 in St. Mary's the Virgin C of E Wirksworth, where her father John was a miner, her mother was Elizabeth (nee Wragg). Elizabeth was sentenced at Derby Borough Quarter Sessions & sentenced to transportation for 7 years to Australia on 20th October 1839 for stealing a pair of shoes, as a convict, arriving Port Jackson, NSW, Australia on board the 'Surry' on 14 July 1840 - her 17th birthday as part of an assignment of 213 female convicts. According to the Master Roll, she was a child's nursemaid, could read but not write and was protestant. She was 4'9 and a half inches, fair, ruddy and freckled, with red hair and gray eyes, with a scar on the middle finger of her left hand and the mark of a boil on her lower left arm. By 1842 Elizabeth was employed as a bond servant for Rev. John Morse, in the Rectory at Scone. While here, she met John Marsland. On the 11-1-1842, John, aged 35 and Elizabeth aged 19 years, made application to marry. They were married in the Courthouse at Merton on 31-1-1842, by John Morse, Chaplain of Scone and surrounding districts. Their first child Mary Jane was born in 1842 at Woodlands, The old Merton homestead is still standing, John worked on stone for it. When she married John Marsland the couple saved up the money to pay for her mother, Elizabeth Allsop, to join them in Australia. About 70 years ago the late Mrs. Marsland, senr., settled on a small holding on the Upper Wybong. She had for a number of years previously lived on the Junction, or Thompson's Creek. Here she was the nurse and faithful friend of all the settlers near and far, and she officiated at the birth of every baby born within a radius of many miles from her home. On the Upper Wybong she continued her good work, not only in obstetric cases, but in the case of accident or sickness, she would be called upon for advice and treatment, and whether the call came in day or night, it was never in vain. She was, in a way, a predecessor of 'The Flying Doctor', but her flying was done on the back of a horse. And fly she would if occasion demanded it. A splendid and daring rider, she spared neither herself or horse when answering an urgent call. Wet or dry, day or night, her horse would be called on to do its very best. She knew all roads, bridle tracks and short cuts for a radius of 10 to 12 miles, and was as much at home in a saddle as in a rocking chair. This was, of course, in the side-saddle days. For a lady to ride astride in those days --- well, it simply was not done. But if a side-saddle was not available, a pillow or cushion strapped on the pommel of a man's saddle to serve as a horn was quite sufficient for this clever horsewoman. For several decades she attended at the birth of every baby born in the vicinity of the Upper Wybong and adjacent creeks, and never once lost a patient or, I think had occasion to call for a doctor. What makes her wonderful work more wonderful is the fact that she was not a trained nurse. She was a born nurse, or perhaps I should say, an "inspired' nurse, for in some cases surely there was Divine guidance. I know of one case where medical aid was urgently needed and unobtainable, and when lives hung in the balance, this noble woman, with a prayer on her lips, carried on, and by her skill and daring, and to use her own words, 'with God's help and guidance', saved two lives. One factor that made for her success as a nurse was the unbounded faith and confidence her patients placed in her. Her very presence, her calm demeanour, and her kindly old face all created confidence. Not only were her patients well looked after, but she would take charge of the whole household --- washing, cooking, getting the children off to school neat and tidy --- and she had, too, her own simple remedies for most ailments --- remedies that now would be dubbed as 'granny remedies'. But generally they got results, and after all, that is what counts. Few patent medicines were on the market in those days. The average settler had in stock a box of pills, a bottle of painkiller, a stick of liquorice for coughs and colds, a tin of mustard for plasters, and a bottle of brandy. All these, plus our old nurse's concoctions, were deemed sufficient to combat all the ills and ailments that flesh is heir to; and they certainly kept us strong, and very rarely would a doctor's services be required. Another characteristic of the subject of the sketch was her unbounded hospitality. There was never a man or woman, black or white, who passed her dwelling without being invited in to have a meal. She was also the most generous of women. Never in affluent circumstances, she, nevertheless, assisted at least a dozen of her relations to come out from England. She would save every pound, denying herself all the bare necessities of life, so that she could help pay their passages out. Arriving here, she would give them food and shelter until they found employment, or established themselves on the land. With the exception of a few years towards the end of her life, she had the loving care bestowed on her, that she had bestowed on so many. It was only her brave old heart that kept her alive after her toil-worn body had given up the fight." Submitted by Graham Wright Elizabeth Ann Allsop Elizabeth was born in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, on 14 July 1823 to John and Elizabeth (nee Wragg) and Baptised at St. Mary’s on 3 August 1823. In 1835 Elizabeth snr. is shown in Piggot’s Directory as being the Landlady of The Plough public house at 1 Osmaston Street, Derby (now Osmaston Road). On 26 October 1839 Elizabeth jnr. was sentenced at the Derby Borough Quarter Sessions to 7 years transportation to Australia for stealing a pair of shoes. She was transported on the sailing ship “Surrey ”, a three masted ship of 461 tons, built in Harwich in 1811 and measured 118 ft long x 29ft 11ins x 6ft 9ins. According to the Master Roll Elizabeth was part of a consignment of 213 female convicts. Her occupation was logged as a “child’s nursemaid”, she could read but not write and was a Protestant. She was 4ft 91/2 ins, a ruddy and freckled complection with red hair and grey eyes with a scar on her middle finger left hand and the mark of a boil on her lower left arm. The Surrey docked in Port Jackson, NSW, on 14 July 1840, her 17th Birthday. Elizabeth was employed as a bond servant to the Rector of Scone, the Rev. John Morse. On 31 January 1842 she married John Marsland of Lancashire in the Courthouse at Merton. The Rev. John Morse conducted the ceremony. John and Elizabeth managed to save up enough money to pay for her mother, Elizabeth Allsop, to join them. She set sail on the Castilion from Liverpool on 20 March 1858. John and Elizabeth had 11 children and lived all their lives around the Scone area. John died in 1877 and his wife on 3 June 1915 in Kars Spring, New South Wales. She was buried in St. Luke’s Church of England Cemetery, Scone, New South Wales on 4 June 1915. Obituary in the Scone Advocate 4 June 1915: Mrs Elizabeth Marsland A very old identity of the Upper Wybong, Mrs Elizabeth Marsland (Grandmother Marsland) passed away at the residence of her granddaughter, Mrs J B Leard of Meadulligalah, yesterday morning at the ripe age of 93. The deceased old lady was very widely connected in that portion of our district to the west, and can truly be said to have been associated with the pioneering days when there were trials and hardships of which the present generation know nothing. The deceased was the relict of the late John Marsland, who predeceased her 38 years, and was born at Wirksworth, England in 1823, her husband being a native of Lancashire, where he was born about 1805. The deceased came to New South Wales in 1840, and shortly afterwards to this district, where she had resided ever since, a period of upwards of 70 years. The old lady leaves behind her family of two sons and three daughters, three members of the family having predeceased her. The surviving members are: John, Upper Wybong; Thomas, Murrundi; Mrs J Collins, Parkville; Mrs Thos Skevs, Wybong; and Mrs W B Hayward, Upper Wybong. There are also over 80 grand children and one great, great grand child. The deceased’s husband selected on the Upper Wybong in the early 1870’s, shortly before his death. The remains were interred in the Church of England Cemetery here this afternoon, a number of relations and sympathisers from the Upper Wybong attending. The burial service was conducted by the rev F A Cadell" Elizabeth Allsop (nee Wragg): 5x great aunty Elizabeth Marsland (nee Allsop): 1st cousin 5x removed Graham Wright 2004

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In the early morning of 22 Sep 1882, the Garden Palace in Sydney was engulfed by fire. It was constructed primarily from timber which was to ensure its complete destruction. The census records for 1846, 1851, 1856, 1861, 1871 and 1881 were lost, including the detailed household forms from 1861, 1871 and 1881. Nearly all early records of the ALLSOP family in Australia were destroyed. Wirksworth Parish Register M 1791dec22 ALSOP John(Wirksworth)/ASHOVER Ann Witnesses: Richard ALLSOP,James ALLIN C 1792sep12 ALSOP Joseph=(son)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1792sep05 C 1793sep18 ALSOP John=(son)John/Ann(Wirksworth) C 1796sep14 ALSOP Henry=(son)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1795dec20 C 1798sep12 ALSOP Hannah=(dau)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1798jan12 C 1801sep18 ALSOPP Ann=(dau)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1800sep19 C 1802sep15 ALLSOPP Sarah=(dau)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1802aug07 C 1805sep20 ALSOP Richard=(son)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1805sep04 C 1807feb18 ALSOP Jane=(dau)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1807jan22 C 1810apr08 ALSOP Mary=(dau)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1810mar14 C 1812feb09 ALSOP Samuel=(son)John/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1812jan13 C 1817feb02 ALSOP Charles=(son)John/Ann(Wirksworth)[Miner],dob=1817jan01 M 1795sep16 WRAGG James(Wirksworth)/ROOSE Ann Witnesses: John TITTERTON,Robert MATHER C 1796may20 WRAGG Betty=(dau)James/Ann(Middleton),dob=1795oct04 C 1797sep13 WRAGG James=(son)James/Ann(Middleton),dob=1797apr10 C 1799sep18 WRAGG John=(son)James/Ann(Middleton),dob=1799aug15 C 1803sep16 WRAGG Dorothy=(dau)James/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1803apr21 C 1809sep15 WRAGG Mary Ann=(dau)James/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1808nov07 C 1810sep14 WRAGG Hannah=(dau)James/Ann(Wirksworth),dob=1810jul12 C 1818apr05 WRAGG Esther=(dau)James/Ann(Wirksworth)[Miner],dob=1813sep09 C 1819jun13 WRAGG Maria=(dau)James/Ann(Wirksworth)[Miner],dob=1819may21 M 1817aug20 WRAGG Elizabeth(Wirksworth)/ALLSOP John Witnesses: Samuel FLINT,James WRAGG ================================================ Those about to emigrate - their last Census in England -------------------- 1851 Census for: 30, Burton Road, St Werburghs, Derby YEOMANS, John Head Marr M 30 1821 Police Officer Derby YEOMANS, Ann Wife Marr F 30 1821 Worksworth, Derbyshire YEOMANS, John Son M 9 1842 At Home Derby YEOMANS, Ann Dau F 5 1846 At Home Derby YEOMANS, Mary Dau F 2 1849 At Home Derby YEOMANS, William Son M 0 1851 Derby ALSOP, Mary Sis-IL Unmar F 33 1818 Cotton Spiner Worksworth, Derbyshire VIEW ---------------------- 1851 Census for: Village, St Alkmund ELKS, Joseph Head Marr M 25 1826 Wood Turner Darley Abbey, Derbyshire ELKS, Jane Wife Marr F 25 1826 Cotton Spinner Wirksworth, Derbyshire ELKS, Charles Son Unmar M 1 1850 Darley Abbey, Derbyshire ---------------------- 1851 Census for: Village, St Alkmund ALLSOP, Elizabeth Head Widow F 55 1796 Paper Mill Wirksworth, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Hanh Dau Unmarr F 23 1828 Cotton Spinner Wirksworth, Derbyshire ALLSOP, John Son Unmarr M 21 1830 Paper Mill Wirksworth, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Emma Dau Unmarr F 18 1833 Cotton Spinner Derbyshire ---------------------- ================================================= Those who stayed in England - their Census 1851-91. ---------------------- 1851 Census for Cowhill ALLSOP, James Head Marr M 27 1824 Cordwainer Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Catherine Wife Marr F 25 1826 Littleover, Derbyshire ALLSOP, John Son M 5 1846 Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, William Son M 2 1849 Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Anne Dau F 6m 1851 Belper, Derbyshire ------------------------- 1861 Census for Hopping Hill, Belper ALLSOP, James Head Marr M 37 1824 Shoemaker Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Catherine Wife Marr F 35 1826 Shoe Binding Littleover, Derbyshire ALLSOP, John Son Unmar M 15 1846 Bleacher Milford, Derbyshire ALLSOP, William Son M 12 1849 Bleacher Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Ann Dau F 10 1851 Yarn Stocker Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Mary Dau F 8 1853 Scholar Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Thomas Son M 5 1856 Scholar Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Elizabeth Dau F 1 1860 Belper, Derbyshire ------------------ 1871 Census for: Hopping Hill, Belper ALSOP, James Head Marr M 47 1824 Cordwainer Belper, Derbyshire ALSOP, Catherine Wife Marr F 45 1826 Littleover, Derbyshire ALSOP, John Son Unmar M 25 1846 Labourer Belper, Derbyshire ALSOP, William Son Unmar M 22 1849 Do Belper Derbyshire ALSOP, Ann Dau Unmar F 20 1851 Cotton Spinner Belper Derbyshire ALSOP, Mary Dau Unmar F 18 1853 Do Belper, Derbyshire ALSOP, Elizabeth Dau F 11 1860 Scholar Belper, Derbyshire ALSOP, Joseph Son M 8 1863 Do Belper, Derbyshire ALSOP, George Son M 6 1865 Do Belper, Derbyshire ALSOP, Eliza Dau F 4 1867 Do Belper, Derbyshire ALSOP, Henry Son M 2 1869 Belper, Derbyshire --------------------- 1881 Census for: 1, Duffield Road, St Alkmund ALLSOP, James Head Marr M 57 1824 Shoemaker Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Catherine Wife Marr F 55 1826 Littleover, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Elizabeth Dau Sing F 21 1860 Cotton Factory Hand Spinner Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Mary Dau Sing F 29 1852 Cotton Factory Hand Spinner Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Joseph Son Sing M 18 1863 Laborer Paper Mill Milford, Derbyshire ALLSOP, George Son Sing M 16 1865 Cotton Mill Errand Boy Milford, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Eliza Dau Sing F 14 1867 Cotton Mill Spinner Milford, Derbyshire ALLSOP, Henry Son Sing M 17 1864 Cotton Mill Card Room Hand Milford, Derbyshire ------------------------ 1891 Census for: 1, Duffield Road, St Alkmund, Darley Abbey, Derby ALLSOPP, Katherine Head Widow F 65 1826 Littleover, Derbyshire ALLSOPP, Thomas Son Single M 35 1856 Miller Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOPP, Elizth Dau Single F 31 1860 Cotton Spinner Belper, Derbyshire ALLSOPP, Joseph Son Single M 29 1862 Gasfitter Milford, Derbyshire ALLSOPP, George Son Single M 27 1864 Groom Milford, Derbyshire ALLSOPP, Eliza Dau Single F 26 1865 Cotton Spinner Milford, Derbyshire ALLSOPP, Harry Son Single M 22 1869 Labourer Railway Milford, Derbyshire -----------------------

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----Anyone with more details for publication on this webpage, please email ---- ------------------------ From Nivard Ovington 21 Aug 2013 Hi John Yes quite normal, there are other Castilians but many are named after ships, places they were passing, nearest land etc It appears she kept the name all her life Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Castilian Allen Name: Castilian Allen Spouse Name: John W Grey Marriage Date: 1880 Marriage Place: New South Wales Registration Place: Armidale, New South Wales Registration Year: 1880 Registration number: 2462 Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 Name Gender Electoral Year State District Subdistrict Castilian Grey Female 1930 New South Wales Lang Lewisham Castilian Grey Female 1933 New South Wales Lang Lewisham Castilian Grey Female 1936 New South Wales Dalley Lewisham Castilian Grey Female 1937 New South Wales Dalley Lewisham Castilian Grey Female 1943 New South Wales Dalley Lewisham Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Castilian Grey Name: Castilian Grey Death Date: 1944 Death Place: New South Wales Father's Name: Robert Mother's Name: Diana Registration Year: 1944 Registration Place: Marrickville, New South Wales Registration number: 3404 Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 21/08/2013 00:08, John Palmer wrote: > Hello folk, > In 1858, a daughter was born at sea to a family emigrating to Australia. > They named her after the ship - "Castilian ALLEN" > Is this normal? Did she keep the name? Family is: > Robert ALLEN 1822, Diana 1826, Eliza 1846, Mary Anne 1848, > Clara 1850, Sarah Anne 1852, Charles 1856, Castilian 1858 > see srwww.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.asp?Page=NRS5316/4_4795/Castilian_%2013%20Jun%201858/4_479500090.jpg&No=1 > (top of page) > Regards, > John Palmer, Dorset, England ------------------------ From Leo Fitzgerald 18 Aug 2013 Hi John, Nice to hear from you, unfortunately I have been unable to obtain a photo of the "Hannah More". My great grandfather came to Australia on the vessel in 1860. The photo I have attached was sent to me by a chap in New Zealand, he was doing a model of the "Hannah More" for descendants of a person whom had arrived on the vessel in 1860. He like you and I, could find no photos, and was constructing the model from construction drawings of a vessel the same as the "Hannah More". Sorry not to be of more help. Regards Leo -------------------------- Naomer Walters wrote on 05aug2013: Hello John, please do not worry about being nosey. You have helped me so much in the past I am happy to be of some small help. I am sending you my BASIC NOTES I have a couple of photos of her grave (from Ancestry) but I will look around to see what I can send you. I personally (and sadly) do not have any photos but will see what I can find. I have to close now but will be in touch soon. I will try and clean up my notes. I am half way thru confirming them hence the query re Eliz Wragg's birth. I will then send you my notes on the family. Not much as I am to good at this but you are welcome to them all. I hope some of the information below is what you are asking about. A few of her daughters also came to New South Wales including her daughter Eliz Ann Allsop (1823-1915) who was convicted and sent to Aus marrying a convict John Marsland. New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Record for Elizabeth Allsopp Eliz was 19 yrs., could read, was a protestant, single. Native place - Derbyshire. Calling: Child's maid. Offence - stealing shoes Date 26 Oct 1839 Sentence 7 yrs. Was 4ft 9.5 inches. Fair ruddy and freckled complexion. Light hair, hazel eyes -------------------------- Hello John I am asking for a little information please if possible. I am searching for a birth/christening for Elizabeth Wragg who was born c1796 in Wirksworth. I have looked into your OPC and cannot find a notation and wondered if anything has come to light recently. Below is her immigration to Aus . I await your reply with hope. Naomer IMMIGRATION Elizabeth Allsop Birth Year: ABT 1796 Age: 62 Arrival Date: 16 Jun 1858 Vessel Name: Castilian Origin Location: Worksworth, Derbyshire, England and a scar under left eye. IDMS+A inside lower left arm Naomer BIRTH 4 Oct 1795 (Wirksworth OPC) CHRISTENING C 1796 May20 WRAGG Betty=(dau)James/Ann(Middleton),dob=1795 Oct04 MARRIAGE 1817 Aug 20 ALLSOP John(Wirksworth)/WRAGG Elizabeth Witnesses: Samuel FLINT,James WRAGG DEATH Elizabeth Allsopp Death Date: 1886 Death Place: New South Wales Reg Year: 1886 Reg Place: Scone, New South Wales Reg number: 10598 DECEASED DETAILS Buried at St.Lukes Church of England Cemetery,Scone. NSW Elizabeth is also buried with her daughter Mary Bell nee Allsop who died 23 Jan 1892 and Mary’s husband Robert Bell who died 4 Feb 1890 IMMIGRATION Elizabeth Allsop Birth Year: ABT 1796 Age: 62 Arrival Date: 16 Jun 1858 Vessel Name: Castilian Origin Location: Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England ***She travelled with her daughter Mary Allsop (1817-1892) IMMIGRATION New South Wales Australia, Assisted Immigration Passenger Lists. 1828-1896 Vessell Castillian Mary Allsop b ABT. 1818. Calling: Dressmaker. Age 40. Arrival Date: 13 June 1858 Vessell: CASTILLIAN Parents: John (Dead) Mother :as listed as travelling with her mother. ----------------------------------

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CASTILIAN Recapitulation Male Female Total Adults Married 62 62 124 Adults Single 108 95 203 Total 170 157 327 Children 7 to 12 13 21 34 Children 1 to 7 19 27 46 Under 1 year 3 7 10 Total 205 212 417 Equal to 367 Statute Adults Particulars Number of Deaths during voyage Males 14 Female 2 Numberof Births Males 2 Female 1 Date of Departure from Liverpool 20 March 1858 Arrival at Sydney 13 June 1858 Number of Days on Passage Eighty five Tonnage of vessel Old 1064 New 1064 Rate of Chartered Freight £13..18..6 Masters Name G.R.Harrington Surgeon's Name William Arthur Amount of Freight payable on those landed alive £5082..12..6 on those who died during voyage 34..16..3 Total amount of Freight payable £5117.. 8..9 Vessel where built St Johns New Brunswick 1856 Master: Captain Finlay (1857); Captain Harrington (1858) Rigging: Ship; sheathed in yellow metal in 1857; partly fastened with iron bolts Tonnage: 1,064 tons Construction: 1856 in New Brunswick, using Tamarack, Birch, Oak & Pitch Pine Owners: McMorrin (1857); Miller & Co. (1858) Port of registry: Saint John, NB (1857); London (1858) Port of survey: Saint John, NB (1857); Liverpool (1858) Voyage: sailed for Liverpool (1857); Australia (1858) On December 4th 1868, the British fully rigged ship CASTILIAN (Capt.Christall, William) from London was lost off P'Madog (Porthmadog) Bar, Wales. She was en route from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of wood. No lives were lost. Other sources list lost off Merioneth near Harlech Castle. The Captain made a navigational error and mistook Bardsay's light for another. The SV Castilian was a British transport, fully rigged, sailing ship, dimensions 58.2 x 11.3 x 6.4 m, made of wood, owned by Miller & Co, London. (The cargo was probably Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) popular for use as sailing ship masts). HANNAH MORE Recapitulation Males Females Total Adults married 36 36 72 Adults single 126 99 225 Total 162 135 297 Children 7 to 12 11 12 23 Children 1 to 7 23 18 41 Under 1 year 5 5 10 Total 201 170 371 Equal to 326½ Statute Adults Particulars Number of Deaths during the voyage Females 3 Number of Births during the voyage Males 1 Female 1 Date of Departure from Liverpool 12th February 1860 Date of Arrival at Sydney 6th May 1860 Number of days on the voyage Eighty four Tonnage of vessel Tons old 1130 Tons new Rate of Chartered Freight £16 9 9 Masters name Michael Murphy Surgeons name Henry Richards Amount of Freight payable on those landed alive £5383..3..4½ on those died on voyage 8..4..10½ Total amount of Freight payable £5391..8..3 Vessel where built St Johns On Monday, February 5th, 1866, the wooden fullrigged ship HANNAH MORE (1856) of 1,179 tons register was lost off Lundy Island, in the Bristol Channel. She was en route from the Chincha Islands (off Peru) to Liverpool with a cargo of guano. Nineteen lives were lost from a crew of 25, when an anchor dragged while sheltering in the lee of Lundy. She was owned by Black Ball Line and sold to Baines and Mackay of Liverpool. See a description of the sinking The cargo was seabird excrement used as fertilizer, see Guano SURREY - 1840 Master: Captain G. Sinclair Rigging: Ship; sheathed in copper in 1840. Tonnage: 461 tons Construction: 1811 in "Hrwch"; new wales and top sides in 1827; some repairs in 1838 Owners: J. Greig Port of registry: London Port of survey: London Voyage: sailed for Sydney Surrey sailed direct from the Downs on 2 April 1840 with 213 prisoners, all women. After a voyage of 102 days she reached Port Jackson on 13 July. Sinclair was still master, and accompanied on this voyage by surgeon Ed. Leah. One prisoner died on this voyage; the remainder landed safely in Sydney.

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Route and Era

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1=Liverpool | 2=Equator | 3=Greenwich | 4=Cape | 5=Hurricane | 6=Sydney | The Route The route sailed didn't change very much until the last decades of the 19th century: the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay, both with their notoriously rough weather had first to be negotiated whether the ship was sailing from an English or a Hanseatic (German) port. Once the tropics were reached the weather improved, providing more opportunity for the passengers to enjoy the open air, but if the ship was trapped in the doldrums, it would be many weeks of windless air and heat, and a monotonous heaving sea that had to be endured; tempers frayed and violence could ensue. Delays in the doldrums also placed a strain upon provisions, especially water. The ship might be forced to call at Rio de Janeiro, or Cape Town to restock. Whatever the fortunes of a quick passage, or slow, once through the tropics the ships always steered well to the west in the south Atlantic, towards the South American continent, in order to pick up the winds and get below South Africa and then find the Roaring Forties, which would take the ship speedily across the Indian Ocean to its Australian landfall. High seas were a feature of these latitudes and icebergs might be seen, or worse encountered, if the captain steered too far south. There are records of ships being damaged in the winds, but not of ships being lost. Worst for the passengers though was that usually the hatchways would be battened down in the high seas - this made conditions below decks uncomfortable in the extreme. The sailing ship era The very first immigrant ships took four to six months to make the long voyage to South Australia. The passengers were fortunate in that they did not need to face the dangers of the southern coastline or of Bass Strait, which are notorious for the number of shipwrecks along the shores; their first sight of their new country was Kangaroo Island, as it would be for so many later ships. Indeed the very first ships sent out by the South Australian Company had been directed to Nepean Bay on Kangaroo Island. The majority of ships bringing immigrants to South Australia would have no return cargo for the voyage back to Britain - at least not for many years. They would need to find it elsewhere in Australia, Sydney for example, and travel in ballast to do so. Many sailed to Mauritius to take on a cargo of sugar. For the shipowner the long voyage needed to be profitable both ways: the ship would be away from its home port for 12 months or more. The average size of the early ships was 450 tons - they could be considerably smaller, and sometimes larger. At this time they were wooden vessels, barque or ship rigged. There was some cabin accommodation for private emigrants who could afford the additional privacy and relative comfort, but the vast majority of emigrants travelled in steerage. The conditions are almost unimaginable today. The British Passenger Acts before 1847 gave these people little protection from unscrupulous captains and the ship owners. Subsequent legislation provided theoretical protection and a certain level of accommodation and food, but there was always the opportunity for the determined to take advantage of the passengers: they had no alternative place to go after all. In addition to the passengers, the ships carried their goods and although this was limited to 20 cubic feet of free luggage space which went into the ship's hold, they kept with them in their berths a month's necessities of clothing and their eating utensils. The crowded deck provided little room for movement with the boats, ropes and hatch covers essential for the ship's working; and then there was the livestock and their fodder. Living conditions for steerage passengers were dark and congested: berths were made of timber, two-tiered with a narrow space beneath for storing boxes. There was no privacy other than a partition separating the single men from the families and at the opposite end the single women. A long wooden bench with fixed seating ran down the centre - here all meals were served, and any tasks carried out. Ventilation was difficult in these early ships, as the hatches could only be opened in good weather. In anything other than good weather the hatches were kept sealed to prevent water getting below decks. Lighting was also a problem: oil lamps were used only between certain hours and were very carefully tended: they were in a wooden ship and the risk of fire were high. Coupled with the cramped, ill-lit and poorly ventilated accommodation for the steerage passengers were the lack of fresh drinking water, of food and its preparation, and availability toilet and washing facilities. All of these left much to be desired by today's standards. In the days before refrigeration and quality canned foods, the basics of shipboard diet were salt meats (beef and pork), bread, pease (lentils and other legumes) and oatmeal. There was little in the way of fresh food. All food was cooked at a common galley: getting the food safely down to the passenger quarters was a task in itself, particularly if the weather was rough. Fresh water was for drinking only; for personal hygiene and washing a bucket of seawater was drawn up from the ocean. For the women and children in steerage an enclosed water closet was provided for toileting - generally flushed by a bucket of sea water or from a manually operated tank of seawater. Conditions during the early days of the voyage, coping with sea sickness, must have been difficult. The men used the ship's heads (generally the bow of the ship and on the lee (or sheltered) side of the ship: exposed and unsafe in rough weather). Shipboard health was another issue for the passengers to cope with: generally there was a surgeon aboard, but the care he was able to provide was often very limited, particularly if there was a shipboard epidemic: there were few remedies for the common diseases of the 19th century, and very little opportunity to place a patient in isolation. Measles aboard ship was deadly and the cause of many deaths among the children; cholera, typhoid and dysentery could be brought aboard through tainted water and the disease proliferated in the crowded conditions. Childbirth was yet another problem, and one that posed the greatest risk for both mother and child; there was no midwife employed aboard ship, and the surgeon would be consulted only as a last resort. Other women would assist as they could in the delivery, for which the only privacy would be a blanket screen. The odds of the child surviving the voyage were 50-50; infantile deaths were accepted very much as the norm. From: www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=701

Sinking of the Hannah More

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"Hannah More" (1856) was wooden fullrigged ship. She was owned by Black Ball Line and sold to Baines and Mackay. She was shipwrecked off Lundy Island in 1866. [From the Plymouth (Eng.) News.] ANOTHER SHIPWRECK-TERRIBLE SCENES. The six survivors from the wreck of the Liverpool ship Hannah More have been shut up on Lundy Island ever since the sad disaster which so nearly cost them their lives, for communication with that rocky excresence of the British channel in such weather as has prevailed of late is difficult and rare. For the past three weeks there has been no traffic between the island and the mainland; and it was not until Saturday night that the shipwrecked men were brought across to Clovelly in a skiff, and thence next day to Bideford, where our correspondent obtained from their lips the first authentic account of their terrible sufferings and rescue. The Hannah More was a fine clipper-built ship, of 1,179 tons register, belonging to Messrs. Baines of Liverpool, and at the time of her loss A1 at Lloyd's. Her crew consisted of twenty-five hands, all told, one of whom, a man named Daniel Mills, was working his passage home. She was laden with guano, and had made a good and quick passage from the Chincha Islands until Monday, February 5th, when, at the entrance of the Bristol Channel, she encountered stormy weather, and her Captain ran her under the lee of Lundy Island and anchored in the roads. The boisterous winds continued, and on Wednesday night began that terrible gale which strewed the western coast, of England with so many wrecks. Early on Thursday morning, the wind chopping round to every quarter, and with hurricane force, the Hannah More was exposed to its fury. It was at first thought advisable to slip anchors and run to sea, but as, on the first attempt to set sail, the canvas was blown to minute fragments, this was seen to be impossible, and dismay was caused by finding that the ship was dragging her anchors and drifting toward the granite sides of Lundy. The cable of one anchor now parted and the ship swung round, exposing her broadside to the fury of the heavy cross sea. Almost instantly her decks were swept clean of every article not firmly fixed, and even a portion of her bulwarks was torn away, her boats and topmast also going by the board. While thus holding on with one anchor, in fearful suspense, came the first gleam of morning, and the inhabitants of the Island, who had been dreading the effect of so furious a storm upon the ship which was in their roads when the sun went down, crowded to the cliffs, but speedily saw that the fate of the Hannah More was sealed. The crew were seen to be tenaciously, as for very life, clinging to the rigging, and in spite of the fearful sea beating upon the cliffs, the sight of the helpless and all but exhausted sailors, awaiting seemingly inevitable death, so moved the spectators that it was resolved, partly on the persuasion of a young surgeon who happened to be on a visit to the island, to attempt a rescue. An ordinary punt, a mere cockle shell, was carried to the beach, and two brave men Samuel Jarman and Thomas Saunders - got into her, and she was set afloat. The sturdy venturers bent to their oars with determined strokes, amid the prayers alike of those on shore and those huddled on shipboard. But the raging sea was too much for them and presently, in spite of their utmost efforts, the little craft was beaten back, through the long line of foam, upon the shore. Again was an attempt made to reach the ship, but the boat was again forced back into the boiling froth. The effort was then seen to be hopeless, and the poor men on board the Hannah More were given up for lost. And then occurred an Incident which made the blood of the spectators boil with indignation, and did as much discredit to humanity as the gallant efforts of Jarman and Saunders had done it credit. A screw steamer, with a broad band of white round her funnel, round stern, red bottom and dark brown sides, hove in sight and came near the shore. A ray of hope burst upon the desponding, half dead men who were awaiting their deaths. A signal of distress was waved from the shore, and was answered by the gesticulations of a crew of men hanging over the steamer's bulwarks. She slackened speed, hove to, remained while under the lee of the island, but made no effort to rescue the perishing. Presently steam was again put on, the bow was turned up channel, and amid a groan of despair from the twenty-five shivering men in the rigging, and a yell of Indignation, mingled with not a few imprecations, from the crowd on the cliffs, the steamer proceeded on her course. Despair, with good reason, took possession of every heart. Within a few minutes of this cruel desertion a giant wave lifted the hull of the Hannah Moore on its foaming crest, and dashed it with tremendous force against a detached pyramid of granite known as Rat Island. A loud crash was heard above the roar of the waves, the sides of the noble ship were seen to vibrate and collapse, and in twenty minutes little remained of her but a thousand fragments, fast drifting to the westward. Another effort was then made to save the crew. The same brave men who had gone out previously again manned their tiny punt, and by a stupendous effort were successful in bringing off five men, who were landed on the beach and pulled up the cliffs by ropes. Before the little boat could be again got afloat the ship had broken up, and the remainder of the hapless crew were to be seen clinging to the floating spars, and being carried by the tremendous eddy running round Rat Island away to westward, where some of them were watched for hours drifting to and fro in the currents. One poor fellow was seen hanging to a spar, which was caught by a huge breaker and dashed against the granite pyramid; he rose no more. A stalwart and brave man, Nulliscott by name, was observed to make a desperate effort to swim ashore. He reached land, but could obtain no footing on the perpendicular rocks. Turning his back on the treacherous rock he swam to the wreck, seized a spar, and a second time made for shore, but was beaten back by the remorseless breakers. When on the verge of exhaustion the drowning man managed to get close under a lofty and precipitous rock, when an Islander named Isgar threw him a rope, which was clutched with the grasp of death, fastened round the man's waist, and he, amid lusty cheers, was pulled up the rocks. One of his feet was terribly lacerated in the struggle; thus six out of the crew of the ill-fated ship were saved.

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----------------------------------- See discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C3203 for Ship's Log [Not yet located - author] ----------------------------------- See trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/printArticlePdf/13016665/3?print=n for report of arrival of "Castilian" From Sydney Morning Herald Mon 14 Jun 1858 page 4 SHIPPING ARRIVALS June 13. - Castilian, ship, 1064 tons, Captain Harrington, from Liverpool 24 March. Passengers - 415 immigrants; Dr W Arthur, surgeon superintendent, Willis, Merry, and Co, agents ----------------------------------- See trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/printArticlePdf/13016716/3?print=n for account of the voyage From Sydney Morning Herald Mon 14 Jun 1858 page 4 The Castilian has made the run from Liverpool (1) in 82 days, bringing 418 immigrants, classified as follows, viz., 124 married couples, 110 single men, 94 single women, and 104 children. There have been 13 deaths (4 adults and 11 children), and 2 births, but at present her immigrants are all healthy, and the vessel very clean; and Dr Arthur, the surgeon-superintendent, states that they have been remarkably well-behaved during the voyage. The Castillian crossed the equator (2) on 17 April; passed the meridian of Greenwich (3) on 10th and the Cape of Good Hope (4) on the 14th May. Captain Harrington also reports having fallen in with a hurricane on 29th May, which blew with fearful force for 12 hours. He was then in latitude 45 degrees South 100 East (5). The wind came in at South West, and veered to West North West. The barometer down to 28 degrees [948 mbars]. She lost all her sails and lighter spars, and he was compelled to send the ship before the fury of the squalls, to save the masts. The straining of the ship caused the waterway to open up, and much water got below, as the sea, which rose in pyramids, continually fell on board. Since that time, a succession of northerly gales have materially retarded the ship's passage, and which were encountered until the southward of Van Diemen's Land. No vessels have been spoken. [The Castilian reached Sydney (6) on 13 June 1858] Waterway: "A series of pieces of timber, extending round a ship at the junction of the decks with the sides, having a groove connected with the scuppers to carry off water." Also: "Heavy plank or timber extending fore and aft the whole length of a vessel's deck at the line of junction with the sides, forming a channel to the scuppers, which are cut through it. In iron vessels the waterway is variously constructed." ----------------------------------- See trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/printArticlePdf/13012779/3?print=n about the passengers and the Sydney labour market From Sydney Morning Herald Sat 19 Jun 1858 page 7 SYDNEY LABOUR MARKET Friday 18 June ------- The immigrants per Castillian, have been on hire this week. The married couples have found engagements at about the late quotations. The single men have gone off at about £:30 to £35 per annum.Our general demand for labour keeps up with the supply at former rates. The wet weather has retarded business, but nevertheless a large number of men have been forwarded for shepherding and other work to Port Curtis, Moreton Bay, Maitland, Goulburn, Bathurst, &c. Female servants can be engaged for country with good characters on rather lower terms. SPENCER ASHLIN, 139, Pitt-Street North ------- This market has improved by the arrival of the Castilian with upwards of 400 British immigrants, about half of whom are under the prepaid regulations, and of the remainder only one-third are men for hire. Many engagements have been made this week, at a shade under the current rates, but there is no material change in wages, as the demand for most descriptions of labour continues brisk, and the supply of the best kind not too abundant. W B HAIGH, corner King and Castlereagh streets -------- Since my last report the Castilian immigrant ship has arrived. The passengers were hired on board yesterday. Single men are engaged at £25 to £34 per annum, married couples at £10. The demand for single men as agricultural labourers is in excess of the supply. There are a number of suitable farm servants who, in many instances, are ineligible on account of their young families. Shepherds, rough carpenters, gardeners, milkmen, have been hired this week at current rates. J C GLUE, Pitt-street. ----------------------------------- See trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/printArticlePdf/7297542/3?print=n for report of an inquest into a death on board DEATH FROM ALLEGED NEGLECT ON BOARD A GOVERNMENT EMIGRANT SHIP An Inquest, on view of the body of Daniel Sullivan, an immigrant by the Government emigrant ship Castilian, lately arrived, was held on Friday and Saturday last, at the coroner's offices. Deceased had been under treatment at the Infirmary from the time of his arrival till the period of his deathh, and now a demand had come to be made by a female relative for an Inquest, in the following terms:"No 64, Fitzroy-street, 1 July 1858. Mr Parker, coroner of Sydney. Sir,- I have been in communication with His Excellency Sir William Danieson, relative to the death of Daniel Sullivan, who died in the Infirmary, owing to the ill treatment he received on board the Castilian. I demand an Inquest so as to bring the villany to light. He now lies in the Infirmary. Your obediant servant, CATHERINE CHANEY." George Henry Harrington, master of the ship Castilian, deposed that he sailed from Liverpool to Sydney with 417 emigrants in all, leaving Liverpool on the 20th March, and reaching Sydney on the 13th June. Nothing more than ordinary sickness occurred on board; 4 adults and 12 infants died, and among the four was the brother of deceased, aged about 23 years, who died about the 1st of June, and was cast into the sea 24 hours after death, under ceremony of the funeral rites of the Catholic Church; no reports whatever were made, in complaint of the management of the ship, and the surgeon-superintendent was unremitting in his in his attention to the sick. Deceased appeared in perfect health on his arrival in port, and was examined by the immigration agent and the harbour-officer of health. Two or three days afterwards he was remarked upon as having a desponding look. He subsequently went on shore with his friends. The passage was effected under most favourable circumstances as regarded the comfort and harmony of the passengers. Catherine Chaney, being sworn, deposed: She was cousin of deceased, who was aged 23 years, and came out by the Castilian, from County Limerick. She had been 13 years in the Colony, and had sent for deceased and his brother Henry, who died on the passage out; all she had heard was from Immigrants by the Castilian; she saw deceased in the Infirmary a week after he landed, and on the second visit he told her he was not the same person since his brother died - that he suffered as his brother had, and would never be able to leave the Infirmary. [Witness gave a good deal of rambling evidence as to what she had heard of strange and incredible things in connection with the management of the ship, but her statements were mostly self-refuting. She stated that her petition to the Governor-General, and her note to the Coroner, were only written at her dictation.] William Arthur, surgeon-superintendent on board the Castilian, deposed: We sailed from Liverpool with 486 emigrants, and were 83 days on the passage out, making a pleasant passage. There was sickness on board, such as common fever, croup, hooping-cough, and disease of the chest. We lost 14, principally infants, in cold latitudes, and one man died from fever. His name was Henry Sullivan. I cannot say what was the cause of this fever. Sullivan was four or five days in hospital before he died (on the 1st June). His brother Daniel (the subject of the Inquest) attended on him. No other person had this form of fever on board. I looked upon it as infectious, but took every precaution. Daniel Sullivan made no complaint, either when at sea or after reaching the harbour, [or] the afternoon of the day on which he left, when, upon examination, he proved to be suffering under mental depression; his friends came on board, and insisted on taking him on shore, and he went. I have no doubt that he expired from an attack similar to what his brother died from, but in a milder form - brought on by mental excitement ..... A young female died on board a short time before Henry Sullivan, from mania, but she came on board in an imbecile state. Deceased was a stout and robust man, about 24 years of age, and had had perfect health up to the time of this ailing. The matron of the Castlian testified to the abundance and satisfactory quality of the provisions on board, and the sufficiency of all the arrangements for comfort and health. Several witnesses were examined, and from none of them was anything elicited in support of the charge of mismanagement or neglect. William Houston, surgeon, deposed that he was called in to see the deceased on the 18th June, when he lay at Barlow's public-house, Surrey Hills; he found him in a highly feverish state - his mind wandering; and he was informed he had just landed, that his brother had died on the passage from fever, and that since that occurrence he had been much depressed; he recommended his removal to the infirmary. John McFarlane, M.D., visiting physician to the Infirmary, deposed that he saw the deceased on the 19th June, and found him suffering under low fever, very weak, and scarecly conscious; that deceased continued sinking, and died on the 30th ult. The jury returned the following verdict:- "We find no evidence whatever against the officers of the ship Castilian, and we are of opinion, under the circumstances, that Mrs Chaney prayed for an investigation when there were no grounds, and that deceased died from natural causes." -Sydney Morning Herald. -----------------------------------

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See: mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1858/06/035cas.htm CASTILIAN OF LONDON, HARRINGTON, MASTER, BURTHEN 1063 TONS FROM THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL TO SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, 13TH JUNE 1858 Of what Surname Given name Station Age Nation Status Comments HARRINGTON G H CAPTAIN CREW ROBINSON JAMES MATE 24 BRITISH CREW BENNETT THOMAS 2ND MATE 27 BRITISH CREW DENVER JAMES CARPENTER 37 BRITISH CREW WHITE JOHN CARPENTERS MATE 19 BRITISH CREW COOKE JAMES BOATSWAIN 32 BRITISH CREW CARSWELL JOHN SAILMAKER 28 BRITISH CREW HERBERT WILLIAM 3RD MATE 33 BRITISH CREW WHIDBEY JOSEPH EVAN COOK 28 BRITISH CREW MYLNE ROBERT SEAMAN 22 BRITISH CREW BELL THOMAS SEAMAN 28 BRITISH CREW GRANT WILLIAM SEAMAN 22 BRITISH CREW CASSON ALFRED SEAMAN 23 BRITISH CREW GARDNER JAMES SEAMAN 20 FOREIGN CREW THOMAS GEORGE SEAMAN 20 BRITISH CREW KING WILLIAM SEAMAN 20 BRITISH CREW WILLIAMS ROBERT SEAMAN 25 BRITISH CREW GREEN JOSEPH SEAMAN 22 BRITISH CREW HAVINGTON JOHN SEAMAN 24 BRITISH CREW DE SMIDT JOSEPH SEAMAN 24 FOREIGN CREW MCFADYN JOHN SEAMAN 24 BRITISH CREW BROWNRIGG WILLIAM SEAMAN 26 BRITISH CREW GREEN AUGUSTUS SEAMAN 22 FOREIGN CREW BARHAM WILLIAM SEAMAN 20 BRITISH CREW ROSS THOMAS SEAMAN 48 BRITISH CREW BOWRICK LAZARUS SEAMAN 34 BRITISH CREW MITCHELL JAMES SEAMAN 23 FOREIGN CREW LYON THOMAS SEAMAN 22 BRITISH CREW JAMES JAMES SEAMAN 22 BRITISH CREW THOMAS JOHN SEAMAN 22 BRITISH CREW DAVIES ROBERT SEAMAN 23 BRITISH CREW HAVINGTON JAMES SEAMAN 31 BRITISH CREW HARRIS PONSONBY SEAMAN 37 BRITISH CREW HENRY THOMAS SEAMAN 28 BRITISH CREW BROWN JOHN SEAMAN 32 BRITISH CREW DOUGALD JOHN W ORDY 22 BRITISH CREW DAWSON GEORGE ORDY 18 BRITISH CREW MUIR WILLIAM ORDY 18 BRITISH CREW RILEY WILLIAM ORDY 19 BRITISH CREW MURPHY PATRICK ORDY 18 BRITISH CREW CLARK WILLIAM ORDY 21 BRITISH CREW DOVETON FRANKLY BOY 17 BRITISH CREW CASSIDY JAMES BOY 18 BRITISH CREW NIELSON TIZEN PASS COOK 27 FOREIGN CREW GREGORY CHARLES PASS COOK 38 CREW BENHAM WILLIAM BAKER 30 CREW HORN WILLIAM STEWARD 39 CREW 62 FEMALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: 110 FEMALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: 37 FEMALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: 3 FEMALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: --- 212 FEMALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: 62 MALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: 93 MALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: 46 MALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: 2 MALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: --- 203 MALES PASSENGERS GOV IMMIGRANTS: ================================================================== See mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/1860/05/024han.htm HANNAH MOORE OF LIVERPOOL, M. MURPHY, MASTER, BURTHEN 1130 TONS FROM THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL TO SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES, 14TH MAY 1860 Surname Given name Station Age Of what Nation Status Comments MURPHY M MASTER CREW WALLS JACKSON MATE 38 GREAT BRITAIN CREW BLACK ANDREW 2ND MATE 33 GREAT BRITAIN CREW CRAIG GEO CARPENTER 24 GREAT BRITAIN CREW CAMPBELL STUART STEWARD 23 GREAT BRITAIN CREW ROBINSON RICHARD COOK 39 GREAT BRITAIN CREW MADGE PHILIP BOS. & SEAMAN 40 TORQUAY CREW HUBBY ALFRED A.B. 24 HALIFAX CREW CURRERS JAMES A.B. 21 GREAT BRITAIN CREW WILSON MICHAEL A.B. 24 GREAT BRITAIN CREW VOLLER Hy A.B. 21 GREAT BRITAIN CREW BOANES JOHN A.B. 24 GREAT BRITAIN CREW LYON WILLIAM A.B. 48 GREAT BRITAIN CREW ANDERSON ANDREW A.B. 23 GREAT BRITAIN CREW MILLER JOHN A.B. 48 GREAT BRITAIN CREW THOMPSON EDWARD A.B. 25 GREAT BRITAIN CREW COBERG AUGUST A.B. 28 PRUSSIA CREW MURDEN RODRICK A.B. 21 KINGSTON CREW McNEILL JOHN A.B. 28 AMERICA CREW ADAMS RICHARD A.B. 23 GREAT BRITAIN CREW GREAVES ALEXr A.B. 23 GREAT BRITAIN CREW HAMILTON JOHN A.B. 23 GREAT BRITAIN CREW IRVIN JOHN A.B. 29 GREAT BRITAIN CREW MACKAY PETER A.B. 24 GREAT BRITAIN CREW BRADLEY FELIS A.B. 22 GREAT BRITAIN CREW JONES WILLIAM A.B. 22 GREAT BRITAIN CREW KING JNO WALLACE ORDY S 20 GREAT BRITAIN CREW GARDINER THOMAS ORDY S 17 GREAT BRITAIN CREW BROWN ALLEN ORDY S 18 GREAT BRITAIN CREW POWER PATRICK ORDY S 18 GREAT BRITAIN CREW BREWER ALEXr ORDY S 15 GREAT BRITAIN CREW RODGERS DANIEL ORDY S 16 GREAT BRITAIN CREW STEPP CHRISTIAN ORDY S 21 GREAT BRITAIN CREW MACGINIS CORNELIUS ORDY S 21 OHIO CREW LUCAN JOHN ORDY S 19 GREAT BRITAIN CREW COSGROVE WILLIAM ORDY S 18 GREAT BRITAIN CREW MIRRELL PETER D ENGINEER 20 GREAT BRITAIN CREW FERGUSON JOHN 3RD MATE 23 GREAT BRITAIN CREW BARRINGTON CHAS ? MATE 37 GREAT BRITAIN CREW READ RICHARD SAILMAKER 43 GREAT BRITAIN CREW ALCOCK RICHARD BAKER 30 GREAT BRITAIN CREW LEIGH RICHARD PASSENGER COOK 28 GREAT BRITAIN CREW AUSTEN THOMAS PASSENGER COOK 22 GREAT BRITAIN CREW 160 MALE PASSENGERS 134 FEMALE PASSENGERS 41 MALE CHILDREN 38 FEMALE CHILDREN

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