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Item: 103429

Surname: -

First Name: -

Ship: Portland 1838

Date: 1838 20 December

Place: Sydney

Source: SG

Details: Arrived from Scotland previous Tuesday with emigrants. Placed in a dangerous situation on the Monday night, the strong easterly wind having set her close in upon the land near Botany Bay , to which place she was obliged to run in and lay at anchor until the following morning when the wind shifted round to the South and enabled her make sail for Port Jackson

 

Item: 171326

Surname: -

First Name: -

Ship: Portland 1838

Date: 19 December 1838

Place: Sydney

Source: SH

Details: From Greenock, having sailed 24 August, the Portland, Captain Coubro with 253 emigrants. Passengers Messrs. Murray and Revitt

 

Item: 171327

Surname: -

First Name: -

Ship: Portland 1838

Date: 19 December 1838

Place: Sydney

Source: SH

Details: The Portland made an extraordinary quick return to the Colony, having been absent not more than nine months during which she discharged a cargo at Liverpool and afterwards went on to Scotland for another. Only one female and three children died on the passage

 

Item: 171328

Surname: -

First Name: -

Ship: Portland 1838

Date: 19 December 1838

Place: Sydney

Source: The Colonist

Details: Arrival of the Portland, Coubro. Departed Greenock 24 August. Surgeon Superintendent J. McFarlane Esq.,

 

Item: 149165

Surname: Findlay

First Name: Thomas

Ship: Portland 1838

Date: 1838 22 December

Place: -

Source: State Records of NSW. Online microfilm of shipping lists.

Details: Aged 23. Farm servant from Co. Down. R/C. Passenger on the 'Portland'

 

Item: 103428

Surname: Findlay

First Name: Thomas Borland

Ship: Portland 1838

Date: -

Place: -

Source: Maitland Family History Circle's Pre 1900 Pioneer Register

Details: Born 1815 Scotland. Spouse Mary Cameron. For more information see Pioneer Register Entry No. 445

 

Item: 133879

Surname: Moore

First Name: James

Ship: Portland 1838

Date: -

Place: John Street, Singleton & Greenwood

Source: Singleton Pioneer Register p. 62

Details: Born 1820 in Ballymoney, Ireland. Spouse Catherine Boyd. 'James Moore established one of the most important provincial concerns in the state in 1844. The stre, James Moore & Co., was in John St. between the bridges. See Pioneer Register for more details

 

Item: 178128

Surname: Watson

First Name: Walter

Ship: Portland 1838 (came free)

Date: 25 October 1839

Place: Newcastle gaol

Source: Newcastle Gaol Entrance Book. State Archives NSW. Roll 136

Details: Butcher from Stirlingshire. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Sentenced to be confinement 2 months for disobedience of orders

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