Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
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The Strathfieldsaye arrived on Thursday 25 July 1839 from London and Plymouth bringing 295 bounty emigrants and a great number of highly respectable cabin passengers, all of whom have arrived in a healthy state. The emigrants chiefly consist of labouring men and house servants, male and female. This vessel made a very fair passage, being about three months on the voyage and is the first of Mr. Marshalls ships for the year. Great credit due to the captain and surgeon for the cleanliness and good order of everything on board. Only Two infants died and three were born during the voyage. This vessel brought out some pure blood hounds which will be a great acquisition to the colony
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
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The Strathfieldsaye, from Plymouth 8th April with 205 emigrants under the superintendence of surgeon C.W. Adams Esq., Cabin passengers - Rev. Bolton, Mrs. Bolton and six children, Miss Ball, Mr and Mrs. Rhind, Mr and Mrs Henslowe and one child. Captain Watson, Mrs. Watson and six children, Miss Blackie, Miss M. Martyn, Mr and Mrs Badham, Captain McLaughlan, Rev. Charles Spencer, Messrs Creighton, W. Stewart, R.C. Walker, G.A and W. Gally and A. Adams. Intermediate Mr and Mrs. Darhug and three chidlren. T. Perry, D. Lawson, L. Penn and J. McLaughlan.
First Name:
Alfred Augustus
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
The Aldine centennial history of New South Wales illustrated / W. Frederic Morrison Morrison, W. Frederic Sydney. The Aldine Publishing Company, 1888
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ALFRED AUGUSTUS ADAMS is a native of Kent, England, and was born in 1814. He became a farmer, and in 1839 left for Australia as a shipmate of Sir Henry Parkes. Arrived in New South Wales, he was employed on the Lower Hunter, and in 1841 crossed the Liverpool Range and became manager at Barraba Station, where he remained for some years. He was married at Raymond Terrace in 1843, and in 1853 removed to Gineroy Station, Big River, Gwydir district, where he resides at the present time. He has two sons and two daughters ; the youngest son (Ernest) being owner of Welbon Station, near Moree. Mr. Adams, senr., first came to Welbon district in 1843, and is one of the oldest residents
First Name:
Rev. Robert Thorley
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
The Christian Remembrancer
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The Rev. Robert Thorley Bolton M.A. of Clare Hall, and the Rev. Charles Spencer M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, have embarked for Sydney in the 'Strathfieldsaye'. These clergymen have been appointed, on the recommendation of the Society, with the sanction of the Bishop of London, to chaplaincies on the ecclesiastical establishment of NSW. Three more clergymen will shortly proceed to the same colony.
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
Maitland Family History Circle's Pre 1900 Pioneer Register
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Born 1819 England. Spouse Sarah Read. For more information see Pioneer Register Entry No. 317
First Name:
Joseph and Sarah
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
State Records of NSW. Online microfilm of shipping lists.
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Joseph Crump, blacksmith from Dudley and Sarah Crump age 21 screen maker from Birmingham passengers on the Strathfieldsaye
First Name:
Roger and Mary
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships; Series: 5314; Reel: 1307
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Roger Kennedy, farm labourer and wife Mary, immigrants on the Strathfieldsaye in 1839
First Name:
Sergeant Roger
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
Maitland Daily Mercury
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Roger Kennedy, ex-Sergeant of police, died at his residence Hannahton, near Singleton, at a late hour last night at the great age of 88 years from senile decay after three weeks illness, his wife having preceded him a few years ago. Deceased arrived here in the same ship with the late Sir Henry Parkes, nearly 60 years ago, and shortly after joined the police. For a number of years he was stationed at Maitland and Morpeth, and when the late Chief Constable Horne retired about thirty years ago Sergeant Kennedy for a short time had charge of this district. He was a man of splendid physique, and his fine commanding figure always ensured him respect amongst the rough elements that he had to contend with during those turbulent times. In his public as well as private life Sergeant Kennedy was highly respected.
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
Extract from Life of Sir Henry Parkes Author: Charles E. Lyne. Project Gutenberg
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The Government immigrants, on arrival, were provided with quarters in the Immigration Barracks, which were situated on the site of the present Government Printing Office, and there they were allowed to remain for a fortnight during which they were available for hire. The bounty immigrants were not so fortunate. No quarters were provided for them at the Immigration Barracks, and their only provision against discomfort, or, it might be, want, was the chance of immediate employment or the possession of a little money. Thus it was that on July 27th, 1839, the day after the barque Strathfieldsaye entered Port Jackson with 203 immigrants on board, including Henry Parkes and his wife, and one child born off Cape Howe, this paragraph appeared in the Sydney Herald:- IMMIGRATION. The following is an abstract of the immigrants by the ship Strathfieldsaye, which arrived on Thursday, and is now lying off Walker s Wharf: 29 married and 54 single farm labourers and shepherds; one married and 4 single carpenters; one single printer; 3 single gardeners; and one lawyer, one shoemaker, ONE TURNER, one painter, one whitesmith, one saddler, and one mason—all married; 21 dairymaids and female farm servants; 9 house servants and 2 needlewomen—single women. These people having arrived by a bounty ship are not allowed by the Governor to enter the building erected for the use of immigrants, and therefore we earnestly recommend those persons who are in want of servants to engage them as early as possible in order to prevent them from falling into that distress which is inevitable if they remain long disengaged.
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
The Newcastle Sun 9 July 1946
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Custom House, later the Miners Arms - The building was used as a Customs House under the control of Major Charles Bolton who owned the premises. Major Bolton had under him a clerk by the name of Henry Parkes, who later became Premier of New South Wales.
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
Life of Sir Henry Parkes, G.C.M.G.: Australian Statesman By Charles E. Lyne
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Extract from Life of Sir Henry Parkes by Charles E. Lyne - Sir Henry Parkes landed in Sydney in the capacity of an ordinary British workman, healthy and strong in mind and body, but poor in pocket. He sometimes told a public assembly of how useful to him was the finding of a sixpence in one of the streets of Sydney soon after he set foot for the first time on Australian soil. Previous to his coming to New South Wales he followed the occupation of a Birmingham mechanic, a worker in ivory The young immigrant - he was but 24 years of age-suffered many hardships during the first few years after his arrival in Sydney. It was not easy for him to obtain permanent and suitable employment, and he followed two or three occupations before he was, in colonial parlance, able to settle down. After wandering about Sydney for several days he engaged himself as a labourer on the estate of the late Sir John Jamison, at Regentville, near Penrith, where he obtained the experience he was sometimes heard to say he possessed of washing sheep. Then he obtained employment in an ironmongery store, and afterwards in an iron foundry; and for a short period he was a tidewaiter in the Department of the Customs. The last-named position he relinquished in consequence of the results of his drawing prominent attention to what he regarded as malpractices or improprieties in some of the proceedings connected with the work of the Department. Subsequently he betook himself to the trade he had acquired in England. Having apprenticed himself in Birmingham to an ivory and bone turner
Surname:
Read (Crump) (Farrell) (Farrah)
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
Maitland Family History Circle's Pre 1900 Pioneer Register
Details:
Born 1818 England. Spouse 1. Joseph Crump. Spouse 2 Millington Farrah. For more information see Pioneer Register Entry No. 317
Ship:
Strathfieldsaye 1839
Source:
The Christian Remembrancer (Google Books)
Details:
The Rev. Robert Thorley Bolton M.A. of Clare Hall, and the Rev. Charles Spencer M.A. of Christ's College, Cambridge, have embarked for Sydney in the 'Strathfieldsaye'. These clergymen have been appointed, on the recommendation of the Society, with the sanction of the Bishop of London, to chaplaincies on the ecclesiastical establishment of NSW. Three more clergymen will shortly proceed to the same colony.
