OSTRICH

 

 

Immigration Office Port Adelaide, July 24, 1854

Edward H Lishman, commander, 426 tons per register, left Southampton April 20, Total Immigrants 192

arrived July 21, 1854

 

The South Australian Government Gazette 27 July 1854

Notice to Employers of Laborers – By His Excellency’s command B T Finniss, Colonial Secretary

 

The Land and Emigration Commissioners have forwarded to this office written engagements subscribed by the Immigrants

arrived by the “Ostrich”, whereby they severally promise and undertake, that if they, or any of their families with their

permission, quit or purpose to quit the Colony, within 4 years from the day of their landing, they will repay to the

Government a proportionate part of the cost of their passage to South Australia, that is to say-at the rate of £4 a piece for

themselves and wives, and half that sum for each of their respective children, for each year or any fraction thereof which shall

be wanting to complete four years residence in the colony

 

South Australian Government Gazette 24 August 1854

List of persons nominated by purchasers of Land in South Australia for passages to that Colony who have received Embarkation

Orders to join the ship “Ostrich”

 

Name of Emigrant/Age                       Name of Depositor               Amt of Payment required by the Board

                                                                                                                £              s.             d.

Sorrell, Frederick,               25            Alexander Hay                      2              0              0

             Amy (wife)               23                            Ditto                       2              0              0

             Frederick                   2                              Ditto                       0              10            0

             Elizabeth                  1                              Ditto                       0              10            0

 

 

South Australian Government Gazette 19 October 1854

The “Ostrich” arrived in this port on the 21^st July after a passage of ninety three days, bringing to the Colony one hundred

and eighty eight souls. Four deaths and four births occurred during the voyage or before final disembarkation. All the deaths

happened during the fourteen days in which the emigrants are allowed to remain on board. The Surgeon of this vessel also

suggests the propriety of having the lying-in hospital removed from the single women’s apartments. He complains of a deficiency

of some of the medical comforts, such as porter and brandy. The emigrants arriving in this vessel were of a most eligible class;

and the single women found immediate employment.

 

 

Information from the CD “Bound for South Australia”

Surgeon John S Ireland

 

Deaths on Board 4

Frederick Hull, age 1 on the 23 July of Tabes Mesenterica

Richard Burkett, age 10 months on the 26 July of Bronchitis and whooping cough

McCole (on board), Male, age 2 months on the 26 July of Bronchitis and whooping cough

Rosa Skinner age 1 on the 27 July of Whooping Cough

 

Births on Board 4

Parents, Date of Birth, Sex of Child

Mary and William McCole on the 11 May, Male

Mary Anne and Charles Fisher on the 19 May, female

Janet and William Blackley on the 25 May, Male

Sarah and James Harvey on the 17 July, Female

 

 

Blackley	William	32
	Janet	31
	William	7
	Thomas	2
Bouthon	George	33
	Ann	30
	George	8
	John	5
Bowell	James	25
	Susan	25
	Laura	1
Burkett	James	22
	Francis	21
	William	2
	Richard	infant
Cheesman	William	21
	Mary	25
	Mildred	infant
Child	James	42
	Eliza	38
	Harriet	11
	Stephen	3
Cross	Charles	29
	Jemima	25
	Charles	2
	Mary J.	infant
Dwight	Eli	20
	Harriet	18
Earwaker	John	28
	Mary	28
	Mary	3
	Emma	1
Fisher	Charles	27
	Margaret	29
	Thomas	3
Gifford	George	31
	Anne	22
Gigney	Edward	30
	Elizabeth	19
	Edward	infant
Harvey	James	39
	Sarah	30
	Sarah	10
	Julia	9
	Alpheus	5
	George	3
Hinds	William	30
	Ann	28
	Susan	6
	Elizabeth	2
Hollams	James	32
	Susan	33
	Sarah	10
	Thomas	3
Hubble	George	30
	Lucy	23
Hull	Job	36
	Hannah	36
	Philip	11
	Job	9
	James	5
	Frederick	1
Ireland	William J	29
	Elizabeth	23
Johnson	Edward H	42
	Catherine	35
King	Charles	24
	Maria	23
	Walter	5
Lake	Abraham	28
	Mary A.	25
	Herbert	2
	Edmund	1
McCole	William	39
	Mary	29
	Janet	10
	Maria	8
	Eliza	4
	Mary	2
Mills	James	25
	Elizabeth	25
	James	infant
Miller	James	19
	Sarah	22
	William	infant
Myson	Henry	23
	Sarah	25
Newson	John	25
	Elizabeth	30
Parker	Henry	34
	Eliza	36
	James	6
	William	4
Passfield	Samuel	36
	Ann	34
	William	13
	Thomas	11
	Ann	7
	James	4
	Eliza	2
Paten	William	25
	Ann	20
Petch	Alfred	23
	Eliza	25
Pile	Andrew	25
	Mary	26
Poole	John	36
	Mary	34
	James	18
	Elizabeth	11
Randel	George	25
	Sarah	27
Rothwell	William	33
	Martha	33
	Mary A.	12
	Alice	10
	Catherine	6
	Jane	2
Shadrack	Richard	34
	Eliza	29
	Amelia	10
	Emma	4
Sherriff	Thomas	34
	Eliza	34
	George	11
	Anne	6
	Frederick	infant
Skinner	Thomas	32
	Mary	32
	William	9
	Julia	2
	Rosa	1
Smith	Alfred	27
	Harriet	25
Sorrell	Frederick	25
	Amy	23
	Frederick	2
	Elizabeth	infant
Steel	Thomas	42
	Martha	47
	Thomas	12
	Mary	10
	Agnes	8
	Joseph	5
Wade	John	37
	Charlotte	35
	Henry	6
Walder	Samuel	29
	Mary	30
	Samuel	7
White	Jonas	24
	Francis	22
Whyate	James	30
	Sarah	33
Wilson	John	40
	Susan	35
	Harry	1
Wooley	Henry	25
	Mary	30
Child	Margaret
Collett	Mary
Gifford	Eliza
Gifford	Helen
Goode	Ruth
Harding	Grace
Hogan	Bridget
Jones	Emma
Kennedy	Mary
Kislingbury	Elizabeth
Levitt	Emma
Moore	Ann
Morris	Eliza
Pothcary	Mary A.
Reynolds	Ann
Sutton	Fanny
Turner	Frances
Tyler	Caroline
Tyler	Louisa J.
Tyler	Rachael
Whitford	Celia
Wilson	Ann
Steel	Henry
Wilson	James
Hull	Mary
Hull	Sarah
McCole	Mary A
Steel	Ann
Steel	Elizabeth

 

 

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