Assaye
Ship: 1281 Tons
Captain: D. McRitchie
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Young
Sailed London 12th September 1874 - arrived 26th December 1874 Auckland
The barque ASSAYE completed this her only voyage to New Zealand in late 1874. Built for Mr J Stewart of Greenock she was chartered by the New Zealand Shipping Company as part of the Vogel immigration scheme. No further record of voyages to New Zealand exists until 1890 when she sailed from London in February of that year. She was spoken at the Equator on the 16th of March. After this she was never heard from again. After being posted as missing by Lloyd's and some six months after her disappearance some of her wreckage and cargo was located on the Chatham Islands. As none of the items appeared to have been in the water for any length of time, hopes were entertained that members of her had survived but this was not to be.
| Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
| Families and Children | ||||
| Abbott | Robert | 30 | Northampton | Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 27 | |||
| Charlotte E | 4 | |||
| William S | 3 | |||
| Walter A | ? | |||
| Ackroyd | Samuel | 26 | Yorkshire | Leather Dresser |
| Drucilla | 29 | Died on board 16/11/1874 | ||
| Allcock | Henry | 34 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
| Caroline | 33 | |||
| Clara | 9 | |||
| Mary Ann | 7 | |||
| Margaret | 5 | |||
| Ellen | 3 | |||
| Edward | 8 months | Died on board 10/11/1874 | ||
| Allen | Daniel | 38 | Warwickshire | Locksmith |
| Ann | 35 | |||
| Eliza S | 8 | |||
| John | 8 | |||
| Alfred S | 5 | |||
| Attwooll | John J | 29 | Dorsetshire | Quarryman |
| Ann N R | 22 | |||
| John N R | 3 | |||
| Benger | Henry | 36 | Dorsetshire | Labourer |
| Emily | 30 | |||
| Amelia | 11 | |||
| Alvina | 7 | |||
| Ellen | 11 months | |||
| Birt | Benjamin T | 39 | Kent | Farm Labourer |
| Jane | 20 | |||
| Victor A | 9 | |||
| Ernest A | 7 | |||
| Infant daughter | Born on board 20/12/1874 | |||
| Bly | William | 32 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Susannah | 27 | |||
| William | 9 | |||
| Sarah | 7 | |||
| Mary | 5 | |||
| Rosina | 3 | |||
| John | 7 months | |||
| Cameron | Duncan | 23 | Inverness | Coachman |
| Alice | 23 | |||
| Chapple | William Henry | 23 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Sarah A | 21 | |||
| Chevis | James | 31 | Sussex | Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 29 | |||
| Cleary | Robert | 58 | Kings County | Farm Labourer |
| Susan | 51 | |||
| Susan | 10 | |||
| Thomas | 7 | |||
| George | 4 | |||
| Clifford | Jessie | 31 | Oxfordshire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary Ann | 31 | |||
| John BC | 6 | |||
| Colbourn | Benjamin | 30 | Hartfordshire | Labourer |
| Harriett | 30 | Died on board 08/12/1874 | ||
| Eve | 7 | |||
| Mary | 5 | |||
| Benjamin | 3 | |||
| Connolly | John | 25 | Antrim | Labourer |
| Isabella | 25 | |||
| Jane | 2 | |||
| Coman | John | 43 | Norfolk | Farm labourer |
| Harriett | 43 | |||
| John | 9 | |||
| Anna Maria | 6 | Died on board 07/09/1874 | ||
| Connor | Jeffrey | 33 | Kerry | Labourer |
| Catherine | 32 | |||
| Michael | 10 | |||
| John | 9 | |||
| Johanna | 7 | |||
| Cornwall | John | 23 | Yorkshire | Carpenter |
| Hannah | 22 | |||
| Dews | Arthur | 23 | Staffordshire | Labourer |
| Hannah | 27 | |||
| Arthur | 7 months | Died on board 25/09/1874 | ||
| Doney | Charles | 50 | Cornwall | Blacksmith |
| Jane | 46 | |||
| William | 10 | |||
| Drinkwell | Edward | 35 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
| Martha | 32 | |||
| Drinkwell | John M | 39 | Yorkshire | Farm labourer |
| Esther | 38 | |||
| Annie | Infant | Died on board 04/10/1874 | ||
| Dwyer | John | 32 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Bridgett | 31 | |||
| Johanna | 11 | |||
| John | 9 | |||
| Patrick | 6 | |||
| Finney | Alexander | 35 | Down | Ploughman |
| Phynia | 35 | |||
| Fowler | Richard | 40 | Glostershire | Shoemaker |
| Elizabeth | 38 | |||
| Henrietta | 5 | |||
| Ellen | 3 | |||
| Harry | 7 weeks | |||
| Francis | Frank | 23 | Wiltshire | Farm Labourer |
| Emma | 21 | |||
| French | Charles | 32 | Surrey | Labourer |
| Bridget | 32 | |||
| Funke | Carl A | 39 | Prussia | Farm Labourer |
| Maria | 37 | |||
| Henry | 10 | |||
| Ernest | 8 | |||
| Frederick | 6 | |||
| Golly | Joseph Henry | 30 | ||
| Thomasina | 21 | |||
| Thomasina | Infant | |||
| Gibbs | William J | 28 | Dorset | Quarryman |
| Mary Anne | 38 | |||
| Henry | 8 | |||
| Goodacre | Alfred R | 45 | Suffolk | Shoemaker |
| Mary A | 50 | |||
| Goodacre | Frederick | 20 | Derby | Shoemaker |
| Mary | 21 | |||
| Graves | Charles | 22 | Dublin | Shepherd |
| Mary | 20 | |||
| Mary C | 3 months | |||
| Graves | William | 21 | Dublin | Shepherd |
| Jane | 20 | |||
| Patrick | 6 months | |||
| Greaves | John | 33 | Warwickshire | Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 30 | |||
| Ann | 5 | |||
| Elizabeth | 3 | |||
| Mary | 3 months | |||
| Griffiths | William | 40 | Hererfordshire | Farm Labourer |
| Jane | 30 | |||
| Growden | Edwin | 24 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Jane | 23 | |||
| Harper | John James | 31 | Gloucestershire | Blacksmith |
| Emma | 26 | |||
| Emma | 5 | |||
| Margaret | 3 | |||
| Alfred | 1 | |||
| Hillman | Calvin L | 34 | Glostershire | Mason |
| Emily | 28 | |||
| Calvin L | 2 | |||
| Emily E | 6 months | |||
| Hodgetts | Thomas | 26 | Staffordshire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 23 | |||
| Hunt | Arthur | 32 | Berkshire | Farm Labourer |
| Esta Hunt | 32 | |||
| Frederick J | 10 | |||
| Esta | 6 months | Died on board 28/10/1874 | ||
| Hutt | James | 33 | Oxfordshire | Farm Labourer |
| Esther | 30 | |||
| William | 8 | |||
| Henry | 6 | |||
| Eveline | 3 | |||
| Frederick R | 1 | |||
| Jakeman | David | 42 | Worcestershire | Labourer |
| Julia | 28 | |||
| Anne | 8 months | |||
| Judkins | Thomas P | 23 | Northamptonshire | Shoemaker |
| Emma B | 22 | |||
| Le Houx | Anthony | 42 | Jersey | Painter |
| Isabella | 42 | |||
| Maria | 10 | |||
| Malavey | Daniel | 50 | Cavan | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | 53 | |||
| Martin | Simon | 26 | Devonshire | Farm Labourer |
| Annie | 24 | |||
| Simon | 5 months | |||
| McBurney | John | 44 | County Down | Farm Labourer |
| Martha | 35 | |||
| Samuel | 9 | |||
| Alfred W | 2 | |||
| Merrington | Frederick | 29 | Middlesex | Bootmaker |
| Agnes | 32 | |||
| Agnes L | 10 | |||
| Constance J | 4 | |||
| Florence M | 1 | |||
| Nicholls | Abraham | 31 | Cambridgeshire | Butcher |
| Jane | 20 | |||
| Louisa | 10 months | |||
| Abraham | ||||
| O'Connor | Michael | 43 | Cork | Farm labourer |
| Ellen | 38 | |||
| Patrick | 8 | |||
| Perrow | Gabriel H | 44 | Cornwall | Butcher |
| Harriett | 42 | |||
| Henrietta | 9 | |||
| Polglase | Charles | 26 | Cornwall | Painter |
| Mary Ann | 23 | |||
| Portsmouth | Robert | 40 | Surrey | Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 21 | |||
| Purcell | James | 45 | Warterford | Pensioner |
| Mary Ann | 34 | |||
| Louisa | 6 | |||
| Isabella | 5 | |||
| James Henry | 3 | |||
| William Charles | 10 months | Died on board 11/11/1874 | ||
| Read | Thomas | 25 | Dorsetshire | Quarryman |
| Jane | 25 | |||
| C | 2 | |||
| C | 5 months | |||
| Reidy | Daniel | 39 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Catherine | 25 | |||
| Christopher | Born on board 24/12/1874 | |||
| Rodda | William | 38 | Cornwall | Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 35 | |||
| Ryan | James | 36 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 38 | |||
| James | 10 | |||
| John | 8 | |||
| Mary | 7 | |||
| Patrick | 4 | |||
| Ryan | John | 42 | Waterford | Farm Labourer |
| Hariett | 36 | |||
| William John | 9 | |||
| Sands | James | 33 | Down | Farm Labourer |
| Margaret | 32 | |||
| Mary | 11 | |||
| Thomas | 9 | |||
| Letitia | 7 | |||
| James | 5 | |||
| Edward | 3 | |||
| Margaret | 1 | |||
| Annie | 1 month | Died on board 30/09/1874 | ||
| Sargent | Edwin | 24 | Warwickshire | Labourer |
| Agnes | 20 | |||
| Scarlett | John | 32 | Tyrone | Blacksmith |
| Fanny | 28 | |||
| Steer | William | 45 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Alice | 45 | |||
| Louisa J | 11 | |||
| John C | 9 | |||
| Amelia | 8 | |||
| Steer | William Henry | 26 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Mary H | 24 | |||
| William J | 5 | |||
| Stevens | Matthew | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Eliza Mary | ||||
| Annie | ||||
| Swain | Samuel | 34 | Staffordshire | Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 33 | |||
| Sweeny | Brian | 25 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | 22 | |||
| Johanna | 4 months | |||
| Trembath | John Thomas | 28 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Hannah | 29 | |||
| John J | ? | |||
| Trezise | Henry | 42 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Johanna | 43 | |||
| Mary A | 11 | |||
| Charles H | 9 | |||
| Walker | Francis | 25 | Hereford | Shoemaker |
| Mary | 24 | |||
| Ada | 2 | |||
| Louis Victor | 6 months | Died on board 16/09/1874 | ||
| Walker | William | 28 | Derbyshire | Farm Labourer |
| Sarah | 29 | |||
| Mary | 5 | |||
| James | 3 | |||
| Samuel | 9 months | |||
| Warren | John | 20 | Devonshire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary Jane | 23 | |||
| Wattam | George | 28 | Lincolnshire | Labourer |
| Mary A | 29 | |||
| Roberts | Sarah | 11 | ||
| John | 7 | |||
| Williams | John | 27 | Sussex | Farm Labourer |
| Catherine | 20 | |||
| Wills | William R | 37 | Somersetshire | Bootmaker |
| Martha | 39 | |||
| Emily | 16 | |||
| Herbert | 13 | |||
| Wright | Edwin T | 32 | Worcestershire | Gardener |
| Maria | 25 | |||
| C | ? | |||
| Single Men | ||||
| Artindale | George | 28 | Lincolnshire | Carpenter |
| Badden | Benjamin | 19 | Dorsetshire | Farm Labourer |
| Barnett | William | 23 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Beeby | Charles H | 21 | Worcestershire | Labourer |
| Berryman | Edward | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Braid | John | 24 | Middlesex | Labourer |
| Butt | Thomas | 31 | Antrim | Shepherd |
| Carthew | Philip R | 19 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Chime | Thomas H | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Clark | David | 20 | Tyrone | Brickmaker |
| Cleary | David | 22 | Kings County | Farm Labourer |
| Robert | 20 | Kings County | Farm Labourer | |
| Wilbert | 16 | Kings County | Farm Labourer | |
| Henry | 13 | Kings County | Farm Labourer | |
| Coffey | Timothy | 20 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Collins | Michael | 21 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Cooper | Alfred | 18 | Glostershire | Labourer |
| Coulter | Thomas | 25 | Donegal | Farm Labourer |
| Coward | Henry James | 23 | Dorsetshire | Butcher |
| Dalton | Thomas | 30 | Kerry | Shepherd |
| Dober | William | 19 | Dorsetshire | Quarryman |
| Doney | Edward | 16 | Cornwall | |
| Drinkwell | Robert | 12 | Yorkshire | |
| Dunford | Worthy | 23 | Wiltshire | Labourer |
| Farrelly | Patrick | 22 | Cavan | Labourer |
| Finney | John A | 14 | Down | |
| Fitzgerald | John | 19 | Kerry | Blacksmith |
| Ford | Pat | 24 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| Francis | John | 22 | Monmouthshire | Mason |
| Fraser | George | 21 | Aberdeen | Carpenter |
| French | James | 15 | Surrey | Labourer |
| Fullerton | John | 28 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
| Funke | Charles | 17 | Prussia | Farm Labourer |
| George | 15 | Prussia | Farm Labourer | |
| Gannon | John | 30 | Galway | Labourer |
| Gillis | Robert James | 23 | Donegal | Farm Labourer |
| Goodacre | Hal | 18 | Derbyshire | |
| Henry | 14 | Derbyshire | ||
| Hall | David | 20 | Glostershire | Labourer |
| Harvey | Richard R | 21 | Cornwall | Labourer |
| Hiscocks | Phillip | 26 | Monmouth | Gardener |
| Howes | John | 23 | Middlesex | Tailor |
| Hows | Charles | 20 | Kent | Farm Labourer |
| Hunt | George | 22 | Suffolk | Painter & Glazier |
| Jonsen | Hans | 26 | Hanover | Farm Labourer |
| Joyce | Thomas | 20 | Armagh | Farm Labourer |
| Kerin | John | 20 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Kirby | James | 21 | Warwickshire | Farm Labourer |
| Le Houx | Henry | 12 | Jersey | |
| Leary | Denis | 19 | Cork | Farm Labourer |
| Locke | John | 23 | Monmouth | Mason |
| Luhrs | Heinrich | 31 | Norway | Farm Labourer |
| Madden | William | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Malavey | Michael | 20 | Cowan | Farm Labourer |
| Patrick | 21 | Cowan | Farm Labourer | |
| McKeown | Thomas | 21 | Cavan | Labourer |
| Moore | William James | 18 | Antrim | Labourer |
| Morgan | Richard | 24 | Kent | Joiner |
| Neale | John | 23 | Oxfordshire | Farm Labourer |
| Nicholls | Richard | 20 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| O'Brien | Martin | 26 | Galway | Labourer |
| O'Connor | Michael | 14 | Cork | Farm Labourer |
| Daniel | 12 | Cork | Farm Labourer | |
| O'Farrell | Thomas | 23 | Wicklow | Ploughman |
| O'Keefe | Jeremiah | 24 | Cork | Farm Labourer |
| Palmer | James | 34 | Oxfordshire | Farm Labourer |
| Pedan | William | 20 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Perrow | William | 18 | Cornwall | |
| Poore | George | 26 | Hampshire | Navvy |
| Porter | William | 20 | Worcestershire | Labourer |
| Quille | Denis | 23 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Richardson | James | 21 | Leicestershire | Farm Labourer |
| Robbie | James B | 23 | Kincardine | Brickmaker |
| Roberts | James | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Sanders | Simeon | 19 | Warwickshire | Labourer |
| Sargent | Joseph | 20 | Warwickshire | Labourer |
| Sheahan | Denis | 26 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Sheehan | Daniel | 23 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Sims | George | 21 | Glamorgan | Farm Labourer |
| Smith | George E | 18 | Kent | Gardener |
| Steer | James | 20 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Stych | John | 28 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
| Sweeney | Cornelius | 30 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Taylor | William | 21 | Berkshire | Carpenter |
| Thompson | Joseph | 18 | Armagh | Farm Labourer |
| Tremback | Alfred | 20 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Francis | 18 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer | |
| William Henry | 16 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer | |
| Trembath | Robert | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
| Warren | Charles | 18 | Devonshire | Farm Labourer |
| Watkins | William S | 20 | Devonshire | Ploughman |
| Whitbourn | Frederick | 40 | Sussex | Farm Labourer |
| Wills | Herbert W | 13 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
| Wills | Robert J | 21 | Dorsetshire | Blacksmith |
| Woolcock | Richard S | 29 | Cornwall | Labourer |
| Wyer | Henry | 38 | Surrey | Labourer |
| Single Women | ||||
| Adams | Mary A | 30 | Northamptonshire | Cook |
| Allcock | Caroline | 14 | Middlesex | |
| Allen | Anne L | 12 | Warwickshire | Cook |
| Allwood | Emma | 26 | Warwickshire | |
| Beeby | Mary A | 46 | Worcetershire | Nurse |
| Fanny | 17 | Worcetershire | ||
| Mary Ann | 14 | Worcetershire | ||
| Elizabeth | 10 | Worcetershire | ||
| Bly | Emma | 12 | Cornwall | |
| Boyd | Margaret | 24 | Down | Servant |
| Bragg | Ellen | 20 | Dorsetshire | Servant |
| Bulla | Martha | 28 | Lancashire | Servant |
| Clark | Mary A | 16 | Oxfordshire | Servant |
| Cleary | Letitia | 18 | Kings | Servant |
| Connor | Mary | 16 | Kerry | Housemaid |
| Cozens | Harriet | 34 | Suffolk | Servant |
| Cuthbert | Louisa | 20 | Surrey | Servant |
| Doney | Bessie | 18 | Cornwall | Servant |
| Catherine | 14 | Cornwall | Servant | |
| Eliza | 12 | Cornwall | Servant | |
| Eaton | Rebecca J | 22 | Fermanagh | Dairymaid |
| Ellen | Ann L | |||
| Finney | Mary | 12 | Down | Servant |
| Annie | 18 | Down | Servant | |
| Fleming | Annie | 24 | Cornwall | Cook |
| Gibbs | Susannah | 18 | Middlesex | Servant |
| Goodacre | Harriet | 16 | Suffolk | Servant |
| Keith | Eliza | 22 | Cavan | Servant |
| Anne | 16 | Cavan | Servant | |
| Le Houx | Ellen | 15 | Jersey | Dressmaker |
| Legge | Margaret | 23 | Antrim | Dairymaid |
| Lewis | Sarah | 22 | Oxfordshire | Housemaid |
| Lockley | Hariett | 23 | Warwickshire | Servant |
| Londen | Maria | 23 | Middlesex | Servant |
| Maymond | Ellen | 34 | Lancashire | Weaver |
| Margaret | 13 | Lancashire | ||
| McDonnell | Margaret | 20 | Armagh | Housemaid |
| Mooney | Catherine | 20 | Galway | Servant |
| O'Connor | Ellen | 18 | Cork | Servant |
| Mary | 16 | Cork | Servant | |
| Pearce | Jane | 29 | Cornwall | Servant |
| Perrow | Anne | 20 | Cornwall | Servant |
| Harmnell | 16 | Cornwall | Servant | |
| Reidy | Annie | 12 | Kerry | |
| Renouf | Louisa | 22 | Jersey | Cook |
| Shoiels | Josephine | 17 | Middlesex | Servant |
| Smyth | Margaret J | 23 | Down | Servant |
| Squires | Susan | 27 | Devon | Servant |
| Steer | Elizabeth | 18 | Cornwall | Tailoress |
| Rebecca | 16 | Cornwall | Servant | |
| Mary Ann | 14 | Cornwall | ||
| Stych | Emma | 23 | Worcestershire | Servant |
| Swain | Ellen A | 14 | Staffordshire | |
| Trezise | Elizabeth J | 16 | Cornwall | Servant |
| Way | Mary Ann | 17 | Dorsetshire | Servant |
| Sarah | 15 | Dorsetshire | Servant | |
| Wills | Emily M | 16 | Somersetshire | Dressmaker |
| Woods | Margaret | 20 | Oxfordshire | Housemaid |
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Copyright Denise and Peter 1999:200
New Zealand National Archives Reference: IM15/159