Hermione
Ship: 1120 tons
Captain: Roberts
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Hugh Marriner
Sailed London August 30th 1878 & Plymouth 4th September - arrived Wellington
December 15th 1878
New Plymouth December 17th 1878
A Shaw Saville and Albion ship that
was expected to do better than was ever got out of her was the Hermione, a full-rigger who
was well-known in Auckland and other ports in the eighties and nineties - but especially
in Auckland, to which she made eight voyages. She was a handsome craft of 1120 tons and
was turned out by the Hall shipyards at Aberdeen during the same year that the company's
other classically-named ship, the Pleione, was launched. Like so many of the old colonial
ships the Hermione was "sold foreign" when steam came in. She was bought by an
Italian firm and renamed the Mantova. She was broken up at Genoa as late as the year
immediately before the outbreak of the Great War.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Passengers for Wellington | ||||
Families & Children | ||||
Balchin | William | 36 | Surry | Farm Labourer |
Rebecca | 33 | |||
Ernest | 7 | |||
Florence | 3 | |||
Bason | Thomas | 44 | Northamptonshire | Mason |
Margaret | 43 | |||
Blair | John | 38 | Renfrew | Labourer |
Mary | 37 | |||
Isabella | 14 | |||
Walter | 12 | |||
John | 8 | |||
Mary | 5 | |||
William | 2 | |||
Boocock | William | 37 | Yorkshire | Bootmaker |
Hannah | 36 | |||
Mary | 11 | |||
George | 9 | |||
Clayton | Benjamin | 38 | Yorkshire | Painter |
Annie | 40 | |||
Conwell | Thomas | 21 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
Jane | 27 | |||
Deane | Thomas | 26 | Derry | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 24 | |||
John | 1 | |||
Dewar | John | 22 | Perth | Farm Labourer |
Maggie | 20 | |||
Feake | Josiah | 29 | Norfolk | Bricklayer |
Mary Ann | 22 | |||
Hannie | 4 | |||
Selina | 2 | |||
Male child | Born on board - 17/11/1878 | |||
Gingell | Thomas | 43 | Wiltshire | Farm Labourer |
Annie | 43 | |||
Edwin | 15 | |||
Clara | 13 | |||
Thomas | 11 | |||
Emily | 7 | |||
Lane | Thomas | 31 | Cornwall | Brickmaker |
Eliza | 25 | |||
Lankshear | William | 25 | Middelsex | Bricklayer |
Lydia | 23 | |||
Mahony | Terence | 34 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
Johannah | 28 | |||
Mary | 3 | |||
Male child | Born on Somes Island 24/12/1878 | |||
Mathews | Joseph | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Annie | 20 | |||
Mayes | James | 30 | Huntingdon | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 26 | |||
Bingham | 6 | |||
William | 4 | |||
Sophia | 9 months | |||
McDonough | Michael | 48 | Galway | Labourer |
Catherine | 34 | |||
Michael | 11 | |||
Mary | 6 | |||
Patrick | 2 | |||
McMillan | Arthur Crawford | 26 | Antrim | Engine Fitter |
Sarah Ann | 26 | |||
Mary | 5 | |||
Thomas Tasman | Born on board - 28/11/1878 | |||
Mulligan | Thomas | 25 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 27 | |||
Bell | Sarah | 24 | Tyrone | General Servant Travelling with Mulligan |
Terrine | Fabio | 40 | Italy | Bootmaker Bound for Westland |
Isola | 23 | |||
Oresti | 11 | |||
Thibridge | Francis | 44 | Surry | Cork Cutter |
Louisa | 45 | |||
Thomas | 18 | |||
Francis | 16 | |||
Whitaker | William Henry | 21 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
Dora | 19 | |||
Single Men | ||||
Andrews | James | 26 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
Arthur | James | 22 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Beaty | William | 21 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Blewetts | Samuel | 25 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Bourke | William | 21 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Breen | Jeremiah | 25 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Candy | Richard | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Cannon | Thomas | 21 | Donegal | Farm Labourer |
Carroll | William | 37 | Down | Plasterer |
William | 12 | Down | ||
Cassidy | John | 18 | Fermanagh | Farm Labourer |
Connor | William | 21 | Derry | Farm Labourer |
Cronin | Pat | 22 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Denis | 24 | Kerry | Farm Labourer | |
Cross | John | 22 | Yorkshire | Shoemaker |
Cullen | John | 26 | Leitrim | Farm Labourer |
Dewar | Robert | 24 | Perth | Ploughman |
Donohue | Daniel | 23 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
Dougall | Robert | 22 | Renfrew | Bootmaker |
Dwing | Mortimer | 30 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
Egan | James | 21 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Fitton | Robert | 20 | Brecon | Farm Labourer |
Fitzgerald | Michael | 20 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Foomey | John | 21 | Kerry | Farm Labourer Travelled with Tenaghty |
Gibson | David | 25 | Renfrew | Gardener |
Hawker | Samuel | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Keenan | Robert | 21 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
Lash | William | 27 | Middlesex | Bricklayers Labourer |
Laving | James | 19 | Fife | Ploughman |
LeBoeg | Thomas | 22 | Alderney | Farm Labourer |
Ludlon | Joseph | 23 | Gloster | Plasterer |
Magee | John | 21 | Fermanagh | Farm Labourer Travelled with Cassidy |
Catherine | 23 | Fermanagh | Domestic Servant Travelled with Cassidy |
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Sarah | 18 | Fermanagh | Domestic Servant Travelled with Cassidy |
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Marshall | George | 20 | Middlesex | Painters Labourer |
Alfred | 18 | Middlesex | General Servant | |
Elizabeth | 15 | Middlesex | ||
Harriett | 13 | Middlesex | ||
McAnerine | William | 21 | Tyrone | Labourer |
McGrother | Edward | 21 | Monoghan | Farm Labourer |
Francis | 22 | Monoghan | Farm Labourer | |
McKenna | Michael | 23 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
McMahon | John | 22 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Meehon | John | 21 | Donegal | Farm Labourer |
Minogue | Patrick | 19 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Moffatt | John | 18 | Cavan | Farm Labourer |
Moore | Joshua | 21 | Tipperary | Gardener |
Robert | 17 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer | |
Murphy | James | 27 | Leitrim | Farm Labourer |
Nileand | Thomas | 22 | Mayo | Farm Labourer |
O'Brien | Michael | 21 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
O'Shea | Nicholas | 20 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 23 | Clare | Domestic Servant | |
James | 14 | Clare | ||
Catherine | 11 | Clare | ||
Henry | 9 | Clare | ||
Johannah | 5 | Clare | ||
O'Sullivan | John D | 21 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Paltridge | Alfred | 19 | Devonshire | Farm Labourer |
Pearson | John | 22 | Cavan | Farm Labourer |
John | 23 | Cavan | Farm Labourer | |
Phillips | Andrew | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Sherry | Edward | 24 | Somerset | Farm Labourer |
Shiels | Jeremiah | 28 | Donegal | Ploughman |
Smart | Walter | 21 | Clare | Servant |
Sullivan | Michael | 26 | Limerick | Farm Labourer |
Tenaghty | Roger | 21 | Kerry | Farm Labourer Travelled with Foomey |
Thomas | George | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Richard | 20 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer | |
Tobin | Thomas | 23 | Leitrim | Farm Labourer |
Toomey | John | 21 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Tubmein | Arthur | 18 | Cavan | Farm Labourer |
Ward | Robert J | 21 | Donegal | Farm Labourer |
Warr | Henry | 22 | Somerset | Farm Labourer |
Watkins | William | 20 | Middlesex | Baker |
Watters | John A | 19 | Tyrone | Labourer |
Weir | Edmond | 22 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Williams | David | 20 | Donegal | Farm Labourer |
Refer passengers for Taranaki |
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Single Women | ||||
Arnold | Emma | 20 | Warwickshire | Housemaid |
Baillie | Mary A | 49 | Northumberland | |
Barnett | Elizabeth | 23 | Middlesex | |
Bradley | Catherine | 25 | Kerry | Cook |
Mary | 19 | Kerry | General Servant | |
Bebbington | Mary | 22 | Staffordshire | General Servant |
Bottrell | Eliza | 20 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Brannell | Julia | 3 | Dublin | Cook |
Carrigan | Mary | 23 | Rosscommon | General Servant |
Carter | Eliza A | 24 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Christian | Angelica | 21 | Essex | General Servant |
Cochrane | Helen | 35 | Lanark | |
Archibald | 9 | Lanark | ||
Fora | 2 | Lanark | ||
Davidson | Elizabeth R | 16 | Kent | |
Mary A | 11� | Kent | ||
Davis | Jane | 21 | Warwickshire | Nurse |
Delahunty | Mary | 22 | Tipperary | General Servant |
Denton | Annie | 35 | Salop | Cook |
Duggan | Mary | 7 | ||
Margaret | 6 | |||
Ellis | Clara | 22 | Sussex | Housemaid |
Garrison | Susannah | 23 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Griffiths | Hannah | 37 | Glamorgan | Servant |
Ivan | 19 | Glamorgan | Farm Labourer | |
James | 17 | Glamorgan | ||
Ann | 11 | Glamorgan | ||
Margaret | 16 | Glamorgan | ||
Grinfill | Annie P | 18 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Hogan | Mary E | 25 | Kings County | Cook |
Holman | Jane | 27 | Kent | Housemaid |
Hurley | Mary | 26 | Cork | General Servant |
Annie | 20 | Cork | General Servant | |
Ellen | 19 | Cork | General Servant | |
Jennings | Louisa | 19 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Kelliher | Mary A | 19 | Kerry | Housemaid |
Maher | Johannah | 20 | Tipperary | General Servant |
Mary | 21 | Tipperary | General Servant | |
McLaren | Susan | 41 | Renfrew | Housekeeper |
Janet | 22 | Renfrew | Dressmaker | |
William | 20 | Renfrew | Engineer | |
Susan | 18 | Renfrew | Milliner | |
John | 12 | Renfrew | ||
Mellum | Lizzie J | 19 | Hertfordshire | General Servant |
Morris | Kezia | 22 | Staffordshire | Nursemaid |
Miller | Margaret | 62 | Clare | Laundress |
Noble | Susan | 16 | Surrey | Nursemaid |
Reed | Lydia | 19 | Norfolk | Nursemaid |
Rooney | Jane | 21 | Leitrim | General Servant |
Rooney | Teresa | 22 | Armagh | General Servant |
Ryan | Honoria | 24 | Tipperary | General Servant |
Scanlan | Margaret | 21 | Limerick | Servant |
Mary | 22 | Limerick | Servant | |
Ellen | 21 | Limerick | Servant | |
Sercombe | Emily | 19 | Somerset | General Servant |
Shiel | Elizabeth | 41 | Dublin | Cook |
Smith | Emma | 23 | Warwickshire | Housemaid |
Stephenson | Emma | 26 | Cheshire | Housekeeper |
Sullivan | Bridget | 27 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Thomas | Julia | 21 | Devonshire | General Servant |
Tobin | Maragret | 19 | Leitrim | General Servant |
Ward | Elizabeth | 20 | Sussex | Cook |
Waters | Mary | 67 | Sussex | |
George | 34 | Sussex | Under Gardener | |
West | Susannah | 21 | Surrey | General Servant |
Wilson | Ellen | 21 | Roxburgh | Cook |
Wilson | Sarah H | 22 | Warwickshire | General Servant |
Passengers for Taranaki | ||||
Dunkerton | Philip | 34 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
Alice M | 23 | |||
Ellen E | 3 months | |||
Dennis | Eliza | 20 | Travelled with Dunkerton | |
Edwards | William | 35 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 37 | |||
Freeman | Anthony | 24 | Worcestershire | Farm Labourer |
Martha | 20 | |||
Goose | John | 39 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
Laurinda | 38 | |||
John | 15 | |||
William | 3 | |||
Hellings | William | 24 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Eliza | 21 | |||
James | Robert | 22 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
Emily | 21 | |||
Lily | 1 | |||
Jenking | George | 26 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Kate | 26 | |||
Nicholson | Giles | 28 | Gloucestershire | Farm Labourer |
Sarah | 26 | Died on board 17/11/1878 Diarrhoea |
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Mary E | 5 | |||
William | 1 | |||
Quilliam | James | 46 | Isle of Man | Stonemason |
Ellen | 46 | |||
Louise | 16 | Isle of Man | General Servant | |
Thomas | 14 | |||
James | 12 | |||
George | 9 | |||
Ellen | 6 | |||
Clara | 4 | |||
Roberts | Richard E | 30 | Derby | General Servant |
Annie | 30 | |||
Samuel | 4 | |||
William | 2 | |||
Charles | 2 months | |||
Symons | William | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Johannah | 21 | |||
Whittington | Jacob | 35 | Somersetshire | Gardener |
Mary J | 33 | |||
Thomas | 14 | |||
Henry | 9 | |||
John | 5 | |||
George | 2 | |||
Single Men | ||||
Beales | Ephraim | 19 | Norfolk | Farm Labourer Died on board 04/12/1878 Typhoid fever |
Billings | Benjamin | 35 | Loncolnshire | Farm Labourer |
Blanchford | George | 19 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
Cox | James | 21 | Gloucestershire | Farm Labourer |
Gavan | Michael | 24 | Westmeath | General Labourer |
Glentworth | Henry | 22 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer |
Robert | 20 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer | |
Hobbs | William C | 21 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
Hodge | Simon W | 19 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Jenkins | William | 28 | Gloucestershire | Farm Labourer |
Keating | James | 19 | Waterford | Farm Labourer |
Kernahan | Robert G | 17 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
Lyne | Patrick | 22 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Napper | Henry J | 18 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
Norton | Simon | 19 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
O'Hegan | Patrick | 23 | Derry | Farm Labourer |
Richard | John | 16 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Satterly | Albert | 22 | Devonshire | Farm Labourer |
Thomas | Samuel | 21 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Tippins | George | 20 | Gloucestershire | Farm Labourer |
Tulford | Walter | 23 | Warwickshire | Wheelwright |
Walters | Henry | 26 | Kilkenny | Farm Labourer |
York | Albert | 19 | Lincolnshire | Farm Labourer Refer passengers for Wellington |
Single Women | ||||
Bennetts | Olivia | 27 | Cornwall | Cook |
Black | Elizabeth | 23 | Devonshire | Housemaid |
Brown | Emma | 21 | Yorkshire | Cook |
Buck | Jane S | 23 | Cambridgeshire | Nurse |
Buckley | Mary | 24 | Cork | Dressmaker |
Norah | 22 | Cork | General Servant | |
Budge | Alice | 25 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Clarke | Eliza | 26 | Cornwall | Housemaid |
Clarke | Mary J | 24 | Cornwall | Nurse |
Ede | Jane A | 19 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Gilbert | Fanny | 34 | Lancashire | Lodging House Keeper |
Catherine | 13 | Lancashire | ||
Henry | 11 | Lancashire | ||
Francis | 7 | Lancashire | ||
Goose | Annie | 18 | Lincolnshire | Nurse Died in Quarantine 20/12/1878 Typhoid fever |
Mary | 17 | Lincolnshire | Nurse | |
Jenkin | Mary A | 32 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Jordan | Mary | 20 | Kent | General Servant |
Jones | Adeline | 18 | Gloucestershire | Housemaid |
Lovewell | Amelia | 21 | Norfolk | Housemaid |
Mattock | Eliza | 26 | Derry | Housekeeper |
Moreland | Emily | 21 | Gloustershire | Nurse |
Richards | Mary | 22 | Cornwall | General Servant |
Rourke | Ellen | 29 | Cork | General Servant |
Thompson | Maria | 23 | Sligo | General Servant |
Watson | Jane A | 20 | Northumberland | General Servant |
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JAMES family: My Great Grandfather Joseph Robert Butler James was born in Batcome, Somersetshire England 1n 1856. He married Emily Hucker, born in 1857 at East Pennard, Somersetshire.The Hucker Family lived in Glastonbury, Somersetshire.Her father John was a Policeman and President of the Midland Counties Cricket Club. Great Grandad's mother, Ann Butler James was a Herbalist and did quite a bit of doctoring and caring for the sick. Great grandad Joseph Robert Butler James as a lad was a choir boy at Bolton Cathedral and helped run his fathers farm. After his mother Ann died he married Emily and they lived on the farm where daughter Lily was born. When his father remarried, Joseph and Emily decided to move to New Zealand. Lily was then 18 months old. They sailed on the Hermione, leaving England on 4th September 1878, the voyage taking 4 months. They were becalmed in the doldrums south of Australia, and also two passengers died of fever on the trip. Upon reaching Wellington they were isolated on Somes Island for a month before being allowed to land, finally reaching New Plymouth by coal barge. They settled at Bell Block where Great Grandad worked on a farm for Sole Bros who had a Butchers Shop. My Grandfather Lundon James and the rest of the family were born in the area. If you have a connection with this family or would like to know more please contact William Woller |
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Copyright Denise & Peter 2000 - 2008
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IM15/329