Olympus
Barque: 500 Tons
Captain: John Whyte
Surgeon Superintendent: Isaac Earl Featherston
Sailed London 9th December 1840 - arrived Port Nicholson 20th April 1841
Name | Age | Occupation | Comments | |
Cabin Passengers | ||||
Burrows | T D | 20 | ||
Doughty | Charles George | 25 | ||
Featherston | Dr Isaac Earl | 27 | Surgeon Superintendent | |
Bethia Campbell | 27 | |||
Gowan | F | 22 | ||
Gowan | H | 23 | ||
Jones | W | 25 | ||
Mason | Thomas | 22 | ||
Jane | 22 | |||
Phillips | William Morgan | |||
Piper | 25 | |||
Roberts | D | 21 | ||
White | 30 | |||
Steerage Passengers | ||||
Barker | James | 33 | Farm Labourer | |
Mary | 29 | |||
Mary Ann | 10 | |||
Elizabeth | 3 | |||
Sarah | 1 | |||
Son | Infant | Born at sea 2/4/1841 Lat 44.00S Long 132.26E |
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Barns | James | 21 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Birmingham | John | 25 | Labourer | |
Bluett | Adam snr | 40 | Locksmith | |
Catherine | 38 | |||
Bluett | Thomas | 21 | Smith and Bell Hanger | Cook for the voyage |
Mary | 25 | |||
Thomas | 3 | |||
Mary Ann | 11 months | |||
Bryson | Thomas | 26 | Gardener | |
Catherine | 21 | |||
Burton | James | 51 | Smith | |
Elizabeth | Elizabeth was James 2nd wife and married George Smith in 1860 | |||
Amy | 27 | Sempstress | ||
Elizabeth | 26 | Sempstress | ||
Emily | 17 | Sempstress | Married John Morden Brook/es, Interpreter to Capt Arthur Wakefield - Killed at the Wairau. Later married Samuel Stafford STYLES | |
James | 16 | Labourer | ||
Burton | William | 24 | Smith | Eldest son to James Burton Snr |
Mary | 30 | |||
Eliza | 5 months | Grandaughter to James Burton Snr - Married Henry Howard | ||
Connacher | Donald | 30 | Boot & Shoemaker | |
Margaret | 25 | |||
Corley | Isaac | 23 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Couttie | David | 26 | Labourer | |
Janet | 25 | |||
George | 12 | |||
Alexander | 9 | |||
James | 2 | |||
Daughter | Infant | Born at sea 23/3/1841 Lat 40.10S Long 100.01E |
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Fox | Edward Thomas | 35 | Plumber | |
Harriet | 27 | |||
Giles | John | 27 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Graham | Agnes | 36 | Sempstress | |
Thomas | 16 | Labourer | ||
James | 13 | |||
Nancy | 9 | |||
Margaret | 7 | |||
Mary | 4 | |||
Betty | 18 months | |||
Hall | 26 | |||
Heggie | Thomas | 24 | Millwright | |
Ann Mary | 20 | |||
Thomas | Infant | Born at sea 26/1/1841 Lat 20.58S Long 31.00W |
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Honeyman | Thomas | 25 | Agricultural Labourer | Assistant to Surgeon |
mary | 28 | |||
Kilgour | John | 36 | Slater & Plasterer | |
Margaret | 38 | |||
William | 4 | |||
Langley | Peter | 23 | Labourer | |
Leslie | Mary | 17 | Servant | |
Lyal | Robert | 36 | Millwright & Sawyer | |
Agnes | 36 | |||
McKain | Douglas Mary | 49 | Widow | |
John Ward | 24 | Tailor | ||
Robina Agnes | 18 | Sempstress | ||
James Buchanan | 16 | Tailor | ||
Frederick Dunmore | 14 | Labourer | ||
Isaac Septimus | 11 | |||
McNaughton | Mary | 29 | Dressmaker | Widow |
Laurance | 7 | |||
Mabey | Charles | 38 | Agricultural Labourer & Flax Dresser | |
Harriet | 35 | |||
Sophia | 10 | Comment on passenger list "Sophia 10 years left behind. W.A." | ||
Charles | 3 | |||
Mary | 21 months | |||
Joseph Croom | Infant | Born at sea 12/3/1841 Lat 40.35S Long 65.36E |
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Mabey | Job | 28 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Rachael | 28 | |||
Mary Jane | 4 | |||
Sarah | 3 | Died at sea 9/2/1841 "Croup" Lat 31.16S Long 17.07W |
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Miller | William | 26 | Joiner & Turner | |
Neale | William | 37 | Lime Burner | |
Sarah | 38 | |||
William jnr | 16 | Lime Burner | ||
Pollock | Janet | 30 | Housemaid | |
Pollock | Robert | 29 | Smith | |
Pope | Henry | 27 | Brickmaker | |
Eliza | 28 | |||
Jane | 5 | Died at sea 23/12/1840 "Malignant Scarlet
Fever" Lat 28.47N Long 19.27W |
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William | 3 | |||
Henry | 6 months | Died at sea 21/12/1840 "Apparently an overdose of laudanum given by his parents" Lat 32.40N Long 18.40W | ||
Saxby | Benjamin | 19 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Saxby | William | 43 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Mary | 32 | |||
Mary | 9 | |||
James | 4 | |||
Son | Infant | |||
Scott | Thomas | 26 | Ploughman | |
Mary | 20 | |||
John | 13 months | Died at sea 7/1/1841 "Intestinal Worms" Long 6.00N Lat 21.33W |
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Shepherd | William | 35 | Slater | |
Margaret | 23 | |||
James | 3 | |||
Jane | 16 months | |||
Sime | James | 26 | Wright | |
Janet | 27 | |||
Mary | 5 | |||
James | 3 | |||
David | 3 | |||
Janet | 4 months | |||
Tolhurst | Samuel | 34 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Sarah | 27 | |||
Sarah | 8 | |||
Amy | 5 | |||
Mary | 3 | |||
Elizabeth | 2 | |||
Underdown | William | 20 | Agricultural Labourer | |
Vennell | Samuel | 27 | Painter & Glazier | |
Pamela | 28 | |||
Wilkie | George | 36 | Gardener | |
Ann | 36 | |||
Elizabeth | 14 | |||
Catherine | 12 | |||
George | 10 | |||
John | 7 | |||
Peter | 3 | |||
Son | Infant | Born at sea 4/4/1841 Lat 43.24S Long 138.44E |
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Wilkinson | David | 28 | ||
Elizabeth | 23 | |||
Christina | 14 months | |||
Williamson | Charles | 16 | Labourer | |
Williamson | Thomas | 35 | Labourer | |
Eliza | 34 | |||
Eliza | 7 | |||
Wood | Betsy | 16 | Sempstress | |
Wood | James | 35 | Gardener | |
Hannah | 32 | |||
Martha | 11 | |||
Crew | ||||
Cimino | Salvatore | 33 | Crew member | |
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ISAAC EARL FEATHERSTON: Born in England 1813 and graduated as a physician in Edniburgh 1836. Sailed to New Zealand as a surgeon on the Olympus 1840. Member of Parliament 1853-70 and four times elected Superintendent of Wellington. Appointed Agent General for New Zealand in London in 1870 where he died on 21st June 1876. Featherston in the Wairarapa was named after him in 1854. Source: New Zealand Gazette No60 28th October 1875. |
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MCKAIN family: Douglas Mary Dunsmore McKain was born in Glasgow, Scotland c 1792 but moved to London as her stepfather was stationed at the Tower of London. It was here that she met her future husband, William McKain a tailor from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Douglas Mary and William travelled to Guernsey to marry but soon after returned to London and the tower where their eldest daughter was born & christened, and after this they moved to Cheadle in Staffordshire. Between 1809 and 1831 they were to have 13 children, 10 of who survived to adulthood. In 1837, William McKain died and three years later a brave and corageous Douglas Mary decided to emigrate to New Zealand along with four sons and the youngest of her daughters, Robina Agnes. Douglas Mary was a well educated woman loving to write and read poetry and on the voyage out she wrote letters to her family home in England. In New Zealand Douglas Mary stayed for a time in Wellington where she was a mid-wife, nurse and governess and where one of her sons John Ward McKain was to settle. The rest of the family, however, had moved up to Napier and it was here that Douglas Mary would spend the rest of her days. She died on April 3rd 1873 at the age of 84 after a truly remarkable and adventurous life. A note in a book written about the family says of her final resting place. The higher terrace of the Eskdale Cemetery looks over the fertile Esk Valley, with its lush vineyards stretching afar. On a prominent elevation is a granit obelisk erected to the memory of Douglas Mary. If you are interested in learning more about Douglas Mary Dunsmore McKain or wish to share information please contact Pam Thomson in Canada or visit Pams New Zealand McKain website. |
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WILLIAMSON family: Thomas Williamson his wife Eliza and children Charles and Eliza came from somewhere in Somerset, England and took up farming in the Wellington area and were still there up to 1865/66. Young Eliza married Henry Shirley (arrived on the "Arab" in 1841) in Wellington on 07 Jan1849 and they had 4 children in Wellington before joining the move with most of the Shirley family to Napier. After the death of her husband in 1879 Eliza moved to the New Plymouth area to be closer to her son's family and died in 1921. This family's origins and what happened to them remain largely a mystery and any information on them would be much appreciated. Please contact Roger Shirley. |
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BURTON family: James BURTON was a blacksmith in London. He married twice:- 1) Mary LEE of Lee Green, London 2) Elizabeth WILKINS. In December 1840 James with his second wife Elizabeth (nee Wilkins), his children and grandchild Eliza aged 5 months dau of William and Mary (who later married Peter Crow), and sister Elizabeth aged 29 who later married Peter Crow* sailed as immigrants to New Zealand on board the Olympus. If you have a link to this family or wish to learn more please contact Jane Markotsis. |
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MABEY family: Charles and Job MABEY were brothers and it is possible they both originally came from Dorset, but were both married in Devonshire in the 1830s. Charles married Harriet (nee CROOM) and Job married Rachael (nee MOCKERIDGE). Both families emigrated to New Zealand on board this sailing to the Olympus. During the voyage a son was born to Charles and Harriet named Joseph Croom MABEY. They settled at Taita, Lower Hutt where Mabey Road was later named after them. Charlie moved his family to Upper Hutt approx 1860, and Job and his sons continued to farm and market garden at Mabey Road. Charlie and Harriett are buried at St John's Churchyard, Trentham, Upper Hutt. If you have a connection with this family or wish to know more please contact Janet Doyle. |
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Copyright Denise & Peter 1999 - 2008
Reference:
Archives New Zealand NZC 34/1 p 311