Rhea Sylvia
Ship: 881 tons
Captain: Evans
Surgeon Superintendent:
Sailed Bristol January 15th 1861 - arrived Lyttelton May 6th 1861
The only voyage she made to New
Zealand was a very rough one for the Rhea Sylvia, Captain Evans. With 152 passengers on
board she left Bristol on January 15, 1861, and took 111 days to reach Lyttleton, where
she arrived on May 6, 1861. Hardle had the ship left the English coast than she met with a
succession of gales from the S S W, which lasted a fortnight. Even the most experienced
hands were apprehensive, so boisterous was the weather. One of the worst gales experienced
was on the night of January 27, when a tremendous sea broke fore and aft over the ship.
Water got below, the binnacle was washed overboard, the gig stove in, and all livestock
was lost.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
| Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
| Families and Children | ||||
| Bartram | David William | 27 | Staffordshire | Carpenter |
| Elizabeth | 29 | Warwickshire | ||
| Mary Elizabeth | 2 | |||
| Arthur Charles | Infant | |||
| Turner | Annie Louisa | 7 | Niece of Bartram | |
| Blakeley | Thomas | 23 | Antrim | Labourer |
| Catherine | 20 | |||
| William | 1 | |||
| Brock | John | ? | Edinburgh | Mason |
| Margaret Corrigate | ? | |||
| Casserley | Thomas | 32 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 23 | |||
| Crossed out on list | ||||
| Chudley | Robert | 31 | Lancashire | Gardener |
| Mary Grace | 29 | |||
| Eva mary | 3 | |||
| Ada Grace | 8 months | |||
| Corrigate | Jane | 30 | T/F to single women | Travelled with Brock |
| Child | 6 weeks | |||
| Colsey | Thomas | ? | Worcestershire | Domestic Servant |
| Elizabeth | ? | Worcestershire | ||
| Mary | ? | |||
| Coutts | Lewis | 27 | Aberdeen | Farm Labourer |
| Jennet | 20 | |||
| Elizabeth | 25 | T/F to single women | ||
| Cunningham | Merill | 34 | Down | Farm Labourer |
| Maria | 28 | |||
| Maria | 4 | |||
| Ford | Walter | ? | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | ? | |||
| Crossed out on list | ||||
| Hallam | Charles | 33 | Surrey | Carpenter |
| Ann | 31 | |||
| Elizabeth Ann | 6 | |||
| Hamill | John | 40 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Margaret | 56 | |||
| Hamill | James | 25 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 20 | |||
| Hamill | Archibald | 22 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Sarah | 21 | |||
| Margaret | 2 | |||
| Hawker | James | 34 | Somersetshire | Carpenter |
| Anna | 32 | |||
| Mary Ann | 13 | T/F to single women | ||
| Charles | 8 | |||
| Thomas | 7 | |||
| Betsy | 6 | |||
| Richard | 3 months | |||
| Hepburn | John | 24 | Antrim | Carpenter |
| Eliza | 20 | |||
| Agnes | Infant | |||
| Lawrence | Stephen | 32 | Jersey | Labourer |
| Harriet | 23 | |||
| Stephen Bendigo | 8 | |||
| Ann Elizabeth | 3 | |||
| Charles James | 2 | |||
| Alfred John | Infant | |||
| Joyce | Elizabeth A | 41 | Mother of Above | |
| Amelia | 22 | Sister-in-law of above | ||
| Keyne | Michael | 25 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 20 | |||
| McAfee | John | 24 | Antrim | Ploughman |
| Catherine | 19 | |||
| McCallum | Peter | 25 | Dumbarton | Gardener |
| Margaret | 26 | |||
| McCracken | Alexander | 28 | Ayr | Ploughman |
| Jean | 19 | |||
| Alexander | 2 months | |||
| Rencham | William | 35 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Margaret | 25 | |||
| Patrick | 3 | |||
| Anne | Infant | |||
| Wallace | Lawrence | 30 | Guernsey | Labourer |
| Ann | 27 | |||
| Frederick | 6 | |||
| John Henry | 4 | |||
| Whelan | James | 34 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Johanna | 30 | |||
| Mary Anne | 4 | |||
| John | 3 | |||
| William | Infant | |||
| Single Men | ||||
| Carroll | Thomas | 32 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Carty | John | 30 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Cormick | Langhlin W | 23 | Argyl | Ploughman |
| Archibald | 26 | Dumbarton | Carpenter | |
| Cotter | Edmund | 28 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Dardos | John | 29 | Westmeath | Farm Labourer |
| Davison | Alexander | 25 | Antrim | Ploughman |
| Dove | William | 28 | Lanark | Ploughman |
| Gay | George | 20 | Wiltshire | Wool Washer |
| Gibson | Robert | 21 | Ayr | Ploughman |
| Gilmore | Martin | 22 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| Patrick | 20 | Galway | Farm Labourer | |
| Goodall | John | 20 | Fife | Farm Labourer |
| Hamilton | Thomas | 21 | Lanark | Ploughman |
| Kennedy | John | 45 | Wigton | Shepherd |
| Kennedy | John | 22 | Tipperary | Blacksmith |
| Eliza | 18 | T/F to single women | ||
| Malloy | Michael | 21 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| John | 20 | Galway | Farm Labourer | |
| McHardy | Alexander | 29 | Aberdeen | Ploughman |
| McIlray | Hugh | 21 | Antrim | Ploughman |
| McIlwrath | William | 42 | Antrim | Farm Labourer |
| Will | 20 | Antrim | Farm Labourer | |
| Gilbert | 18 | Antrim | Farm Labourer | |
| Daniel | 15 | Antrim | Farm Labourer | |
| Molloy | Charles | 23 | Galway | Farm Labourer |
| Mullowney | Patrick | 26 | Limerick | Groom |
| Murchie | William | 23 | Wigton | Shepherd |
| O'Brien | Michael F | 25 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Richardson | Charles | 24 | Sussex | Gardener |
| Robertson | William | 23 | Lanark | Ploughman |
| Sandison | Alexander | 28 | Aberdeen | Farm Labourer |
| Smith | James | 20 | Down | Farm Labourer |
| Stevenson | Henry | 20 | Stirlingshire | Farm Servant |
| Vickers | James | 28 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
| Single Women | ||||
| Allan | Jane | 21 | Argule | Housemaid |
| Cooper | Lydia | 43 | Sussex | Housekeeper MATRON |
| Corrigate | Jane | 30 | Edinburgh | |
| Coutts | Elizabeth | 25 | Aberdeen | Domestic Servant |
| Groves | Frances | 27 | Sussex | Nursery Governess |
| Lucy | 20 | Middlesex | Nursery Governess | |
| Hawker | Mary Ann | 13 | Somerset | |
| Holliday | Jane | 18 | Kent | Domestic Servant |
| Joyce | Elizabeth | 41 | Jersey | Laundress |
| Amelia | 22 | Jersey | Laundress | |
| Kelly | Mary | 21 | Galway | Farm Servant |
| Kennedy | Eliza | 18 | Tipperary | Domestic Servant |
| Lawrie | Jeanie | 26 | Renfrew | Domestic Servant |
| Loft | Isabella | 19 | Hartford | Domestic Servant |
| Mundy | Margaret | 35 | Lanark | Dairymaid |
| Smith | Isabella | 28 | Durham | |
| Mary Helen | 5 | Durham | ||
| Sarah | 3 | Durham | ||
| Pearson Frederick | 1 | Durham | ||
| Taylor | Agnes | 24 | Argyle | Domestic Servant |
| Yeomason | Elizabeth | 18 | Kent | Housemaid |
Copyright Denise and Peter 2000
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IMCH4/33