CONFIANCE

 

Immigration Office, Port Adelaide, September 12^th 1854

List of Emigrants sent out by the Land and Emigration Commissioners on board the

Confiance, Robert Macartney, commander, 958 tons per register, left Plymouth June 10,

arrived September 12, 1854:-

Adults

                                                                Male       Female   Totals

Married                                                  50            50            100

Single                                                     46            117          163

Children

Above 1 and under 14 yrs                  25            35            60

infants under 1 yr                                  5            6             11

totals                                                      126          208          334

 

 

 

Published in the South Australian Government Gazette

21^st September 1854

 

Colonial Secretary’s Office, Adelaide, September 20, 1854

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

Immigrants arrived by the Emerald Isle, 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 four 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.

 

Married Immigrants

 

Names of Heads of families signing the Engagement	Christian name	Names of the members of each family	Ages
Bennetts	William	William Eliza Mary Margaret	24 26 2 infant
Burke	David	David Mary Anthony	24 24 Infant
burn	Peter	Peter Mary	21 20
Campbell	John	John Bridget	22 22
Clayton	William	William Letitia	26 27
Cunningham	Michael	Michael Mary	26 24
dally	John	John Mary	24 19
dunstone	James	James Sarah Mary Ann John James	40 44 12 14 infant
Fitzgerald	Thomas	Thomas Mary	21 23
Flanagan	Patrick	Patrick Mary	27 24
foy	John	John Sarah Mary	25 20 1
Gerraghty	Edmund	Edmund Mary Kate	27 24 infant
Harvey	Philip	Philip Sarah	33 30
hunt	John	John Martha Ellen Martha Robert	42 32 9 6 3
Kelloway	Thomas	Thomas Sarah William	25 20 infant
Lees	Thomas	Thomas Margaret	23 26
lemon	John	John Anne Elizabeth Frederick	29 26 2 1
May	John	John Elizabeth William Mary	23 23 2 1
Mcgodrick	John	John Margaret	23 24
McNiel	Allan	Allan Araminta E & M (twins) Hugh Anne Margaret	43 32 13 7 5 infant
Mcsweigan	Patrick	Patrick Rossey	27 25
Moore	John	John Mary A	20 18
Murry	Thomas	Thomas Jane	32 30
rogers	William	William Nanny	42 40
ryan	George	George Margaret John Frances George	33 30 11 7 5
scales	John	John Mary	32 24
Scullion	Daniel	Daniel Anne	33 22
taylor	Mary	Mary James Margaret Honor	23 13 11 9
tolcher	Joseph	Joseph Esther	21 20
Woolcock	Richard	Richard Grace Richard Mary	31 28 8 infant
woolwock	John	John Nanny	25 25

 

 

 

Single Immigrants

Name of Immigrant who has signed or subscribed the Engagement to repay

 

alford	Elizabeth
Allen	Susannah
Anderson	Nancy
boyd	Bridget
boyd	Catherine
boyd	Margaret
burke	Elizabeth
Campbell	Mary
canon	Elizabeth
carr	Bridget
carroll	Anne
cellings	Catherine
charters	James
charters	Mary
charters	Anne
chubb	Emma
clarke	Elizabeth
clarke	Elizabeth
colletan	Bridget
Collins	Catherine
connery	Anne
coogan	Mary
cunneen	Winny
davis	Jane
draffin	Celia
dunne	Martha
dunstone	James
dunstone	Heziah
Edwards	Mary
Farrell	Ann
Faulkner	Sarah
fitzgerald	Hannah
Fitzpatrick	Eliza
glennan	Margaret
gormon	Bridget
Hardy	Matilda
hardy	Eliza
hassitt	Alex.
hassitt	Bridget
heary	Anne
henahan	Eliza
henry	Jane
hicks	Eliza
hughes	Jane
hughes	Mary
Jenkins	Sarah
kealy	Anne
Kelly	Bridget
Kelly	Mary
Kelly	Catherine
kilson	Bridget
kyan	Bridget
loony	Mary
manley	Margaret
marden	Susan
mcbrien	Anne
mcinerry	Mary
mckenamin	Cicely
mcmamny	Catherine
mcmaurny	Nancy
McMenamin	Hugh
mcneil	Esther
Mcneil	Jane
Moan	Ellen
mocasy	Mary
mocasy	Mary
mooney	Mary
morris	Mary
mulrong	Catherine
mulrong	Catherine
Murphy	Mary
neil	Mary
Nolan	Mary
o’loughlin	Mary
o’neil	Jane
odlum	Maria
payne	Eliza
Phelan	Bridget
quinn	Susan
reid	Eliza
scullion	Catherine
smith	Bridget
snell	Anne
stewart	Ann
Taylor	Michael
taylor	Mary
Taylor	Patience
thelan	Bridget
thyne	Kitty
Vivian	Mary
Watson	Jane
webdrick	Barbara
Williams	Ann
yates	Mary

 

Confiance

Arrived on the 12^th September, and landed 334 souls; there were five births and two deaths, one of which was

a new born infant. She arrived in good order, but the young women being upwards of a 100 in number were

not generally of the class in demand in the Colony, and many remained unhired in the depot at the final

disembarkation of the emigrants. The Surgeon-Superintendent states, that great inconvenience resulted from

the water-closets getting constantly out of order, although one constable was specially appointed to take

charge of them. He complains of the porter and port wine put on board as medical comforts, being of inferior

quality. During the past quarter, some of the ships have had a separate oven and a baker appointed, to enable

the emigrants to get a supply of soft bread; but the patent yeast put on board, or the mode in which the ovens

are constructed, do not seem to answer the purpose intended, the bread not being light and digestible. Some

suggestions have been made to obviate the difficulty-one of which is, that malt and hops should be used on

board instead of patent yeast; and another that the ovens should be built round with a casing of bricks, to

prevent them from cooling too quickly. Both of these suggestions seem to me worthy of attention. I would

recommend the ovens to be placed in some part of the ship at a distance from the emigrants apartments.

In the Confiance the heat of the oven caused inconvenience to those emigrants who were placed in the poop

part of the ship. By a letter from the Commissioners, I am instructed that in all vessels sailing from England

after the month of May, one constable is to be appointed to superintend exclusively the proper management

of the water-closets; for which duty a larger gratuity is to be given than to ordinary constables. I think this

regulation calculated to be very useful. Only one vessel, the Confiance has arrived since that rule took effect.

I must direct attention to the fact, that the young women who arrived in the Nugget and Confiance, were of a

class quite unfitted for the wants of the colonists-the greatest difficulty is experienced in procuring

employment for such persons.

 

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