Octavia
The Register Newspaper July
1855
Every care has been taken to
transcribe the surnames as printed in the newspaper.
No Christian names are
mentioned in the newspaper
Wednesday, July 19 – The ship Octavia, 1055 tons, Dale
Master, from
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Dale
(3) Mrs, Miss and master |
fickling
(3) misses |
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dixon mrs |
cook
(2) dr. and mrs |
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atkinson
(2) mr and mrs |
bailey
(9) mr, mrs, 7 children |
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bank
(6) mr, mrs, 4 children |
beach
(3) mr, mrs, child |
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lotts
(4) mr, mrs, 2 children |
blunchen
(7) mr, mrs, 5 children |
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brennan
(2) mr and mrs |
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briggs
(2) mr and mrs |
collingman
(2) mr and mrs |
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campion
(2) mr and mrs |
canfield
(2) mr and mrs |
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chant
(2) mr and mrs |
clements
(3) mr, mrs, child |
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clance
(2) mr and mrs |
cox
(4) mr, mrs, 2 children |
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cox
(3) w. cox wife
and child |
daly
(3) mr, mrs, child |
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daveren
(2) mr and mrs |
dooley
(2) mr and mrs |
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downar
(2) mr and mrs |
fretwirk
(2) mr and mrs |
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gillighan
(2) mr and mrs |
guppy
(2) mr and mrs |
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hennesy
(6) mr, mrs, 4 children |
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hicks
(3) mr, mrs, child |
hodges
(6) mr, mrs, 4 children |
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harden
(2) mr and mrs |
harford
(2) mr and mrs |
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johnson
(2) mr and mrs |
kenney
(4) mr, mrs, 2 children |
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kennedy
(2) mr and mrs |
kilbride
(2) mr and mrs |
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kennelly
(2) mr and mrs |
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larkin
(2) mr and mrs |
largan
(2) mr and mrs |
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kinly
(4) mr, mrs, 2 children |
macmahon
(2) mr
and mrs |
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mardigan
(2) mr and mrs |
maher
(2) mr and mrs |
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malone
(2) mr and mrs |
molony
(2) mr and mrs |
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martin
(2) mr and mrs |
mathews
(3) mr, mrs, child |
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maxwell
(3) mr, mrs, child |
moran
(2) mr, mrs |
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molton
(3) mr, mrs, child |
nash
(3) mr, mrs, child |
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nugent
(2) mr and mrs |
o’brien
(2) mr and mrs |
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quin
(2) mr and mrs |
robinson
(2) mr and mrs |
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ryan
(2) mr and mrs |
williams
(6) mr, mrs, 4 children |
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willy
(2) mr and mrs |
wurger
(6) mr, mrs, 4 children |
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scotchen
(4) mr, mrs, 2 children |
sheely
(2) mr and mrs |
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simmons
(3) mr, mrs, child |
smiley
(3) mr , mrs, child |
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smith
(2) mr and mrs |
filbrook
(9) mr, mrs 7 children |
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taddenhan
(8) mr, mrs, 6 children |
winnon
(5) mr, mrs, 3 children |
|
voss
(2) mr and mrs |
wade
(2) mr and mrs |
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willis
(7) mr,
mrs, 5 children |
weston
(4) mr, mrs, 2 children |
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single men |
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carroll |
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carthy |
cracknell |
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donnell |
dullard |
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edwards |
fleming |
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guppy |
healy |
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keawin
(3) |
bailey
(2) |
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LISTON |
MCAULY |
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MCNALLY |
MCMORNAM |
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MADYARE |
MORGAN |
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MATHEWS |
MORGAN |
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NASH |
O’NEIL |
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LUXLY |
QUIN |
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BOWAN |
RYAN |
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SCHOTCHIN |
SHEA |
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STEVENSON |
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FILBROOK |
CRITTENDEN |
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WILLIAMS |
GEORGE |
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WALL |
WINGER |
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WOODBURN |
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SINGLE WOMEN |
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BEAUCHAMP |
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BEASLEY |
BENNETT
(2) |
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BOWER |
BREHANE |
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BROWN |
COBBEACH |
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CARROLL |
CARTY |
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CAREY
(2) |
chant (3) |
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CONEGAY |
CRUST?NE |
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CULLEN |
CUMMINS |
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DEMPSEY |
DONNELL |
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DUNDON |
DYER
(2) |
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EVANS
(2) |
EAGEN |
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ELLIOT |
FORAITH |
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FOX |
FULHAM |
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GARVEY |
GRADY |
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GRAHAM |
GREEN
(2) |
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ETHRINGTON |
JOHNSON |
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ETHRINGTON |
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KAVANAGH |
KEAmes |
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KERFORD |
KINLY |
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KELLY |
KNIPTON |
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KIRMIN
(4) |
LEARY |
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LISTON |
MCCORMICK |
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MCKEOUGH |
MCMAHON
(2) |
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MCNANCE |
MCDERMOT |
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MILLS |
MCSHAW |
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MACKEY |
MADIGAN
(2) |
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MATHEWS |
MAHONY |
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MEEHAN |
MILLER |
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MORAN
(2) |
MOREY |
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MORGAN |
MORRIS |
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MILLER |
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MURPHY |
NEIL |
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NOCTER |
NORRIS
(2) |
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O’BRIEN |
O’REILY
(2) |
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PANT |
POWER |
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PUNCH |
PURCELL |
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QUIN |
ROUSE |
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RUDDELL |
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SHAW
(2) |
SINGLETON |
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HOARNE |
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STAGGLE |
STODDART |
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SULLIVAN |
HURLEY |
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TRACEY |
TUDDENHAM |
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WILHON |
CRENZYY |
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WOODBURN
(2) |
WRIGHT
(2) |
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RYAN |
YOUNGMAN |
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WATKINS |
DONOHUE |
Further Information
Published October 25th,
1855 in the South Australian Government Gazette
Immigration Office, Port
The Octavia arrived on the 18th
of July from
Mr Robins William Cooke was the Surgeon-Superintendent. The number of
emigrants disembarked was 382.
Five births and seven deaths were the casualties during the voyage.
The Surgeon-Superintendent fulfilled the duties of his office most
efficiently. The emigrants including 119
young women, were generally of a class unsuited for
this colony. The Surgeon-Superintendent had great difficulty in
enforcing cleanliness. The gratuity of
the baker was arrested for inefficiency, and the gratuity of the chief mate was
also stopped for want of kindness and attention to
the emigrants. He seemed to take pleasure in putting them to
inconvenience; leaving them standing for
hours on the wharf after sunset, when it was his duty to have sent a
boat at that time to take them to the ship. The
gratuity to the officers of ships is payable only when they are active
in promoting the comfort of the people.
By instruction s from His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, founded upon
the legal opinion of the Hon. the Advocate-
General, I refused to sign the ship’s papers, certifying that all the
requirements of the charter party had been fulfilled;
which certificate, countersigned by the Governor of
the Colony, is required by the Commissioners, before the second
moiety of the freight is paid. The Advocate General is
of opinion that
the master of an emigrant ship who discharges
cargo before the expiration of the fourteen lay days,
allowed for the disembarkation of the people, violates the provisions
of his charter-party. It has been the invariable
custom at Port Adelaide, not to allow the discharge of cargo from emigrant
ships till the people have been finally landed. The
observance of this regulation is insisted upon for several reasons:
In the first place, discharge of cargo is attended with danger to the
women and children on account of the hatches being open
all day long. In the second place the emigrants are
put to serious inconvenience, as it is necessary to bring on deck all the
luggage of the people before the cargo
can be reached; it thus obstructs the space allotted for the use of the
emigrants, and
interferes with another clause of the
charter-party in which it is expressly stipulated that the upper deck shall be
kept quite
clear for the use of the emigrants. The charter-party
makes it necessary that there shall be fourteen clear days allowed for the
embarkation of the emigrants and also
fourteen clear days allowed for their disembarkation; and that the ship shall not
be
considered ready for the reception of
passengers till the whole freight is on board and stowed away. I conceive that
the
natural inference is, that what is
considered necessary for the safety and comfort of the people during
embarkation is equally
necessary during their disembarkation.
The master of the Octavia did not
coincide in opinion with the Advocate-General
regarding the reading of the
charter-party; and in defiance of warning, continued the discharge of his cargo
during the lay
days. It is now left to the Commissioners at home to
decide this question, and to alter the phraseology of the clause in the
charter-party if it be supposed that the
luggage used is not sufficiently explicit.