OSTRICH
Edward H Lishman, commander, 426 tons per register, left
arrived July 21, 1854
The South Australian
Government Gazette 27 July 1854
Notice to Employers of
Laborers – By His Excellency’s command B T Finniss, Colonial Secretary
The Land and Emigration Commissioners have forwarded to this office
written engagements subscribed by the Immigrants
arrived by the “Ostrich”, 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 4 years from the
day of their landing, they will repay to the
Government a proportionate part of the cost of their passage to
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
South Australian Government
Gazette 24 August 1854
List of persons nominated by purchasers of Land in
Orders to join the ship “Ostrich”
Name of Emigrant/Age Name of Depositor Amt of Payment required by the
Board
£ s. d.
Sorrell,
Amy (wife) 23 Ditto 2 0 0
South Australian Government
Gazette 19 October 1854
The “Ostrich” arrived in this port on the 21st July after a
passage of ninety three days, bringing to the Colony one hundred
and eighty eight souls. Four deaths and four births occurred during the
voyage or before final disembarkation. All the deaths
happened during the fourteen days in which the emigrants are allowed to
remain on board. The Surgeon of this vessel also
suggests the propriety of having the lying-in hospital removed from the
single women’s apartments. He complains of a deficiency
of some of the medical comforts, such as porter and brandy. The
emigrants arriving in this vessel were of a most eligible class;
and the single women found immediate employment.
Information
from the CD “Bound for
Surgeon John S Ireland
Deaths
on Board 4
Frederick Hull, age 1 on the 23
July of Tabes Mesenterica
Richard Burkett, age 10 months on
the 26 July of Bronchitis and whooping cough
McCole (on board), Male,
age 2 months on the 26 July of Bronchitis and whooping cough
Rosa Skinner age 1 on the 27
July of Whooping Cough
Births
on Board 4
Parents, Date of Birth, Sex of
Child
Mary and William McCole on the 11 May,
Male
Mary Anne and Charles Fisher on the 19 May,
female
Janet and William Blackley on the 25 May,
Male
Sarah and James Harvey on the 17 July,
Female
Blackley |
William |
32 |
|
Janet |
31 |
|
William |
7 |
|
Thomas |
2 |
Bouthon |
George |
33 |
|
Ann |
30 |
|
George |
8 |
|
John |
5 |
Bowell |
James |
25 |
|
Susan |
25 |
|
Laura |
1 |
Burkett |
James |
22 |
|
Francis |
21 |
|
William |
2 |
|
Richard |
infant |
Cheesman |
William |
21 |
|
Mary |
25 |
|
Mildred |
infant |
Child |
James |
42 |
|
Eliza |
38 |
|
Harriet |
11 |
|
Stephen |
3 |
Cross |
Charles |
29 |
|
Jemima |
25 |
|
Charles |
2 |
|
Mary J. |
infant |
Dwight |
Eli |
20 |
|
Harriet |
18 |
Earwaker |
John |
28 |
|
Mary |
28 |
|
Mary |
3 |
|
Emma |
1 |
Fisher |
Charles |
27 |
|
Margaret |
29 |
|
Thomas |
3 |
Gifford |
George |
31 |
|
Anne |
22 |
Gigney |
Edward |
30 |
|
|
19 |
|
Edward |
infant |
|
James |
39 |
|
Sarah |
30 |
|
Sarah |
10 |
|
Julia |
9 |
|
|
5 |
|
George |
3 |
Hinds |
William |
30 |
|
Ann |
28 |
|
Susan |
6 |
|
|
2 |
Hollams |
James |
32 |
|
Susan |
33 |
|
Sarah |
10 |
|
Thomas |
3 |
Hubble |
George |
30 |
|
Lucy |
23 |
|
Job |
36 |
|
Hannah |
36 |
|
Philip |
11 |
|
Job |
9 |
|
James |
5 |
|
|
1 |
|
William J |
29 |
|
|
23 |
Johnson |
Edward H |
42 |
|
Catherine |
35 |
King |
Charles |
24 |
|
Maria |
23 |
|
Walter |
5 |
|
Abraham |
28 |
|
Mary A. |
25 |
|
Herbert |
2 |
|
Edmund |
1 |
McCole |
William |
39 |
|
Mary |
29 |
|
Janet |
10 |
|
Maria |
8 |
|
Eliza |
4 |
|
Mary |
2 |
Mills |
James |
25 |
|
|
25 |
|
James |
infant |
Miller |
James |
19 |
|
Sarah |
22 |
|
William |
infant |
Myson |
Henry |
23 |
|
Sarah |
25 |
Newson |
John |
25 |
|
|
30 |
Parker |
Henry |
34 |
|
Eliza |
36 |
|
James |
6 |
|
William |
4 |
Passfield |
Samuel |
36 |
|
Ann |
34 |
|
William |
13 |
|
Thomas |
11 |
|
Ann |
7 |
|
James |
4 |
|
Eliza |
2 |
Paten |
William |
25 |
|
Ann |
20 |
Petch |
Alfred |
23 |
|
Eliza |
25 |
Pile |
Andrew |
25 |
|
Mary |
26 |
|
John |
36 |
|
Mary |
34 |
|
James |
18 |
|
|
11 |
Randel |
George |
25 |
|
Sarah |
27 |
Rothwell |
William |
33 |
|
Martha |
33 |
|
Mary A. |
12 |
|
|
10 |
|
Catherine |
6 |
|
Jane |
2 |
Shadrack |
Richard |
34 |
|
Eliza |
29 |
|
Amelia |
10 |
|
Emma |
4 |
Sherriff |
Thomas |
34 |
|
Eliza |
34 |
|
George |
11 |
|
Anne |
6 |
|
|
infant |
Skinner |
Thomas |
32 |
|
Mary |
32 |
|
William |
9 |
|
Julia |
2 |
|
|
1 |
Smith |
Alfred |
27 |
|
Harriet |
25 |
Sorrell |
|
25 |
|
Amy |
23 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
infant |
Steel |
Thomas |
42 |
|
Martha |
47 |
|
Thomas |
12 |
|
Mary |
10 |
|
Agnes |
8 |
|
Joseph |
5 |
Wade |
John |
37 |
|
|
35 |
|
Henry |
6 |
Walder |
Samuel |
29 |
|
Mary |
30 |
|
Samuel |
7 |
White |
Jonas |
24 |
|
Francis |
22 |
Whyate |
James |
30 |
|
Sarah |
33 |
|
John |
40 |
|
Susan |
35 |
|
Harry |
1 |
Wooley |
Henry |
25 |
|
Mary |
30 |
Child |
Margaret |
|
Collett |
Mary |
|
Gifford |
Eliza |
|
Gifford |
Helen |
|
Goode |
Ruth |
|
Harding |
Grace |
|
Hogan |
Bridget |
|
Jones |
Emma |
|
Kennedy |
Mary |
|
Kislingbury |
|
|
Levitt |
Emma |
|
|
Ann |
|
Morris |
Eliza |
|
Pothcary |
Mary A. |
|
Reynolds |
Ann |
|
Sutton |
Fanny |
|
Turner |
|
|
|
Caroline |
|
|
Louisa J. |
|
|
Rachael |
|
Whitford |
Celia |
|
|
Ann |
|
Steel |
Henry |
|
|
James |
|
|
Mary |
|
|
Sarah |
|
McCole |
Mary A |
|
Steel |
Ann |
|
Steel |
|
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