Bebington
Ship: 924 Tons
Captain: Holditch
Surgeon Superintendent:
Sailed London February 12th 1876 - arrived Auckland July 15th 1876
A ship of 924 tons, Bebington was built in
1859. She had, amongst her many passengers, the unenviable nickname of "The Old
Tub" and was one of the slowest boats on the New Zealand immigrant run. Even under
very favourable conditions, she still took longer than most to make the voyage out. In
addition she was dogged by ill-fortune. Collisions with other ships, storms, outbreaks of
typhoid and short supplies all at one time or another plagued "The Old Tub". Bebington
made eight voyages to New Zealand of which three were to Lyttleton, two to Wellington and
one each to Dunedin, Auckland and Napier. On her arrival in Auckland on July 15th 1876, Bebington
was met by the Health Officer at Rangitoto Reef. There being typhoid and 67 cases of
measles on board he sent her into quarantine on Motuihe Island where she remained for 5 weeks.
Source: White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
| Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
| Families & Children | ||||
| Auchinleck | John | 34 | Tyrone | Constable |
| Caroline | 33 | |||
| Ellen | 15 | T/F to single women | ||
| Boyers | Robert | 42 | ||
| Faith | 37 | |||
| Edward | 17 | T/F to single men | ||
| Maria | 11 | |||
| Mary Jane | 9 | Died on board 17/02/1876 - enteric fever (buried Portsmouth) |
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| Charlotte | 7 | |||
| Sarah | 5 | |||
| John | 2 | |||
| Chatfield | Henry F | 31 | Sussex | Carpenter |
| Clara | 24 | |||
| Henry R | 3 | |||
| Albert E | 11 months | Died on board 13/03/1876 - hydrocephalus (water on brain) |
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| Clarke | Patrick | 30 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | 27 | |||
| Thomas | 4 | |||
| Michael | 2 | |||
| Patrick | 15 months | Died on board 23/03/1876 - congestion of the lungs |
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| Condon | Timothy | 38 | Cork | Farm Labourer |
| Margaret | 34 | |||
| Hannah | 15 | T/F to single women | ||
| Mary | 13 | T/F to single women | ||
| Thomas | 12 | T/F to single men | ||
| Ellen | 10 | |||
| John | 8 | |||
| Bridget | 5 | |||
| Janet | 3 | |||
| Corcoran | James | 36 | Limerick | Shepherd |
| Johanna | 30 | |||
| Ellen | 18 | T/F to single women | ||
| Honora | 16 | T/F to single women | ||
| Patrick | 14 | T/F to single men | ||
| William | 12 | T/F to single men | ||
| James | 5 | |||
| Thomas | 4 months | |||
| Cuttle | William | 26 | Yorkshire | Farm Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 22 | |||
| Fisher | Thomas | 29 | Clare | Farm Labourer Died on board 12/05/1876 - typhoid fever |
| Winifred | 25 | |||
| Johanna | 6 | |||
| Mary | 4 | |||
| Michael | 2 | |||
| Benjamin | 5 months | |||
| Flynn | Maurice | 39 | Cork | Farm Labourer |
| Margaret | 35 | |||
| Daniel | 14 | T/F to single men | ||
| Eliza | 12 | T/F to single women | ||
| Johanna | 8 | |||
| Margaret | 3 | |||
| Michael | 2� | |||
| Patrick | 1 | |||
| Flynn | William | 44 | Cork | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | 38 | |||
| Honora | 18 | T/F to single women | ||
| Mary | 18 | T/F to single women | ||
| Margaret | 15 | T/F to single women | ||
| Ellen | 11 | |||
| Franks | William | 24 | Yorkshire | Waggoner |
| Eleanor J | 21 | |||
| James | 10 months | |||
| Green | Patrick | 20 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Frances | 20 | |||
| Hallinan | James | 44 | Tipperary | Farmer |
| Anastasia | 38 | |||
| Michael | 14 | T/F to single men | Died on board 12/05/1876 - malignant scarlet fever |
|
| Mary | 12 | T/F to single women | ||
| Kate | 11 | |||
| Healy | Thomas | 45 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Anne | 40 | |||
| Maurice | 14 | T/F to single men | ||
| Thomas | 12 | T/F to single men | ||
| Maria | 10 | |||
| Irwin | Britton | 32 | Fermanagh | Ploughman |
| Matilda | 26 | |||
| Britton | 2 | |||
| Joice | George | 33 | Derbyshire | Miner |
| Annie | 32 | |||
| Mary H | 2 | |||
| Joice | Matthew | 30 | T/F to single men | Brother of George |
| Turnbull | Cuthbert | 21 | T/F to single men | Miner - travelled with Joice family |
| Johnson | Edwin J | 32 | Glostershire | Stone Mason |
| Minnie | 27 | |||
| Kate E | 6 | |||
| Edward P | 4 | |||
| Jones | Herbert | 26 | Lancashire | General Labourer |
| Jane A | 26 | |||
| Elizabeth A | 11 months | |||
| Lock | David | 23 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
| Hester | 27 | |||
| Henry | 6 months | |||
| McCabe | Michael | 27 | Fermanagh | Farm Labourer |
| Eliza | 26 | |||
| Mary J | 3 | |||
| Annie | 1 | |||
| McGovern | Patrick John | 27 | Donegal | Shepherd Schoolmaster on board |
| Maggie | 19 | |||
| Sergeant | Charles | 31 | Cambridgeshire | Labourer |
| Ann | 30 | |||
| Charles | 8 | |||
| Ann | 5 | |||
| Symons | William | 36 | Cornwall | Tailor |
| Mary J | 36 | |||
| Bessie | 11 | |||
| William | 4 | |||
| John W | 1 | |||
| Wernham | William | 38 | Berkshire | Coachman |
| Sarah | 33 | |||
| William | 4 | |||
| Mary | 3 | |||
| Wilkinson | Robert | 32 | Cheshire | Labourer |
| Caroline | 30 | |||
| Mary | 18 months | |||
| Robert E | 2 months | Died on board 05/04/1876 - mesenteric diarrhoea |
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| Willis | Samuel | 31 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer |
| Mary | 21 | |||
| Sarah | 3 | |||
| Emma | 1 | |||
| Willis | John | 19 | T/F to single men | Farm Labourer - travelled with Willis family (probably brother to Samuel) |
| Willey | George | 23 | T/F to single men | Farm Labourer - travelled with Willis family |
| Simpson | Henry | 24 | Monmouthshire | Labourer |
| Margaret | 23 | |||
| Stewart | George | 27 | Stirlingshire | Farm Labourer |
| Ellen | 25 | |||
| Marian | 4 | |||
| Elizabeth | 1 | |||
| Tisdale | George | 29 | Lancashire | Farm Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 28 | |||
| Colonial Nominated Families & Children | ||||
| Buckton | Thomas | 35 | Yorkshire | Carter |
| Mary | 33 | |||
| Thomas | 13 | T/F to single men | ||
| Samul | 8 | |||
| Sarah | 7 | |||
| Hester | 5 | |||
| Harry | 4 | |||
| Davey | Edwin J | 33 | Middlesex | General Labourer |
| Elizabeth | 32 | |||
| Kate A | 6 | |||
| Edwin J | 4 | |||
| Nellie | 2 | |||
| Agnes S | 16 days | Born on board 28/04/1876 Died on board 14/05/1876 - insanitation and convulsions |
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| Keep | Thomas | 39 | Bedfordshire | General Labourer |
| Jane | 40 | |||
| Thomas John | 14 | T/F to single men | ||
| Hannah N | 9 | |||
| George | 6 | |||
| Lavinia N | 4 | |||
| Florence J | 1 | |||
| King | Thomas | 31 | Norfolkshire | General Labourer |
| Emma | 27 | |||
| William Thomas | 2 | |||
| Ann J | 7 weeks | Died on board 03/04/1876 - mesenteric diarrhoea |
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| Parrish | Mark | 25 | Northamptonshire | General Labourer |
| Mary | 26 | |||
| Ellen | 6 | |||
| Elizabeth | 3 | |||
| Single Men | ||||
| Abrams | Jonas | 29 | Cornwall | Labourer |
| Bettelheim | Joseph James | 17 | Middlesex | Groom |
| Fanny H | 20 | T/F to single women | ||
| Jemima H | 14 | T/F to single women | ||
| Brewer | Henry | 21 | Middlesex | Farm Labourer |
| Brophy | Patrick | 22 | Kings County | Farm Labourer |
| Brown | William P | 23 | Somersetshire | Painter |
| Campbell | Angus | 30 | Queens County | Farmer |
| Chambers | Samuel | 21 | Lincolnshire | Agricultural Implement Maker |
| Cochrane | James | 28 | Down | Farm Labourer |
| Condon | Thomas | 12 | Cork | |
| Conroy | Michael | 20 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Turnbull | Cuthbert | 21 | Derbyshire | Miner - travelled with Joice family |
| Downing | Bartholomew | 23 | Cork | Farm Labourer |
| Fitzgibbon | Michael | 18 | Limerick | Farm Labourer Died on board 17/04/1876 - typhoid fever |
| Gilmore | John | 28 | Down | Labourer |
| Grosse | William | 22 | Lincolnshire | Miller |
| Houlahan | Patrick | 33 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Healey | Martin | 33 | Middlesex | Carpenter |
| Heath | Patrick | 19 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Hobson | Richard | 21 | Roscommon | Farm Labourer Died on board 25/04/1876 - typhoid fever |
| Houston | James | 30 | Tyrone | Ploughman |
| Hughes | Richard | 22 | Anglesea | Gardener |
| Joice | Matthew | 30 | Derbyshire | Miner |
| Kelleher | John | 29 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
| Kelly | Patrick | 21 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Law | George | 32 | Essex | Farm Labourer Died on board 19/05/1876 - pneumonia |
| McAllan | Michael | 20 | Clare | Labourer |
| McKee | Louis | 20 | Monaghan | Farmer |
| William | 8 | Monaghan | ||
| McKinney | John | 34 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer |
| McLeod | John | 33 | Queens County | Farmer |
| McNamara | Michael | 25 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Millard | Albert | 20 | Gloucestershire | Labourer |
| Neylan | Patrick | 22 | Clare | Ploughman |
| Nurrish | Nicholas | 13 | Cornwall | |
| Ramsay | Hugh | 22 | Donegal | Farm Labourer |
| Ryan | John | 31 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer |
| Charles | 25 | Tipperary | Labourer | |
| Silver | Frederick | 29 | Hertfordshire | Sergeant R M A |
| Smyth | Patrick | 20 | Fermanagh | Navvy |
| Joseph | 27 | Fermanagh | Navvy | |
| Stevenson | Jeremiah | 14 | Donegal | Herd Boy |
| Stewart | James | 24 | Donegal | Farm Labourer Died on board 29/05/1876 - pneumonia |
| Stringer | Joseph | 25 | Yorkshire | Millwright |
| Strathern | John | 25 | Lanark | Joiner |
| Trassey | Francis G | 22 | Londonderry | Farm Labourer Died on board 08/04/1876 - typhus fever |
| Trassey | Richard | 20 | Londonderry | Farm Labourer Died on board 12/04/1876 - typhus fever |
| Tournay | Arthur | 21 | Kent | Bricklayer |
| White | Thomas | 24 | Clare | Farm Labourer |
| Willey | George | 23 | America | Farm Labourer - travelled with Willis family |
| Willis | John | 19 | Somersetshire | Farm Labourer - travelled with Willis family |
| Colonial Nominated Single Men | ||||
| Clements | James | 21 | Londonderry | Farm Labourer |
| Leahy | William | 16 | Cork | |
| Thomas | 14 | Cork | Died on board 22/04/1876 - typhoid fever | |
| Daniel | 11 | Cork | ||
| Single Women | ||||
| Bettelheim | Fanny H | 20 | Middlesex | |
| Jemima H | 14 | Middlesex | ||
| Boardman | Mary | 17 | - travelled with Healy family | |
| Bourke | Bridget | 18 | ||
| Dugan | Catherine | 23 | ||
| Duncan | Mary | 25 | ||
| Gilmour | Alice | 18 | ||
| Heath | Margaret | 22 | ||
| Houlihan | Ellen | 22 | ||
| Kelly | Honora | 20 | ||
| Kuhy | Ann | 30 | ||
| Lampra | Harriet | 20 | ||
| Lease | Susan | 39 | ||
| Jessie | 9 | |||
| Lynch | Margaret | 28 | ||
| McKee | Elizabeth | 23 | ||
| Menzies | Rachel | 23 | ||
| Moore | Madge | 23 | ||
| Mulverhill | Mary | 20 | ||
| Munro | Mary | 20 | ||
| Murrish | Mary | 40 | ||
| Mary | 16 | |||
| Nicholas | 13 | T/F to single men | ||
| Annie | 12 | |||
| Charlotte | 10 | |||
| Noble | Mary | 24 | ||
| O'Donnell | Anne | 25 | ||
| Owens | Bridget | 28 | ||
| Portch | Emma | 32 | ||
| Regan | Margaret | 28 | ||
| Shea | Margaret | 53 | ||
| Stewart | Esther | 16 | ||
| Tabby | Ellen | 18 | ||
| Tovey | Eliza | 15 | ||
| White | Kate | 20 | Sister to Thomas White | |
| Wilson | Henrietta | 21 | ||
Copyright Denise & Peter 2004 - 2007
Reference:
Daily Southern Cross July 17th 1876
Archives New Zealand IM15/263