British Queen
Steamship: 2277 tons
Captain: Nowell
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Hazzard
Sailed Plymouth March 24th 1883 - arrived Wellington May 15th1883
Lyttelton
May 17th 1883
Differences in the spelling between newspaper & archives records have been identified and are bracketed in the list.
Name | Age | County | Occupation | Destination | |
First Cabin Passengers | |||||
Ford | Mr C | Canterbury | |||
Master | Canterbury | ||||
Grant | Miss | Wellington | |||
Miss | Wellington | ||||
Master | Wellington | ||||
Harding | Miss | Wellington | |||
Holliday | Miss | Wellington | |||
Temple | Mr G | Canterbury | |||
Second Cabin Passengers | |||||
Brown | Miss | Wellington | |||
Dare | Mr | Wellington | |||
Davy | Miss | Wellington | |||
Edwards | Mr J C | Canterbury | |||
George | Mr | Wellington | |||
Glenny | Mr | Wellington | |||
Mrs | |||||
2 children | |||||
Johnson | Mr | Canterbury | |||
Leonard | Mr | Wellington | |||
Mason | Mr | Wellington | |||
Murdoch | Mrs | Wellington | |||
Reynolds | Miss | Wellington | |||
Short | Mr | Wellington | |||
Mrs | |||||
Miss | |||||
Wilkinson | Mr | Canterbury | |||
Mr | Canterbury | ||||
Windmill | Mr | Canterbury | |||
Third Cabin Passengers | |||||
Allen | Elizabeth | ||||
Baxter | Mr M | Canterbury | |||
Mr M | Canterbury | ||||
Beard | Joshua | Parents of Caroline & Serena | |||
Lemoniah | |||||
Bessie | |||||
Louie | |||||
Frederick | |||||
Bourse | Mr M | Canterbury | |||
Brown | Mr | ||||
Mrs | |||||
4 children | |||||
Callan | Mr B | Canterbury | |||
Chappell | Mr A | Canterbury | |||
Diamond | Mr W | ||||
Dundas | Mr W | Canterbury | |||
Fowler | Mr A | Canterbury | |||
Gardner | Richard | ||||
Garland | Mr T | Canterbury | |||
Harriet | |||||
T | |||||
Thomas | |||||
C | |||||
Hilda | |||||
Edward | |||||
Goodwin | Maxwell | ||||
Hillary | Edward | ||||
Ingoll | Thomas | ||||
Irving | Mary | ||||
Alexander | |||||
Kingsford | Mr J | ||||
Kirby | John | Canterbury | |||
Luxton | Mr | ||||
Mrs | |||||
8 children | |||||
McCarthy | Denis | ||||
North | Mr J | Canterbury | |||
Harriet | |||||
Herbert | |||||
Harold | |||||
Passer | Nathan | ||||
Richardson | Mr J | Canterbury | |||
Runeo | Peter | ||||
Simpson | William | ||||
Caroline | |||||
4 children | |||||
Thomson | John | ||||
Mary | |||||
George | |||||
Torry | Harriet | ||||
Watkins | Richard | ||||
Watson | William | ||||
Webster | Mr W | Canterbury | |||
White | Mr H | Canterbury | |||
Widdas | Arthur | ||||
Young | William | ||||
Government Immigrants | |||||
Families and Children | |||||
Brady | Philip | 25 | Cavan | Ploughman | Canterbury |
Mary | 21 | ||||
Cawlin (Cranlin) | Walter (Walker) | 30 | Essex | Labourer | Canterbury |
Rosina | 30 | ||||
Emily S (E) | 2 | ||||
Cooper | Robert | 39 | Kent | Brickmaker | Canterbury |
Emma | 39 | ||||
Cox | John W | 27 | Yorks | Labourer | Canterbury |
Ann (Annie) E | 26 | ||||
Thomas (J) | 4 | ||||
Edith H | 1 | ||||
Embury | James | 35 | Wiltshire | Sawyer | Wellington |
Ann | 36 | ||||
Minnie | 8 | ||||
Frederick | 6 | ||||
Hannah or Harriet | 4 | ||||
Martha A | 4 months | ||||
Feltham | Charles | 33 | Somerset | Sawyer | Wellington |
Jane | 31 | ||||
Gertrude | 10 | ||||
Herbert | 8 | ||||
Edgar | 5 | ||||
Lillian | 3 | ||||
Wilfred | 2 months | ||||
Geary | Hamilton | 27 | Down | General Labourer | Canterbury |
Eliza | 28 | ||||
Holloway | Henry | 23 | Dorset | Labourer | Wellington |
Fanny | 20 | ||||
Jeannie | 4 months | ||||
Luckland | George | 46 | Northumberland | Bottle Maker | Wellington |
Agnes | 44 | ||||
Norman | William | 25 | Herts | Miller | Canterbury |
Anna (Hannah) | 30 | ||||
Sarah A | 5 | ||||
Palmer | Henry | 35 | Forfar | Gardener | Wellington |
Margaret | 29 | ||||
John | 6 | ||||
Espet | 5 | ||||
William J | 1 | ||||
Preston | Edward | 40 | Cavan | Coachman | Taranaki |
Jane | 29 | ||||
William | 3 | ||||
Maria | 2 | ||||
Edward | 6 months | ||||
Richard | 23 | ||||
Frances | 20 | ||||
Power | John | 48 | Surrey | Gardener | Canterbury |
Elizabeth (Eliza) | 55 | ||||
Shepherd | Richard | 61 | Armagh | Farmer | Canterbury |
Ann | 55 | ||||
Elizabeth | 25 | T/F to single women | Servant | ||
Margaret | 23 | T/F to single women | Servant | ||
Sophia | 18 | T/F to single women | Servant | ||
John | 15 | T/F to single men | Farm Labourer | ||
Tina | 13 | T/F to single women | |||
Sims | Robert | 34 | Middlesex | Skin Dresser | Wellington |
Ann | 32 | ||||
Thomas | 8 | ||||
Jane | 6 | ||||
Frederick | 4 | ||||
Elizabeth | 1 | ||||
Infant | 8 days | ||||
Stanford | Samuel | 45 | Kent | Labourer | Wellington |
Elizabeth | 44 | ||||
Taplin | Arthur | 34 | Oxford | Servant | Canterbury |
Caroline | 23 | ||||
Thompson | John | 43 | Cumberland | Joiner | Canturbury |
Mary | 39 | ||||
Ada | 18 | T/F to single women | Servant | Canterbury | |
Ellen E | 16 | T/F to single women | Servant | Canterbury | |
Richard W | 14 | T/F to single men | |||
Henry | 13 | T/F to single men | |||
Eda M | 11 | ||||
Ida H | 9 | ||||
Joe | 7 | ||||
Thomas | 5 | ||||
George | 2 | ||||
Thompson | William | 70 | Father of John | Joiner | Canterbury |
Tindall | Jacob | 37 | Cumberland | Joiner | Canterbury |
Anne | 36 | ||||
Martha | 11 | ||||
Robert | 6 | ||||
Esther | 3 | ||||
Single Men | |||||
Annear | David | 19 | Cornwall | Agricultural Labourer | Nelson |
Banks | Edward | 48 | Yorks | Bootmaker | Wellington |
Boivers (Bowers) | Charles | 24 | Suffolk | Miller | Canterbury |
Carmichael | James | 23 | Antrim | Agricultural Labourer | Wellington |
Archibald | 19 | Antrim | Agricultural Labourer | Wellington | |
Carter | Frederick | 22 | Staffordshire | Sawyer | Taranaki |
Chalmers | William | 22 | Lancashire | Joiner | Canterbury |
Condon | Martin | 16 | Cork | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury |
Michael | 14 | Cork | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury | |
Conway | William | 21 | Derry | Agricultural Labourer | Malbourgh |
Cronin (Crobin) | William | 25 | Cork | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury |
Cullinane (Cullinan) | Peter | 25 | Tyrone | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury |
Duffy | Michael | 24 | Armagh | Labourer | Wellington |
Falvey | Michael | 22 | Kerry | Agricultural Labourer | Malbourgh |
Fischer | Gualbert | 40 | Germany | Farmer | Canterbury |
Blat | Wolfgang | 21 | Germany | Joiner | Canterbury |
Fogarty | Robert | 13 | Glasgow | At School | Canterbury |
Gallen | Hugh | 24 | Tyrone | Farm Labourer | Canterbury |
Goodwin | Samuel | 18 | Lincoln | Farm labourer | Canterbury |
Hartley (Harthey) | William | 15 | Cormwall | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury |
Higgins | James | 18 | Cavan | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury |
Hutton | Alexander R | 19 | Forfar | Boot closer | Canterbury |
Johnstone | Frederick | 18 | Lancashire | Salesman | Wellington |
Kavanagh | Edward | 21 | Wicklow | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury |
Lackland | John | 15 | Northumberland | Agricultural Labourer | Wellington |
George | 13 | Northumberland | Agricultural Labourer | Wellington | |
Lally | Edward | 25 | Kings | Agricultural Labourer | Westland |
Lee | Patrick | 20 | Galway | Farm Labourer | Westland |
McCullogh (McCulloch) | Samuel | 22 | Antrim | Agricultural Labourer | Canterbury |
Madden | Maurice | 65 | Cork | Agricultural Labourer | Wellington |
Maurice | 10 | ||||
Thomas | 8 | ||||
Ann | 6 | ||||
John | 4 | ||||
William | 27 | ||||
Mahoney | John | 19 | Kerry | Agricultural Labourer | Wellington |
McAvinue | Patrick | 22 | Fermanagh | Ploughman | Nelson |
O'Callaghan | James | 21 | Clare | Carter | Westland |
O'Callaghan | Timothy | 35 | Cork | Agricultural Labourer | Nelson |
Patterson | John | 23 | Antrim | Labourer | Westland |
Reid | Thomas | 80 | Clackmannon | Wellington | |
William | 30 | Clackmannon | Farmer | Wellington | |
Richards | Charles J | 18 | Monmouth | Farm Labourer | Canterbury |
William O | 11 | ||||
Joseph S | 9 | ||||
Riordan | Bartholamew | 20 | Kerry | Farm Labourer | Canturbury |
Russell | Samuel | 39 | Kent | Bricklayer | Wellington |
James | 16 | Kent | Bricklayer | Wellington | |
Arthur | 13 | Kent | Bricklayer | Wellington | |
Rutz | Bernhard | 29 | Germany | Farm Labourer | Canterbury |
Ryan | Patrick | 22 | Tipperary | Farm Labourer | Westland |
Saunders | Alfred G | 16 | Staffordshire | Leather Cutter | Wellington |
Shea | John | 19 | Kerry | Farm Labourer | Canterbury |
Daniel | 17 | Kerry | Farm Labourer | Canterbury | |
William | 13 | Kerry | Farm Labourer | Canterbury | |
Shepherd | John | 15 | Armagh | Farm Labourer | Canterbury |
Sims | Robert | 15 | Middlesex | Butcher | Wellington |
William | 13 | Middlesex | |||
Smith | John | 25 | Ayr | Labourer | Canterbury |
Hugh (Huth) | 9 | ||||
Thompson | William | 70 | Cumberland | Joiner | Canterbury |
Richard W | 14 | Cumberland | |||
Henry | 13 | Cumberland | |||
Tindall | John | 17 | Cumberland | Canterbury | |
Charles | 15 | Cumberland | Canterbury | ||
Arthur | 13 | Cumberland | Canterbury | ||
Walker | Alexander | 19 | Linlithgow | Miner | Nelson |
John | 17 | Linlithgow | Miner | Nelson | |
Robert | 15 | Linlithgow | Miner | Nelson | |
William | 12 | Linlithgow | Miner | Nelson | |
Wray | Albert | 14 | Staffordshire | Tailor | Nelson |
Alfred | 19 | Staffordshire | Upholster | Nelson | |
Single Women | |||||
Ahern | Ellen | 27 | Surrey | Matron | Westland |
Allen | Marion | 21 | Surrey | Servant | Canterbury |
Baker | Jane | 19 | Middlesex | Nurse | Nelson |
Banks | Fanny | 23 | Yorks | Pinmaker | Wellington |
Kate | 21 | Yorks | Washhouse Woman | Wellington | |
Barnes | Harriet | 25 | Wiltshire | Cook | Canterbury |
Beard | Caroline | 17 | Cornwall | Housemaid | Wellington |
Serena | 21 | Cornwall | Housemaid | Wellington | |
Bell | Annie | 18 | Lincoln | Servant | Canterbury |
Bergin | Anne (Annie) | 16 | Queens | Servant | Canterbury |
Sarah | 16 | Queens | Servant | Canterbury | |
Blat | Marie | 19 | Germany | Servant | Canterbury |
Blake | Alice | 18 | Surrey | Kitchenmaid | Canterbury |
Bond | Esther | 25 | Oxford | Cook | Canterbury |
Booth | Elsie | 21 | Aberdeen | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Bradley | Mary J | 19 | Lancashire | Servant | Wellington |
Bradshaw | Katie | 19 | Limerick | Nurse | Wellington |
Broadmead | Susan E | 23 | Devon | Servant | Wellington |
Burgess | Elizabeth | 22 | Sussex | Housemaid | Canturbury |
Burke | Mary | 19 | Clare | Servant | Wellington |
Butler | Johanna | 18 | Kilkenny | Servant | Wellington |
Butterfield | Emily | 19 | Notts | Nurse | Canterbury |
Clark | Emily | 25 | Glostershire | Servant | Canterbury |
Clenn | Maggie | 25 | Cornwall | Cook | Wellington |
Coffey | Ellen | 21 | Tralee | Servant | Canterbury |
Colgan | Bridget | 17 | Kings Co | Servant | Canterbury |
Rose | 16 | Kings Co | Servant | Canterbury | |
Eliza | 15 | Kings Co | Servant | Canterbury | |
Eliza | 21 | Kings Co | Servant | Canterbury | |
Rose | 19 | Kings Co | Servant | Canterbury | |
Cooper | Emma | 21 | Kent | Servant | Canterbury |
Eliza | 12 | Kent | With Parents | ||
Cox | Eliza | 19 | Hants | Nurse | Canterbury |
Cronin (Crobin) | Honona | 16 | Cork | Servant | Canterbury |
Dawson | Catherine | 29 | Kent | Servant | Canterbury |
Davies | Mary | 24 | Middlesex | Cook | Canterbury |
Denner | Laura | 17 | Devon | Servant | Wellington |
Dinan | Helena | 22 | Limerick | Servant | Wellington |
Doherty | Bridget | 17 | Down | Servant | Westland |
Dowde | Kate | 18 | Kerry | Servant | Wellington |
Dower | Margaret | 19 | Kerry | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Mary | 18 | Kerry | Housemaid | Canterbury | |
A Mark Dower is mentioned in the newspaper report but not in the archives version. | |||||
Duffy | Ann | 18 | Armagh | Servant | Wellington |
Dunn | Ellen | 17 | Kilkenny | Servant | Canterbury |
Durand (Durrand) | Florence | 21 | Surrey | Nurse | Canterbury |
Farrell | Mary Ann | 21 | Clare | Dairymaid | Wellington |
Finnie | Jessie | 17 | Edinburgh | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Flyn | Mary | 20 | Waterford | Dairymaid | Westland |
Fogarty | Annie | 34 | Glasgow | Wife | Canterbury |
Robert | 13 | T/F to single men | At School | ||
Annie | 12 | ||||
Arthur | 8 | ||||
Emily | 4 | ||||
Alfred G | 3 | ||||
Gallen | Ellen | 22 | Tyrone | Servant | Canturbury |
Una | 16 | Tyrone | Servant | Canterbury | |
Givens | Millie | 23 | Tipperary | Cook | Canterbury |
Goodwin | Rebecca | 20 | Lincoln | Servnat | Canterbury |
Mary Kate | 15 | Lincoln | Servant | Canterbury | |
Grennan | Rose | 31 | Down | Servant | Nelson |
Griffiths | Lucy Ann | 28 | Worcester | Servant | Wellington |
Handson (Hardson) | Phebe | 23 | Yorks | Servant | Canterbury |
Henderson | Margaret | 32 | Renfrew | Wife | Wellington |
Heron | Margaret | 18 | Sussex | Servant | Canterbury |
Hill | Ellen | 21 | Hereford | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Hoban | Julia | 26 | Kilkenny | Servant | Westland |
Hopkins | Mary | 20 | Gloster | Servant | Canterbury |
Hopper | Emma | 24 | Kent | Cook | Canterbury |
Hops | Mary | 24 | Lanark | Servant | Wellington |
Howden (Howder) | Jane | 20 | Cavan | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Howlett | Mary | 19 | Wexford | Dairymaid | Westland |
Hurley | Margaret | 19 | Cork | Cook | Wellington |
Hyde | Deborah | 32 | Lancashire | Servant | Wellington |
Ing | Harriet | 34 | Surrey | Cook | Canterbury |
Jackson | Anne | 20 | York | Dairymaid | Canterbury |
Jackson | Miriam | 29 | Middlesex | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Jones | Kathleen | 20 | Middlesex | Servant | Canterbury |
Kelly | Catherine | 19 | Tyrone | Housemaid | Wellington |
Rose Ann | 17 | Tyrone | Housemaid | Wellington | |
Lackland | Georgina | 17 | Sunderland | Housemaid | Wellington |
Lally | Catherine | 40 | Kings Co | Dressmaker | Westland |
Leader (Leander) | Lucy | 18 | Cambridge | Servant | Canterbury |
Leary | Margaret | 17 | Kerry | Housemaid | Wellington |
Lee | Bridget | 17 | Galway | Servant | Westland |
Lineham | Bridget | 25 | Cork | Servant | Wellington |
Lister | Agnes | 23 | Fife | Machinist | Wellington |
McCracken | Elizabeth | 23 | Dublin | Cook | Wellington |
Madden | Mary | 36 | Cork | Wife | |
Katie | 14 | ||||
Albina | 12 | ||||
Matthews (Mathews) | Ellen | 22 | Hants | Servant | Canterbury |
Mescell | Ellen | 21 | Tipperary | Servant | Westland |
Millham | Mary | 17 | Kent | Servant | Canterbury |
Morris | Rose E | 17 | Gloster | Servant | Marlbourgh |
Neale | Annie | 23 | Warwick | Cook | Wellington |
Nesbett (Nesbitt) | Jennie D | 22 | Antrim | Cook | Canterbury |
O'Connell | Theresa | 22 | Kildare | Cook | Canterbury |
O'Connor | Bridget | 17 | Kerry | Housemaid | Wellington |
Osborn | Jane | 23 | Cornwall | Servant | Canterbury |
O'Sullivan | Abina (Albine) | 18 | Cork | Servant | Canturbury |
Owen | Mary | 22 | Anglesea | Servant | Canterbury |
Annie | 20 | Anglesea | Servant | Canterbury | |
Paine | Elizabeth | 34 | Hants | Cook | Wellington |
Park | Eliza | 23 | Aberdeen | Servant | Canterbury |
Petty | Emma | 25 | Herts | Ladies Maid | Wellington |
Power | Alice | 18 | Waterford | Farm Servant | Westland |
Anastalia | 17 | Waterford | Farm Servant | Westland | |
Prendergast | Mary | 13 | Tipperary | Servant | Westland |
Randall (Randell) | Marie | 30 | Hereford | Cook | Canterbury |
Reid | Margaret | 28 | Clackmannon | Housekeeper | Wellington |
Richardson | Mary | 18 | Cork | Servant | Canterbury |
Ellen | 16 | Cork | Servant | Canterbury | |
Roche (Rooke) | Winnifred | 24 | Limmerick | Servant | Canterbury |
Rose | Anne | 20 | Essex | Cook | Wellington |
Arthur | 6 | ||||
Anne | 3 | ||||
Ruck | Sarah | 17 | Gloster | Servant | Canterbury |
Russell | Sarah | 18 | Kent | Servant | Wellington |
Agnes | 17 | Kent | Servant | Wellington | |
Ruthven (Ruthans) | Ellen | 27 | Surrey | Matron | Canterbury |
Ryan | Kate | 20 | Tipperary | Servant | Westland |
Samson | Charlotte | 19 | Kent | cook | Westland |
Shanahan | Ellen | 20 | Kerry | Housemaid | Wellington |
Margaret | 18 | Kerry | Housemaid | Wellington | |
Shea | Maggie | 40 | Kerry | Dairywoman | Canterbury |
Mary | 15 | Kerry | Dairywoman | Canterbury | |
Johanna | 10 | ||||
Catherine | 8 | ||||
Maurice | 6 | ||||
Maggie | 4 | ||||
Sheehan | Mary | 20 | Kerry | Servant | Canterbury |
Shepherd | Elizabeth | 25 | Armagh | Servant | Canterbury |
Margaret | 23 | Armagh | Servant | Canterbury | |
Sophia | 18 | Armagh | Seervant | Canterbury | |
Tina | 13 | Armagh | |||
Shortland (Shortband) | Ada | 19 | Devon | Servant | Canterbury |
Smith | Elsie | 24 | Aberdeen | Cook | Canterbury |
Snashall (Snastall) | Rachel | 20 | Kent | Servant | Canturbury |
Soper | Hannah | 20 | Devon | Servant | Canterbury |
Sullivan | Emily | 19 | Cornwall | Servant | Canterbury |
Thompson | Ada | 18 | Cumberland | Servant | Canterbury |
Ellen E | 16 | Cumberland | Servant | Canterbury | |
Tombs | Susan H. L. | 21 | Worcester | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Troup | Eliza | 24 | Aberdeen | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Turpin | Elizabeth (Eliza S) | 17 | Middlesex | Servant | Canterbury |
Tuthill | Jane (S) | 21 | Middlesex | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Twomey | Julia | 21 | Limerick | Dairymaid | Wellington |
Helen | 19 | Limerick | Dairymaid | Wellington | |
Upsall (Uppall) | Elizabeth | 19 | Surrey | Servant | Canterbury |
Walker | Margaret | 21 | Linlithgow | Servant | Nelson |
Walsh | Elizabeth | 17 | Cork | Servant | Wellington |
Wand | Jane M | 17 | Middlesex | Servant | Wellington |
Webberly | Louisa | 18 | Sussex | Housemaid | Wellington |
White | Jessie | 22 | Tipperary | Dairymaid | Canterbury |
Lilly | 25 | Tipperary | Dairymaid | Canterbury | |
Mary | 21 | Tipperary | Dairymaid | Canterbury | |
White | Margaret | 18 | Waterford | Servant | Westland |
Woodward | Ellen | 34 | Lancashire | Servant | Wellington |
Wright | Minnie | 18 | Surrey | Housemaid | Canterbury |
Wray | Ann | 40 | Stafford | Nurse | Nelson |
Anne E | 26 | Stafford | Teacher | Nelson | |
Jane | 17 | Stafford | Teacher | Nelson | |
Caroline | 12 | Stafford | Teacher | Nelson | |
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Copyright Denise
& Peter 1999 - 2007
Reference:
Archives New Zealand
IMCH4/181-188
Evening Post May 14th 1883
Evening Post May 15th 1883
The Star May 17th 1883