Duke of Roxburgh
Ship: 417 tons
Captain: James Thomson
Surgeon Superintendent: Francis Healy
Sailed Plymouth 5th October 1839 - arrived Port Nicholson 8th February 1840
"The 'Duke' made the third vessel
of the fleet to reach Port Nicholson, and by that time the foreshore at Petone had became
a busy locality. Tents were supplemented by shanties of various descriptions, but some of
the whares put up with the help of the Maoris were of a more ambitious character, and so
well built that they lasted several years. Round about this somewhat incongruous
camp-settlement the belongings of the settlers were scattered, and as there were by this
time about 500 white people ashore the scene was decidedly animated."
White Wings Volume One - Sir Henry Brett
Notation on the passenger list:
"Arrived at Plymouth 4:00pm Friday 27th September '39. Sailed 5th October
1839."
| Name | Age | Occupation | Comment | |
| Cabin Passengers | ||||
| Bills | W | |||
| Davis | Mr | |||
| Healy | Francis | 39 | Surgeon Superintendent |
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| Wife | 32 | |||
| John Francis | 10 | |||
| Catherine Bedelia F. | 9 | |||
| Francis | 8 | |||
| Michael | Infant | |||
| Healy | John F. | 18 | Brother or Nephew to Francis Healy Snr | |
| Monteith | Dr George Dalrymple | 32 | ||
| Elizabeth | 31 | |||
| George Dalrymple | 7 | |||
| Jacob | 5 | |||
| Elizabeth | 4 | |||
| Lucy Eleanor | Infant | |||
| Parnell | Samuel Duncan | 27 | ||
| Wife | 27 | |||
| Pierce | John | 38 | ||
| Wife | 37 | |||
| Steerage Passengers | ||||
| Baker | Henry | 24 | Butcher | |
| Wife | 19 | |||
| Daughter | Infant | Born at sea | ||
| Bassett | William | 28 | Shoemaker & Sawyer | |
| Wife | 26 | |||
| Emma Rooke | 11 months | |||
| Son | Infant | Born at sea | ||
| Bryant | James | 27 | Gardener | Assistant to Surgeon |
| Mary Anne | 24 | |||
| Clarke | Emma | 23 | Servant to Monteith | |
| Connor | Catherine | 24 | Servant to Healing | |
| Cooking | Elizabeth | 15 | ||
| Cooking | William | 16 | ||
| Cundy | Charles | 24 | Labourer | |
| Ann | 29 | |||
| Farrar | Alfred | 35 | ||
| Fowler | John | 30 | Farm Labourer | Servant to Peirce |
| Wife | 29 | |||
| Priscilla | 8 | |||
| Gilbert | William | 35 | Farmer | |
| Wife | 26 | |||
| Philip | 6 | |||
| William | 4 months | Died at sea | ||
| Gomm | William | 27 | ||
| Wife | 24 | |||
| Goswell | John | 20 | Mason | |
| Greenwood | James | 21 | ||
| Hartley | Mary | 15 | Sempstress | |
| Hartley | Stephen | 47 | Cutler & Gunsmith | |
| Wife | 45 | |||
| Stephen Jnr | 16 | Cutler & Gunsmith | ||
| Hawke | William | 32 | Labourer | |
| Wife | 36 | |||
| William Cocking | 16 | Labourer | ||
| Elizabeth Cocking | 15 | Sempstress | May have stayed in England | |
| John | 4 | |||
| Son | Infant | Born at sea | ||
| Hebden | Mary Jane | 20 | Servant to Pierce | |
| Hight | R. | 28 | ||
| Wife | 28 | |||
| Charles | Infant | |||
| Hunter | Barbara | 42 | Servant to Mr Hunter | |
| Hunter | George | 52 | ||
| Helen | 42 | |||
| Jessie | 19 | |||
| George | 18 | |||
| Margaret | 16 | |||
| Helen J. | 14 | |||
| Isabella | 13 | |||
| Frances | 12 | |||
| David | 11 | |||
| William Henry | 9 | |||
| Catherine Mary | 7 | |||
| Robert | 6 | |||
| Jackson | James | 30 | ||
| Wife | 25 | |||
| Jeffery | Joseph | 25 | Farmer | |
| Wife | 29 | |||
| Mary | 3 | |||
| Knight | William | 39 | Miner | |
| Mary Ann | 36 | |||
| Mary Anne | 12 | |||
| James | 8 | |||
| John | 6 | |||
| Henry | 3 | |||
| Samuel | 7 months | |||
| Lloyd | Frederick Augustus | 19 | Clerk | |
| Lloyd | Henry | 21 | ||
| Lyon | William | 33 | ||
| May | James | Farm Labourer | Possibly died at sea | |
| Wife | Possibly died at sea | |||
| Poad | Thomas | 28 | Blacksmith | |
| Sarah | 29 | |||
| Mary Anne | 3 | |||
| Phillipa Jane | 7 months | |||
| Prouse | Richard | 42 | Labourer & Lime Burner | |
| Mary | 44 | |||
| Mary | 20 | Servant | ||
| Sarah | 18 | Servant | ||
| William | 15 | |||
| Richard | 10 | |||
| Susan Osborne | 9 | |||
| Thomas | 6 | |||
| Reading | John Brown | 26 | Smith & Carpenter | Servant to Pierce |
| Wife | 27 | |||
| George | 2 | |||
| Ellen | 8 mths | |||
| Reynolds | Jane | 22 | Dressmaker | |
| Roberts | Philip | 36 | Miner | |
| Wife | 34 | |||
| Jonathan | 15 | Labourer | ||
| Mary Anne | 12 | |||
| Philip | 10 | |||
| Jane | 6 | Died at sea | ||
| Child | Infant | Born at sea | ||
| Roberts | William | 35 | Miner | |
| Elizabeth | 35 | |||
| Mary | 18 | Servant | ||
| Sophia | 16 | Servant | ||
| Elizabeth | 15 | Servant | ||
| Thomas | 11 | |||
| Priscilla | 5 | |||
| Keziah | 2 | |||
| William | Infant | Born at sea | ||
| Rule | James | 27 | Miner | |
| Wife | 22 | |||
| James Oliver | 11 months | |||
| Daughter | Infant | Born at sea | ||
| Scott | George | 30 | ||
| Wife | 30 | |||
| Smith | Frederick | 49 | Mason | |
| Wife | 50 | |||
| Daniel Thomas | 25 | Mason | ||
| Thomas | 19 | Mason | ||
| Samuel | 17 | Mason | ||
| Mary | 15 | Sempstress | ||
| John | 9 | |||
| Stephens | William | 50 | Carpenter | Widower |
| Stephens | John | 19 | Carpenter | |
| Thomas | William | 33 | Miner | |
| Wife | 28 | |||
| William Robins | 6 | |||
| Eliza Robins | 4 | |||
| Henry Eddy | 2 | |||
| Catherine Eddy | 5 months | |||
| Tucker | Josias | 36 | Blacksmith | |
| Wife | 32 | |||
| William H. | 8 | |||
| Eliza Ann | 6 | |||
| Samuel J. | 3 | |||
| Josias | 1 | |||
| Daughter | Infant | Born at sea | ||
| Turtley | Arthur | 26 | Gardener | |
| Wife | 30 | |||
| Eliza | 3 | |||
| Josiah | 2 | |||
| Jane Eliza | 8 months | |||
| Udy | Hart | 31 | Carpenter | |
| Jane | 27 | |||
| Ann | 7 | |||
| Hart | 5 | |||
| John | 4 | |||
| William | 1 | |||
| U'Ren | Thomas | 27 | Stonemason | |
| Margaret | 30 | |||
| Robert Honos | 2 | |||
| Harriet Gertrude | 1 | |||
| Gertrude Wills | Infant | Born at sea 31/01/1840 | ||
| Williams | James | 42 | Tailor | |
| Katherine | 40 | |||
| Isabella | 22 | Sempstress | ||
| Richard | 20 | Carpenter & Wheelwright | ||
| Mary Ann | 18 | Sempstress | ||
| Elizabeth | 15 | Sempstress | ||
| William Osborne | 12 | |||
| Caroline | 9 | |||
| Benjamin | 2 | |||
| Joseph | 2 | Died at sea | ||
| Woodward | Samuel Jnr | 27 | Carpenter & Toolmaker | |
| Rose | 17 | |||
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| ROBERTS family: William was a Cornish miner born in Devon. Elizabeth (nee BOTTRELL or BATTRALL) was born in Camborne, Cornwall. They had been at various Cornish locations, lastly St Austell, before departing for Petone. William and Elizabeth were in Wellington until 1846. Their son born on board was baptized William. They had another son, Joseph, in 1842. Their elder daughter married John ESLICK in 1842. The ESLICKs went to South Australia and then Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. The second daughter Sophia married James/Joseph THOMPSON in 1840. Their descendents are mainly in the North Island of New Zealand. Third daughter, Elizabeth, married Joshua GREGORY, a soldier, in 1845. They were to travel to Australia, India, England and finally settle in Brisbane, Australia. Thomas possibly settled in Thames, New Zealand. The remainder of the family departed to Kawau Island for the mining, until about 1848. Daughter Priscilla married Richard Grey BELL in 1848. The BELLs and the remainder of the family went to South Australia and then Castlemaine in Victoria. If you wish to know more or can connect with this family please contact Cheryl Berquist. |
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| U'REN family: Thomas U'ren, stonemason, was born in 1812 at St Anthony-in-Roseland, Cornwall to Robert and Gertrude (nee Wills) U'ren. Thomas and and his wife Margaret (nee WEDGE) along with her companion-help Anne (later Mrs Robert Espie) arrived in Wellington in 1840 on board the Duke of Roxburgh. At the time of their departure Margaret was pregnant with Gertrude Wills U'ren who was born during the voyage on January 31st 1840. The family were originally going to Queensland to a warmer climate for Thomas's health but heard that there was a great need for builders in NZ. They remained in Wellington for a year while Thomas improved his building skills before settling at Poverty Bay where they had the first white boy born in the district, Thomas jnr born October 12th 1841followed by 5 more children: Sarah Jane born June 2nd 1843, Elizabeth Harriett born 1845, Margaret Ann born 1846, Herbert John born 1848 and Edith Ellen born 1849. Thomas snr was the first recorded death at Makaraka Cemetery in Gisborne on July 25th 1860. Margaret died July 18th 1865 and was buried with him. If you wish to know more or can connect with this family please contact Cynthia Glover. |
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Copyright Denise & Peter 1999 - 2006
Reference:
Archives New Zealand NZC34/1 p73