Woodlark
Ship: 867 tons
Captain: Thomas Wood
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Gould
Sailed London February 25th 1873 - arrived Auckland May 31st 1873
When a comparitively new ship, the
Woodlark was chartered by the Shaw Savill Co for three voyages to New Zealand. She was a
fine clipper of 867 tons, built in 1870, and owned by A Stephens and Son, Dundee. She came
out to Auckland under Captain T Wood, in 1873, with 125 Government immigrants, arriving in
port on the 31st May. During a storm on the 2nd May, a boy named Goodman, while leaning
over the bulwarks, lost his balance and fell overboard. Life buoys were thrown and the
ship's lifeboat manned and lowered, but after an unavailing search for an hour returned.
The boat had great difficulty in getting alongside the ship, as a high and confused sea
was running. The following year the Woodlark, in command of Captain Largie, visited
Wellington, and when she entered port was flying the yellow flag, scarlet fever having
broken out on 24th December. She sailed from London on December 14, 1873, having on board
256 Government immigrants, and arrived on the 24th March, 1874. On Christmas Eve, ten days
after leaving England, scarlet fever broke out, and from this date until the 12th March,
the doctor treated no less than 39 cases, 18 of which proved fatal. There were also ten
deaths from other causes. On the arrival of the ship at Wellington she was placed in
quarantine. In 1875 the Woodlark made a smart passage to Otago. She sailed on the 2nd May
with a small complement of passengers, under Captain Largie. Otago Heads were reached on
the 3rd August, and port made the same day - 85 days land to land.
White Wings - Sir Henry Brett
Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
Cabin Passengers | ||||
Drummond | Mr | |||
White | Mr V | |||
Fare Paying Steerage | ||||
Grant | William | |||
Hayward | Mark | |||
Luddie | ||||
Mary | ||||
Hounsell | Robert | |||
McComb | Robert | |||
Thomas R | ||||
Jane | ||||
Smith | Peter | |||
John R | ||||
Whitburn | John | |||
Ellen | ||||
Assisted Families & Children | ||||
Atkins | Samuel | 48 | Nottinghamshire | Labourer |
Annie | 42 | |||
Annie J | 20 | T/F to single women | Servant | |
Mary Margaret | 17 | T/F to single women | Dairymaid | |
John A | 10 | |||
Alice M | 6 | |||
William Henry | 3 | |||
Binstead | John | 51 | Sussex | Farm Labourer |
Mary | 42 | |||
Henry | 21 | T/F to single men | ||
James | 20 | T/F to single men | ||
Walter John | 16 | T/F to single men | ||
Annie | 13 | T/F to single women | ||
Clara | 12 | T/F to single women | ||
Janet | 7 | |||
Brewin | James | 24 | New Zealand | Labourer |
Eliza | 24 | |||
Peter | 5 months | |||
Brownlie | James Henry | 27 | Armagh | Farm Labourer |
Jane | 27 | |||
Fitzgerald | Patrick | 42 | Kerry | Farm Labourer |
Margaret | 42 | |||
Agnes E | 15 | T/F to single women | ||
Mary | 10 | |||
Sarah | 8 | |||
Thomas P | 3 | |||
Goodman | John N | 51 | Cornwall | Farmer |
Charlotte | 48 | |||
John Edward | 28 | T/F to single men | ||
Charlotte | 22 | T/F to single women | ||
Edward | 17 | T/F to single men | ||
Charles | 16 | T/F to single men | ||
Richard | 14 | T/F to single men | ||
Alfred | 11 | Died on board - drowned 02/05/1873 | ||
Samuel | 9 | |||
Harry | 7 | |||
Johnstone | James | 45 | Dublin | Coachbuilder |
Catherine | 38 | |||
Francis | 20 | T/F to single men | ||
James | 19 | T/F to single men | ||
Catherine | 12 | T/F to single women | ||
William | 10 | |||
Lynch | John | 25 | Limerick | Labourer |
Mary | 24 | |||
Catherine | 18 months | |||
Margaret | 2 months | |||
Mallon | Charles | 38 | Derry | Labourer |
Leanagh | 36 | |||
Eliza | 18 | T/F to single women | Servant | |
Sarah | 17 | T/F to single women | Servant | |
Mary | 16 | T/F to single women | Servant | |
Robert | 12 | |||
Jane | 11 | |||
Annie | 6 | |||
Matilda | 3 | |||
Roth | Margaret | |||
William F | ||||
Robert | ||||
Marie | ||||
Stotter | John | 32 | Pembrokeshire | Tailor |
Elizabeth | 31 | |||
Florence | 2 | |||
Henry | 6 months | |||
Vaughan | Thomsa | 33 | Middlesex | Farm Labourer |
Jane | 30 | |||
William | 10 | |||
Colonial Nominated Families & Children | ||||
Caddy | Margaret | 26 | T/F to single women | |
Louisa C | 6 | T/F to single women | ||
Harriet A | 4 | T/F to single women | ||
Arthur P | 2 | T/F to single women | ||
Walter O C | 3 months | T/F to single women | ||
Walter | 26 | T/F to single men | ||
Lynch | Patrick | 45 | Limerick | Carpenter |
Catherine | 42 | |||
William | 22 | T/F to single men | ||
Patrick | 20 | T/F to single men | ||
Denis | 18 | T/F to single men | ||
Single Men | ||||
Atherton | Richard | 32 | Lancashire | Farm Labourer |
Binstead | Henry | 21 | Sussex | |
James | 20 | Sussex | ||
Walter John | 16 | Sussex | ||
Bloomfield | Noble | 21 | Fermanagh | Labourer |
Brewin | Peter | 20 | Gloucestershire | Labourer |
Burrows | John | 22 | Cornwall | Farm Labourer |
Jacob | 32 | Farm Labourer | ||
Combs | David | 25 | Derry | Ploughman |
Caddy | Walter | 26 | Dorsetshire | Labourer |
Goodman | John Edward | 28 | Cornwall | |
Edward | 17 | Cornwall | ||
Charles | 16 | Cornwall | ||
Richard | 14 | Cornwall | ||
Johnstone | Francis | 20 | Dublin | |
James | 19 | Dublin | ||
Liddle | Mark | 18 | Fermanagh | Labourer |
John Robert | 21 | Fermanagh | Labourer | |
Mayo | William | 21 | Gloucestershire | Railway Porter |
McCoomb | Robert | 38 | Antrim | General Labourer |
Thomas Richard | 10 | Antrim | ||
Jane | 6 | T/F to single women | ||
Robb | William | 26 | Forfar | Tailor |
Stanley | David | 23 | Kent | Labourer |
Colonial Nominated Single Men | ||||
Bourke | Michael | 26 | Kilkenny | Labourer |
Lynch | William | 22 | Limerick | |
Patrick | 20 | Limerick | ||
Denis | 18 | Limerick | ||
Roth | William James | 15 | Neath | Labourer |
Single Women | ||||
Atkins | Annie J | 20 | Nottinghamshire | Servant |
Mary Margaret | 17 | Nottinghamshire | Dairymaid | |
Barrett | Catherine | 25 | Cork | Housemaid |
Binstead | Annie | 13 | Sussex | |
Clara | 12 | Sussex | ||
Boatswin | Sarah | 24 | Dorsetshire | Servant |
Bowden | Elizabeth | 20 | Buckinghamshire | Plaiter |
Church | Alice | 19 | Kent | General Servant |
Downes | Margaret | 20 | Clare | Servant |
Fell | Harriett | 24 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Fitzgerald | Agnes E | 15 | Kerry | |
Ford | Mary | 26 | Cornwall | Housekeeper Matron on voyage |
Edith Louisa | 6 | |||
Goodman | Charlotte | 22 | Cornwall | |
Horne | Elizabeth | 20 | Middlesex | General Servant |
Johnstone | Catherine | 12 | Dublin | |
King | Sarah A | 26 | Huntingdon | General Servant |
Mallon | Eliza | 18 | Derry | Servant |
Sarah | 17 | Derry | Servant | |
Mary | 16 | Derry | Servant | |
McCann | Ann J | 19 | Armagh | Weaver |
Catherine | 17 | Armagh | Weaver | |
McCoomb | Jane | 6 | Antrim | |
O'Brien | Norah | 27 | Cork | Housemaid |
Smith | Bertha | 30 | Lanark | |
Stought | Matilda | 18 | Wiltshire | Dairymaid |
Truelock | Ann | 22 | America | Cook |
White | Anne E | 20 | Surrey | General Servant |
Wright | Lydia | 28 | Middlesex | Housemaid |
Colonial Nominated Single Women | ||||
Blair | Mary A | 29 | Norfolk | Servant |
Caddy | Margaret | 26 | Dorsetshire | |
Louisa C | 6 | Dorsetshire | ||
Harriet A | 4 | Dorsetshire | ||
Arthur P | 2 | Dorsetshire | ||
Walter O C | 3 months | Dorsetshire | ||
Cross | Eleanor | 13 | Essex | |
Hazard | Mary | 28 | France | Dressmaker |
McGuire | Jane | 45 | Londonderry | Servant |
Mary | 16 | Londonderry | Seamstress | |
Catherine | 18 | Londonderry | Seamstress | |
Maggie | 14 | Londonderry | Seamstress | |
Roth | Margaret | 40 | Neath | |
William James | 15 | Labourer | ||
Robert | 9 | |||
Mary J | 4 | |||
Copyright Denise & Peter 2004
Reference:
Archives New Zealand IM15/43