Passengers to Natal: Priscilla 1860 steerage passengers

When the barque Priscilla arrived at Natal on 18 September 1860 she carried, apart from a few cabin passengers, a group of 100 Government emigrants. It was unusual for the newspapers of the time to include a full list of such emigrants - and these are the passengers who are generally of most interest to family historians, not the well-heeled ones who could afford to pay for their own passage and were not requiring assistance from the Government. On this occasion the emigrants in steerage were:




The shipping column of the Natal Mercury 20 September 1860 reported elsewhere:

ARRIVED

September 13 - Walter Glendining, brigantine, 111 tons, N Glendining, from Table Bay, September 1

JD Koch, agent

September 15 - Evangeline, barque, 231 tons, G Wigg, from London, sailed June 18

Evans and Churchill, agent

PASSENGERS

Mr and Mrs Blunt

Messrs

George Lyall

Hamilton McCreight

William Jalland

PJ Sanders

James Ellis

September 16 - Priscilla, barque 253 tons, G Brown from London, sailed June 10

W Hartley and Co, agents

PASSENGERS (Cabin)

Mr and Mrs Roach and infant

Mr and Mrs Crowder and five children

106 immigrants in Steerage [see list above]

SAILED

September 17 - Early Morn, barque, 315 tons, Lowry for Algoa Bay and London

Evans and Churchill, agents

Souvenir Saturday: the barque Priscilla and Thomas Alfred Gadsden

The clipper barque Priscilla which brought my great great grandfather, Thomas Alfred  Gadsden, to Natal in June 1863. The Priscilla, one of the earliest of the White Cross clippers (others were the Silvery Wave, the Verulam, Isabella Hartley and Burton Stather) was a frequent visitor to the Colony during the 1860s and 70s.

Advertisements in The Natal Mercury reveal that the Priscilla in November 1863 made the fastest passage then on record from Natal to England, i.e. 52 days.

For more on her captain, Brown, see
http://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/04/souvenir-saturday-captain-george-brown.html

.For more on Thomas Alfred Gadsden and Priscilla see Keeper of the Bluff Light:
http://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/08/keeper-of-bluff-light-thomas-alfred.html


Acknowledgement: Tom Chivers

Passengers to Natal: Evangeline and Priscilla 1860

Arrival of the Evangeline and Priscilla, Natal Mercury 20 September 1860

ARRIVED

September 13 - Walter Glendining, brigantine, 111 tons, N Glendining, from Table Bay, September 1

JD Koch, agent

September 15 - Evangeline, barque, 231 tons, G Wigg, from London, sailed June 18

Evans and Churchill, agent

PASSENGERS

Mr and Mrs Blunt

Messrs

George Lyall

Hamilton McCreight

William Jalland

PJ Sanders

James Ellis

September 16 - Priscilla, barque 253 tons, G Brown from London, sailed June 10

W Hartley and Co, agents

PASSENGERS (Cabin)

Mr and Mrs Roach and infant

Mr and Mrs Crowder and five children

106 immigrants in Steerage [see separate list below]

SAILED

September 17 - Early Morn, barque, 315 tons, Lowry for Algoa Bay and London

Evans and Churchill, agents

 GOVERNMENT EMIGRANTS [i.e. steerage], PER PRISCILLA

Donald Toyner

Ann Russom

Jane, Angelina, Sarah, William, Robert, Charles, Dalcie Taylor

Amelia Richardson

Charles and Julia Dunton with five children

George Parry

John and Christiana Tennant and six children

Emma Lurridge

John and Margaret Thompson and five children

Mary and Ann Willliams

David Williams

Benjamin and Honor May and six children

Walter Gray

Joseph Dickens

Edwin and Katherine Brown

John and Jane Dyer and five children

James and Mary Henwood and five children

James and Isabella Cass and one child

William and John Cass

Robert and Phoebe Moore and five children

William and Caroline Pigeon and three children

Ann and Annie Merrick

George Pinkney

Alexander and Nancy Lindsay and two children

Elizabeth Lindsay

Samuel Goldsworthy

Henry L and Mary Ann Thurston and two children

Ellen Kirkwood

Margaret Graham

Samuel and Jane Deane and two children

Thomas and John Davidson

Robert Hall

Henry Furlong

Alkin Gollan

In all 106 souls, equal to 77 statute adults.

For more on the Priscilla: 

molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2013/04/souvenir-saturday-captain-george-brown.html