Passengers to Natal per The Lady of the Lake 1859

PASSENGERS FOR PORT NATAL BY THE LADY OF THE LAKE Natal Mercury April 14 1859

The following is a list of the passengers, sixty-six in number, who had engaged passages to Natal by the Lady of the Lake up to the 5th of February. The vessel sailed on the 10th, and will only call at Algoa Bay to land a few passengers for that place:

Chief Cabin
Lieutenant Goolden
Mr and Mrs Tucker and five children

Miss Charlotte Chapman
Miss Noon
Mr W Harwen
Mr T Butler
Mr NB Lock
Mr Edward Symondson
Mr E Hooper

Second Cabin

Mr and Mrs Duffy
Misses Noel (3)
Mr W Fleming
Mr Rich
Mr H Robinson

Steerage

Mr and Mrs Bancroft
Mr and Mrs Hall
Mr F Bayley
Mr and Mrs Moffitt
Mr JT Anderson
MR Harding
Mr G Brown
Mr G Deer
Mr J Forbes
Mr Glenister and family (3)
Mr and Mrs James
Mrs Orchard

Per Emigration Commissioners
Mr Tulley, wife and friends (4)
Mr P James and family (3)
Mr P Smith and family (4)
Mr R Davis and family (5)
Mr E Rogers and family (4)
Messrs
G Root
J Neville
R Broadley
R Corlett

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

Steerage passengers to Natal on Priscilla

The barque Priscilla

Priscilla brings Government Emigrants to Natal 1860.
Fortunately these steerage passengers are named - this wasn't always the case. Family historians would prefer to have the children's names included.

'To sailors, three things made a ship a clipper. She must be sharp-lined, built for speed. She must be tall-sparred and carry the utmost spread of canvas. And she must use that sail, day and night, fair weather and foul.'

Optimized for speed, they were too fine-lined to carry much cargo. Clippers typically carried extra sails such as skysails and moonrakers on the masts, and studdingsails on booms extending out from the hull or yards, which required extra hands to handle them. And in conditions where other ships would shorten sail, clippers drove on, heeling so much that their lee rails were in the water.

Not the most comfortable ride for passengers.

Passengers per Priscilla to Natal 1860

Steerage passengers on the barque Priscilla 1860

Steerage passengers

Steerage passengers, surely a rich hunting ground for ancestors, were unfortunately often not named, this privilege being reserved for the 'cabin' and 'second class' passengers.

In this Cape newspaper shipping column of April 1837 4 people are travelling steerage on the Conch (Capt Bell's ship) but we are left guessing as far as their names are concerned.

In later years, when settlers were arriving in numbers, it is sometimes possible to find a separate passenger list for steerage or 'government immigrants' as in the one below in March 1862 from an original register in Natal. Occasionally a separate list of steerage passengers would be published in the local press.

Passengers to Natal per Phantom, 13 July 1858

From the Port Captain's original list:

Cabin 
Dr Wright

Steerage 
Mr and Mrs Bartholomew and 3 children 
Mr and Mrs Butterfield and 1 child 
Mr and Mrs Denel and 5 children 
Mr and Mrs Ford and 5 children 
Mr and Mrs Fowle and 1 child 
Mr and Mrs Horsley and 5 children 
Mr and Mrs Hulett 
Mr and Mrs Holliday and 4 children 
Mr and Mrs Jardine and 6 children 
Mr and Mrs Lindsay and 3 children 
Mr and Mrs Mack and 4 children 
Mr and Mrs McCullock and 4 children 
Mr and Mrs Redshaw and 4 children 
Mr and Mrs Tedder and 3 children 
Mr and Mrs Wilshire and 2 children 
Mr and Mrs Wray and 4 children 
Mr and Mrs Wray and 3 children 
Ann Douglas 
Ann Dolphin 
Sarah Ford 
Lucy Ford 
Ellen Ford 
Esther Holliday 
Mary Hulett 
Sarah Hulett 
Harriot (sic) Hulett 
Margaret McDonald 
Richard and Edmond Dolphin 
John Dyer 
John Holliday 
John Horsley 
June McNamara 
M Regan 
William Sweeny 
George Taylor 
William Whitlock 
Alfred Webb 
George Wray 
Mary Wray 
John Caffen/r

Port Office 
July 13 1858 
William Bell 
Port Captain


Note: over 50 children travelled on this voyage.

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

Passengers to Australia from Natal cont: Sarah Bell 1852

Australian Gold Diggings 1855

SARAH BELL Durban - Melbourne December 1852

Cabin passengers
Alloway
Dimock, Dr George, Sarah, and servant
Halloway, John

Steerage passengers
Bowlan, J
Braithwaite, CJ
Bryan, James, Rebecca, and child
Bush, Thomas
Carroll, W
Carruthers, Joseph Swan
Crocker, William
Dacomb, Joseph
Field, J
Gibbons, Thomas
Gilland, J
Greaves, John W, Anne
Grice, Waltham
Harrison,
Hutchinson, J
Iliffe, William Gregory
Kirkham, J
Luke, Charles, and Dr Henry Joseph
McKnight, James
Marshall, Cuthbert, and William
Nowell, Frederick
Pasford, W
Phillips, Samuel Vincent Price, and Harriet JS
Phillpott,
Richardson, Richard, Anne E, and child
Rolfe, J, and wife
Scotson, Samuel
Searle, E
Smith, G
Tucker, Alfred Octavius
Turnbull, Adam
Walker, John, Esther, and three children
Warwick, Edward
Webber, J
Willis, James, wife and two children
Wilson, William Donald