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APPS: Richard and Rebecca * Wittersham, Kent |
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APPS: William and Ann * Wittersham, Kent |
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AUSTIN: Henry, Eliza and children AUSTIN, George and Elizabeth AUSTIN, Lydia AUSTIN, Eliza AUSTIN, Solomon AUSTIN, James AUSTIN, John * Rolvenden/Benenden, Kent |
Lani Austin Moore Brian Austen Lee Cant Phil Austin Janet McKenna |
AUSTIN: John, Philadelphia and children * Benenden, Kent |
Judy Dumbrell Phil Austin |
BAIGENT: Thomas and Catherine * Staines, Middlesex |
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BARNES: Samuel and Caroline * Brede, Sussex |
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BATTAM: William, Lucy and children * Rolvenden, Kent |
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BLANCH: Edward, Elizabeth and children * Rolvenden, Kent |
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BLUNDELL: Thomas and children * Bodiam, Sussex |
Lee Rich |
BOWDEN: William, Elizabeth and children BOWDEN, Joseph * Benenden, Kent |
Janette Norcott Liz Adams Amanda Taylor Juliette Hendry Helene Shepherd |
BRYANT: James * Rolvenden, Kent |
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BUTLER: George * Benenden, Kent |
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CLARKE: John, Elizabeth and child * Tunbridge, Kent |
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DRURY: Thomas, Mary and child * Rolvenden, Kent |
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FAIRHALL: William, Ann and children * Guestling, Sussex |
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FELLOWS: Richard, Hannah and children * Guestling/Westfield, Sussex |
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FULLER: David, Mary and children * Bodiam, Sussex and Sandhurst, Kent |
Brian Fuller |
GILL: William, Susannah and children * Beckley, Sussex |
Terry Hicks Daphne White Neil and Darlene McGrath Alan Buttenshaw Bev Driver |
GODFREY: Sarah GODFREY: James * Benenden, Kent |
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HICKMOT: James, Sarah and child * Lamberhurst, Kent |
Nigel Masters |
HICKS: John, Maria and children * Hawkhurst, Kent |
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HOLMES: Thomas * Staines, Middlesex |
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JUDGE: Jesse, Hannah and children * Rolvenden, Kent |
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MARSHALL: Charles and Hannah MARSHALL, Edward * Benenden, Kent |
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MASTERS (Mastus): William, Mary and children * Beckley/Icklesham, Sussex |
Jan Kersnovske Heather Peterson Daphne White Alan Buttenshaw Neil and Darlene McGrath |
MILLHAM: Uriah/Richard, and children MILLHAM, Hannah (sister of Uriah) * Ewhurst, Sussex |
Janelle Cooper |
MILLSTEAD: George, Mary and child * Rolvenden, Kent |
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MOON: William, Hannah and children MOON: William and Harriet * Biddenden/Rolvenden, Kent |
Bruce Robinson |
MUNN: Caroline * Benenden, Kent |
Glenys Wrigley |
PAYNE: William, Lucy and children * Fairlight, Sussex |
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ROBARDS/ROBERTS: John (Snr), Martha and child ROBARDS/ROBERTS: John (Jnr), Sophia and child ROBARDS/ROBERTS: Stephen, Mary and child ROBARDS/ROBERTS: William, Harriet and children * Sandhurst, Kent |
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ROSER/ROLF: John, Mary and children * Bodiam, Sussex |
Sue Thornton |
SAUNTER (Sonter): David, Emma and children * Northiam, Sussex |
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SHOOBRIDGE: John, Mary and child SHOOBRIDGE: George SHOOBRIDGE: William * Benenden/Rolvenden, Kent |
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SILDEN/SELDEN: Elias, Frances and children * Westfield, Sussex |
Ron Selden |
SISLEY: William, Sarah and children * Wittersham, Kent |
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SIVYER: Stephen, Mary, and child SIVYER: Stephen * Sandhurst, Kent |
Glenys Wrigley Carol Dale Bob Spilstead |
TURNER: Charles and Harriet * Benenden, Kent |
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VIDLER: William (Snr), Mary and child VIDLER, William (Jnr), Harriet and children VIDLER: James, Hannah and children VIDLER: John, Mercy and children VIDLER: Edwin, Mary and child * Sandhurst, Kent |
Nigel Masters John Graham Tracey and Shane King Frank Rae Michael Bastion Stephen Smith Gary Cook Marie Marchese |
WARD: Joseph, Sarah and children * Brede, Sussex |
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WATMAN: James, Elizabeth and children * Rolvenden, Kent |
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WATTUS/WATERS: George, Mary and children * Sandhurst, Kent |
Michelle Holthouse John Graham Helene Shepherd |
WEAVER: Thomas, Elizabeth and children * Bodiam, Sussex |
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WEEKS: James * Rolvenden, Kent |
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WEEKS: Mary * Rolvenden, Kent |
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WENBAN: John, Mary and children * Hawkhurst, Kent |
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WENHAM: George, Mary and children WENHAM: Henry, Mary and children * Benenden, Kent |
Rosalie Ryan Lauren Winkley |
WILLIARD: Henry, Elizabeth and children * Guestling, Sussex |
Denise Burton |
WINSOR: William, Lydia and children * Sandhurst, Kent |
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WOOD: George, Ann and children * Crowhurst, Sussex |
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WOOD, Samuel * Benenden, Kent |
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The following folks appear to have changed email addresses, and therefore have been removed from the table above until we can "find" them again: Sylvia Anderson; Jan Arnett; Beryl Bauld; Bev Barfield; Sharon Bergman; Anna Blanch; Novello Byrnes; Judy Caban; Christine Crichton; Brian Damage; June Dawson; Jane Dent; Dorothy Fulwood; Jim Hill; Lisa Holliday; Colin Irwin; Margaret Kennedy (Sonter); Colin King; Katie Lloyd; Leonie Mallins; Linda Manning; Adrienne Marden; Marie Marchese; Kevin Masters; Carrie Moorhouse; Alan Patterson; Jo-Anne Roberts; Bev Robertson; Anthea Rooney; Catherine Smiroldo; Gina Utterson; Myles Wenban and Cheryl Woods |
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Inspector Dept of Hospitals OfficeSydney 7 November 1838
Sir, |
of Children | 29 |
Adults | 5 |
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(sgd) John Smith, SURGEON R.N. Superintendent
P.S. I beg to add, having omitted it in its proper place that, the remedies resorted to for preventing the disemmination of the scarlet fever were: washing with caustic lime and chloride of lime, all the berths, decks and other fittings once a week, and sanitising often, also sprinkling the bedding and other articles frequently with the chloride of lime.
EMPLOYMENT- There was no employment for the people, they being too lazy and insubordinate to do any useful work.
Schools were established under the Chief Superintendence of one very able and Christian teacher John Vidler; whereby the children in general received some instruction and wherefrom they derived some advantage, the greater number having been, at the time of embarkation, perfectly illiterate, not having the most distant knowledge of the rudiments of the English language.
I beg further to report to your Lordship that, considering the
disasters which have marked the voyages of both these vessels, the dirty
state in which the Emigrants by the "Maitland" were reported to be
on their arrival, and the enormous expenses which have fallen on the Colony
by their long detention in Quarantine, I have not judged it proper to issue
Gratuities to the Surgeon of the "William Roger" or to the Surgeon
or officers of the "Maitland "; though, as the Master of the "William
Roger" died in Quarantine, I have not withheld his Gratuity from his
Widow. If the result of the voyage is not to be taken into consideration
in the payment of Gratuities, I would respectively submit to your Lordship
that there can be no sufficient reason for making any part of the remuneration
of the Surgeon's a contingent one; for it will be scarcely ever possible
to prove misconduct or inefficiency against a Surgeon, unless indeed it be
of a nature to call for a far heavier punishment than the mere stoppage of
a Gratuity.
I have no positive charge of misconduct to prefer against either of the
two Surgeons of these two vessels; but the enterprise, in which they engaged,
has been signally unfortunate. The loss of their expected Gratuities is
also the less heavy upon them, as, in addition to their full pay, they have
received the following sums for their services in Quarantine, vizt.:
The Surgeon of the "William Roger" ..... 64 Pounds
The Surgeon of the "Maitland" ............. 46 Pounds
The "Maitland", with her dirt, overcrowding and lack of
discipline, was typical of the worst seagoing slums in the migrant traffic.
She started her 134-day voyage with 223 adults and 127 children packed
below decks. No fewer than 200 cases of sickness occurred during the voyage
and the bodies of 35 of her passengers, including 29 children, had been fed
to the sharks before she sighted Sydney Heads.
As the migrants and crew of the "William Rogers" (an earlier
plague ship) occupied all the accommodation at Spring Cove quarantine grounds,
another tented colony had to be established for the "Maitland"'s
people, accentuating the desperate shortage of supplies. Fortunately not
many from the "Maitland " needed attention, and only five more died
after they were put ashore in quarantine. At the sinister little settlement
on North Head, day after day victims were carried to the isolation huts,
where they raved in delirium or lay in a stupor that ended only in death.
On November 22, 1838, Governor Gipps wrote in a dispatch to London:
"The sickness and mortality at the quarantine station is unexampled, no
fewer than 140 persons having been attacked with typhus of the most malignant
kind..."
The quarantine station consisted of a couple of wooden shanties, a surgeon's
cottage and a cluster of tents pitched among the scrub and sandhills.
On January 3, 1839, when the last sick patient was reported convalescing,
the Governor allowed the two ships to disembark their passengers and bring
them up the harbour.
A committee of inquiry report was a damning indictment of the ships
and a system under which herds of immigrants were "transported to the colony
like cattle."