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They came by the Frankfield - Assisted Immigrants who arrived 1841Passenger lists - NSW lists as families or singles, Victoria has age of individual, or C=child, A=Adult.Some are not on both lists, people slip between the lists - Vic includes crew and maybe the paying passengers. |
Rootsweb 2001 My 4 x great grandfather was Joseph HENDERSON who married Martha HAMILTON. As far as I?m aware they came from County Down in Ireland. The only child I am aware of was also a Joseph HENDERSON. He was born C1813 in County Down and married Mary Jane RENNIE/RENNEY in 1840 in County Tyrone, Ireland. Mary was born C1814 in County Tyrone. Joseph was a mason by trade but found work as a labourer on his arrival in Melbourne. On his son John?s marriage certificate he is listed as a ?city missionary?. They migrated to Australia in 1841 aboard the ship ?Frankfield? departing Liverpool, England on 7th Feb 1841 and arriving Melbourne, Australia on 7th Jun. 1841. Joseph died on 11th Apr. 1904 in Port Melbourne, Victoria, and Mary died on 20th Apr. 1874, Fitzroy Melbourne. Their Children were as follows: -James HENDERSON, born May 1841 aboard ship.. -Mary HENDERSON, born 1843, Melbourne, Victooria, Australia; died 1847, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. -Eliza HENDERSON, born 1844, Collingwood, Viictoria, Australia; died 1860, Victoria, Australia. -Martha HENDERSON, born 1845, Victoria, Austtralia. -Mary HENDERSON, born 1847, Victoria, Austraalia. -Jane HENDERSON, born 1847, Victoria, Austraalia. -John Henderson, born 27th Jan 1848, Fitzroyy, Victoria, Australia; married Susan Hambly MARTIN on 28th Nov. 1877. -William Henry Henderson, born Feb 1852, Vicctoria, Australia; died Dec. 1852, Victoria, Australia. -Joseph HENDERSON, born 1852, Victoria, Austtralia. -William Henry HENDERSON, born 1854, Victoriia, Australia. -Robert HENDERSON, born 5th July. 1856, Victtoria, Australia. I would appreciate any information anyone could give me on the family and forbears in Ireland, or suggestions as where to start searching. Regards, Andrea Fitzgerald, In Melbourne, Oz. |
From: "John Howe" Anne married WILLIAM FRANCIS BATES, on 10th April, 1842, at St. Francis Church., Melbourne by the first Roman Catholic parish priest of Melbourne, Father P.B. Geoghegan. They had eight children: Catherine Anne, b.1842; Mary Ann, b.I843; William Francis, b.1846; Harriet Ann, b.1849; Edward Francis, b.1851; Christopher Francis, b.1852; Sarah Jane, b.1855 and Ellen Anne, who had died by I875. Anne died at Maffra in Gippsland, Victoria, on 25th May, 1895 aged 75 years and buried at the Sale 26th May. I have no idea of where she was born in Fermanagh as all official certificates just state that her birthplace was "Co Fermanagh, Ireland" Also do not know names of her parents. John in Australia (Moama, NSW) http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/jhgen/web/index.html |
GRAHAM, Clonfert, Galway, Ireland pre 1840, (Archibald GRAHAM, born Clonfert c1819, son of George GRAHAM. Emigrated to Melbourne, Australia 1840, per "Coromandel". Married (Melbourne 1843) Jane Ann SCOTT, who had emigrated from Raphoe, Co Donegal in 1841, per "Frankfield".), Dr John Spurway, jondaryan20@hotmail.com |
http://www.cclc.vic.gov.au/moments/famil.htm The Wilsons: An early Berwick Shire Family The Wilson Family are among the first European families to settle in the Berwick Shire. Siblings William (circa 1841-1907), Anne (circa 1827-1909) and James (1833-1910) settled in the young Berwick township in the early 1850s. The family came to Australia from County Tyrone, Ireland in 1841 on the ‘Frankfield’. They lived at Brighton for some time before coming to Berwick. |
From Bowker In Sydney on August 10th, 1841 he wrote: After staying about three months in Melbourne Miss Drew became so very friendly and her brothers, mother and sister so candid that I fancied I should be complicated and obliged to marry her if I stayed. Besides I got little practice and heard that I should easily get a situation of surgeon on board a vessel from Sydney home. I, therefore, considered that I had better take a passage to Sydney, which I did in the Frankfield paying £10. I had promised two months before to give a lecture on fever (?) at the Mechanics' Institute, but had not been called upon to do so. The day after I had taken my passage I saw an advertisement in the paper that I was to lecture the day after the Frankfield was advertised to sail. I saw the secretary and told him that I was to sail in the Frankfield and advised him to see the agent and if possible the agent.** He did so and it was thought that she would not sail before the lecture, so I agreed to deliver it if there was time. I had written enough for two long lectures and on Friday prepared some ships ** and examples. So in the evening I delivered my lecture and was obliged to forsake my notes and give it ex tempore. I kept them more than two hours and on Saturday morning sailed. Richard practised as a doctor at New South Wales from 22 August 1842. He was a Physician and surgeon - MRCS 7 May 1838; FRCS 10 Aug 1854; MD St Andrews 1839; MRCP Lond. 1882; LSA 1838. |
More from Bowker Surg Supt's Notes -
A young Irishman, an attorney named Purcell, had been a passenger on board the Frankfield from Liverpool. He brought several letters of introduction to people in Sydney. He delivered one and said the gentleman read it, keeping nodding his head all the time and in such a contemptuous manner that before he had finished it, his Irish blood was up. He bade him good morning and walked away. He determined to give no more introductory letters, and being short of money did not know what to do. I had several letters also, but was so disgusted at the reception of the first that I also determined to give no more. We talked over our troubles together and in an unlucky moment one of us said "Let us go in a whaler as sailors." He went out on the whaler "Caroline" which was a 450 ton teak built, copper fastened barque, which arrived in Melbourne 30 June 1841 under Captain John Williams. She made some voyages between Melbourne & Hobart in the second half of 1841 [Biddle 1841 p.4]
His diary records: Barque Caroline, August 10th, 1841. We told him to hurry, and at last one afternoon he told us to rig ourselves in working clothes and he would take us to the Caroline and ship us. We did so and went in his boat. I was to be the spokesman. Accordingly I got over the side and touched my hat to the most respectable man I saw. I asked if the Captain was on board. He answered that he was master of the vessel. I then asked if he wanted any ordinary seamen. He said he would go ashore with us directly and see what ordinary seamen he had. We accompanied him in his boat to Dicks (?), the owners, who were asked if we had been to Captain Brown to get a permission to ship. We had not, and he wrote the paper (?), giving the name as at liberty to ship in the Caroline. He gave one to each and told us that after getting it signed he would ship us next morning. As we went away Purcell said he would be damned if he would go near them any more. I did not know if he was in earnest or no, and hating the uncertainty accused him of being afraid. At last he said he was only joking and would go in the morning. We then went to the Frankfield and asked the Captain to give us certificates that we had been passengers in his ship. Captain Mitchell gave us the certificates and in the morning we signed articles to serve in the Caroline sperm whaler, 193 tons, Captain Hunter, till the completion of the voyage or till she should be full. We received an advance note for £5 each, and our friend (I should rather say enemy) the boatman took us to another man, Lihr, a Swede who was a boatman and kept also a kind of slop shop. Then came the question: who would cash the notes? (These notes are payable 3 days after the person who is shipped has sailed in the ship, and as a person must get the money and not again go near the shop there is a certain risk in giving a sailor the money. Jews generally do this business and draw from thence a profit, charging their own price for their goods on account of the accommodation and also a premium too, generally about 10/-, sometimes £1, rarely as little as 5/-, for cashing a £5 note. ?????Lihr said he would not run the risk and, surveying us up and down, said we did not look much like seagoing folks. We assured him that there was no danger of our not going, but he would not trust us. At last the first boatman agreed to be answerable for £l each and Lihr did take us and the slops on board. I declared I would not give so much, and at last he agreed to diminish his charge by half. We then laid our heads together and ordered a good outfit to be ready next morning when we were to go on board. We then went again to the Frankfield and borrowed 2 chests which had belonged to two runaway sailors of that ship and were therefore confiscated, and next day we equipped ourselves in our sailors' dress and went on board with Lihr, who had been told by the clerk in the agents' office that he was going to accommodate us in the cabin or off (?) deck, and the Captain told us the same, not exactly in the certain language of the clerk but gave us good reason to suppose that this would be the case. The Captain was on board and I asked Purcell if we had not better speak to the Captain about our living on the off (?) deck or cabin. Purcell said it would and begged me to be spokesman, as I could speak he thought better than he could. I went to him and reported to him that we had come on board, hoping that he would then say something about our place. He however said nothing, so I was obliged to say openly that he had mentioned something about our not sleeping in the forecastle. He said then that we might go there till he had time to fix it up. I accordingly, with Lihr's assistance, lowered our chests, beds, &c. into the forecastle. We found it a very spacious one considering the small size of the vessel, between 6 and 7 ft. in it, and surrounded by two layers of bunks most of which had been chosen and had names written upon them. Only 2 upper ones remained, and these were not together so that we must choose of two lower ones which were adjoining one another. I was partly influenced in this choice by the consideration that if the vessel's deck were leaky the upper berths would save the lower ones, and we had great reason to congratulate ourselves on our choice, for soon after we had sailed several were driven from their beds by the water which dripped copiously through the deck while we remained dry. |
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