Passenger list of the "JAVA" for the voyage October 1839 - February 1840.
As no complete passenger list is known to exist the following list is provided
to provide a listing as complete as possible from remaining published sources.
The "JAVA" manifest gave the following information.
Cabin
Miss Jane Cotter, Miss Ellen Cotter, Miss Charlotte Guy, Miss Mary Guy, Mrs Mary
Watson, two Misses Watson, Master Watson, Mrs Bernard, Mr. Grote, Mr. McLeod,
Mr. Baddockby, Mr. Charles Barlow.
Intermediate
Mr. Benjamin Conigrave, Mrs. Matilda Conigrave, (and two children), Mr.J Crews,
Mr. A. Walters, Mr. Graham, O.E.Dorian, Alfred Dorian
Steerage
Mr. and Mrs. Goulding, Roderick McLeod, Hugh Dunstan, James Trebilcock, Mrs
Harding, Mr(?) Mitchell and 460 Commissioners passengers in the steerage.
This last comment on the manifest has of course made any complete listing likely
to be a "Herculean" task.
Other sources have provided the following names in addition to those shown;
James and Thomasina Crowle, ancestors of the author were on board, as of course
was William Richards (the diarist), his daughter Caroline having died at sea.
William had also William, Jnr., Laura, George and Cyrus as well as presumably
his wife on board. James Trangmar and his sister Sarah and his aunt and uncle
were passengers but I am unsure of their location on the ship. We know that
there was the widow to Mr. Oxford of Bideford and his four children. Also George
mentions Mr. Bastian of Cowan whose daughter aged 11 years died, a Mr Gahan lost
a child and Mr. Carbins also lost his wife.
Opie in S.A Records Prior to 1841 listed the following passengers not listed
above:
William Francis, Alice Nixon, Sarah Thomas, Charles Tonkin, James Tonkin, Mary
J. Hocking, T. Wallace, Henry Veal, Peter Williams, Robert Dunstan, C. Edwards,
Elizabeth Edwards, W.Edwards and W.Edwards jnr., John Moore, W.H.J Paine George
Porter, Joseph Stanton, Bernard Greig, Mary Dutch, H.F.Francis, Mary Jane Jose,
Jane Atkinson,R.L Low,.Mrs S.Downs, Thomas Hannigan, Mary McCarthy (nee Burnard),
R. Burnard and E. Burnard, Mrs Eliza Barlow, John Coad and Thomas Polkinghorne.
From the records of the Pioneers Association of South Australia, the following
names can also be added:
Enoch Tonkin, William Bassett, James Shakes, Samson Bastian, Joseph Chivell,
John Germein, John Downing.
From the Medical Board enquiry, the following names can be added:
Jane Bassett, William Price, Mrs. Giles, Graham Poole, Mr. Landy, Mrs Hames,
James Pearson, James, George and Isaac Polkinghorne, Robert Bernard, William
Hawke, George Hinde, George Jennett, William Payne, Benjamin Graham.
And from the Register of Sick and Destitute Emigrants the following sad list is
provided (some names can been found in other lists above, but are shown here
again as some descendants may not be aware of this register):
Lightfoot, Candy, Harnagin,, Pleas ,McCanock,,E.Hailey, Philipia Bastian, Eliza
Bastian, John Bastian and family, Samson Bastian Thomas Sleep and wife and
child, Hawke, John Coad and wife, Elizabeth Axford (husband died on voyage (not
mentioned by William Richards), and five children, James Pearce and wife, Grace
Gillard, Ann Coutts, William Francis, wife and four children, Elizabeth
Trillegen Robert Dunstan and wife and five children, William Huxtable, wife and
six children, Alice Polkinghorne and infant, Grace Polkinghorne, John Bennett,
James Elvery, Ann Dennis, Austin, Coking, Thomas Major and wife and child,
Langcake, Jammett, Thomas Chantie, Bennett Johns, Benjamin Gahan and wife and
two children (third died on voyage), William Renwells , James Edwards, William
Harris and wife, Joseph Stanton and wife.
. Following publication of a letter to the Editor of the Messenger Press during
December/January 1987/88, the following list of names were provided by
descendants:
William and Elizabeth Reynolds, James and Harriet Shakes (from Kent), Robert
Dunstan with his wife Elizabeth and their children Robert, Elizabeth, Luke,
Thomas and Mary who died on February 13th 1840 ( a week after the "JAVA"
arrived); William and Elizabeth Edwards, whose daughter Caroline died at sea,
and sons Henry and William. Also on board were Richard and Sarah Perkins, with
two children Richard Anstice Perkins and Mary Ann Perkins. ( Mr. Perkins,
according to the Perkins family history had been in the employ of the East India
Company) , Mr. Simon Dalgleish. Other names to be given to the author include
that of Nicholas and Susan Player, who came from Kenwyn, Truro in Cornwall with
their children, Ellen, Elizabeth, Nicholas, John, and another male child. John
Wills arrived with his wife Eliza and a daughter Eliza and a son John from
Devonshire.
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