Jenny Robin Jones - No Simple Passage

The Journey of the London to New Zealand in1842

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CopyrightJenny Robin Jones

Epub ISBN978-0-9951025-4-5

nd May1842

of Britain showing where the adultemigrants came from and in what numbers.

Map of New Zealandshowing where the emigrants settled.

Passengers on the London voyage1stJanuary 2ndMay, 1842

Cabin Passengers

Mrs Susannah Atwood

James and Georgina Kelham

Margaret Wills

Henry Torre

Charles Empson

William Shepherd

William Mackie Turnbull (Dr)

Intermediate Passengers

Robert and Anne Cheesman

Daniel and Sarah Dougherty

Mrs Emma Martin

William Calvert

Thomas Rider

Edward Abbot

William Hamilton

William Dale

Richard Wallis

Paying Passengers

Abraham Smith

Abraham Smith Jr

William Briggs

William Parry

Nathaniel Whale was listed as apassenger but had no embarkation order.

Emigrant Passengers insteerage

ACourt, James and Catherine

Andrews, William and Eliza

Barb, James and Mary with childrenThomas and William

Barrett, William and Mary Ann withchildren Mary Ann, Sarah, Caroline, William, Sophia and Ellen

Bee, Francis and Ann with daughterEllen

Benton, Timothy and Mary with childrenEliza, Frances, and Thomas

Bidmead, Jonathan and Sarah withdaughter Caroline

Bird, William

Bird, Mary

Brewer, William and Caroline withchildren Sarah, William and George

Burling, Henry and Mary with childrenCaroline, Henry, Rose, Alfred, Charles and Arthur

Cattell, James and Mary with childrenHarriet, James, Caroline and Eliza

Chamberlain, Thomas and Susannah withchildren William, Sarah Ann, Giles and Edwin

Clark, William, nephew of LouisaFitchett

Clark, Joseph, nephew of LouisaFitchett

Collier, Joseph and Harriet AmeliaAnn

Collins, John Power and Margaret withchildren Jeremiah, John, Samuel and Raymond

Conlan, Richard and Mary with daughterEllen

Dixon, Charles and Mary with childrenSarah and David

Dixon, Joseph and Mary with childrenJohn and Joseph

Dockray, Samuel and Hannah withchildren Margaret, and Thomas

Eades, William and Francis withchildren Frances, James, Matilda and John

Edwards, Robert and Phoebe withchildren Giles, George, Israel, Jane, Charles, Herbert andHenry

Felgate, George and Martha withchildren Merinda, John, Benjamin, Louisa, Elizabeth, Maria andJohn

Fitchett, John and Louisa withchildren Louise, John, William, Alfred and George

Florence/Florance, Thomas George andCelia

Hall, William Jabez and Maria withchildren William, Joseph, David, John and Thomas

Harvey, William and Sarah withchildren Sarah, Charles, Alfred and John

Herbert, Joseph and Sarah with sonJesse

Hodder, Walter and Emma with daughterElizabeth Mary

Holder, William and Martha withchildren Emma Phillis, Thomas and Mary

Hollingworth, Edward and Phillis withchildren Benjamin and Joseph

Hurley, Alexander and Ann withchildren John, Henry, Eliza, William and Daniel

Ikin, John and Jane with son John

James, John Charles and Eliza withchildren Edward, Amelia, Ellen, Clara, Emma and Louisa

Jenkins, William and Catherine Janewith children Jane Tutin and John Wesley

Jones, Henry and Mary with childrenMaria, John, Elizabeth and Mary

Judd, John and Selina with sonJoseph

Lawreston, A. Rushton

Lockyer, Thomas and Elizabeth withchildren William, Christopher, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, and ElizaAnn

McCarthy, Joseph Michael and Mary Ann,[Charles Faustina born at sea, 16.02.1842].

Marshall, David Watt and Jean withchildren Alexander, Henry and Margaret

Mason, William and Lucy Ann withchildren Lucy Ann and William Frederick

Matthews, Charles and Elizabeth withson Edwin

Nicols, William

Poulter, Samuel and Mahalah

Remington, John and Rebecca. [Mary Annborn at sea, 02.05.1842]

Rogers, Charles and Eliza withdaughter Ann

Saunders, Joseph and Rose withchildren Mary and Ann

Saunders, William and Maria

Scott, James and Catherine

Short, James and Charlotte withchildren Reuben, Job, Elijah and Ryan

Stockbridge, Stephen and Mary withchildren Louise, Caroline, James, Stephen and William

Tarr, John and Elizabeth with childrenWilliam, Hannah and Mary Ann

Tattle, John and Ann with childrenLavinia, Charles, Eliza, John Webber and Ann Elizabeth

Taylor, Joseph and Elizabeth

Thomas, William and supplier withchildren Margaret, Henry and son

Tomkins, John and Mary with childrenWilliam, Emma, John, and, Maria and Mary

White, Amelia

Williams, David and Eliza withchildren Catherine and Elizabeth

Worsley, Thomas and Ann. Mrs Worsleyis sister to Mrs Thomas

First, introductions. Im yourgreat-great-granddaughter, Jenny. You begat Mary Ann who begat Evawho begat Barrie who begat me. So Im creeping onto theLondon with you, Rebecca, hiding under your skirts, a wraithof the future. Im sidling up the gangplank, glad to leave thesemurky London waters.

The voyage toPort Nicholson will take four months, so Im going to keep a diaryfor the 124 days until you and your husband John Remington touchland again, and Ill try to beguile you during some of these wearyhours with stories of your lives to come. I know much that happenedon the ship and Ill find out more, even about things that affectedyou, Rebecca. Sometimes Ill know only the weather. Charles Empsonkept a diary, you see, quite a good one, although, in the manner ofmale recorders hes a bit stuck on the weather, the latitude, thestate of the ship. But he tells me other things too, like when asailor falls off the rigging and is drowned. By the last days ofthe voyage I dont want him to stop. He longs for the journey to beover but the closer he gets to land the more Im crying inside:Dont end! Dont end! But he does. He steps ashore and dines atDicky Barretts and thats where his diary stops.

I wouldnt knowwhat happened to you after that, Rebecca, if it werent for DrTurnbull, who also keeps a journal and he tells me you had MaryAnn the next day in the harbour.