Amelia Thompson
Ship: Barque 477 tons
Master: William Dawson
Surgeon: James Evans
Departed: Plymouth, 25 March 1841
Arrived: 5 September 1841
The Amelia Thompson, named after the owner's wife, and the second of the Plymouth Company ships, left London on 25 March 1841. She carried 187 Devonshire emigrants, 104 males, 83 females.
The ship arrived off the Taranaki coast in the most tempestuous season, so it was said, that the whalers or the natives remembered to have experienced. The voyage took five and a half months, with a stop at Salvador in Brazil for 4 days, and at Wellington for a fortnight.
The Amelia Thompson arrived in New Plymouth on 3 September 1841, although it was not possible to leave the ship until 5 September, the passengers landing at Moturoa Bay and beach.
Allen, Prudence
Allen, William
Allen, John
Allen, Thomas
Autridge, Charles
Autridge, Frances
Autridge, John
Baker, Miss
Bassett, William
Bayly, James
Bayly, Grace
Bayly, Arthur
Bayly, William
Bayly, Elizabeth
Bayly, Daniel
Bayly, Ann
Bayly, Jane
Bayly, Thomas
Bayly, Susan
Bayly, Elizabeth
Bayly, Thomas
Bayly, William
Bayly, Ann
Bayly, Isaac
Billing, William
Billing, Eliza
Billing, Mary
Brown, Charles
Brown, Mr & Mrs Edwin
Brown, Master
Brown, Miss O
Bullott, Edward
Bullott, Eugene
Bullott, Jane (died at Plymouth)
Bullott, Susan
Cooke, George John (Capt.)
Dalby, Henry
Davy, Master
Davy, Henry Leyson (Capt.)
Downe, James
Edgcumbe, James
Edgcumbe, William
Edgcumbe, Ann
Elliott, Peter
Elliott, Ann
Evans, James
Fishley, Samuel
Giddy, Sarah
Giddy, Mary
Giddy, Sally Ann
Giddy, George
Goodall, Isaac
Goodall, Master
Grylls, Richard
Grylls, Ann
Grylls, John
Grylls, Eliza
Halse, William
Halse, Henry
Hamblyn, Charles
Hamblyn, Mary
Hamblyn, John Rundle
Hamblyn, Caroline
Hamblyn, Charles
Hamblyn, Mary Jane
Harris, Jane
Hicks, Thomas
Hicks, Ann
Hoskin, Josias
Hoskin, Elizabeth
Hoskin, Arthur
Hoskin, Eliza
Hoskin, William
Hoskin, Arthur
Hunt, Edward
Hunt, Susan
Hunt, Edward
Ibbotson, Thomas
Johnson, John
Johnson, Mary
Johnson, Mary
Johnson, William
Johnson, John (born on voyage)
Jones, Edward
Jones, Catherine
Jones, Edward
King, Henry (Capt.) R.N.
King, Mrs
King, Master
Lewthwaite, John
Lukies, William
Lukies, Eliza
Lukies, Elizabeth
Lukies, William John
Lukies, Emily
Marshall, Edmund
Mathews, Samuel
Mathews, Susannah
Medland, John
Medland, Grace
Merchant, Charles E
Merchant, Mrs
Merchant, Master
Newland, John
Newland, Francis
Newland, Francis Agnes
Newland, Susan
Newland, John
Newland, William
Oliver, James
Oliver, Ruth
Oliver, John
Oliver, William
Oliver, Samuel
Oliver, James
Oliver, Matilda
Oliver, Francis
Oliver, Mary
Oliver, Samuel
Oxenham, Thomas
Oxenham, Elizabeth
Oxenham, Ann
Oxenham, Susannah
Oxenham, Hannah
Oxenham, John (born on voyage)
Paynter, William
Paynter, Sarah
Paynter, William
Pearce, James
Pearce, Grace
Pearce, Infant
Perry, John
Perry, Frances
Perry, Bennett
Perry, Frances
Perry, Elizabeth
Perry, Mary
Perry, William
Perry, Francis
Perry, Walter
Perry, Edwin (born on voyage)
Roberts, William
Roberts, Mary
Roberts, Jane
Roberts, John
Roberts, Mary Ann
Rundle, Richard
Rundle, Ann
Rundle, John
Rundle, William
Rundle, Richard
Rundle, Ann
Rundle, Hannah
Rundle, Sally
Rundle, Jane
Sandercock, Sarah
Screech, Caroline
Seccombe, Richard
Seccombe, Sally
Seccombe, William Henry
Seccombe, John
Shaw, James T.
Shaw, Jane
Shaw, Matilda
Shaw, Sarah
Shaw, Mary Ann
Shaw, Ebenezer
Shaw, Lydia
Shaw, William
Shaxon, William
Shaxon, Mary Ann
Shepherd, John
St.George, George
Veale, John
Veale, Mrs
Veale, Hannah
Veale, Jane
Veale, Prudence
Veale, Thomas
Wallace, John
Wallace, Robert
Webster, James
Webster, Mrs
Webster, Frederick L
Webster, W.D.(born on voyage)
Williams, John
Wood, Richard
Wood, Elizabeth
Wood, Harriet
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