Essex
Ship: 329 tons
Master: Henry Oakley
Surgeon: Richrd Lucas Vance
Departed: Plymouth, 3 September 1842
Arrived: 20 January 1843
The Essex was the last vessel sailing under charter of the Plymouth Company. She cleared the last pilot outside Plymouth sound at half-past five pm on Saturday 3 September 1842 and entered Port Nicholson on or about 13 January 1843, completing her voyage in coming to anchor at New Plymouth roadstead, or Port Eliot on 20 January.
Her total complement of passengers on leaving Plymouth numbered 115; 113 steerage and 2 cabin. Two births and one death; the latter that of an infant at Port Nicholson. Nearly all of the children took the scarlet fever and all recovered.
Aubrey, Arthur Herbert
Aubrey, Charles
Bailey, Henry
Batten, William
Batten, Emily
Batten, James
Batten, Mary Ann
Batten, Susan
Batten, Sarah
Batten, Matilda
Batten, William
Bovey, John
Bovey, Jane
Bovey, John
Coade, Ephraim
Davey, Samuel
Davey, Mary
Davey, Elizabeth
Delaney, Millicent
Delaney, Alicia
Gribble, Elizabeth
Gribble, John
Gribble, Mary
Gribble, Catherine
Gribble, John
Gribble, William
Gribble, Samuel
Gribble, Grace
Harper, John
Harper, Eliza
Harper, William
Harvey, John
Harvey, Grace
Harvey, William
Harvey, John
Harvey, James Essex (born on voyage)
James, Samuel
James, Sarah
Jeffrey, John
Jeffrey, Ann
Jeffrey, John
Jeffrey, Mary Ann
Jeffrey, Thomas
Kestle, Abraham
Kestle, Johanna
Kestle, Pascoe
Kestle, Elizabeth
Kestle, Maria
Knuckey, Nicholas
Knuckey, Zenobia
Knuckey, Mary Jane
Knuckey, Nicholas
Knuckey, Margaret
Knuckey, Oliver
Knuckey, Elizabeth
Knuckey, Richard
Knuckey, Jane
Moyle, Edward
Moyle, Mary
Moyle, Julia
O'Dell, Thomas
O'Dell, Maria
Old, Richard
Old, Jane
Old, James
Old, Christianna
Old, Fanny
Old, Mary Jane
Old, Jane
Old, Robert
Old, John
Old, Margaret
Old, William
Old, Martha
Pascoe, Nicholas
Pascoe, Rachel
Pascoe, Susan
Pascoe, Mary Ann
Passmore, Henry
Polkinghorne, William
Polkinghorne, Ann and daughter born on voyage
Polkinghorne, William
Radford, Catherine
Roberts, Philbert
Roberts, Silena
Roberts, Elizabeth
Roberts, Mary Ann
Roberts, Silena
Rogers, John
Rogers, Mary
Rogers, William
Rogers, Henry
Rogers, Mary
Rogers, Ann Maria
Rogers, Samuel
Rogers, Solomon
Rogers, Elizabeth Jane
Rogers, John
Rowe, Charles
Rowe, Susanna
Rowe, Henry
Rowe, Jane
Scandlyn, Richard
Scandlyn, Mary
Scandlyn, Richard
Scandlyn, Eliza
Scandlyn, John
Scandlyn, Elizabeth
Scandlyn, Thomas
Stephens, Thomas
Thomas, Richard
Thomas, Johanna
Thomas, Nicholas
Thomas, Richard
Thompson, John
Thompson, Grace
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