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Arrival of the Ship “London.”
Arrival of the Ship “London.”
On the 12th December, 1840, the ship “London” arrived from England with 200 passengers. Among the latter was Mr. Frederick Alonzo Carrington, who held the appointment of Chief Surveyor to the Plymouth Company.
The ship “London,” 700 tons, commanded by Captain H. Shuttleworth, sailed from Gravesend on the 13th August, 1840, and arrived in January, 1841, with 119 adults, 68 children under fourteen, and 10 under the age of one.
Six births and four deaths occurred on board.
The passenger list is as follows:—
Name | No. of Children |
Attenbury, Martha | — |
Baird, James | — |
Barber, Thomas and Susannah | 3 |
Berry, Fred T. and E. Jane | — |
Birrell, John | — |
Blyth, James and Isabella | — |
Brown, Frances | — |
Burt, Fenny W. and Ann | 2 |
Chetham, Wm. and Sarah | — |
Collett, Henry and Eliza | — |
Cummerfield, J. and Mary | 4 |
Curtis, Geo. and Priscilla | 5 |
Dean, William | — |
Dolan, Margaret | — |
Downing, Ellen | — |
Duffy, John | — |
Emery, Wm. and Martha | 1 |
Fell, Wm. and Elizabeth | 4 |
Fox, Matthew | — |
Giddings, Richard and Jane | 2 |
Gilberd, Wm. Foale and J. | 3 |
Gough, Timothy and Mary | — |
Gough, Margaret | — |
Grettan, Thomas H. | 2 |
Hales, John | — |
Hay, Wm. and Eliza | — |
Henderson, Thos. and Cath. | — |
* Howe, Mary | 1 |
Howell, Sim and Elizabeth | — |
Jarvis, Henry | — |
Kelt, James and Elizabeth | — |
King, John and Katherine | 1 |
Levet, Gardener | — |
Light, John H. and Mary | 1 |
Lowrie, Joseph | — |
Marks, Catherine | — |
McFarlane, Henry | — |
McFarlane, Mary | — |
McIntosh, J. and Mary | — |
McIntosh, Alex and Marg. | 7 |
Miller, Chas and Ann | — |
Minnihan, Jeremy and M. Ann | — |
Morris, Cornelius and Mary | — |
Morris, Ellen, 16; and Anne, 14 | — |
Nairne, Chas. Joseph | — |
Neil, Wm. and Bridget | — |
Neil, Ellen, 14; *Edward | — |
Nunn, Ann | — |
Overend, Hen. and Elizabeth | — |
Parker, Wm. and Harriet | — |
Parks, Ann, 25 | — |
Perrin, Rhoda, 26 | — |
Pilkington, Michael and Ann | — |
Pringle, Alex, 17 | — |
Ryan, Michael and M. Ann | — |
Scott, Wm. and Margaret | — |
Seymour, John, 28 | — |
*Seymour, James and Frances | 2 |
Signall, Wm. and Deborah | 3 |
Sindles, Stephen, 17 | — |
Stanton, Margaret | 1 |
Symons, John and Mary | 4 |
Tomlinson, Richard. 18 | — |
Turner, Mary | —page 74 |
Wakefield, Eliza | — |
Wakefield, Susan and Isabella | — |
Ward, James, 27 | — |
Welch, Henry and Mary | — |
Welch, Edward, 18; and Francis, 15 | — |
Welch, Elizabeth Delahey (widow) | 3 |
Williams, Susannah, 18 | — |
Youlton, James, 14; J., 27 | — |
Births.— | |
To Mrs. Welch, 2nd October. | |
To Mrs. Geddings, 22nd October. | |
To Mrs. Howell, 28th October. | |
To Mrs. Emery, 1st. November. | |
To Mrs. Parker, 19th November. | |
To Mrs. Overend, 28th November. | |
Deaths.— | |
Henderson, 20th September. | |
Hay, 24th September. | |
Fell, 29th September. | |
Howe, 1st. November. |