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The Journal of Edward Ward 1850-51
September 7th
September 7th , 1850. Left Plymouth on board the Charlotte Jane, 730 tons, Commander Alexr. Lawrence, for Port Lyttelton, New Zealand, in company with the Sir George Seymour, Randolph and Cressy, which with us conveyed the first body of colonists to the new settlement of Canterbury, chartered by the 'Canterbury Association'. Chaplain, Rev. Mr Kingdon; Surgeon, Alfred Barker, Esquire; First Mate, Mr Bridger; Second Mate, Mr Woolcot; and twenty-six cabin passengers, fourteen intermediate & about eighty steerage.*
* According to the official Passenger List, the Charlotte Jane carried twenty-seven chief cabin passengers, nineteen intermediate cabin, and 105 steerage. Of the total of 151 persons, forty-nine were children under the age of sixteen.