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Early Wellington

Arrival of the “Arab.”

Arrival of the “Arab.”

The ship “Arab,” 484 tons, commanded by Capt. John Summers, and advertised by John Pirie and Co., Cornhill. to sail on the 1st June, left London June 3rd, and Dartmouth on June 15th, 1841, and arrived at the Port in October with 37 married couples, 15 single men, 12 single women, 51 children under fourteen, and 4 under seven. The passengers were:—

* Present at the Jubilee of 1890.

Name Age Wife's Age No. of Children
Allington, Thomas 36 2
Allington, Etty 35
Blathwayt, G. W.
Blathwayt, Mary Ann
Booth, Jas. and Marry Ann 21 25
Buick, W. and Agnes 3
Butler, W. S.
Dalgety, Alex 36 2
Dalgety, Jane 30
Dalgety, David, 15; Janet
Day, Geo. and Ann 8
Day, William and H.
Dixon, M. and Sarah 5
Durling, Geo. and A.
Dyson, Charlotte
Edwards, Wm. 32
Edwards, Mary 32
Furmager, Sam 5
Furmager, Eliza
Furmager, Harriet and Mary
Gibbs, Jas. 29 1
Gibbs, Charlotte 22
Gooder, John 37 5
Gooder, Betsy
Greaves, John 23 1
Greaves, Mary 22
Hill, George 36 5
Hill, Ann 38
Hogg, John 37 1
Hogg, Elizabeth 38
Hogg, Ann, 17; John 15
Holland, Chas. 29 4
Holland, Ann
Hooper, John 35 4
Hooper, Caroline, 26
Irvine, Thos. 32
Irvine, Eliza 34
Jones, Geo. 23
Jones, Ann Eliza 19
Knowles, Amelia 17
Lissenden, Jas. 26 2
Lissenden, Harriet 24
Mann, Johnathan 32 2
Mann, Eliza 32
Martineau, Henry
Mather, Wm. 34 3
Mather, Ann 33
McHardy, John 18
McIntosh, John 29
McIntosh, Wife and Child to follow in August
Miles, Thos. 22
Norris, Chas. 22
Norris, Barbara Ann 20
Poole, Nathaniel 31 4
Poole, Mary 27
Richardson, James 22
Richardson, Eliza 20
Richardson, Thomas 38 4
Richardson, Delia 37
Richardson, T. Turner 16
Richardson, George 14
Roseby, Thomas 32 2
Roseby, Ann 38
Ross, Robert 23 1
Ross, Mary 21
Sellers, John 37 6
Sellers, Mary 36
*Shirley, Thos 34 6
Shirley, Ann 31
Simon, F.
Simpson, Wm. 33
Simpson, Jane 26
Slaney, Henry —34
Slaney, Jane (daughter) 16
Smith, David 37 6
Smith, Isabel 36
Smith, Alex 15
Sparks, Amos 25 1
Sparks, Elizabeth 23
Summer, Captain
Tutchen, Peter 40 6page 97
Tutchen, Sarah 39
Vile, Sophia (widow) 29 4
Walker, James 33 6
Walker, Ellen 33
Walker, Ellen 14
Watts, Wm. 27 2
Watts, Esther 26
Wilkins, John 37 1
Wilkins, Grace 38
Wilkins, Matthew 17
Wilkins, Hannah 15
Woods, F.
Fig. 34A.—Barrett's Hotel, and the first house built on the beach (Lambton quay). The latter stood on what is known as the Parliament Triangle (site of Temporary War Memorial). This illustration is from a sketch by Captain Stanley (H.M.S. Britomart), 1840, in the writer's possession.

Fig. 34A.—Barrett's Hotel, and the first house built on the beach (Lambton quay). The latter stood on what is known as the Parliament Triangle (site of Temporary War Memorial). This illustration is from a sketch by Captain Stanley (H.M.S. Britomart), 1840, in the writer's possession.

Fig. 34b.—Barrett's Hotel, 1842*. Mr. Brees writes:—“This house was taken out from England by Dr. Evans originally, but was subsequently purchased by Richard Barrett, and opened as an hotel. It is now kept by Mr. Suisted, who has greatly improved it… The projecting wing consists of a billiard-room below, and a Freemason's hall above, and was built by the present landlord.” The house beyond the hotel is the Medical Hall (Messrs. Dorset & Sutton), and the hills forming the east side of the harbour, and the district of the Hutt, bound the view.

Fig. 34b.—Barrett's Hotel, 1842*. Mr. Brees writes:—“This house was taken out from England by Dr. Evans originally, but was subsequently purchased by Richard Barrett, and opened as an hotel. It is now kept by Mr. Suisted, who has greatly improved it… The projecting wing consists of a billiard-room below, and a Freemason's hall above, and was built by the present landlord.” The house beyond the hotel is the Medical Hall (Messrs. Dorset & Sutton), and the hills forming the east side of the harbour, and the district of the Hutt, bound the view.

* Hotel Cecil site

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Fig. 35—Part of Lambton Harbour, comprising about one-third of the water frontage of the Town of Wellington. Drawn April, 1841, by Charles Heaphy, draughtsman to the N.Z. Coy. This view is from above Clay Point (Stewart Dawson's corner.)

Fig. 35—Part of Lambton Harbour, comprising about one-third of the water frontage of the Town of Wellington. Drawn April, 1841, by Charles Heaphy, draughtsman to the N.Z. Coy. This view is from above Clay Point (Stewart Dawson's corner.)

Fig. 36—Key Map of Lambton Harbour, drawn by Mr. W. G. Harding from the original in Sir F. R. Chapman's possession.

Fig. 36—Key Map of Lambton Harbour, drawn by Mr. W. G. Harding from the original in Sir F. R. Chapman's possession.