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308 immigrants arrived by the 'Neptune'. Nine deaths on the passage, 4 adults and 5 children. Small pox occurred shortly after leaving Cork and the vessel was quarantined on arrival for two days
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Sydney Morning Herald
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Arrival - from Cork, having left the 26th October, the ship Neptune, 643 tons, Captain Ferris, with emigrants. Passenger Mr. Birtwhistle, Surgeon-superintendent
First Name:
Will and Anne
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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Will, farm labourer age 37 and Anne, farm labourer age 31, passengers on the immigrant ship Neptune. Engaged with James Read at Maitland on arrival
First Name:
John and Sarah
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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John Bryant, agricultural labourer age 22 and Sarah Bryant age 21, passengers on the immigrant ship Neptune. Engaged with Captain Norris at Lake Macquarie on arrival
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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William Cotter, ploughman age 23. Passenger on the immigrant ship Neptune. Engaged with William Ogilvie at Merton on arrival
Ship:
Neptune 1844 (came free)
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930
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James Green, labourer from Chichester. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Maitland. Forwarded to Hyde Park Barracks
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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John Hinwood, blacksmith age 22. Passenger on the immigrant ship Neptune. On arrival went with Thomas Wilton and family to Morpeth
First Name:
John and Elizabeth
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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John Marshall, farm servant age 24 and Elizabeth, house servant age 22, passengers on the immigrant ship Neptune. Engaged with James Hale at the Hunter River on arrival
First Name:
George and Anne
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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George Noyes, blacksmith age 29 and Anne age 27, passengers on the immigrant ship Neptune. Went to his father at Hunter River on arrival
Source:
Newcastle Morning Herald 13 September 1930
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Few people are better acquainted with the story of the rise and progress of Newcastle than the ex-Mayor of Wickham (Ald. Alfred Pepper). He was born at Tomago on March 24, 1859 and has spent his life in the district, the last 56 years in Tighe’s Hill, which suburb he has seen develop from virgin scrub to a popular and thickly peopled area. His father was a native of Royston, England, and sailed from London Docks on October 1 1844 in the ship Neptune, accompanied by Mrs. Pepper and their first child. This son is Mr. George Henry Pepper of Nelsons Bay who is 88 years of age. He is still hale and well, and is believed to be the oldest resident of Port Stephens. The family arrived at Port Jackson in February 1845 the outward journey occupying 138 days. They came to the Hunter River, Mr. Pepper senr., having been engaged as a farm labourer by Captain Dacre. He went to work at Kennington – a name familiar to few these days. It was a locality between Hexham and Raymond Terrace
Source:
Newcastle Morning Herald
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James Pepper, sailed from London in the ship Neptune on 1 October 1843 and arrived in Sydney on 14 February 1844. He had engaged for the service with the father of Justice Sir William Windeyer at Tomago at 15 pounds a year and half a ration for his wife. He settled at Kennington, on the Lower Hunter, and after serving the term for which he was engaged, took a farm of his own at Tomago and worked that for 32 years. In 1874 he sold out and came to Tighes Hill where he began business as a storekeeper. On his retirement from the store, he continued to lived in that suburb and died there at a great age
First Name:
James, Anne, George Henry
Source:
Assisted Immigrant Passenger List (Ancestry)
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James Pepper, farm labourer, 23, Anne his wife age 21, house servant and, George Henry aged 11 months, from Cambridgeshire, immigrants on the Neptune immigrant ship
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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Morris Sheehan, farm servant age 24. Passenger on the immigrant ship Neptune. Engaged with William Ogilvie at Merton on arrival
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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Arabella Thompson, housemaid age 18, passenger on the immigrant ship Neptune. Engaged with Henry Pilcher at Maitland on arrival
First Name:
Thomas and Mary Anne
Source:
Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
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Thomas Wilton, farm laboureer age 27 and Mary Anne Wilton, age 25 with three children, passengers on the immigrant ship Neptune. Went to an uncle at Morpeth on arrival
