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209685
Surname: -
First Name: -
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: 1 March 1858
Place: Sydney
Source: SMH
Details: Shipping arrival - February 27, Stebonheath, ship, 1014 tons, Captain Connell, from Plymouth 30th September. Passengers 354 government immigrants
209687
Surname: -
First Name: -
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: 2 March 1858
Place: Sydney
Source: SMH
Details: List of immigrants and names of depositors (sponsors) re the ship Stebonheath - Notice is hereby given that immigrants by the Stebonheath who were provided passages to the colony, in pursuance of deposits made in the Treasury under the Remittance Regulations have arrived by the ship Stebonheath, and that they will be prepared to join their friends, the single females from the Institution, Hyde Park Barracks, between the hours of 9am and 4pm, after their arrival there; and the married families and single men from the ship at 2pm on 2 March 1858
209690
Surname: -
First Name: -
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: 5 March 1858
Place: Sydney
Source: Empire
Details: Extracts from report on an inquest on the body of Ann Cox, one of the female immigrants from the ship Stebonheath….the deceased was 18 years of age and a native of Troubridge, Wiltshire; she died on the morning of 2nd March at the Sydney Infirmary almost immediately on arrival. Dr. McFarlane, first physician to the Sydney Infirmary performed a post mortem examination and gave evidence…Jane Ellinor Chase then gave evidence…I was the matron on board the Stebonheath and had the charge of all the female and children; I had one hundred and fifty-five married and single women under my charge; I came with the girls from London to Plymouth by rail on the 24 September 1857, and had an opportunity of seeing that many of them, particularly the single females, were very tipsy, and I saw one of them put her arm round the neck of the guard and kiss him. The deceased was in the train and I observed nothing improper in her conduct; there were men in the train; the women were put into the train by a clerk, a young man; on our arrival at Plymouth they were taken charge of by some man; they were shipped on board about 28 September, when they were placed under my charge and two days afterwards we sailed. I have been four times to this colony with females and the ship was properly fitted up; the single females and the single men were properly separated, and the regulations were carried out; about sundown every evening they were properly locked up by myself and nobody had access to the single females with out my knowledge and concurrence; the sailors could speak to the single females by coming down to the married female compartments. They were allowed by the married females to come down there, and the case was reported to the doctor and a sailor was put into handcuffs for it; the first week that we were on board the ship the single females showed insubordination, and this kind of conduct was generally among the English females; the ship put into a French port from stress of weather. We sailed from French port on the November 1……the conduct of the single females as we approached the shores of New Holland was very bad….. Ann Wonnocott, gave evidence – I am a widow and was nurse on board the ship. I knew the deceased Ann Cox and believed her to be a steady, healthy girl during the passage…I came from Bristol and joined the ship at Plymouth; it is my opinion that the disorderly girls were of loose character on board; there were English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish on board, and the English were decidedly the most unmanageable; prayers were read twice on Sundays and every evening also. Alexander Duffy gave evidence – I am a married man and one of the immigrants on the ship; I was hospital assistant on board; Honora Walsh then gave evidence – I am a single woman and nurse in the Infirmary; I remember when the deceased was brought there; she was insensible and was undressed and put to bed; I saw nothing upon her clothes; they were only dirty from being on the body so long; there was nothing to indicate that she had been ill used. Surgeon-superintendent William Johnston Roland M.R.C.S. gave evidence – we shipped on board 355 immigrants in all; we sailed on the 30 September 1857; the immigrants were all healthy; I have been five times with immigrants to this colony and twice to Melbourne; I knew the deceased girl Ann Cox, ; she was English, about 18; she was not under the care of anybody; she was always a healthy girl. Bridget Griffin was sworn – I am a single woman and one of the female immigrants per ship Stebonheath. I recollect the deceased being on board; she was a very good girl; at the time of the storm the deceased ran into the single men s place and late said that she was in dread that she would be punished and sent up the country…..
209691
Surname: -
First Name: -
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: 9 March 1858
Place: Sydney
Source: SMH
Details: Extract from Correspondence from passengers of the Stenbonheath refuting slanders that were aimed at passengers and detailing the despotism of the matron Miss Chase and the harsh treatment of the surgeon William Roland…..some of us have left good situations and respectable connections in England, and we have brought our labour to a market where labour is required, but on landing we find our character stolen, occupation withheld from us, and our hopes blasted, at least for a time. Unless we can prove that statements made upon oath at the inquest upon the body of Ann Cox our shipmate are a tissue of falsehoods from beginning to end…… Now we are prepared to say that at this time most of the single girls were well conducted, and that the conduct of even the most troublesome was not half so disgusting as the language of the matron, which was only exceeded by her cruelty, The history of the affair which led to the locking up of these girls was this : Henrietta Jackson, who had been acting in the capacity of servant to the matron, hid herself in a birth in the single women s department about one o clock in the day, and remained concealed till four in the afternoon, and it was thought she had jumped overboard ; on her re-appearance another girl - Ellen Loughborough - remarked, Well, I should not have been surprised if the girl had jumped overboard, after the cruel treatment she has received, upon which the matron came up and said, It is you that have made her what she is - you have harboured and hid her ; the matron also called her a fine lady, and made other offensive remarks, upon which she retorted, If I am a lady it is more than you are ; they were then put each into a wooden box, about 14 inches by 21 inches, barely large enough for them to stand upright in ; this place of torture was situated in the hospital on the main deck, so narrow as (with pinioned arms) to preclude the possibility of turning or sitting ; so close as to be exceedingly unhealthful, having only a narrow ventilator at the top, and altogether almost as bad as the Black Hole of Calcutta ; when they stamped and made a noise the handcuffs were put on them ; the handcuffs were allowed to remain upon Ellen Loughorough until they fairly ate into the flesh, and when they were taken off the rust adhered to the evidences of brutality on her wrists. Such a sight could scarcely fail to affect the hardest heart. During the imprisonment their cries of agony wrung tears from the men, and it was on the captain s urgent pleading that they were liberated. Miss Chase then goes on to say, the next morning I found that the cell they had been secured in, by locks and bolts, had been opened ; and I heard this had been done by a married man ; she does not add, however, that the girls on being released were in a state of exhaustion, and remained for some time in the hospital….signed John Bergan, Richard Bergan, Ebenezer Dyer, J. Sheldrick, Henry Dyer, all constables. Elizabeth Lewis, Edwin Wootten, John Beahan. A. Thomas, John Sheldrick
209673
Surname: Aston or Asting
First Name: Maria
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Maria Aston, general servant age 33, from Monmouth. Daughter of John and Jane. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - a brother John Lovell residing at Newcastle
209683
Surname: Behan
First Name: Fenton, Bridget, John, Catherine, Eliza
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Fenton Behan, farm labourer age 48 from Queens Co., son of William and Eleanor; Bridget age 46 daughter of Dennis and Bridget; John age 20, farm labourer; Catherine age 16, farm servant; Eliza age 9. Assisted immigrants on the ship Stebonheath. Note - a daughter Mary Behan residing at Newcastle
209680
Surname: Bryan
First Name: Honora
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Honora Bryan, farm servant age 20 from Co Tipperary, daughter of John and Ally. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - mother residing at Maitland
209670
Surname: Carroll
First Name: Johanna and Bridget
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: -
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Johanna Carroll, farm servant aged 18 and Bridget age 16, from Limerick, daughters of Michael and Bridget. Assisted immigrants on the ship Stebonheath. Note - a sister Catherine Doherty residing at Maitland
209674
Surname: Clayton
First Name: Edward
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Edward Clayton, miner age 23. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - a brother William Clayton residing at Newcastle
209678
Surname: Doyle
First Name: Elizabeth 1858
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Elizabeth Doyle, general servant age 26 from Wicklow, daughter of John and Mary. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - a brother Dennis residing at Newcastle
209676
Surname: Dunbar
First Name: Thomas
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Thomas Dunbar, farm labourer age 33 from Bansha, Tipperary, son of Dennis and Margaret. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - a brother-in-law Edmund Bourke residing at East Maitland
209681
Surname: Durham
First Name: George, Lucy, Eliza, William, Thomas
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: George Durham, farm servant age 25 from Gloucestershire, son of William. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - a brother Thomas Durham residing at Singleton
209688
Surname: Ewart
First Name: Joseph
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Persons on Bounty Ships to Sydney, Newcastle, and Moreton Bay
Details: Joseph Ewart, farm labourer age 24 from Armagh, son of James and Sarah. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - brother-in-law Robert Ravell residing at Maitland
209668
Surname: Harvey
First Name: Emma
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Details: Emma Harvey, housemaid age 22 from Norfolk, daughter of Benjamin and Rachel. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - an uncle George Harvey residing at Newcastle
209666
Surname: Mitchell
First Name: William
Ship: Stebonheath 1858
Date: February 1858
Place: Port Jackson
Source: State Archives and Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Persons on Bounty Ships to Sydney, Newcastle, and Moreton Bay (Board Immigrant Lists); Series: 5317; Reel: 2478
Details: William Mitchell, farm labourer age 21 from Fermanagh, son of Samuel and Ann. Assisted immigrant on the ship Stebonheath. Note - brother John Mitchell residing at Newcastle