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207170
Surname: -
First Name: -
Ship: Amelia Thompson 1838
Date: 3 July 1838
Place: Port Jackson
Source: The Australian
Details: Shipping arrival - July 1 - the ship Amelia Thompson, Dawson, master, left Plymouth March 28, with 238 emigrants in the steerage; in the cabin - James Denham Pinnock (the Resident Emigration Agent), Mrs. Pinnock and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hay, Major and Mrs. North, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Cockhill, Miss Ring and Messrs McNab, Baker, Durham, Elmsford and Chambers
207171
Surname: -
First Name: -
Ship: Amelia Thompson 1838
Date: 25 July 1838
Place: Port Jackson
Source: The Colonist
Details: This ship was released from Quarantine yesterday morning, and was brought up to the Cove to land her passengers. We have seen an intelligent person who came out in the Amelia Thomson, and he states, that they left Plymouth on the 28th of March, with 264 passengers on board between cabin and steerage ; that the disease which com mitted such ravages among them broke out about the 1st of April, and was at its height while crossing the equator. The number of deaths which occurred at sea were thirty-seven, of whom seventeen were adults (ten men and seven men). The disease which proved so fatal to the children was the small-pox ; and that which cut off so many adults was a malignant typhus or gaol fever. Since the arrival of the ship at Spring Cove three persons died, making a total of forty deaths. The voyage seems to have been otherwise a prosperous one, having been accomplished in the short space of ninety- four days ; and it is remarkable too, that all the mortality that took place occurred five weeks before arriving in Port Jackson, and was occasioned principally by irregular habits and want of cleanliness. The Doctor is reported to be a man well qualified for the important duties which were entrusted to his charge. It is evidently injudicious, and almost sure to be attended by fatal consequences, for any ship to prosecute the entire voyage without calling and refreshing at some of the intermediate ports. This is demonstrated, by experience in a variety of instances, to be absolutely necessary ; and it ought, therefore, to be rendered imperative on all emigrant ships to call either at Rio or the Cape on their way out to this colony.
179222
Surname: Foot (Foote)
First Name: Theophilus
Ship: Amelia Thompson 1838
Date: 7 July 1838
Place: -
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: On a list of cabin passengers on the Amelia Thompson thanking Commander William Dawson for his treatment on the voyage of the Amelia Thompson
179223
Surname: Norton
First Name: W
Ship: Amelia Thompson 1838
Date: 7 July 1838
Place: -
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: On a list of cabin passengers on the Amelia Thompson thanking Commander William Dawson for his treatment on the voyage of the Amelia Thompson