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Departed Dublin 12th August, the North Briton, Capt. Adams with 285 emigrants
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Immigrant Diaries held in the Manuscript Collection of National Library of Australia
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Diary of John Sceales kept on the voyage from Leith to Sydney
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Placed in quarantine owing to 19 people having died from fever during the passage to Sydney. The surgeon of the vessel was one of the invalids
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State Records Online Shipping List
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There were 20 deaths on the passage out, mostly from Typhus fever. Another 10 people died in quarantine on arrival in Sydney, also mostly from Typhus fever
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State Records Online Shipping List
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Labourer from Dublin. Age 36. Employed by Mr. North at Port Stephens on arrival. http://tinyurl.com/ljzp8g9
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State Records Online Shipping List
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Ploughman from Kildare age 25. Employed by Mr. Sefton at Newcastle on arrival..http://tinyurl.com/ljzp8g9
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Application to Marry
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Thomas Flood age 35 arrived per 'North Briton', application to marry Elizabeth Tilbury (alias Holdham) aged 43 arrived per 'Thomas Harrison'
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State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757. Gaol Entrance Books. Ancestry
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Servant from Co. Kildare. Admitted to Newcastle gaol. Sent for trial at the Quarter Sessions and sentenced to 3 months hard labour in H.M. gaol at Maitland 13 November 1856
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State Records Online Shipping List
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Malachy Grant,, house carptenter , 47, wife age 40 and five children, emigrants on the North Briton in 1839.. http://tinyurl.com/l36pvm8
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North Briton 1840 (North Briton 1839?)
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State Archives NSW; Item: 2/2009; Roll: 757. Gaol Entrance Books. Ancestry
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Miller from Kildare. Came free. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Scone under sentence of 3 months imprisonment
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Bounty immigrant. Farmer
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State Records Online Shipping List
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Thomas Hickey, ploughman from Newbridge, 28, wife and child, emigrants on the North Briton in 1839..http://tinyurl.com/l36pvm8
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State Records Online Shipping List
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Laundress from Queens County. Employed by John Murphy at Brisbane Water on arrival..http://tinyurl.com/k4atjv3
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State Records Online Shipping List
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Betty Smith, farm servant from Crookstown. Age 26. Employed at the Colonial Hospital at Sydney on arrival
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Application to Marry
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Thomas Ludham per Asia application to marry Elizabeth Smith, emigrant per North Briton