Immigrant Ships
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Atalanta

From Plymouth, Devon, England to Glenelg, South Australia April 16, 1866

ARRIVAL OF THE ATALANTA WITH 394 GOVERNMENT IMMIGRANTS

There are very few vessels arriving in the Gulf, which cause more interest than immigrant ships. For a period some slow craft were engaged but of late much better passages have resulted, and the Atalanta has accomplished hers in 81 days, against every disadvantage of foul winds and a long continuation of calms on the Line. The vessel is American built, of 930 tons, commanded by Captain Ballingall, a gentleman who has before visited Port Adelaide in the Omega. In the Surgeon? Superintendent a familiar face m as recognised in Dr. Sanger, late of the Morning Star. This system of electing gentlemen of experience evidently works well, for it almost invariably produces a degree of co?operation highly necessary in promoting the well?being of the persons on board. With regard to the sick list, the cases entered on the hospital record are by no means important: some few children and persons in delicate health being the principal patients treated, and even those cases were partly attributable to inclement weather experienced while in the depot at Plymouth. The mortality on board was one less than the increase by births, the former being young children and infants ? two of the latter and one of the former having succumbed to the damp cold weather experienced while running down the casting in the Southern latitudes. The general appearance of the people was prepossessing in the extreme, indeed, rather more so than some batches of importations~ and it is extremely pleasant to add the Surgeon's testimony to a course of good conduct during the voyage. The only disagreement was some fracas between the feminine portion of the population, which. however, ended in nothing. Dr. Sanger's experience of the distiller is much to the credit of the machine, which has produced an ample supply of water. In the tropics the usual allowance was increased, and proved a valuable assistance in preserving good health. Of the recently introduced ventilating trunkways, his opinion is decidedly opposite, and he remorselessly condemns the whole affair as calculated only to monopolise valuable space without corresponding good result. In reviewing the figures in the official lists it is evident the mechanical trades we well represented. There is a most singular collection of designations. some of which must be rather altered before funding occupation here. but as they are all hard working people there is room and to spare for the lot. Perhaps the domestic servants may tend in a measure to relieve the demand for that class.

There are 94 labourers, 51 domestic servants. 2 housekeepers, 1 dressmaker, 2 porters, 1 draper, 3 gardeners, 7 carpenters, 1 printer, 1 papermaker, 1 widow, 1 policeman. 14 ploughmen, 6 miners, 5 blacksmiths, 2 tailors, 2 bricklayers, 5 shepherds, 2 masons, 2 grooms, 2 painters, 8 bootmakers, 2 butchers, 1 sawyer, 1 quarryman, 1 coachbuilder, 1 saddler, 2 wheelwrights, 1 Fitter, 1 waiter, 1 platelayer, 3 cooks. (on board)

By this it will be seen there is quite a community on board, and the nationality it appears is as follows:? English, 182; Scotch, 146; Irish, 65. There are 61 married couples, 123 single males, 63 single females, 39 male children between 1 and 12, 34 female between 1 and 12, and 12 infants.

The following were the names of the children who died on the voyage:

Atalanta McCormack
Maria Tucker
Frances Grant
James Mason
Thorn as Green
and two infants.

    
We subjoin the official list of the names of the immigrants:   



ENGLISH
Edward Allchurch 
Anne Allchurch
Henry Allchurch 
Emily Allchurch
Anne Allchurch
John Amey
Joseph Bailey
Jonathan Baldwin 
Ann Baldwin
Josiah Baldwin 
Stephen Baldwin
Richard Bate
Jeremiah Barron 
Peter Bawden 
Many Bawden
William J. Bawden 
Jane Bawden 
Peter Bawden
Mary Bawden
Charles Bawden
George Bolts
William Bonson
Eliza Bonson
Benjamin Chick
Maria Chick
Mary Chick 
James Chick
John Coomb
Andrew Cooper
Ann Cooper
Andrew Cooper
Charles Courtis
Martha Courtis 
Helena Courtis
John Cragg
John Curnow
Christina Curnow
Elizabeth Curnow
Arthur Curnow
Niel Curnow
Christina Curnow
Mary Curnow
Mary Curnow
James J. Curnow
George Curnow
Richard Curnow 
William Curnow
Fanny Davis
John Davy
Alice Davy
James Daymond
Amanda Daymond
Francis Daymond
Thomas Daymond
John. Daymond
Albert Daymond
Samuel Dennis
Ellen Dennis
Ellen Dennis
William Devine
William Diderah
Elizabeth Diderah
Robert Duddleston
John Forseath
Emma Forseath
Thomas Foster
John. Fowkes 
Elizabeth Fowkes
Fred Fowkes
Joseph Freeth
John Fry
John Gill
William Gray
Henry Green
Sarah Green
Thomas Green
John Green
Mary Hawke
Mary Hawke
John Hawke
Charles Hawke
Henry Heath
Maria Heath
Elizabeth Helliger
Eliza Henwood
William House
Catherine Hunter
Catherine Hunter
William Jasper
Amelia Jasper
George Jerdan
Gilbert Jerdan
Robert Johnston
John Kearns
Jose Kearns
Hugh Kearns
Elizabeth Kearns
James Kearns
Mary J. Kearns
W. Lake
Joseph Lester
Hannah Lovell
James Loveridge
Henry Loveridge
James Lownds
Eliza Mallett
Tom Marsan
Nicholas May
Mary May
Thomas May
Mary May
Edward May
Thomas McCormack
Harriett McCormack
Mary McCormack
Atalanta McCormack
William Mills
Robert Mitchell
John Mutton
Mary Mutton
Anne Mutton
Iloyd Nicholas
Henry Painter
Richard Painter
Richard Parkyn
Sam.. Pigeon
Chadwell Pearce
John Poor
John Potter
Rebecca Potter
Mary Potter
Edward Potter
Joseph Richards
Elizabeth Richards
John Richens
John Roberts
Martha Roberts
John Roberts
James Roberts
Philip Roberts
James Rule
James Rogers
Henry Rowe
Ellen Sawyer
John Shaw
Philip Snigs
Many Skewes
Joseph Townsend
Ann Townsend
Walter Treharne
Joseph Treloar
James Trevaill
Harriett Trevaill
Thomas Trevaill
Mary Trevaill
Fanny Trevaill
Charles Tucker
Elizabeth Tucker
Maria Tucker
James Turnbull
William Turnbull
Edmard Tippond
Emma Tippond
James Walker
Thomas Watkins
Francis Weller 
Anne Weller
William Weller
Frank Weller
Emma Weller
Florence Weller
Elizabeth Weller
Ann Weller
Winnifred Weller
Kate Weller
Elizabeth Welsh
Charles White
William Whitehall
Adam Whitehall
William Whitehall
Elizabeth Whitehall
Mary Whitehall



SCOTCH 
James Abel
John Allan
James Anderson
William Anderson
Christina Ballantine
John Bannerma
Donald Bremer
Arm Bremer
James Bradshaw
Sam Black
Margaret Black
Janet Black
John Black
Maria Black
Jessie Calder
Alexander Cameron
William Cameron
Catherine Carey
John Chalmers
John Chesser
Alexander Chisholm
David Christie
Adam Clark
Thomas Copland
John Cormack
Ann Cormack
David Cormack
James Cormack
Elizabeth Cormack
William Cormack
Mary Cormack
Louisa Cormack
Sam Cormack
Thomas Craigill
John Chricton
John Deany
Jane Deany
Jane Deany
John Deany
Eliza Deany
Thos. Duff
John Duncan
David Duncan
David Ferrier
William Foreman
Elspet Foreman
Peter Foreman
John Forsyth
Alexander Fraser
John Fraser
Ann Fraser
Jessie Fraser
Simon Fraser
Mary Fraser
James Fraser
John Fraser
Elizabeth Fraser
John Gillies
John Grant
Isabella 
John Grant
Ann Grant
Ludovick Grant
James Grant
Margaret Grant
Elizabeth Grant
Fred. Grant
Bernard Grogan
Catherine Grogan
Ann Grogan
John Innis
Mary Innis
John Inverarity
George Jerkins
David Johnston
Rebecca Johnston
James Johnston
Mary Johnston
James Knight
Jane Knight
Isabella Knight
Catherine Macnee
John Marton
Christian Marton
Edward Mason
Many Mason
Janet Mason
James Mason
Archibald McCallister
John McCann
June McCann
Duncan McCorquidale
Margaret McCorquidale
Alexander McDonald
Eliza McDonald
Eliza McDonald
Alexander McDonald
Daniel McFarlane
Walter McFarlane
Daniel McIntosh
Mary McIntosh
Alexander McKenzie
John McKay
John McLennon
Barbara McLennon
Kenditfeva McLennon
Isalvella McNaughton
Margaret MeNaughton
David McQueen
John Murdock
Ann Murdock
Elspet Murdoch
John Munro
William Nicol 
Thomas Oswald
Mary Pearson
John Riddell
Isabella Riddell
Isabella Riddell
Helen Riddell
John Robertson
James Ross
William Ross
Catherine Ross
Alexander Ross
Mary A. Shaw
William Simpson
Isabella Simpson
W. Smith
E. Smith
James Smith
John Smith
James Strachan
James Stirling
Andrew Sutherland
William Sutherland
Peter Sutherland
Thomas Thompson
Eliza Troup
Duncan Urquhart
George Walker
Alexander Wann
George Watt
Alexander Watt
Mary Watt
Alexander Watt



IRISH 
Margaret Barrett
James Boucher
Bridget Brady
Hannah Bridle
James Burns
Elizabeth Caverby
William Cleary
Honora Cotter
Timothy Daneter
Johanna Davidson
Margaret Drisbane
Bridget Dunne
Roger Dwyer
John Dwyer
Mary Dwyer
James Dwyer
John Dwyer
Margaret Dwyer
Mary Egan
Bridget Faby
John Fitzgerald
Julia Flaherty
Ellen Flanagan
Mary Groomane
Francis Harrison
Margaret Henessy
Ellen Hoolam
Mary Hogan
Mary Kelly
Johanna Kelly
Margaret Kelly
John Kelly
Margaret Kelly
John. Kelly
Michael Kelly
Mary A. Kenny.
Annie Keumane
Catherine Kenny
Mary Kettleby
Margaret Kettleby
George Kidd
Elizabeth Kidd
Julia Madigan
John Mahony
Anne McDermott
James Madigan
Norah Madigan
Norah Madigan
John. Madigan
Annie Madigan
Mary McNamara
Mary McDermott
Ellen Melvin
Pat O'Brien
Noher O'Brien
Ellen O'Brien
John O'Brien
Bridget Quirke
James Rearden
Francis Schoales
Owen Shannon
Isabella Shannon
Terence Shannon
Fred. Shannon
Mary Sheehan
Mary Walsh    



Donator's notes:
This has been OCR from the original and may contain some errors.

I have a copy of the Diary of Edward Allchurch compiled during the trip.
The copywright is with the family in Australia. However it will be
published in a book due out in April 1999.


Details of the family can be viewed at Hallchurch

 Generously donated by Tim Hallchurch 

Formatted by Sheila Tate for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 19 February 1999

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