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Title: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: Eyesee on Tuesday 17 January 23 19:32 GMT (UK)

Does anyone have or know where to find a passenger list for this ship that is supposed to have arrived in Wellington in 1856.

There are lists of passengers for when a ship by that name arrived in 1843 and 1858, but no other years.

Thanks
Ian C

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: minniehaha on Tuesday 17 January 23 21:08 GMT (UK)

She did indeed arrive in Wellington in April 1856:

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18560423.2.10?end_date=31-12-1856&items_per_page=10&page=2&query=westminster&snippet=true&start_date=01-01-1856&type=ARTICLE


Minniehaha.

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: Eyesee on Tuesday 17 January 23 21:15 GMT (UK)

Thanks Minniehaha.

Now hopefully there is a passenger list somewhere.

Ian C

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: Neale1961 on Tuesday 17 January 23 22:38 GMT (UK)

Passengers named here
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18560611.2.7?end_date=12-06-1856&query=Westminster&snippet=true&start_date=10-06-1856

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: Eyesee on Tuesday 17 January 23 22:53 GMT (UK)

Thanks Neale1961. That appears to be just those who were bound for Lyttleton. Hoping to find those who got off in Wellington.

Ian C

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: Neale1961 on Wednesday 18 January 23 00:02 GMT (UK)

Since you don't wish to give a name, it is not possible to help further.
Good luck. :)

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 18 January 23 00:07 GMT (UK)

William and Jane BROOKIE (BROCKIE) and children Alexander and Jane.

Ian C

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: sparrett on Wednesday 18 January 23 00:09 GMT (UK)

Associated thread concurrent.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=869376.msg7402789

Sue

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: whiteout7 on Wednesday 01 February 23 11:51 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Eyesee on Wednesday 18 January 23 00:07 GMT (UK)

William and Jane BROOKIE (BROCKIE) and children Alexander and Jane.

Ian C

William Brookie arrive according to his obituary on the Westminster in 1865 not 1856?

Edited: I see you know this already

Extra Edit Obituary says he resided in Wellington for four years and arrived in Bulls with a toddler daughter.  Wouldn't Barbara Ross Brockie be the toddler. Where was 8? Year old Jane(if born in 1852?

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: whiteout7 on Wednesday 01 February 23 13:25 GMT (UK)

In 1874 Jane Brookie married William Alfred Lumsden NZBDM.

Who is Jane Prisk nee Brookie from the Matchless? #Edit Jane Lumsden became Jane Prisk. Findagrave Bulls cemetery. ((Perhaps the Prisks were from the Matchless))

Agnes Barbara Brookie
youngest daughter of William Brookie of Bulls married H.E Snellgrove. The best man and attendants were Lumsdens at this wedding. Paperspast.

Title: Re: Ship Westminster 1856
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 01 February 23 18:32 GMT (UK)

Thanks whiteout7.

The 1865 date is incorrect, I thinks the last two numbers were reversed by the paper. They definitely arrived 1856. When Jane Prisk died she was 94 and had been in NZ 90 years, so arrived 1856.

Jane Brookie married William Lumsden, and after he died in 1885 she remarried to James Prisk in 1892.

Ian C