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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Ashnz on Monday 01 May 23 03:01 BST (UK)
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Hello,
I am needing help reading a journal of the voyage of the ship "British Empire" that arrived at Lyttelton Habour September 6th, 1864. In particular I am interested of mention of these passengers:
James Cox 39; wife Harriet Cox - Jane Cox, Tryphenna Cox, Harrietta S. Cox
Henry Symmons (Symmans?) - aged 22 years wife Sarah – Thomas F. 4 & Harry R. 2
Jack Daw
Son of (Mary Ann?) Poole - aged 1 month
John Tindall - aged 30 years
Christian McAlpine Reid - aged 11 months
Also of any significant information on the ship's arrival at Lyttelton.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i-AsOHVYNQJPorfljB9g1k42Y76yNs5R/view?usp=share_link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i-AsOHVYNQJPorfljB9g1k42Y76yNs5R/view?usp=share_link)
Warm regards,
Ashley
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It is a very large document ;)
One comment of possible significance to you in on page 44
Squeezed between 2 lines that describe the weather as they enter the harbour
"a poor man name of TINDALL died in the night of typhus ?? and was buried before breakfast to avoid enquiry."
The 2 lines which sandwich the above line are-
When we rose this morning not a breath of air was stirring . It was very warm and pleasant.
Sue
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That’s the only one of those names I could see too.
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You may already have this, but it gives mention to the "untimely death of Jack Daw" (by being blown overboard).
https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-DruExot-t1-body1-d8-ft5.html
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So…Jack Daw was a bird?!
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Hi
Page 37. I will type up a decipher if you have trouble reading it.
Iwonder if this is your COX? His daughter was 17 years.
Sue
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It is a very large document ;)
One comment of possible significance to you in on page 44
Squeezed between 2 lines that describe the weather as they enter the harbour
"a poor man name of TINDALL died in the night of typhus ?? and was buried before breakfast to avoid enquiry."
The 2 lines which sandwich the above line are-
When we rose this morning not a breath of air was stirring . It was very warm and pleasant.
Sue
Interesting as this newspaper article https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18640906.2.12?end_date=14-09-1864&items_per_page=100&page=2&query=British+Empire&snippet=true&start_date=05-09-1864 (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/LT18640906.2.12?end_date=14-09-1864&items_per_page=100&page=2&query=British+Empire&snippet=true&start_date=05-09-1864) says the ship was signalled late night of September 5th. It sounds like Mr. Tindall was buried at sea just before the ship sailed into the harbour.
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Hi
Page 37. I will type up a decipher if you have trouble reading it.
Iwonder if this is your COX? His daughter was 17 years.
Sue
That would be awesome Sue if you wouldn't typing that up - there are parts I can not read.
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I found this record of deaths for the ship. Could the surname of Poole be a mispelling of Poore?
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Transcribed with one queation mark.
28th Sunday. A man of the name Cox who had been gradually ..wasting (?).. since we left England died this afternoon about three in a hopeless state , he would not hear a word of religion ; his body was committed to the deep in less than three hours after . He leaves a widow and three children the eldest a girl of seventeen.
Sue
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Re your query reply #8, I do not think the name is a badly written POOLE.
It looks like POORE to me , in accordance with the passenger list which shows..
POORE, Mr W H
Mary.
Henry.
Sue
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Re your query reply #8, I do not think the name is a badly written POOLE.
It looks like POORE to me , in accordance with the passenger list which shows..
POORE, Mr W H
Mary.
Henry.
Sue
Thanks Sue - the problem with the Poore family is he (William Henry Poore) was born is 1800 and his wife Mary (Mary Ann Teagle) was born in 1806 - he baby was one month old so must have been born on board the ship.
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I think you have looked at a tree online which has given you that information.
I would query it accuracy.
If Mary was born in 1806, she would be 58 in 1864 when she supposedly had a 1 month infant.
Unusual age to have a baby.
This marriage in Kent may be worth looking at
Named on same page-
Marriages Sep 1862
Downs, Mary Ann Margaret
Poore, William
Sheppey 2a/1008
Sue
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Hi everyone,
I have found the original passenger list for the 1864 sailing of the British Empire, and no passenger named John TINDALL appears on it that I can see.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D1S3-LFC?i=2&cc=1609792
The journal linked to in the original post does clearly read TINDALL, as does the article which appeared in The Lyttelton Times newspaper of 8 September 1864 (page 8) which list births and deaths on the British Empire's voyage. This gives John TINDALL's age as 30.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01sac/
Conflicting with this is Ashley's reply#8 above which provides a cropped image listing the name of John TINDALL (presumably aged 47), from Scarbro'.
If anyone would like to scroll through the entire passenger list (I've done it already but I can't see him - an independent look would be helpful) please go for it.
Should we instead look for a male passenger aged 47 as a candidate?
Yours in confusion,
Spades
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I found this record of deaths for the ship. Could the surname of Poole be a mispelling of Poore?
Ashley ... your reply No. 8
Not able to pick up and copy the "cropped" link you posted there re: TINDALL and POORE ... but do want to comment on it.
I see it's copied from FindMyPast (Deaths of Passengers at Sea) ... but it's only part of the list of deaths on the 1864 voyage to NZ of the "British Empire" . [ In cropping the image, there are two other passengers you've omitted from that list - namely Richard Clark PEPPERILL (d. 31/8/64) and Mrs Shipp ?? or FISHER d. of old age on 2/9/64 : Presumably you have already sorted these out. ??? ]
So, the record for POORE only describes an infant of unknown sex : The child of M.A. POORE (spr -- which translates as "spinster") -- died 6 September 1864. (Have added this info to your new thread of today).
TINDALL - John - 47 years of Scarboro [Yorkshire] [You can find him possibly on UK census 1841 with father - haven't looked further ].
I would accept these records from FindMyPast as being "official" death entries - with the information provided by the captain or other person of ship "British Empire". Remember that we cannot always find records for these emigrant ships which give any great detail of those passengers aboard who had paid their own way to NZ. [i.e. Saloon / first / 2nd class or whatever. ] The passenger lists we are lucky enough to have access to, focus on passengers who were part of the immigration schemes set in place by the provincial governments of the day.
* Can I ask you please, to in future, quote the sources of information such as this. :) It just wastes so much searching time having to re-check or locate these unnamed references.
~ Lu
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Link to other (related) thread -- of 10 May '23
Seeking parents of child -- surname POORE
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=872832.msg7442848#msg7442848