Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Popajoe

Pages: [1]
1
New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Brogdens Recuits to New Zealand - James Palmer
« on: Sunday 04 February 07 08:17 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Abby

The Farthest Promised Land is available on the web at:
www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-arnfart-b3.html.

Zealandia did call at Bluff before proceeding to Port Chalmers.  I will have to check the dates via the Southland Times, but I believe 28 December 1872 arrived Bluff, then on to Port Chalmers arriving there early January 1873.

Like you I have not been able to make the trip to Southland or Otago to see if there is a record in the Provincial Govt archives relating to Immigration at this time.

There are only 7 persons mentioned on Rollo Arnold's database on this voyage which are from other sources.

James Palmer,
John Sammons,
Frederick Shaw,
Wm Terry
Mrs Terry
Child1 Terry
Child2 Terry

Hope this provides some further information.  There is no mention of Richard Wlliam Jones on Rollo's database, or of Dinah Palmer nee Jones.


2
New Zealand Completed Requests / Re: Brogdens Recuits to New Zealand - James Palmer
« on: Saturday 03 February 07 21:21 GMT (UK)  »
I have researching the Brogden Navies, "Recruits" for some ten years now and I have unable to locate a copy of the Passenger Shipping list for this voyage.

The only sources which maybe of assistance are the Southland Museum , in Invercargill, or if the Immigration records of the Port of Bluff for the time can be found.

From my other research of the 15 voyages carrying Brogden recruits, the Brogden recruits were kept separate on the Shipping Lists in some cases.  Rollo Arnold has identified 1169 of the 2148 persons who immigrated under the auspices of John Brogden & Sons.  I have further identified another 500 or so from other sources.  Unfortunately those on the Zealandia have eluded me.

All the information from previous responses has been confirmed by my research. 

I am able to add the following:  (Invercargill) Sunday, 15 March 1874.  " ..... ascertained that J Palmer one of the men sent I from Bletchington last year in the Zealandia, liv'd in the Town, I had an interview with him in the afternoon, found he was getting on well."
C Holloway's book of jotting on New Zealand.  Typescript Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand.  Also Labourers Union Chronicle, 04/07/1874 pg 2.

The Farthest Promised Land, Arnold Rollo, Victoria University Press, Wellington NZ.  Pg 80-81.

"While in Invercargill Holloway met some old acquaintances from acquaintances.  James Palmer, whom he had recruited from Bletchington for Brogdens, told of wages of ten shillings a day, since he had arrived in New Zealand on the Zealandia on 4 January 1873.  From Palmer, Holloway had good news of William Terry, a union man form Kirtlington, who also came out on the Zealandia, for Brogdens."

Pages: [1]