Transcribed and submitted to TheShipsList by Robert Janmaat, Adelaide, from a variety of sources, cited below.
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ship Emmy, 554 tons, Captain J.H.O. Meyer, from Hamburg 5th [?] September 1849, via Melbourne 4th January 1850, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 16th January 1850

South Australian Register Thursday, 17th January 1850

Wednesday January 16th— The ship Emmy, 554 tons, Meyer, Master, from Hamburg 5th September and Melbourne 4th of January, with 145 passengers. .... the the following day, Passengers from the Emmy, from Hamburg, (arrival reported in our last)

Sydney Shipping Gazette 29th December 1849

Arrived at Melbourne.— December 19th, Emmy, ship, 554 tons, Meyer, from Hamburgh 11th September. Passengers:— Messrs. Mackenthum ; P.R. Bookey ; H. Andressen ; — Lemeke : Miss Pauline Gavin ; J.O. Stiasney, surgeon, and 369 in the intermediate and steerage.
The Emmy, from Hamburgh, brings only cargo for Adelaide. We have seldom seen a larger or more respectable class of passengers arriving at this port — they are mostly all mechanics, and we believe about half of them will land here and the rest go to Adelaide. 7 male and 5 female adults, and 16 children, died during the passage, and two births occurred on board.— Melbourne Daily News

see http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/main-com1.htm
...The Hamburg ship Emmy was built at Stockholm in 1847 ... J. H. O. Meyer, master, arrived Port Adelaide 16 January 1850, from Hamburg 5 September 1849, via Melbourne 4 January, with sundries ; 400 passengers, including 145 for Adelaide; 30 died of dysentery, etc., on the voyage to Melbourne, the vessel appearing to be in good order but overcrowded. .... The Emmy was lost in December 1850 in the Cape Verde Islands.

note.— for the Held and Seppelt entries. The BISA has an entry indicating the Seppelt family to be aboard the Emmy, but there is no such entry on the only record, The South Australia Register. There is however, an entry for "C. Held." Ja Charlotte Clementine (Held) was the wife of J. Ernst. There is no official record or newspaper account of this family arriving, other than the information on the Seppelt website
http://www.seppelt.com.au/library/Seppelt_HistoryDetail_FA.pdf .... Four hundred and eleven boarded the vessel in Silesia Poland, only three hundred and sixty disembarked in Adelaide.... from this information and information from the State Library South Australia (SLSA), no German ship sailed for Adelaide with such a great number of emigrants. Information above however would support this number with a stop in Melbourne and the great number of death at sea.

note.— There are very few surviving original lists of German passengers, so the data below has been compiled from a variety of sources, such as contemporary newspaper(s), internet sources, input from descendants and the South Australian Heraldry Genealogy society, (SAGHS).
I know the list is incomplete and may contain errors, so any feedback with additions or corrections, will be most appreciated. Please contact me using the link above. Regards Robert, Adelaide

note: where maiden name of wife is indicated, it has been included in the given name column within ( ) ; the passenger list comprises three sections arranged alphabetically, i families, ii single men, iii single women & children ; transcriber notes in italics

Sources: State Library South Australia, official passenger lists, mainly of immigrants arriving in South Australia under United Kingdom assisted passage schemes, 1847-1886 GRG 35/48a (formely ACC 313); Sydney Shipping Gazette; South Australian Register; The South Australian Government Gazette; Biographical index SA 1836-1885 (the B-index column indicates individuals who may be found in that index, with corresponding reference number for further research)

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