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ship Canterbury, 1,296 tons, Captain George R. Fentie, from London 25th September via Plymouth 2nd October, 1866 arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 31st December 1866.

The South Australian Advertiser, Wednesday 02 January 1867 p. 2

Monday, December 31:— Canterbury, ship, 1,296 tons, G.R. Fentie, master, from London September 25 via Plymouth October 2. Captain Fentie, agent.
Passengers—Dr. J. W. Barry (Surgeon-Superintendent), and Mrs. Fentie in the cabin ; and 444 Government emigrants in the steerage, whose names will be found in another column:—

. . . . — 1st ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1867 ; —7— births and —-3— deaths on the passage ; Dr. James W. Barry, surgeon-superintendent.

The Passenger List indicates the class of Emigrants, so in the list below, I have combined those lists, but have made notations alongside the family name, thus, Assisted Passage = AP ; Colonial Nominees = CN ; General Emigrants = GE ; General Passengers = GP ; Passage Paid = PP ; Remittance Emigrants = RE. — Robert

IMPORTS

CANTERBURY, from London—20 bdls., 18 cases, 271 pkgs., 3 casks, Virgoe, Son, and Chapman ; 25 cases, S. Bakewell ; 400 brls., 22tanks, 50 casks, 1,030 bdls., 20 kegs, 98 bales,100 half-hhds., E. Spicer; 50 casks, H. L. Vosz; 25 bales. 24 pkgs., 1 sample, D. and W. Murray ; 200 cases, Order ; 1 do., Marshall ; 1,517 rails, 3,035 plates, Officer Administering Government, 1 case, Heriot, Fullarton, and Co. ; 44pkgs., Cleland, Page, and Co. ; 6 do., W. Wells; 26,050 bricks, 673 bars, 10 bdls., English and Australian Copper Company ; 2 cases, L Simmons and Co. 58O cases, 14 casks, J. and G. Wilcox ; 3 pieces chain, W. J. Brind ; 10 bales, Proprietors Wallaroo Mines.

The South Australian Weekly Chronicle, Saturday 05 January 1867 p. 2

Miscellaneous Shipping

The Canterbury was signaled early on Monday morning, but the wind being very light and mirage hanging over the horizon it was midday before she was made out. Captain Fentie was on several previous occasions in charge of immigrants to the colonies, and his account of the present importation is in their favor. He reports sailing from Plymouth on October 2, with moderate weather from the eastward, which continued for 10 days ; after which it veered to the westward, and blew hard till the 16th, when a most violent gale was encountered from W.S.W. During the height of it the vessel was completely stripped of canvas, the main and mizen topsails and courses being blown away. Nothing remarkable then occurred except the absence of the usually prevailing trades ; indeed, from lat 26° north to the line, east and southerly winds predominated. The line was crossed on the 32nd day out, on November 3, in 31° 45' west, and a short board was necessary to clear the land ; but after passing Cape St. Roque a strong south-east trade set in, and the course was shaped between Tristan d'Acunha and Gough's Island. Passed the Meridian of the Cape of Good Hope in lat. 41° 43' south when 63 days out, and even then the object appears to have been to gain southing until 45° was reached, and on that parallel the easting was made, the vessel occasionally achieving 290 nautical miles per diem. On December 24 a sudden fall in the mercury induced a sharp look out for squalls, and a heavy gale followed ; but timely precautions having been taken, it passed without damage to the ship. All tho preparations for a proper observance of Christmastide were marred by the severe weather, but in a couple of days after the sun was again visible ; and, as a course for Cape Borda was laid down, the prospect of a speedy conclusion to the voyage raised the spirits of all. On the morning of the 29th one of the clipper liners was seen steering west, with a fine fair wind, but not near enough to determine whether the City of Adelaide or Yatala. The east wind continued, occasionally falling provokingly light, and it was 2 p.m. on the 30th before Kangaroo Island was seen. She had scarcely passed Troubridge before Pilot John Genneia boarded, and conducted her to the anchorage, where she will remain until about Friday or Saturday, for her draught being over 17 feet, there will not be water enough on the bars before the springs. The Canterbury has diminished her passenger-list, by a large number of the immigrants landing at the Semaphore Jetty. On Wednesday morning two of the ship's boats were engaged in the work and made one successful trip, but after the second the sea breeze increased to such an extent that the attempt to get back to the ship proved futile, and they were driven on shore near Bare Spot, whence the crews tracked them along the beach to the pier. It was fortunate the wind did not increase while the boats were laden or the result might have been unfortunate. Accident on Board the Canterbury. — On the 16th of October a heavy gale set in, during which it was necessary to send the hands aloft on the mainyard. In a sudden pitch of the ship one of them named Charles Peterson was thrown from the foot-rope with violence to the deck, and the poor fellow's thigh was fractured so badly that a portion of the bone was next morning found on the deck. This was a case requiring the surgeon's careful attention, occurring at a time when the vessel was laboring in a violent sea, but Dr. Barry proved himself quite equal to the occasion. He had a cot slung in the main cabin, by kind permission of Capt. Fentie, and when gangrene set in he amputated the limb. At the conclusion of the voyage the man was doing very well. On another occasion some of the studding-sail gear carried away, and the mate's arm was fractured and his wrist dislocated. Here again Dr. Barry was called into requisition, and made a capital fix of the broken limb.

note: ....extract from the obiturary of Thomas Chesterfield, Border Watch, Tuesday 2 September 1941 p. 5 .... To Port MacDonnell, per Balclutha, were ".... Mr. Chesterfield was born in Cornwall, England, in April, 1866, and left there with his parents in the sailing ship Canterbury, which left Plymouth on 2nd October, 1866. He was then a child of about five months old. The family arrived in Australia on 1st January, 1867, Port Adelaide being their first port of call. They did not land there, but sailed the following day in a boat called the Balcutta [sic] for Port MacDonnell. Among the passengers that transhipped at Port Adelaide to Port MacDonnell were Mr. and Mrs. A. Oates and their son, Mr. J. A. Oates, then a lad of 10 years ; Messrs. Joseph Jenkins, Z. Golley, Roderick McLennan, R. Matheson, M. McDonough, Tom Kerin, George Tantrum (afterwards well known Hotel keeper and racehorse owner at Millicent), Nathan Bath, Miss Sophie Ledner (afterwards Mrs. Thomas Bishop), and others. ..."

The South Australian Register, Wednesday 02 January 1867 p. 2

ARRIVAL OF THE CANTERBURY WITH 444 GOVERNMENT IMMIGRANTS.

The last of the Commissioner's selection was certainly not the least. The Canterbury is of 1,296 tons register, and a draught of 17 feet 6inches—just such a ship as would suit for troops to India, but entirely outre for emigrants to Port Adelaide. It is not, however, the largest ships which are best adapted to our immigrant transport. The Peeress is a far smaller ship, and had no bar difficulties ; but in the present case a large, lofty, commanding-looking ship is taken up, and she certainly brings a full cargo. They are equal to 398 1/2 adults, or 69 married men, 74 married women, 156 single, men, 72 single women, 55 children, 11 infants, and 7 born on board. This number of souls falls under the following industrial category: —Ploughmen 86, ploughman and tailor 1, ploughman and mason 1, ploughman and sawyer 1, ploughman and carpenter I, agricultural laborers 19, farmer 1, gardeners 6, shepherd 1, laborers 20, miners 4, millers 3, grooms 3, masons 3, carpenters and joiners 21,ships' carpenters 2, sawyers 3, plasterers 4, painters, glaziers, and plumbers 11, bricklayers 4, brickmaker 1, builder's laborer 1, engineer 1, engineman 1, tinsmiths and plateworkers 3, smiths 2, coachsmith 1, carmen 2, baker and laborer 1, tailors 2, saddlers and harness makers 6, boot and shoe makers 2, page 1, domestic and general servants 46, cooks 4, housemaids 7, nursemaids 3, housekeeper 1, laundress 1, dressmaker 1 Total classes, 41. In general appearance the people differ but little from the majority of immigrants. They are a stalwart-looking lot of men, and the women and children will doubtless make as good colonists as any. The Surgeon's report is not as free from sickness as most of the recent ships, though he is an old hand in the service, having been here a year ago in the Electric, and formerly in the Woodbridge. In the present voyage he has had to deal with cholera, fever, whooping-cough, measles, diarrhoea, besides two accidental cases alluded to elsewhere. In the face of these evils he succeeded in bringing his charge to anchor tolerably convalescent, and Dr. Duncan immediately granted pratique. The master and officers are highly spoken of —indeed the Surgeon's report throughout is of a satisfactory character, alluding particularly to Mrs. Brewster, the matron, who rendered good service in the single females' department. Beyond this the arrival of the vessel has no feature of interest, and it may be some time before we see another immigrant ship in' the Gulf. Subjoined is the official list of passengers' names:— English — Thomas Allen, Ellen Allen, William Allen, Alfred Apps, Henry and Charles Autton, William and Elizabeth Aylward, John and Ann Barclay, Thomas Mary A., William and Emma Bateman, Sampson Ball, Matthew Bath, Robert Bayley, William, Mary A., William and Robert A. Benson, Edwin and Mary A. Bolitho, Walter Tonkin and Ellen Bolitho, Ellen and Mary Browne, Mary A. Bray, William and George A, Bright, Mrs. Eliza Bruister, Charles Edwin, Eliza, George and Francis Bull, William Burr, James, Bridget and Henry Butler, Mary Butler, James Catt, Charles Chapple, Edward, Emily and Edward Chandler, Thomas, Jane and Thomas Chesterfield, Edward Clark, Elizabeth Clarke, Maria and Jane Clarke, John and Mary Clemes, Allan and Isabella Collie, James and Susan Coombe, Joseph Costello, Thomas and Grace Cowling, Susan, William, Richard and Thomas Cowling, John Cox, Joseph, Selina, Sophia, John and Charles Cox, William Craze, William and Sarah Cripps, George and Ann M. Crocombe, William Curruthers, Joseph and Elizabeth Davey, Elizabeth A. Davey, Jane Dewston, Philip Doland, Emily Donaldson, James Dunford, James Eades / Eacles, Robert Edwards, Elizabeth Edwards, Charles, Emma and George England, Thomas, Ellen and Thomas Eve, George Fairbanks, Thomas, Eliza, William, James and Stephen Foley, James Ford, Emanuel Frederick, Isaac Freely, William Froud, George Furby, Thomas Garrett, Charles Garraway, Charles Gellett, Joseph Gibson, Henry and Amelia Gifford, John Gilland / Gillard, Mary A. Gilbert, Zacharias and Phillipa Golley, James Gough, Margaret Griffiths, Abraham Gregory, Emma Grill, Thomas and Jane Grose, William Grose, Elizabeth Grose, William Hatherly, James, Eliza and Eliza Hawkes, Elizabeth Hawkes, Christopher Hawkins, Janet Hay, Benjamin Heak / Heath, Matthew and Mary A. Henderson, Thomas and Eliza Herbert, Elizabeth H?sle, Henry Hill, William Hill, Emily Hillier, William Hobbs, Richard Hobbs, James, Mary A. and Mary E. Holman, George Holmes, James Holloway, Thomas Hocking, Jabez Hooper, John Hortin, William Hudson, Priscilla, Joseph and Edward Hughes, Priscilla Hughes, John, Emma, John, Joseph, and Emma Hughes, William Humphreys, John and Julia Ingham, Joseph and Mary Jenkins, John, Jane, Walter and Jane Jerred, James H. Johns, William H. Jones, John Joy, Benjamin Judkins, Ellen Kearns, Mary and Eliza Kearns, Alfred Kitson / Kitton, George Lane, Elizabeth Langdon, Benjamin and Susan Lawrence, John Lawrence, William and Sam Lovering, William Lyford, Elizabeth and Ellen Manning, John and Maria Matthews, Sam Matthews, Catherine McCormick, William and Eliza Morgan, Callow and Eliza New, Aaron and Elizabeth Northcott, Thomas, James, Charles and John Northcott, Henry, Mary, John and James H. Oates, John, Temperance, John, Jane and Ellen Oppy, John Pascoe, George Peagrim, George Peart, Mary Phillips, John, Sarah, and Alice Pringle, William, Eliza and Emma Prior, Charles, Caroline, Charles, Henry, Caroline, Edward and Maria Pritchard, William Proctor, Henry Pruchin, Thomas Quinlan, John and Catherine Rawling, William and Mary A. Ratcliff, Arthur Redwards, William Richards, Eliza Riley, Thomas and Joseph Roberts, Amelia Rosewarne, William Russell, Henry Searle, Henry, Elizabeth, William H. and James Sharman, Charles Sharman, Levi Shadwell, John Shoebridge, Walter Sommers, James Stacey, George Stevens, John and Emily Stephens, John, Elizabeth, William H., Edwin, Charles and John Stocker, Jonathan and Mary Stoneham, Joseph, Jane and Mary M. Stoneman, George, Elizabeth, Eliza, Ann, George H., and Emma Tabel, William Tamlin, George, Bathsheba, and Fred.Tantram, Joseph and Charlotte Taylor, Henry and Mary Thomas, Philip Thomas, Charles Tilley, Charles, Sarah, Charles, and Agnes Tiptaft, Henry, Sophia, and Betsy A. Toms, George Treais, Edward, Jennifer, Emily and James Tremelling, Jane Tucker, Mary A. and Sophia Turner, William Uphill, Henry Verrain, Thomas and Elizabeth Vinnard, William F. Ward, John, Maria and Alice Ware, John F. Warner, John, Sarah and Ernest Warren, Cordelia and Sampson Webb, John W., Clara, Eliza and Sarah Weeks, Mary Werran, James White, William, Elizabeth, Jessie, and Sarah Wills, Richard, Grace L., James, Alfred and Joseph Williams, Philip and Walter Wills, Richard Wilton, Richard Welby, James Woodstock, Thomas Worth, Thomas Worrall, Henry Wray. Scotch —Matthew Aiken, John Anderson, Andrina, Catherine, Margaret and Barbara Andrews, Ellen Borthwick, Julia Boyle, William Brown, Agnes Brownlie, Anna Campbell, Allendine Christy, Charles Davidson, John Gordon, Elizabeth Hook, James, Helene, Joan and Ellen Ingram, David Inderack, Elizabeth Kay, Barbara King, J. Knox, George, Margaret and Jemima Leslie, John Matheson, Archibald McAdam, Samuel McCracken, Mary McDougall, William McGregor, Jessie McGregor, Grace McKinley, Neil McIntosh, Roderick and Christina McLennan, Miles McInnes, Ann McLeman, Edward Molloy, Janet Mercer, John Morrison, Jane Munro, George Munro, James Murray, John Murray, William Nicol, Lilian Oliphant, Richard Pascoe, Colin Ramsey, George amd Mary A. Robertson, Richard Rogers, William James and Donald Ross, Agnes Sinclair, Archibald and Mary Snodgrass, David and Thomas Tullock, Lewis Walker, Angus Wilson. Irish — Margaret and Elizabeth Boyd, Sam, Mary, George and Thomas Boyd, Silas and Sam Boyd, Susannah Bradley, James Brereton. Margaret Carrol, Denis, Michael and Pat. Connor, Mary Corbet, Julia, Richard and Mary Donnell, John Dunbar, Edward Dwyer, Pat., Maria, Bridget, Pat., and John Fahy, Bridget Gormley, Bridget Harney, Mary Hillery, John Lynane, Mary O'Connors, Pat. McGrath, John McNamara, Mary McNamara, Thomas Morony, Ellen Milley, Bridget and Mary Power, Michael Robertson, Timothy Ryan, Margaret Saunders, Thomas and James Watson, Joshua Whitelow. Summary:— Colonial passage certificate holders :— English 19 ; Scotch 14 ; Irish 41 Colonial full-paid passage certificate holders :— English 2 United Kingdom assisted-passage regulations :— English 11 United Kingdom full-paid passage regulations :— English 1 United Kingdom free-passage regulations :— English 229 ; Scotch 49 ; Irish 1 Totals :— English 332 ; Scotch 61 ; Irish 42 Married men 69, Married women 73 ; Single men, 156, Single women 73 Children from 1 to 12 , Boys 34, Girls 21 ; Children under 1, Boys 5, Girls 6 Total 437 ; equal to 398½ statute adults

GRG 35/48/2 Crown lands and Immigrant ships papers Surgeon Superintendent report. " Deaths on the voyage" —
Name	Age	Date of Death	Cause of Death	Where buried
Hughes, male	4 weeks	November 9th, 1866	Atrophia	at sea
Jerred, Jane	inf	December 18th, 1866	Atrophia	at sea
Tantram, George F.	inf	January 7th, 1867	Whooping cough, Pertussis	-

Surgeon Superintendent Report "Births on Board" —
Name of Mother		Date of Birth	Sex of Infant
Hughes, Emma		October 8th, 1866	male
Foley, Eliza		October 25th, 1866	female
Gifford, Amelia		October 30th, 1866	female
Henderson, Mary A.		November 26th, 1866	male
New, Eliza		December 2nd, 1866	male
Collie, Isabella		December 21st, 1866	male

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

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 (formerly ACC 313); Sydney Shipping Gazette; South Australian Register; The South Australian Government Gazette; GRG 35/48/2 Crown lands and Immigrant ships papers; Biographical index SA 1836-1885 (the B-index column indicates individuals who may be found in that index, with corresponding reference ; FreeBMD ; UK census'

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