Passenger List - Rajah, London & Plymouth to Adelaide, 1849

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Kindly transcribed and submitted to TheShipsList by Robert Janmaat, Adelaide, from a variety of sources, cited below.
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barque Rajah, 332 tons, Captain Charles Ferguson, from London 30th August 1848 / Plymouth 9th September 1848, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 6th January 1849

The London Times July 18, 1848

FOR PORT ADELAIDE, (South Australia,) a regular trader, will meet with great despatch, the fine, fast sailing British-built ship RAJAH, A 1, burden 500 tons, CHARLES FERGUSON, Commander; lying in the London Docks. This ship has a full poop with great height between decks, and affords superior accommodation for cabin, intermediate, and steerage passengers. The dietaries will be upon the more liberal scale, and every attention paid to ensure comfort. For freight or passage apply to Messrs. E.I. Wheeler and Co., colonial agents, Winchester House, Old Broad-street; or to Devitt and Moore, 9 Butter-street.

South Australian Register Wednesday 10th January 1849

Saturday January 6th, 1849:- the barque Rajah, 332 tons, Ferguson, Master, from London and Plymouth.
Passengers: Rev. John M. Strongman (Independent Minister) and Mrs. Strongman, William Rayne Esq., Mrs. Rayne and two children ; John Shrewdwick Esq. and John Day Esq., surgeon-superintendent, in the cabin, and 200 government emigrants in the steerage. . . . — 1a ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1849 ; —?— births and —?— deaths on the passage, John Day Esq., surgeon-superintendent. — many emigrants from Cornwall

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

note: this passenger list is very minimal in its content, so we would welcome additional input from family researchers, who have family on this ship. Please email information to . . . thanks

Names		Age	Occupation	B-index	Birthplace	Remarks
Last	Given	Age	Occupation	B-index	Birthplace	Remarks
Families
Batton	John Luke	44	-	-	Cornwall
	Constance (Peters)	36
	five unnamed children accompanying John & Constance, consisting of either ; Elizabeth Jane, 15 ; Matthew Peters, 12 ; Edwin Mark, 11 ; William Henry, 9 ; Eliza Ann, 6 ; John Luke, 4 ; Ellen Louisa Constance, 2. Two of these children embarked on the barque John Woodhall, with their grandmother, Grace Peters. John Woodhall departed London Sept. 6th, Plymouth Sept. 14th 1848 and arrived at Adelaide 17th January 1849.

Bickley	John	26	Stonemason	123/2	England
	Harriet (Stanning)	29
	William Henry	2

Burgan	Thomas	40	-	204/2
	Sarah (Thomas)	43
	Maria	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Ellis	Thomas	n/a	-	-
	Jane (Merryfield)	n/a
	Elizabeth Jane	inf

Foster	Amos	26	-	521/2
	Sarah Ann	23

George	John	n/a	-	558/2
	wife	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Griffin	Richard	n/a	-	-
	Elizabeth	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Harvey	Stephen	n/a	-	691/3
	Mary (Thomas)	7

Hawke	Richard	22	-	-	Liskeard, Cornwall	ancestors of Prime Minister Robert (Bob) Hawke
	Grace Bowden (Pearce)	19				daughter of William and Susan Pearce, below

Holden	William	n/a	-	-
	wife	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Holman	Thomas	21	-	-	Cornwall
	Esther Anne (Tregoning)	19
	Elizabeth Ann	inf				born at sea

Hoskyn	Samuel	n/a	-	-
	wife	n/a

Jacka	William	51	Blacksmith	-	Gwennap, Cornwall
	Catherine (Whitburn)	48				2nd wife
	Anna	26
	Margaret	24
	William	21
	Elizabeth	20
	Eliza	18
	Walter	17
	Catherine	15
	Joseph	12
	Samuel	10
	William's first wife and the mother of the children, Mary (Bray), died in Cornwall in 1846 ; ages are estimated from dates of baptism records.

Jones	James	25	-	-
	Fanny (Betteredge)	21
	child	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Merryfield	James	n/a
	wife	n/a

Moses	John	n/a
	wife	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Nott	John	n/a	-	1196/3
	wife	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Pearce	William	n/a	-	1257/2	Liskeard, Cornwall	with family \| 1841 census, age 40
	Susan (Bowden)	n/a				1841 census, age 35
	Ann Bowden	n/a				1841 census, age 6
	Jane	n/a				1841 census, age 4
	Lydia	n/a				1841 census, age 10 months
	child	n/a
						probably a son "born at sea," John Bowden

Riddle / Roddle	James	n/a	-	-
	Elizabeth	n/a

Robbins	George	n/a	-	-
	Mary	n/a
	A.M.	n/a
	Phoebe	n/a

Rodda	Stephen	n/a	-	-
	wife	n/a

Rull	Charles	n/a	-	-
	wife	n/a

Scoble	Uriah	n/a	-	-
	Mary Ann	n/a	child
	Jane	n/a	child

Spargo	Peter	n/a	-	-
	Jane	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Thomas	Elijah	n/a	-	-		single parent
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Tonkin	Mark	n/a	-	1611/1
	wife

Trenoweth	John	24	Sawyer	1620/3	St. Buryan, Cornwall
	Grace (Thomas)	21
	Other members of John’s family followed him to SA at a later time, including his parents, William and Phyllis (née Hutchens) [Lady McDonald 1855]. The family was from St Buryan. John was killed by a falling tree at Woodside, in the Adelaide Hills, in 1855.

Trevan	John	40	Miner	-	Cornwall
	Sarah (Williams)	44				Sally
	Thomas	15
	Jane	14
	John Williams	12
	William Henry	9
	Joel Henry Carew	5
	Richard	3

Webb	Richard	n/a	-	-
	wife	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Williams	John	n/a	-	-
	wife	n/a
	child	n/a
	child	n/a

Williams	William	n/a	-	-
	wife	n/a

Names		Age	Occupation	B-index	Birthplace	Remarks
Last	Given	Age	Occupation	B-index	Birthplace	Remarks
Single Men & children
Baxter	Robert Samuel	n/a
Brooks	Stephen	n/a
Collins	John	n/a
Cushion	Daniel	n/a
Fitzgerald	William	n/a
Fickess	Edward	n/a
Heathen	John	n/a
Holland	Richard	n/a
Jackaway	Enoch	n/a
Morms / Moses	Charles	n/a
Nagh	Thomas	n/a
Nott	Thomas	n/a				with parents
Osborn	Samuel	n/a
Phillips	Hugh	n/a
Phillips	James	n/a
Roak	John	n/a
Robbins	John	n/a
Shugley	Thomas	n/a
Spargo	Charles	n/a
Spargo	John	n/a
Spargo	William	n/a
Symons	Richard	n/a
Symons	William	n/a
Thomas	William	n/a
Thomas	William Henry	n/a
Thomson	John	n/a
Webb	John L.	n/a
White	Robert	n/a
Whittle	Thomas L.	n/a
Williams	John	n/a

Single Women & children
Bates	Matilda	n/a
Bennett	Elizabeth	n/a
Bowles	Charlotte	n/a
Crispin	Elizabeth	n/a
Fickess	Martha	n/a
Fickess	Mary	n/a
Fox	Caroline	n/a
Hughes	Heather	n/a
Hunt	Ann	n/a
Jenkins	Mary	n/a
Job	Harriett	n/a
Macdowell	Mary	n/a
Macdowell	Sarah	n/a
McGuire	Margaret	n/a
Matthew	Selina	n/a
Moses	Ann	n/a
Moses	Mary	n/a
Moses	Phillipa	n/a
Pearce	Elizabeth	n/a			Liskeard, Cornwall	with parents \| 1841 census, age 10
Pearce	Mary	n/a			Liskeard, Cornwall	with parents \| 1841 census, age 8
Phillips	Mary	n/a
Phillips	Mary	n/a
Phillips	Maria	n/a
Robbins	Jesse	n/a
Robbins	Maria	n/a
Robbins	Mary Ann	n/a
Rowling	Agnes	n/a
Seabridge	Jesse	n/a
Spargo	Elizabeth	n/a
Symons	Grace	n/a
Symons	Elizabeth	n/a
Ward	Elizabeth	n/a
Webb	Mary Ann	n/a
Whitburn	Caroline	n/a
Whitburn	Mary	n/a
Whittle	Huriah	n/a
Whittle	Silvia	n/a
Whittle	Uriah	n/a
Williams	Martha	n/a

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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