George Jamieson Kinnaird Dana, child of Henry Edmund P Dana & Sophia Dana, was born in 1849 in Dandenong, Victoria.[1]
G K Dana arrived on the ship Gem on 23 January 1871 in Melbourne, Australia having departed from Tanna in the New Hebrides on 7 January.[2][3]
George Dana departed from Victoria, Australia, for Levuka, Fiji, on the ship Daphne in May 1871.[4]
George Dana, age 22, arrived on the ship Gem on 4 October 1871 in Melbourne, Australia having departed from Noumea New Caledonia. Also on board was his cousin Philip C Crespigny (1850-1927).[5]
From A year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, and New Caledonia by F. A. Campbell:
Port Resolution, Tana, December, 1872.
AFTER a stay of two months at Kwamera, I went round by boat to visit Mr. and Mrs. Neilson at Port Resolution. The station here occupies a fine position on the banks overhanging the bay, and commands a very fine view towards the lofty Mount Mirren. The general aspect of the country is much the same as that around Kwamera, only the land is more flat and the forests are more free of underwood. There are two traders’ establishments here, the occupants of them being engaged principally in the manufacture of cobra from cocoanuts and the collection of sulphur. Until lately one of these establishments was in charge of a yonng man named Dana. He was one of that unfortunate expedition that left Melbourne some years ago to settle upon this island. Two of them—Messrs. Ross and Bell—were killed by the natives ; and now Dana, poor fellow, has met his death here too. Going out one Sunday alone, with his gun, it went off accidentally, inflicting a very bad wound in the leg. He was conveyed home by natives, and Mr. Neilson went down to attend to him. For some days he seemed to be in a fair way of recovery, but then, quite unexpectedly, he took lockjaw, and shortly afterwards died. It was sad to see a young man like that dying alone, on a heathen island, far from his friends and relatives, with no one to care for him except the kind-hearted missionary, near whose station the accident happened to occur.[6]
George Dana died 20 December 1872 of tetanus following an accidental gunshot wound at Port Resolution, Tanna (present day Vanuatu). He is buried in the Port Resolution mission. [7]
From The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.) 5 April 1873:
DANA.—On the 20th December, 1872, at Port Resolution, Tanna, of an accidental gunshot wound, George Kinnaird Dana, aged 23 years and seven months, the last surviving son of the late Captain H. E. P. Dana.[8]
Sources
↑Birth: "Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922"
Pioneer Index, Victoria 1836-1888; Registration Number: 16351 Ancestry au Record 1778 #171448 (accessed 29 December 2022)
George Jamieson Dana born in Abt 1849, child of Herny Edmond P Dana & Sophia Dana, in Dandenong, Victoria.
↑Passenger List: "Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923"
Public Record Office Victoria; North Melbourne, Victoria; Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (Foreign Ports) [Microfiche Copy of VPRS 947]; Series: VPRS 7667 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 1635 #4177253 (accessed 29 December 2022) Name: G K Dana; Nationality: British; Arrival Age: 21; Birth Date: abt 1850; Departure Place: Levuka Via Sanna; Arrival Date: 23 Jan 1871; Arrival Place: Melbourne, Australia; Ship: Gem.
↑ SHIPPING INTELLIGENGE. (1871, January 25). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 4. Retrieved December 29, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5841622
↑Passenger List:
"Web: Victoria, Australia, Outward Passenger Index, 1852-1915"
Public Record Office of Victoria; North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Series Number: VPRS 948; Page: 1; URL: https://www.prov.vic.gov.au/explore-collection/explore-topic/passenger-records-and-immigration Ancestry au Record 70791 #1726111 (accessed 29 December 2022)
Name: George Dana; Age: 22; Birth Year: abt 1849; Departure Date: May 1871; Departure Place: Victoria, Australia; Destination: LEVUKA FIJI; Ship: DAPHNE; Ship's Master: DROBIN CHAS.
↑Passenger List: "Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923"
Public Record Office Victoria; North Melbourne, Victoria; Inward Overseas Passenger Lists (Foreign Ports) [Microfiche Copy of VPRS 947]; Series: VPRS 7667 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 1635 #4177920 (accessed 29 December 2022)
Name: George Dana; Nationality: British; Arrival Age: 22; Birth Date: abt 1849; Departure Place: Noumea New Caledonis; Arrival Date: 4 Oct 1871; Arrival Place: Melbourne, Australia; Ship: Gem.
↑ Watt, Agnes Craig Paterson. "Twenty-five Years' Mission Life on Tanna, New Hebrides." Paisley : J. and R. Parlane, 1896, page 201 retrieved through archive.org
Is George your ancestor? Please don't go away! Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with George by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with George: