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Amelia Thompson, Immigrant Voyage to New South Wales 1838

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Immigrant ship Amelia Thompson voyage to New South Wales 1838:
In the SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE from The Sydney Herald of Monday 2 July 1838 on Page 2, we see this:

From Plymouth, same day, having sailed from thence the 28th of March, the ship Amelia Thompson, Captain Dawson, with 238 emigrants. Passengers in the cabin - Mr Pinnock and family, Major North, Mrs North and family, Mr and Mrs Wood, Mr and Mrs Hay, Mr and Mrs Cockhill, Mr Baker, Miss King, Mr McNab, Mr Chambers, Mr Elmsford, and Mr Durham. The Amelia Thompson has gone into the Quaran- tine grounds in consequence of the typhus fever being on board TROVE

Passenger List: NRS5316/4_4784/Amelia Thompson [1]_1 Jul 1838/ from the Assisted Immigrants (digital) Shipping Lists on the New South Wales State Archives and Records website at: [1] or http://indexes.records.nsw.gov.au/ebook/list.aspx?series=NRS5316&item=4_4784&ship=Amelia%20Thompson%20[1] (incomplete)

See also:

*An address to the medical practitioners of Ireland on the subject of vaccination. Third edition. By Samuel B Labatt MD Dublin, Rodgers and Smith, 1841 MDCCCXL1 pp73-74. (Amelia Thompson 1838 voyage: small pox and vaccination of passengers.) at: https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xhrxwjsh



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On this ship were Frederick and Sarah (nee Kinchington) Street who eventually farmed at Barandudah near Albury NSW. They came to join Sarah's brother George Kinchington of Damerham, who had emigrated on the James with his family in 1834. The families met up in the north-east of Victoria. Also on the ship was Mrs Susannah Sheppard, mother of Sarah and George, who was born Tiller then married Thomas Kinchington, George and Sarah's father, who died in 1813 . After her husband's death Susannah married again in 1817 to Thomas Sheppard. Susannah had a further two children - sons - by her second husband who died in 1825. Susannah, aged 58 by 1838, set off on the voyage on the Amelia Thompson, with her daughter and son-in-law Street, as well as the sons Thomas Sheppard (20) and Charles Sheppard (17). According to the online book, An address to the medical practitioners of Ireland on the subject of vaccination Third edition by Samuel B Labatt MD Dublin Rodgers and Smith 1841 MDCCCXL1 p 74, Labatt and another doctor Epps concluded that the Amelia Thompson situation proved the importance and efficacy of the Jenner small pox vaccine. Labatt says 8 ships containing 1500 emigrants on the way to Australia were given vaccine to take with them from the Royal Jennerian and London Vaccine Institution. On the Amelia Thompson, according to Labatt, very early in the voyage, five people got small pox and the Doctor John Sullivan Esq immediately used the vaccine he had on board to vaccinate all on board crew and passengers. Three of the five who were first infected died, one aged 58. This would be Susannah Sheppard, one supposes. She is listed in the deaths on the ship manifest by name and age. On those on whom the vax had no effect Labatt says Dr Sullivan vaxed them again on the 8th day after and there was no more small pox. After 24 days from that first vaccination day time no one got pox. There were 276 people on board including 60 children.

Dr Sullivan left vaccine lymph in Sydney with the Governor and Labatt says on this point "thus not only were the passengers protected but the residents and natives also". There was also typhus on this ship and the two Sheppard boys died from it.

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