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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:
- SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE from The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842) of Monday 2 July 1838, Page 2. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12860902?
- SHIP NEWS. from The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842) of Monday 2 July 1838, Page 2. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12860893?
- Ship News. from The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) of Tuesday 3 July 1838, Page 2. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2537241?
- SHIP NEWS. from The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842) of Friday 6 July 1838, Page 3. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/12860424?
- Classified Advertising from The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) of Saturday 7 July 1838, Page 3. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2547592?
- PROJECTED DEPARTURES. from The Sydney Monitor (NSW : 1828 - 1838) of Friday 13 July 1838, Page 2. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32160672?
- Classified Advertising from The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) of Thursday 19 July 1838, Page 1. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2537745?
- IMMIGRANTS' BARRACKS. from The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 1840) of Wednesday 25 July 1838, Page 2. at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/31721408?
- Ships to Australia 1837-39 From the British Parliamentary Papers of 1839 II - Respecting Emigration to the Colonies on the Ships List at: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/au1838.shtml
*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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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.
edited by Elaine Murphy