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FEMALES PER BUSSORAH MERCHANT.
'FEMALES PER BUSSORAH MERCHANT from The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842) of Tuesday the 20th of August 1833, Page 2.
A very interesting scene has been passing within our own review for these last few days, since the landing of the free women arrived per Bussorah Merchant, and their being placed in their new quarters, the place formerly occupied by Government as the Lumber-yard. {cnr George & Bridge St} We are assured that this importation is very far superior in every respect to any importation of females of similar class heretofore arrived amongst us, and are happy to say this assurance is con-firmed by the great demand that has been made by the respectable families of our community for the services of these young women, as in the first three days about 180 out of the 215 were engaged, and proceeded to their respective situations, which, we hope, will prove comfortable to these friend-less females now domiciled among us, and whom Providence, in its wisdom, has sepa-rated from friends and connexions dear to them during the sojourn in this life, as it is unlikely very few of them will ever visit their native land again.
A Committee of Ladies, consisting of Miss Bourke, Mrs. Broughton, Mrs. Jones, and Miss M Leay, attended during the whole of each day, to advise these young women, and to ascertain that the situations they engaged were such as res-pectable young women ought to accept ; and the Venerable Archdeacon Broughton, the Rev. Messrs. Cowper and Hill, also devoted much of their time to this impor-tant matter, and the result has been, as may be anticipated, highly satisfactory.
A demand has been made for other ser-vices than those of a mere domestic nature no less than the hand of one of these young women. A young man of good character applied to the Committee to be allowed to choose one of these females " for better or for worse ;" and, after being perfectly satis-fied with his testimonials, he was allowed to do so, and the bride selected ; and we trust the union will be to them all they can desire. We would invite many more of our young men of good character to go and do likewise ; as it is with young women of do-mestic habits, and good moral character, alone in whom they can expect to find those comforts so desirable in the marriage state, and which render home the happiest of all places.
We copy the following paragraph from the Herald of yesterday :
" The females in question have suffered much annoyance from an assemblage of idle vagabonds, who have for some days sur-rounded the gate and subjected parties en-tering and returning from the Lumber-yard to the impudent stare and observations of the rabble. We cannot conceive why the authorities should suffer such an evil to exist, unless it is from regard to the li-berty of the subject, of which we hear much more in this place than in any other part of the world, and which covers more licentiousness than we can well describe.
We will ask what must be the feelings of these, young women on leaving the yard to go to their situations, when the very first thing that presents itself to their notice, to the crowd just described, and of which not one word of exaggeration has been said ? We pity their feelings and can only regret they are thus exposed."
As it is probable many more ship loads of emigrant females may yet arrive, and perhaps of a superior description even to these we would suggest to the government at once to break up the convict boys' establishment at the Carters' Barracks, and disperse these young rogues among the settlers as the surest way of reforming them, and appropriate these buildings and the ground attached thereto for the reception of the free females that may hereafter arrive, which will be a much more comfortable place for them than the erected buildings they are now placed in, and to which atten-tion we consider them entitled, and at the same time they would be away from the very center of this crowded town, and thereby escape the improper scenes we have felt it our duty to expose.
Passenger List from Elizabeth Rushen's Female Migration to Australia in the 1830s
These names have been compiled from information on the various lists of the Bussorah Merchant passengers.
Abbot, Ann Frederica, Susannah, Elizabeth, Frederica & Robert
Alcock, Jane
Alderman, Sarah
Allen, Elizabeth
Anderson, Mrs Ann, Mary & Ann
Annet (Anshall), Margaret
Arnold, Emma
Arton, Sarah
Atkins, Jane
Atkinson, Isabella
Baker, Sophia
Baldwin, Harriet
Balls, Amelia
Barnes, Elizabeth
Barnes, Susanna Eliza
Barnett, Mary
Beavan, Sarah
Beck, Charlotte & Elizabeth
Bennet, Jane
Bird, Eliza
Bissaker, Mary Ann
Bradford, Selina
Brown, Eleanor (Ellen)
Brown, Mary
Browning, Dorothy Matilda
Bryan, Elizabeth
Bryant, Mary
Burrows, Eliza
Busher, Sarah Ann & Ann
Cane, Jane
Cochrane, Ellen
Coffee, Jane
Coleman, Sarah
Collins, Jane
Collins, Mary
Collis, Jane
Coombs, Elizabeth
Copus, Charlotte Anne
Coulton, Rhoda E. N. S.
Cullins, Sarah
Cutler, Sophia
Dale, Louisa
Daley, Mary Ann
Davis, Catherine Jean
Davis, Maria
Delcomber, Frances & Stephanie
Dell, Mary Ann
Donaghue, Ellen
Dowd, Mary
Dowling, Elizabeth
Downham, Ellin
Drayton, Mary Ann
Duffy, Elizabeth
Fitzgerald, Ann
Fitzpatrick, Mary Ann
Flagg, Mary Ann
Fleming, Rose
Fletcher, Hannah Barbara
Fletcher, Margaret
Flower, Ann
Fox, Eliza
French, Eliza
Gammage, Elizabeth
Gardner, Eliza
Gilham, Ann
Gliddon, Esther & Mary Ann
Glover, Abigail
Golding, Maria
Goodenough, Elizabeth
Green, Elizabeth
Green, Mary Ann
Griffin, Eliza Rodye
Griggs, Maria E.
Groves, Ann
Gunner, Ann
Gunter, Frances & Maria Jemima
Guy, Louisa
Gwynn, Frances
Hackett, Jane
Hains (Haynes), Mary
Hall, Charles Benjamin
Handsford, Elizabeth
Harrell, Frances
Harris, Elizabeth
Harrison, Henrietta
Hart, Sarah Anne
Harvey, Matilda
Hawkins, Caroline Matilda
Henshall, Margaret
Hinchcliff, Elizabeth
Hockley, Emma
Hodkinson, Mary Ann
Hoskins, Joseph, Rachel & Sarah
Howe, Mary Ann
Huffnell, Jane
Humphries, Ann & Elizabeth
Irvine, Ann
Jacobs, Susannah
Jamieson, Eliza
Jarman, Mary, Emmeline, Elizabeth, Mary & George
Jeffrey, Emma
Jobson, Mary Ann & Margaret
Jolly, Caroline
Kearn, Mary
Kelly, Mary Ann;
Kendrick, Clarissa Jane
Kilner, Mary
Large, Julia
Lawman, Eliza
Lawrence, Alice
Lewis, Elizabeth
Lister, Harriet
Logan, Mary
Lucas, Jane
Lycett, Emma
Mack, Elizabeth
Mackie, Sarah
Marlow, Priscilla
Marshall, Ann
Maule, Rachael
Mayo Catherine, Mary Ann & Sarah
Miles, Eliza
Moore, Hannah, Isabella, Jane & Mary Ann
Murray, Elizabeth
O'Brien, Elizabeth
Oke, Ellen
Only, Ann
Osborne, Sarah
Otto, George, Elizabeth, Susannah, Mary Ann, Eliza, Emma & Phillip
Parkes, Louisa
Pennell, Elizabeth
Pollard, Amelia Matilda & Susannah
Poole, Anna
Pratt, Catherine
Price, Harriet (Rebecca)
Prior, Mary Ann
Ralph, Charlotte
Rance, Mary Ann
Reece, Ellen
Reynolds, Ann
Richardson, Caroline & Emmeline
Richardson, Frances
Roach, Mary
Ross, Ellen
Rynd, Goodlett
Sargeant, Ann
Serena, Lucy
Simmons, Jane
Simmons, Mary Ann
Sim, Elizabeth & Elizabeth
Smeeton, Isabella
Smith, Elizabeth
Speed, Mary Elizabeth
Stemson, Jane
Stewart, Ann
Stone, Mary
Stote, Ann & Emma
Styles, Ann
Swatkins, Martha
Swindon, Jane
Tapner, Ellen & Mary Ann
Taylor, Elizabeth
Taylor, Mary Ann
Temple, Martha
Thomas, Mary
Thrum, Jane & Hannah
Tomkins, Elizabeth
Tomlinson, Mary Ann
Turnbull, Frances Rebecca
Turner, Sarah
Tyler, Jane
Visterine, Hannah
Volkman, Harriet
Ward, Caroline
Warren, Ann
West, Sarah
Westgate, Elizabeth
White, Elizabeth
Whittingham, Ann
Wild, Martha
Williams, Ann
Williams, Eliza
Williams, Sophia
Wills, Jane
Winter, Frances
Withey, Eliza Frances
Wood, Mary
Woodbury, Mary Ann
Sources
- Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1803 - 1842), Tuesday 20 August 1833, page 2: [1]
- A downloadable Passenger List from Elizabeth Rushen's Female Migration to Australia in the 1830s at: [2]
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