Voyage of the Charles Kerr to the South Australian Colony in 1840

Date: 5 Mar 1840 to 16 Jun 1840
Location: South Australia

The voyage of the Charles Kerr to South Australia in 1840

The barque Charles Kerr sailed from England to the South Australia Colony in 1840. It left Gravesend on 5 March and arrived at Port Adelaide on 16 June 1840. at [1]

The Charles Kerr a 463 ton barque under Captain Harford Arnold and Arthur Skelton, Esq., surgeon-superintendent, carried 216 Commissioner's Emigrants (assisted passengers) to the fledgling colony.

We see this reproduced Advertising from the British Press in the South Australian Record of 15 January 1840:

Under engagement to the Colonization Commissioners,
DIRECT FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA,
THE Ship CHARLES KERR,
burthen per register, 463 tons. HARFORD ARNOLD. Commander.
Lying in the St Katharine's Dock. This
vessel has excellent accommodation for
cabin passengers, and will carry an experienced
surgeon. For freight or passage apply to the Commander at
Lloyd's, and at the Jerusalem Coffee House; or to
JOHN PIRIE and Co., 3 Freeman's Court, Cornhill

from the Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Literary Record of 24 June 1840 we see:

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVED.

Wednesday, June 17.—The barque Charles Kerr, 453 tons, Harford Arnold, Commander from London and Gravesend, having left the latter place on the 6th March. Passengers:— Mrs Longley, Mr Richard Longley, Mr A. M. Laine, Mr. H. Snelling, Mr Alexander Grant, two Masters Longley, and fifty-seven male and fifty-five female adult emigrants ninety-two children.

And also from the Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Literary Record of June 24, 1840 we see:

There were ten deaths on board the Charles Kerr during the passage, and three births. The deaths were all among the children, except two, one a young man of nineteen, a seaman; and the other a young woman of eighteen.

A Passenger list from the Family History SA Shipping and Passenger Lists South Australia database:

Passengers arriving 1840-06-17 in SA aboard the Charles Kerr (463 ot ship 1826) from London 40-03-06, Captain Harford Arnold.

• ALDRIDGE John, wife (Martha?), 4 sons
• BARHAM Margaret
• BROWNE W V
• BURTON William, Esther GILBERT, John (b@sea)
• CAIN William, wife (Catharine?)
• COOKE Henry Richard, Henrietta HARRISON, Eliza
• COOKE Charles James, wife (Sarah Jane YOUNG? / Eliz?)
• COULTER John, Mary Matilda LANE, Rd, Wm, Reuben, Hy, Jas, Sarah, Sophia
• COULTER Mary Ann (w?), son
• COULTER Thomas, Frances BARHAM, Timothy, Thos, Eliz, Mary, Lewis, Rbt
• COWLEY Robert Fisher, Sarah MORGAN, Rbt, Joseph Fisher, Thos, Crln, Jas, Dan
• CROFT Elizabeth
• DAVIS Harriet
• DAWE Sampson, Jane GREGORY, Eliz
• DAWE William, Mary Ann GREGORY, Wm Hy
• DOLDING Edward, wife, 2 sons
• EDWARDS William Fogwell, Rebecca LUCKHAM, son
• ELDRIDGE John, Frances GOLDSMITH, Wm, Russell, Geo, Cornelius Chas
• FANNAN Elizabeth
• FIELD George (W?)
• FIELD Mary Ann
• FOOT James, Ann GRIFFIN
• GIBBS Thomas, Elizabeth (wife), Eliz, son, Thirza, Chas (b@sea)
• GRANT Alexander
• HALL John, wife [Emma], dau [Emily]
• HILLIER George, Sarah (wife), Jane, Chas, Hy, Eliz, dau [Anne], son [Isaac]
• HISSEY Charles, Emily MILLS
• HODGES Francis, Mary Ann FAWNS, John, Wm, Jas, Thos, Ann, Geo, Eliz (38,35,13,12,10,8,6,3,1)
• HONEY John, Caroline Ann Elizabeth MCLEOD, son (Thomas?), 2 dau (inc Hrt Isabella?)
• HONEY Mary
• HUGGETT Mary Ann
• HUGGETT William, Catherine WILLIAMS, Cath (d aft arr), 2 sons
• IGGULDEN Thomas, wife
• JOHNSTON Elizabeth, Mary (Ann?)
• LAINE A M
• LANGLEY William, wife, 2 sons (inc Geo?), Rd
• MCEVOY Catherine
• MCEVOY Dennis
• MCGLINN / MCGLYNN / MCLEAN Samuel, wife, 2 dau, 2 sons (inc Mtn?)
• MAIDMENT Charles, Esther Fanny DOOL, Edwin Chas, Fanny, Hrt Jane, Sophia Ransom, Eliz Burnbridge, Wm Joseph, Mary Ann, Geo James
• MILLS Elizabeth
• MILLS George, Mary Ann TARRANT, Ann Matilda, Maria/Sarah
• PROCTOR Ellison
• PROCTOR John, Ann LANGLEY, 2 sons
• ROFE James, Mary GODFREY, Jas, 4 dau (including Susannah), son
• RYAN Thomas
• SAWLEY George, Jane PARSONS, Sarah, Jas, Hrt, John
• SIMMONS Henry, Jessie LEWIS, Jessie
• SIMMONS John, Mary (wife)
• SKELTON / KELTON Arthur
• SNELLING Henry
• STACEY James, Mary FISHER, Sarah, Mary, Jas, John, Hrt, Hy, Eliz (d aft arr)
• SYMES Anthony, wife
• SYMES John, Mary PERRY, Sarah, John, Eliz, Geo, Crln, Edwin, Esther Jane, Andrew, Thos, Mary Ann
• SYMES William, Sarah LEACH, John, Jas, Wm, Hy
• TREBLE Henry, Emma BISHOP, Emma
• TREVASKIS John, Mary (wife), Hy, son (Wm?), dau, 3 sons (inc John), dau
• TWEEDIE / TWEEDY Thomas, wife, 2 sons
• VEARING George, Elizabeth (wife), 2 sons inc James
• WEST Ann
• WHITBREAD Isaac (d on arr), Emma MILLS, Eliz, Wm Chas, Matilda, Sarah Ann (b@sea)
• WHITTLE Charles Cheeseman, Frances (wife)
• WILKINS John
• WEEN / WYNN / WYNE John, Elizabeth LEACH

Passenger Lists etc.

• 06/03/1840 - 17/06/1840 from Passengers in History an initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum at: http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/node/945220

• Charles Kerr 1840 from Diane Cummings' Bound For South Australia database at: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1840CharlesKerr.htm

• Barry Leadbeater's South Australian Shipping & Immigration database at: http://www.familyhistorysa.org//shipping/passengerlists.html

• 1840 Charles Kerr from the OLD COLONISTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA website at: https://oldcolonists.weebly.com/-1840-charles-kerr.html

• Advertising from the South Australian Record (SA : 1837 - 1840) of Wednesday 15 January 1840, Page 1. first accessed online on the 23rd of December, 2019 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245932579?

• STATE OF ADELAIDE. from the South Australian Record and Australasian Chronicle (SA : 1840) on Saturday 7 March 1840, Page 13. first accessed online on the 23rd of December, 2019 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/245655770?

• SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE from the Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Literary Record (SA : 1840 - 1842) of Wednesday 24 June 1840, Page 2. first accessed online on the 23rd of December, 2019 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/195859955?

• ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY, from the Adelaide Chronicle and South Australian Literary Record (SA : 1840 - 1842) of Wednesday 24 June 1840, Page 3. first accessed online on the 23rd of December, 2019 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/195859950?