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GENERAL HEWETT The General Hewett left Plymouth on 12 August 1848 and arrived at Port Jackson on 13 November 1848 loaded with emigrant passengers. She was a ship-rigged sailing vessel of 960 tons under the control of Captain Hart. Passengers on her 1848 voyage to Australia included Thomas and Betsy Hall who were from Nottingham but he was a gardener. Isaac Parkes and family were from Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and both Isaac and his sons, Robert, John and Charles, described themselves as machine makers, as did Frederick Parkes from Derbyshire. Samuel White, farm labourer from East Leak, Nottingham was aboard with his wife, Lucy, and young daughter, Mary. (aged 3); son, George (1); and baby, Alice. However, the General Hewett did carry at least one lacemaker and he was Alfred Kirk, aged 17, from Nottingham. He belonged to the Church of England faith and could both read and write. Mary Witherden, aged 26 and from Buckingham and of the Church of England faith could also both read and write. She also described herself as a lacemaker. She accompanied her daughter, Ann Elizabeth, who had been born in London. Additional Information.
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