Sebastopol
Commanded by Captain D Taylor departed Gravesend,
London 17 Jan 1863, arrived
Lyttleton, New Zealand 21 May 1863.
Assisted Passengers
John J Adie?, William Anderson,Jane Anderson, William Armitage,
Sarah Ann Baker, William Baxter
Ellen Baxter,William Baxter, James Bear, Margaret E Beck, Mary
Beesley?, William E Billeus?
Jane Blakeley, Mary Blakeley, William Jno Blakeley,David
Brown,Louisa Bryant, William Bryant,
Donald Burke, Rebecca Burke,William Burke, Ann Byrne, Thomas
Byrne, Patrick Byrne, Mary Jane Campbell, James Campbell, Mary
Ann Campbell, Martha Crawley, James Croft, Mary Croft, Martin
Cusack, Thomas Cusack, Catherine Cusack, Patrick Cusack, Bridget
Cusack, Mary Dappet, Philip Dappet, Philippina Dappet, Jeremiah
Dineen, Ellen Duggin, Maria Ellenberger, Jacob Ellenberger,
Gertrude Esselborw, Elizabeth Falloon, William J Falloon, Sarah
Falloon, Mary Falloon, Charles Findt, Margaret Gardner, Andrew
Gardner, John Gardner, Hugh Gardner, Elizabeth Gardner,Euphemia?
Gardner, Andrew Gardner, Eliza Hale, George Hamilton, Mary
Hamilton , Janet Hamilton, George Hamilton, Mary Hamilton,
Charles Hoffmeister , Henry Hoffmeister, Stephen Hooper , Emma H
Hooper, Francis Hooper, William Housman, Ann J Hunt, Margaret
Hutcheson, Frank Innes , Anne Jane Irvine?, Thomas Johnson, Maria
Johnson, James Johnson, Ann Johnson, Sarah A Johnson, George
Johnson, Margaret A Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Charlotte
Johnson,Mary? Kissel,Philipina Kissel, Heinrich Kissel, Elizabeth
Kissel, James Legg, Mary Legg,Edward Legg, John Lemmon, Elizabeth
Lippenberger, Philip Lippenberger, Magdalene Lippenberger,
Charles Lippenberger, Katherine Lippenberger, Gertrude
Lippenberger, Barbara Lippenberger, Peter Lippenberger, Ann
Loney, Joseph Loney,Annie Loney, Jane Loney, James Maher, Betsy
Maltman, Andrew Maltman, William Maltman (name crossed out),
Elizabeth Maltman, Andrew Maltman, James McDonald, Donald
McInness, John McInness, Margaret McKinlay, Frederick Meiss,
Jacob Meuges, Alexander Milne?, Catherine Morris, Thomas Murray,
James Murray, Alexander Murray, Roderick Murray, William Henry
Newman, Agnes Newman, Angus Nicolson, William Pollock, Ann
Pollock, Thomas Robinson, William Ruddick, Jane Ruddick, Edward
Ruddick, Anne Ruddick, Dorothea Schuish?, Henrietta Schwartz,
Barbara Schwartz, Jacob Schwartz,William Scott, Frank Scott, Mary
Scott, Agnes Scott, Thomas Scott, George Scott, John Scott,
Marion Scott,William Scott, Catherine Seyl?, Mary A
Shines,Christopher Stephenson, Margaret Symington, William Henry Thorne,
Christine Tisch, James Treleavau?, Mary
E Vallance?, Elizabeth Watts,
Adam Whyte, Janet Whyte, Robert Whyte, Margaret Whyte, James
Whyte, Peter Whyte, William Whyte, Margaret Whyte, William Whyte,
Lilly Widdop, Florauda Widdop, Henry Widdop, Jabez Widdop,
Margaret Widdop, William Widdop, Jane Young, Janet Young, Charles
A
Ziukgraf?
TOTALS FROM ASSISTED PASSENGER LIST
Families & Children Single
Men
Single Women
Page
No.
Page
No.
Page No.
1 14&
2
16
13
22 10
2
9½
17
11
23 11½
3
12
18
14
24 14
4
13½
19
9
25 6
5
8
20
5
6
6½
7
3
TOTALS 160 &
2
Cost of Passage Money to Canterbury Provincial Government
£2060/10 (1)
Cash £880
(2)
Promissory Notes £458/10
(3)
Bills from friends in colony £306
(4)
Present cost (2)-(1)=
£1180/10/-
"Ultimate Cost £470/5 (Difference between (1) & (2),
(3) &
(4)"
Transcribers Comments:When compared to "The Press"
clipping below, there
are only 168 names in
this assisted passenger list so therefore it must be considered
incomplete.
Sources: Christchurch (NZ) Office of National Archives Ref IM CH
4/48
(Shipping Lists), the
original is held in the
Wellington Office.
Newspaper clipping of "ARRIVAL OF SEBASTOPOL"
"The Press", May 23rd 1863
The ship Sebastopol, Captain D Taylor, arrived in Lyttelton
harbour, from
London, on Thursday
evening about 5 p.m., after a protracted passage of over 100
days.
She left Gravesend on the 17th January, and did not clear the
land until
the 9th February,
experiencing heavy gales all the time.
Her passenger list includes 17 in the 1st, and 27 in the 2nd
cabin, besides
205 assisted
Government emigrants. The passengers speak highly of the Captain,
surgeon,
and officers,
and a few days before arrival presented them with testimonials,
the one
given to the Captain
consisting of a purse of sovereigns and an address containing 230
signatures.
This ship has been exceedingly free from sickness, no deaths
having
occurred during the voyage,
but 3 births and one marriage. During the early part of the
passage she
spoke several ships
bound to India and China.
Sources: Canterbury City Council Library,Christchurch.
Sebastopol Ship of 992 tons . Built 1861 (another reference says
1859).
A log is available of the 1881 voyage which left
England
6 Sep 1881 and arrived Lyttleton 14 Dec 1881. (99 Days) Diary by
John
McLachlan .
She also made two voyages to Lyttleton , NZ in 1861 and 1863.
Sources: "Log of Logs" by Ian Nicholson
ISBN 0 7316 6534 1 Vol 1,
ISBN 0 646 0918
2 4 Vol II (1993) Roebuck Books, Qld, Aust.
