New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
Original data: New South Wales Government. “Returns of convicts applications for wives and families to be brought to New South Wales at Government expense.” Ser
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Arrival” 22 FEB 1884 of Frederick Charles Ware
Record for Frederick Ware
Image: New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Born” 12 AUG 1819 of Rebecca Jane McCammon
Birth date: abt 1819Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 3 Oct 1838Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Residence” of Rebecca Jane McCammon
Birth date: abt 1819Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 3 Oct 1838Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Arrival” 3 OCT 1838 of Rebecca Jane McCammon
Birth date: abt 1819Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 3 Oct 1838Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Born” 1850 of Frederick Nunn
Birth date: abt 1853Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 5 Jul 1885Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Born” 1841 of Amelia Baker
Amelia Baker | Female | 13 | abt 1841 | East Coker Geovil Somerset | Kate | Both | Church of England
The passenger list gives her place of origin as East Coker in the Yeovil district of Somerset, and her age as 13 in November 1854, implying a birth about 1841. This confirms at quality 3 what had rested on WikiTree alone. The parish itself is still not a row in this tree, so no birth place id is set.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 18 NOV 1854 of Amelia Baker
Amelia Baker | Female | 13 | abt 1841 | East Coker Geovil Somerset | Kate | Both | Church of England
Amelia's own row on the Kate's list, fields as labelled. 'Both' is the read-and-write column: at 13 she could do both, unlike either parent. This is the record itself, and supersedes the quality-1 citation that quoted the archives reference second-hand from WikiTree.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 24 APR 1853 of Robert Nelson
Robert Nelson | Male | ArrivalAge 29 | BirthYear abt 1824 | ArrivalDate 24 Apr. 1853 | ArrivalPlaceofOrigin Heastead Suffolk | ArrivalShip Java | ResidenceCanReadWrite Neither | Religion Church of England
Ancestry index fields for the assisted-immigrant list, quoted label-and-value in the order the record panel gives them. The arrival date confirms the Government Gazette's 24 April 1853 from the list itself. The arrival age 29 is two years light against the Hawstead baptism of 25 Aug 1822; ages in this series are routinely wrong and nothing was changed on the strength of it.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 24 APR 1853 of Robert Nelson
Elizabeth Nelson | Female | 31 | abt 1822 | Wepstead Suffolk | Java | Both | Church of England
The same index fields in the same order (name, sex, arrival age, birth year, place of origin, ship, can read/write, religion). She could read and write 'Both', which is why her details are recorded more carefully than her husband's. Age 31 is two years light against the Whepstead baptism of 12 Dec 1819.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Born” ABT 1813 of Richard Crossingham
Chd Crossingham | Male | 25 | abt 1813 | Ecclesham Sussex | Coromandel
The birthplace Icklesham is set from this passenger row and from his brother Thomas's (63994, also 'Ecclesham Sussex', whose 1817 Icklesham baptism confirms the parish for that brother). Stated plainly: a bounty list records the emigrant's PLACE OF ORIGIN, meaning where he was living, not necessarily where he was born, and WikiTree Crossingham-37 gives Brede - so this is cited at quality 2. FreeREG's Icklesham transcript holds no baptism for a Richard to Thomas and Kezia, and Brede is not transcribed at all, so the Brede register is what would settle it.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Born” 29 OCT 1811 of Henrietta Tolhurst
Henrietta Crossingham | Female | 23 | abt 1815 | Sussex | Coromandel | Both | Protestant
Cited on the birth event because it is the only contemporaneous statement of her age. It puts her birth about 1815, four years after the 1988 plaque's 29 October 1811. The date on the event has been left as the plaque gives it and this conflict is recorded rather than resolved.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 2 OCT 1838 of Richard Crossingham
Chd Crossingham | Male | 25 | abt 1813 | Ecclesham Sussex | Coromandel | Both | Church of England | Father Thos Crossingham | Child Richard; Peter; Coromandel
Ancestry collection 1204, the second of the two Coromandel lists, read in Chrome 2026-09-07 by the orchestrator and relayed verbatim; I did not open Ancestry. Field order as relayed: name, sex, arrival age, birth year, place of origin, ship, can read/write, religion, father, children. 'Chd' is the index's mangling of 'Rchd' (Richard); 'Ecclesham' is Icklesham. The children column - Richard, Peter and Coromandel - is the ship's own record of the family group, including the daughter born at sea. Henrietta's paired row is 29149, 'Henretta ... Ecclesham, Sussex; Notes Richard, Peter, Coromandel'.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 11 DEC 1838 of John Field
John Field | Male | 28 | abt 1810 | Udermore Sussex | James Pattison | Both | Methodist | Father John Field | Mother Mary Field | Child Sarah Jane Field; Jacob Field; Sarah Jane Field; Annet Field; Sarah Jane
Ancestry collection 1204, read in Chrome 2026-09-07 by the orchestrator and relayed verbatim; I did not open Ancestry. Field order as relayed: name, sex, arrival age, birth year, place of origin, ship, can read/write, religion, father, mother, children. 'Udermore' is Udimore, Sussex. The children column is plainly corrupt - Sarah Jane repeats three times and 'Jacob'/'Annet' match no other row - so the family group is taken from the individual rows instead (Sarah Jane 64548, Jno W 64547, Harriet 64549), which is also what the earlier WikiTree transcription describes as 'a boy 3 1/2, Sarah Jane 7 yrs, Harriet 7 months'.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Born” ABT 1838 of Harriett Maria Field
Harriet Field | Female | 0 | abt 1838 | Sussex | James Pattison
Ancestry collection 1204, relayed verbatim from Chrome 2026-09-07 (name, sex, arrival age, birth year, place of origin, ship). The birth event had no citation of its own. The sources disagree and the disagreement is unresolved: this list makes her under one year old in December 1838 and WikiTree's transcription of it says '7 months on 10 Dec 1838' (born about May 1838); her Moorland headstone gives 'AGED 72 YEARS' at 23 August 1908 (born 1836); the Raleigh Sun said 71 (1837); WikiTree Field-5859 carries 10 May 1837 and the linked Geni profile 10 May 1836 at Udimore. The tree keeps ABT 1838, from the record made at the voyage's end.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 13 MAR 1849 of Samuel Finch
Samuel Finch | Male | ArrivalAge 38 | BirthYear abt 1811 | ArrivalDate 13 Mar. 1849 | ArrivalPlaceofOrigin Raleigh Essex England | ArrivalShip St Vincent | ResidenceCanReadWrite Both | Religion Church of England | Father Wm | Mother Mercy
The record's own field values, as Ancestry gives them. A second copy of the same list, dated 11 March 1849, appears at records 98026-98029. NOTE THE AGE CONFLICT: this list makes him 38 in March 1849, i.e. born about 1811, while the Enfield monument makes him 80 at his death in October 1886 and the Australian Cemeteries Index gives 27 February 1806. Assisted passages carried upper age limits and shaved ages are routine on these lists, so the person row keeps 1806; nothing here overrides it. 'Raleigh Essex' is Rayleigh, the parish the cemetery index also names.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 13 MAR 1849 of Susannah Wordley
Susannah Finch | Female | 28 | abt 1821 | Glemsford Lappen England | St Vincent | Both | Church of England | Father Abraham | Mother Sarah
The record's own field values, as Ancestry gives them, in the same column order as her husband's row. The duplicate copy of the list at record 98027 renders the place of origin as 'Glemsford Suffolk', which is what 'Glemsford Lappen' garbles. Her age of 28 in March 1849 gives a birth about 1820-21 and agrees with the age of 44 on her 1864 Braidwood memorial.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 13 MAR 1849 of Harriet Mary Finch
Harriett Finch | Female | 3 | abt 1846 | London Middlesex | St Vincent | Both | Church of England
The record's own field values, in the same column order as her parents' rows. 'London Middlesex' agrees with her birth registration at Strand in the June quarter of 1845; an age of 3 in March 1849 is consistent with a birth in the first half of 1845, the list rounding down. This is the record that dates the family's arrival for her: born in London, in New South Wales from the age of three, married at Braidwood in 1862.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Born” ABT 1809 of Mary King
Mary Baker | Female | 45 | abt 1809 | Chilten Somerset | Kate | Read | Church of England
Her row on the Kate's list, fields as labelled. She could read but not write; her husband could do neither. Note she is entered under BAKER, her married surname — nothing on the list gives her maiden name, so none is invented here.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Immigrated” 18 NOV 1854 of George Baker
George Baker | Male | ArrivalAge 43 | BirthYear abt 1811 | ArrivalDate 18 Nov. 1854 | ArrivalPlaceofOrigin East Coker Geovil Somerset | Arrival1PlaceofOrigin Long Sutton, Somerset | ArrivalShip Kate | ResidenceCanReadWrite Neither | Religion Church of England
One shared arrival event for the household rather than a copy on each person. A second list for the same ship, dated 21 November 1854, indexes George again with his parents named.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For “Religion” FROM 1838 TO 1887 of John Field
John Field | Male | 28 | abt 1810 | Udermore Sussex | James Pattison | Both | Methodist | Father John Field | Mother Mary Field
The religion column of the bounty list, relayed verbatim from Chrome 2026-09-07. His wife Sarah is Methodist on the same list, and forty-nine years later he was buried from the Wesleyan cemetery at Chatswood.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For William Nelson & Sarah Billaman
Father Wm Nelson | Mother Sarah
The second Java list adds the immigrant's parents, a field the first omits. This is a shipping record naming Robert Nelson's parents as William and Sarah, independent of the Hawstead register, of the Kempsey West monument and of the compiled profile, and agreeing with his 1898 NSW death row 9767/1898 | WILLIAM | SARAH | KEMPSEY. It is now the strongest single piece of evidence for this parent link, which was the weakest thing in proposal #2201.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
George Baker | Male | ArrivalAge 43 | BirthYear abt 1811 | ArrivalDate 18 Nov. 1854 | ArrivalPlaceofOrigin East Coker Geovil Somerset | ArrivalShip Kate Mary Baker | Female | 45 | abt 1809 | Chilten Somerset | Kate | Read | Church of England Eliza Baker | abt 1839 | East Coker Amelia Baker | Female | 13 | abt 1841 | East Coker Geovil Somerset | Kate | Both | Church of England Susan Baker | abt 1843 | East Coker
The five rows of the household as they stand on the Kate's list, arrived 18 November 1854 (records 131508 to 131512). This is the record that constitutes the family: George, his wife Mary, and three daughters. The ages give births about 1811, 1809, 1839, 1841 and 1843. Amelia, at 13, is the one who married Benjamin Saville at Manning River in 1860. It also settles what WikiTree only asserted — East Coker — and adds the two sisters.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
Eliza Baker | 15 | abt 1839 | East Coker | Both | Father George | Mother Mary Amelia Baker | 13 | abt 1841 | East Coker | Father George | Mother Mary Susan Baker | 11 | abt 1843 | East Coker | Father George | Mother Mary
The three daughters' rows on the Kate's second list of 21 November 1854 (records 308697-308699), read in a browser on 8 September 2026. The 18 November list carries the same children with no parent columns, so this is the first record read that names George and Mary as their parents outright rather than by household grouping. Amelia is the one who married Benjamin Saville at Manning River in 1860. The ages give births about 1839, 1841 and 1843, matching the East Coker baptisms of Eliza (5 January 1840) and Susan (24 December 1843).
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For William Finch & Mercy Walker
Samuel Finch | Male | ArrivalAge 38 | BirthYear abt 1811 | ArrivalDate 13 Mar. 1849 | ArrivalPlaceofOrigin Raleigh Essex England | ArrivalShip St Vincent | ResidenceCanReadWrite Both | Religion Church of England | Father Wm | Mother Mercy
The same record, cited here for its last two fields: Father Wm, Mother Mercy. An emigrant naming his own parents on an official list is the evidence that was missing when Samuel Finch was added to the tree, where the parents William Finch and Mercy Walker rested only on the cemetery index compiler's note. With the Rayleigh parish register's 1802 marriage of a William Finch to a Mercy Walker, both of Rayleigh, this couple can now be recorded.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Abraham Wordley & Sarah Grimwood
Susannah Finch | Female | 28 | abt 1821 | Glemsford Lappen England | St Vincent | Both | Church of England | Father Abraham | Mother Sarah
The same record, cited here for its last two fields: Father Abraham, Mother Sarah. Read with her memorial's 'dau/Abram & Sarah', two independent sources name the same couple, which is why they are recorded here. Neither gives Sarah a maiden name, so she is entered with a given name only and takes the surname WORDLEY as a derived married name. The family's parish is Glemsford in Suffolk, in the Sudbury registration district — which is exactly where the Wordley surname clusters in FreeBMD, including an Abraham Wordley whose death was registered at Sudbury in the September quarter of 1848, six months before his daughter sailed.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
John Field | Male | 28 | abt 1810 | Udermore Sussex | James Pattison | Both | Methodist | Father John Field | Mother Mary Field
The bounty list records each emigrant's parents, and it names John Field's as John Field, farm labourer, and Mary Field of Udimore, Sussex. They stayed in England; Mary is created without a surname since 'Field' on the list is her married name. Relayed verbatim from Chrome 2026-09-07.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Elizabeth Ann Burgess (1828–1871)
Birth date: abt 1829Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 16 Dec 1854Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For William Butler (1811–1892)
Birth date: abt 1812Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaOrigin date: Origin place: Queen Camel, SomersetArrival date: 1 Aug 1855Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
Birth date: abt 1809Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 3 Oct 1838Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
Birth date: abt 1831Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaOrigin date: Origin place: Elminster, SomersetshireArrival date: 2 May 1855Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Rebecca Jane McCammon (1819–1912)
Birth date: abt 1819Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 3 Oct 1838Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Frederick Nunn (1850–1854)
Birth date: abt 1853Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 5 Jul 1885Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For George William Nunn (1828–1908)
Birth date: abt 1829Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 12 Dec 1854Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Alexander Simpson (1816–1903)
Birth date: abt 1817Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 3 Oct 1838Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Ebenezer Simpson (1798–1855)
Birth date: abt 1798Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaArrival date: 3 Oct 1838Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Caroline Friedericka Zeyher (1842–1927)
Birth date: abt 1842Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaOrigin date: Origin place: Grunbach, WirtembergArrival date: 14 Jan 1853Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Johan David Zeyher (1814–1875)
Birth date: abt 1815Birth place: Residence date: Residence place: New South Wales, AustraliaOrigin date: Origin place: Grunbach, WirtembergArrival date: 14 Jan 1853Arrival place:
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
ArrivalPlaceofOrigin Heastead Suffolk
'Heastead' is Hawstead written down phonetically from a man the same record says could read and write 'Neither'. Cited on the person because it is his own statement of his native parish - the third independent source for Hawstead, after the cemetery index ('Hawstead, Norfolk [sic]') and the compiled profile's reading of the baptism register. No birth place id is set: Hawstead, Suffolk is not yet a place row in the tree.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Elizabeth Debenham (1819–1908)
Wepstead Suffolk
'Wepstead' is Whepstead, the parish adjoining Hawstead - the same village the Australian Cemeteries Index spells 'Whipstead' and the compiled profile spells correctly. Three sources, three spellings, one parish. No birth place id is set: Whepstead, Suffolk is not yet a place row.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Richard Crossingham (1834–1917)
Richard Crossingham | Male | 5 | abt 1833 | Sussex | Coromandel | Protestant
Ancestry collection 1204, read in Chrome 2026-09-07 by the orchestrator and relayed verbatim: Richard as a child on the voyage, listed as 5. He was in fact four and a half, having been baptised at Icklesham on 9 February 1834.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Harriett Maria Field (1838–1908)
Harriet Field | Female | 0 | abt 1838 | Sussex | James Pattison
Ancestry collection 1204, relayed verbatim from Chrome 2026-09-07. This CORRECTS the ABT 1836 I set earlier from her headstone's 'AGED 72 YEARS'. A record made at the voyage's end says she was under one year old in December 1838, the WikiTree transcription of the same list makes her '7 months on 10 Dec 1838' (so born about May 1838), and WikiTree separately reports an Ancestry Sussex baptism of 5 August 1838 for a Harriet Field, daughter of John and Sarah. Two contemporaneous readings beat a monumental age, so the birth becomes ABT 1838; the 72 on the stone and the 71 in the Raleigh Sun are both overstated by two to three years.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Richard Crossingham (1813–1874)
Richard Crossingham | Male | ArrivalAge 25 | BirthYear abt 1813 | ArrivalDate 2 Oct. 1838 | ArrivalPlaceofOrigin Sussex | ArrivalShip Coromandel | ResidenceCanReadWrite Both | Religion Protestant
Ancestry collection 1204, read in Chrome 2026-09-07 by the orchestrator and relayed verbatim. Age 25 on arrival confirms the birth about 1813 already on the record. Read together with record 29148 it gives his father as Thos Crossingham and his place of origin as Ecclesham (Icklesham) Sussex, not Brede as WikiTree Crossingham-37 has it - his brother Thomas's row says Icklesham too, and the Icklesham register holds the Thomas x Kezia baptisms.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Henrietta Tolhurst (1811–1894)
Henrietta Crossingham | Female | 23 | abt 1815 | Sussex | Coromandel | Both | Protestant
Ancestry collection 1204, read in Chrome 2026-09-07 by the orchestrator and relayed verbatim. Her companion row 29149 reads 'Henretta ... Ecclesham, Sussex; Notes Richard, Peter, Coromandel'. The age 23 here is too young: her Moorland plaque gives 29 October 1811, her 1894 death registration and the cemetery index both make her 82 at death, and a woman of 23 in 1838 could not have a son baptised in 1834. Understated ages are commonplace on bounty lists, which had an upper age limit; the plaque date is kept.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
George Baker | Male | ArrivalAge 43 | BirthYear abt 1811 | ArrivalDate 18 Nov. 1854 | ArrivalPlaceofOrigin East Coker Geovil Somerset | Arrival1PlaceofOrigin Long Sutton, Somerset | ArrivalShip Kate | ResidenceCanReadWrite Neither | Religion Church of England
His own row on the Kate's assisted-immigrant list, fields as the collection labels them. 'Geovil' is the clerk's or the indexer's spelling of Yeovil, the registration district East Coker sits in. The list records two places of origin, East Coker and Long Sutton — both Somerset, about fifteen miles apart — which is the usual native-place-versus-last-residence split; neither is asserted as a birthplace here because the tree holds no row for either. He could neither read nor write, which is worth knowing when weighing spellings elsewhere in this family.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Sarah Jane Watson (1814–1842)
Sarah Field | Female | 23 | abt 1815 | Brede, Sussex | James Pattison
Ancestry collection 1204, relayed verbatim from Chrome 2026-09-07. Brede, Sussex as her place of origin corroborates the WikiTree transcription that gives her parents as William Watson, labourer, and Jane of Brede, and supports the maiden surname Watson, which no NSW record states.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For George Robert Nelson (1845–1926)
George abt 1845 Heastead
The eldest son on the Java list: born about 1845 at Hawstead, which is both his year and his parish confirmed from the shipping record. Added as a participant to the family's existing arrival event rather than given an event of his own.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Caroline Elizabeth Nelson (1847–1908)
Caroline abt 1847
The second child on the Java list, agreeing with the Hawstead baptism of 8 Aug 1847 and with the age 61 on her 1908 Kempsey West monument.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Catherine Ann Nelson (1849–1938)
Catherine abt 1849
The third child on the Java list, agreeing with her FreeBMD birth registration of the June quarter 1849 in Thingoe district (vol 13 p. 533).
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
John Nelson | Male | 1 | abt 1852 | Java
The infant is on the list, aged 1 - so he sailed, and the death recorded for him is a death at sea on this voyage. His presence is what makes the family eight children rather than the 'family of seven' the 1947 obituary counts, and he is the 'one boy who had died' on both parents' death certificates. The 'abt 1852' is the list's own arithmetic from the age; the Hawstead baptism was 6 July 1851, and the birth date on his record is left at 1851.
New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 · 1828–1896 · Ancestry
For Sarah Jane Field (b. 1831)
Sarah Jane Field | Female | 7 | abt 1831 | Sussex | Methodist
Ancestry collection 1204, relayed verbatim from Chrome 2026-09-07. Harriett Maria's eldest sister; the earlier WikiTree transcription gives her as 'Sarah Jane 7 yrs on 7 May 1838'.