With the permission of Douglas Clark Douglas J Clark I am forwarding this item he posted on the PERTHSHIRE list to the BORDERS, BERWICKSHIRE & ROXBURGH lists (apologies to those of you who receive it three times). It contains mention of the names BRUNTON and TROTTER which are frequently found in the border counties. ----- Original Message ----- Hello Valerie Firstly may I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous new year. Secondly you may forward the information to as many people as possible and thank you for your kind remarks - it makes the whole exercise worth while. With specific reference to Walter BRUNTON, he also brought out his sisters Jane (who married *Andrew MILNE) and Margaret RAMSAY (nee Brunton) her husband and children. If you ever go to Mackay in Queensland you will find *Andrew Milne St after one of his descendants. Douglas -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello All I have had a book in my possession for some time now titled "Natal Settler-Agent" by Dr John Clark (no known relation) and have only now had a good look at it and have solved a number of outstanding questions. The flyleaf to the book describes the Author as being from Glasgow with an honours degree in English in 1932 and having then been involved in journalism and later in teaching in the West Highlands. Emigrated to South Africa in 1948 and at the time of writing this book in 1960's had held the positions of senior lecturer in English at Natal Training College and editorial advisor for the Natal Education Department Besides the book describing the hardships the settlers had to bear, the book contains a summary of all the ships (20) that brought the settlers to these shores on the east coast of South Africa between 1849 - 1851.The names of the ships were :- Wanderer - Washington - Henry Tanner - Dreadnought - Aliwal - King William - Ina - Sovereign - Edward - Lady Bruce - Conquering Hero - Minerva - Henrietta - Sandwich - Globe - Unicorn - British Tar - Emily - Devonian - Bernard. Although the emigrants on the various ships were from various parts of Britain, the barque INA with 120 emigrants and the brig CONQUERING HERO with 127 emigrants departed from Glasgow/Greenock in 1850 and consisted almost entirely of Scots. The UNICORN departed from Liverpool but most of the emigrants were from Scotland. Earlier this year I wrote to the Lanarkshire list trying to establish if a certain Duncan Mackenzie came from the area - the family having played a prominent part in many fields - military, farming and medicine among others. I have now located that family's origin. The author has a summary of each of the ships as well as the emigrants on board. The summary for the two ships specifically mentioned above are as follows:- INA This barque, 466 tons, was the first of the Byrne emigrant-vessels to bring Scottish settlers to Natal as a group. The number of people was 120, made up of 76 adults and about 40 children. The cargo consisted of passengers' baggage and 40 tons of slates for John Moreland. The ship, commanded by Captain W. Darke, sailed from Greenock on 30 November 1849, or perhaps 1 December. In a ceremony on the main deck before the ship sailed Byrne presented the passengers with a collection of 60 books, to be afterwards used as the nucleus of a library in the colony. The voyage was a long one - 105 days - because of head winds that baffled the ship for weeks. However, it was a healthy ship with no serious sickness nor deaths on board. There was one birth. The Ina arrived outside the Bar on 8 March but because of a heavy surf the emigrants could not be brought into the inner harbour. For a week or eleven days, in some cases, the passengers remained on board. Most of them were respectable people - farmers, agricultural labourers, gardeners, grooms, bakers and artisans. One of them, Thomas DUFF who settled eventually on the Cotton Company lands seven miles from Verulum, stated that his first job on landing consisted of digging, with other men, a ditch across the bar at low tide. The entrance to the harbour had been silted up for a month with no movement of ships in or out. Hence the employment at three shillings and sixpence per day of the gang of newly arrived settlers. Among the passengers were George MacLEROY (37), an engineer who entered the Natal civil service, and John SANDERSON (28), a so-called agriculturist, who became a journalist and later editor of the 'Natal Colonist'. A.K. MURRAY, the future founder of Pinetown, came with his wife and six children. (I live in Pinetown - another passenger was Walter BRUNTON born Peebleshire, Scotland c.1825 and his sister, who he sponsored, arrived in 1858 and married Andrew MILNE c.1833 Kincardineshire in July 1881.This is one of my wife's lines) CONQUERING HERO This was the second of the Byrne ships to bring Scottish settlers.William LESLEY, a twenty year old Paisley man, stated that every settler on the Conquering Hero was Scottish except two Englishmen and an Irishman. A brig of 320 tons, she sailed from the Clyde (Glasgow - Greenock) with 127 settlers on 29 March 1850. A slow sailor too, she took about 90 days but the passengers were satisfied with their treatment at the hands of Captain Cockburn and his mates. Aboard his ship Byrne loaded at Glasgow a consignment of 32 000 Scotch slates which proved a drug on the Natal market, according to Moreland. The Conquering Hero arrived off the Bluff on 28 June 1850. C.P. SPIERS, son of Robert Spiers, describes how the passengers came across the Bar by lighter on 2 July and got temporary accommodation in the emigration barracks at the Point - two large wooden buildings and several shanties, one of which was composed of wild palm branches and thatch. Owing to some misunderstanding when Moreland arranged to show the settlers their lands at Richmond, he did not turn up which greatly disheartened them. Along with the passengers of the Henrietta the people of the Conquering Hero were witnesses of the wreck of the Minerva. Among the new arrivals were William CAMPBELL (his son Marshall was to become a sugar magnate), William MacKENZIE (first school master of Richmond who for a time lived with his family in the open in a tarpaulin-covered four-poster bed, the STRAPP brothers (one of whom, Samuel, set up a Richmond accommodation house),and a man McPHERSON who unaware of Byrne's long arm had bilked Byrne's Glasgow agent of twenty pounds. UNICORN Although the ship sailed from Liverpool on 13 June 1850, most of the emigrants were from Scotland and from one neighbourhood, a fact noted by a reporter of the 'Cape Town Mail' when the ship reached the Cape in August 1850. She carried 257 passengers and was too big (946 tons) to be conveyed across the Bar at Durban. The little Sarah Bell brought off her cargo and the surf-boats ferried her passengers ashore. It was from these people that Byrne extracted an unexpected levy of two shillings and sixpence for first class passengers and one and sixpence for the steerage before the ship sailed. One passenger, Archibald SMITH, must have got a shock as Byrne and his clerks scrambled aboard, for he had just embezzled a sum of money from his Liverpool employer and was traveling under a false name. James ARBUTHNOT, his wife, and family came by the ship. Their family history states that the Unicorn was well run and well provisioned. The cabin passengers organized patrols throughout the ship and maintained good order.The first Presbyterian minister to Natal, the Rev William CAMPBELL, came by this ship to seek a more benign climate than that of his parish in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. His wife Maria, aged 35, and his five children accompanied him. George LAMOND, pioneer sugar planter with Edmund MOREWOOD at Compensation, also came. Forty-eight year-old George TROTTER, his wife Grace, and a family of three good- looking teenage daughters and a son of 11 were passengers. Gabriel EAGLESTONE, a stonemason and sculptor, later to commit suicide in Pietermaritzburg, was another emigrant to come with his wife and three children. The Unicorn had a tragic end the following year. While employed in transporting Irish emigrants to Canada she encountered a gale in mid-ocean, was demasted and eventually founded with some loss of life, though 200 passengers were rescued by another ship (see 'The Atlantic" by Stanley Rogers, page 160, Harrap, London 1930). Another family which became prominent and who arrived on the Unicorn was Duncan and Margaret McKENZIE an Argyllshire man who abandoned his plot of 40 acres and bought a timber farm near Nottingham Road. Sir Duncan McKenzie was one of his sons.In 1906 he (the son) was commander in chief of the Natal forces who suppressed a Zulu rebellion under Chief Bhambata -it has been my intention to elaborate on this episode throughout this centenary year - maybe soon? Byrne's agents in Scotland were :- W.Bowie 17 South Saint David Street, Edinburgh R. Mitchell Government Emigration Office, Forres R. Beveridge, 8 Princess Square, Glasgow H R Russell, 8 Watergate, Perth Messrs Broadfoot and Son, Leith As mentioned there is an alphabetical list of all emigrants so if there are any "brickwalls" about that time I will do look ups.Hope this has been of interest. Douglas

Sorry, I meant to include Douglas Clark's email address in case anyone wished to contact him direct. It is Douglas J Clark <djclark@netactive.co.za>. Valerie in Melbourne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valerie/Rowan Henshaw" <henshawv@ocean.com.au> To: <SCT-ROXBURGH@rootsweb.com>; <SCT-BERWICK@rootsweb.com>; <BORDER@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 7:37 AM Subject: [SCT-BERWICK] Fw: [PERTHSHIRE] BYRNE EMIGRATION SCHEME (BRUNTON andTROTTER) With the permission of Douglas Clark Douglas J Clark I am forwarding this item he posted on the PERTHSHIRE list to the BORDERS, BERWICKSHIRE & ROXBURGH lists (apologies to those of you who receive it three times). It contains mention of the names BRUNTON and TROTTER which are frequently found in the border counties. ----- Original Message ----- Hello Valerie Firstly may I wish you and your family a happy and prosperous new year. Secondly you may forward the information to as many people as possible and thank you for your kind remarks - it makes the whole exercise worth while. With specific reference to Walter BRUNTON, he also brought out his sisters Jane (who married *Andrew MILNE) and Margaret RAMSAY (nee Brunton) her husband and children. If you ever go to Mackay in Queensland you will find *Andrew Milne St after one of his descendants. Douglas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Hello All I have had a book in my possession for some time now titled "Natal Settler-Agent" by Dr John Clark (no known relation) and have only now had a good look at it and have solved a number of outstanding questions. .......