Passing this on from the Lancashire List Cornwall family recorded Not my families. Bev > > List-Id: <lancsgen.rootsweb.com> > X-Loop: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com > X-Member: LANCSGEN@rootsweb.com > >>Extracts from a report in The Era ( London, England ), Sunday, April 7, >>1850; Issue 602. >> >>AWFUL AND FATAL WRECK OF THE ROYAL ADELAIDE STEAMER. >>We regret exceedingly to announce one of the most melancholy casualties >>at >>sea which has occurred upon our coast for some years. The City of Dublin >>Steam-packet Company's ship, Royal Adelaide, Captain John BATTY, plying >>between the ports of Cork and London, left the former city on Wednesday >>afternoon, the 27th ult., with a full cargo of goods and passengers, >>touched off >>Plymouth on Thursday evening, left that port for London on Friday morning >>at >>three o'clock, and was totally lost on the Tongue Sand, off Margate, at >>eleven o'clock last Saturday night, when every soul on board perished. >> >>The following return of the names of the crew of the Royal Adelaide was >>received on Thursday, by the secretary of the company from Liverpool, to >>which port it appears, nearly the whole of them belonged. >>William GOWER, chief mate ; George NORTH, second mate; William SCOTT, >>third mate; William REILLY, chief engineer ; William CROOK, second >>engineer; >>Charles COCKLAND, fireman; John DELANY, fireman; Thomas WILLIAMS, >>fireman; >>James MOORE, fireman; John DOYLE, fireman; William BELLIS, fireman; >>Patrick >>CAREY, coal-trimmer; Michael WOOLFE, coal-trimmer; William SEAGAR, >>sailor; >>James NEICE, sailor; John STAMPER, sailor; Robert TOZER, sailor; Joseph >>MORGAN, sailor; Ambrose TURNER, carpenter; Thomas BUTLER, boy; >>Henry HILLIER, >>steward; and Sarah GARETTY, stewardess. >> >>The Royal Adelaide was commanded by Captain John BATTY, of Cork, who has >>been in the service of the Dublin Steam-packet Company upwards of twenty >>years, during a great portion of which he has commanded ships on the >>London >>and Dublin and London and Cork stations. He was considered one of the >>most >>experienced sailors in the service, and was besides a man of no ordinary >>attainments. The sole command of his ship devolved upon him until he >>arrived >>off Gravesend, when the river pilot took charge. Captain BATTY was >>universally beloved and respected, and his fate is deeply >>regretted. He has left a >>family of young children. His wife died suddenly about six months ago. >> >>Fourteen passengers boarded at Plymouth at 3.30 a.m. on Friday morning, >>bound for London, viz :- >>Cabin Passengers:- Mr & Mrs PAYNE and two children, Mrs HURST, Miss >>WETTERS, and Mr TUCKER, a young sailor, who was going to London to >>join a ship >>bound for New Zealand. >>The deck passengers from Plymouth were a woman named WELSH and three >>children, a an named SQUIRES, about twenty-five years of age, and two >>other >>passengers named respectively MUNRO and THOMPSON. >> >>Mr PAYNE was a surgeon, who resided at Albany-place, Plymouth. Mrs. Mary >>Anne HURST was the wife of a coachman in a gentleman's family residing on >>the Surrey side of the river; she was married only at Christmas, >>and had been >>on a visit to relations in Lostwithiel, with her sister Miss WETTER. >>Ann WELSH aged 35,of 16, Mulberry-street, Devonport , had 3 children with >>her aged 14, 9 & 6, and had left a son aged 17 who is employed at the >>ship-building-yard of Mr BANKS, Frank's-quarry, Mount Edgecombe. >>Ann WELSH took >>her furniture and was going to join her husband, John WELSH, a boatswain >>in >>the Royal Navy, on board a man-of-war at Woolwich. >> >>The following list of the passenger's was received by Mr HARTLEY, the >>manager of the City of Dublin Steam Navigation Company, on Friday >>morning, >>from the agent at Cork. >>Ally HICKEY and N. LEARY, BATTERBY, P. and Ann SULLIVAN ; LEARYS ( wife >>and child ); C. KEANE, P. DELANE and boy, R. REILY, E. HAMILTON, M.CREED. >>J. >>KEEFE, E. WALL and wife; C. DEVANE, D. DALY, HOWLEY and COLLINS, M. DAY, >>one child; C. BUCKLEY, Mary ROACHE, B. MURPHY, SULLIVAN ( E, N, & J. ) E. >>BUTTLER, M. YOUNG; J. MEAGON, wife and two children; Biddy HOLAN and 2 >>children. HURT, SULLIVAN, and 2 children; Andy BARRETT, T. MURPHY, >>J. MURPHY. >>Julia MURPHY, one party; Alice MURPHY and 3 children, BARRETT, MADEGAN, >>and >>COLLINS; Ellen REARDON, J. APERN, Jude KELLY, one party; J. GRAHAM and >>daughter; M. LORDEN, Ellen LEARY, UNDERGAR, WALSH, HOGAN and HAYES; >>E. and M. >>ROYMAYNE; BOYLE and sister; Abraham BOYLE, Will BOYLE, one party; E. >>KELEHUR >>and child; D. COLEMAN, D. COLEMAN, jun., >>Jane HURLEY, Ellen DALY, C. CRONIN, one party; E. CROWLEY, M. McCARTHY, >>S. >>SINCOCKS and child; Hannah LAHIVE, B. SHEA and KELLY; M. BRIEN, J. HOGAN, >>J. HARRINGTON, Mary PUCKL, Mary DRISCOLL, Mary COWLEY, and 3 small >>children, one party; four adults ( no names given ) John >>FITZPATRICK, Mary PICKET >>and child; C. SULLIVAN ( booked and not gone ) REGAN and child, one adult >>( >>name not given ) M MADIGAN, PUCKLE, J. MARONY, M. SHAUGHNESSEY, D. >>SHEHAN, >>one party; KAUFIL, J. KAUFIL, QUICK, one party; SCALON, C. WILLIAMS, A. >>SWEET, MAGRATH, J. GREEN, M. HENESSY, MACKIN, WALSH, J. BUCKLEY, Sally >>FINNEEN, DWYER, M. CORBOT, NOONAN, Mary LEARY, FAHY, C. D. BRIEN, >>one child, a >>soldier named BENNETT, J. SULLIVAN, M. BARRY, HERN and HOWGAN, MURPHY, >>COLLINS, HINGELEY, FLANNAGAN, 2 SULLIVAN's, COUGHLAN, REARDON, >>McCARTHY, MELLISH, >>F. GLYNN, TWOOMY, HEALY, WELDON and wife, J. SHAUGHNESSY, MADIGAN, >>SULLIVAN, HEALY, 2 adults and 3 boys ( no names ) >>The only cabin passenger for London was Mr O'CALLAGHAN, who said he might >>get out at Plymouth. >> >>There were 144 adults from Cork; 23 children from Cork, 14 passengers >>from >>Plymouth, 25 crew, including Captain Mr. J. BATTY, a total of 206, who >>perished on board this steamer, off Margate. >> >> >> >>:-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: >> >>PLEASE and THANK YOU -- Don't cost a thing and mean so much. >> >>:-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: :-+-: >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>LANCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. 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