Joseph Bloomfield, Free Settler "Dale Park" 1844

New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896

Name: Joseph Bloomfield

Estimated Birth Year: abt 1818

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Occupation: Shepherd

Religion: Protestant

Native Place: Queens County, Ireland (now County Laois)

Vessel: Dale Park, barque (sailing vessel with three or more masts), 402 tons.

Captain: John J Coombes.

Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Thomas Veitch.

Departed: London 17th March and Cork 30th March 1844.

Arrived: Port Phillip 21st July 1844.

Passengers: 221 emigrants, consisting of 82 married couples, 77 children, 32 single females and 30 single males.

'Perilous Voyages to the New Land' by Michael Cannon, pages 115-6, the surgeon Dr Thomas Veitch, reported with satisfaction that only 8 deaths had occurred during the voyage, all young children or infants, some of whom were boarded at Cork 'in a dying state'. Only two passengers had misbehaved, Ann Mullen a single woman and James Sedgwich, married man, and both 'were soon brought to do their duty by confinement and stoppage of their rations'.

"The Somerset Years", by Florence Chuk, page 71 begins a chapter on the Dale Park, including a description of the voyage.