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This project is to capture all the people who arrived in Sydney on board the "David Scott" on 25 October 1834
Female migration to Australia commenced under the Emigration Commission of 1831-1832. The Commissioners assisted hundreds of women to migrate and in 1832 despatched two ships whose only passengers were female emigrants: the Red Rover from Cork to Sydney and the Princess Royal from London to Hobart. The work of the Emigration Commission is described in Liz's book Fair Game: Australia's first immigrant women, written with Perry McIntyre.
When the Emigration Commission was disbanded, the Committee for Promoting the Emigration of Single Women, which became known as the London Emigration Committee, was formed. The Committee embarked 14 female emigrant ships in the years 1833-1836. Ten of these ships sailed from England to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, and four from Ireland to Sydney. Of the 4000 people who travelled in these ships, approximately 2700 were single women.
http://www.familyorigins.net/pages1/pjdunne1.htm
A tragedy with even worse repercussions struck John Marshall's ship David Scott, which was filled with 350 emigrants at Gravesend in 1834 and departed under the most favourable auspices. Samples of the ship's bread, beef and pork were served out to members of the Emigration Committee, and 'several noblemen and gentlemen, visitors, who witnessed the embarkation, pronounced the food excellent.' The same report noted that a Mrs Hill had taken an invalid child aboard with her. This was possibly the cause of a measles epidemic which soon spread through the ship. When it arrived in Sydney on 25 October 1834, many of the children on board had died from the bronicho-pneumonia which usually followed measles in those days. Australia's first recorded measles epidemic spread rapidly through Sydney and Hobart, and was almost certainly transmitted by a whaling vessel to New Zealand, where thousands of Maoris died from the disease.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2217450
1 November 1834
FEMALE EMIGRANTS BY THE DAVID SCOTT. A very respectable gentleman, who visited the Bazaar on Thursday last, says, " I instituted a very careful enquiry as to their general character and conduct during the voyage, and, as far as were possible, before their embarkation; and I feel it my duty to state thus publicly, that in regard to the great majority, the result was entirely satisfactory. They are on the whole decidedly superior to any former arrival. The humbler class, consisting chiefly of household servants, appear to be virtuous and industrious girls. The cabin passengers are young ladies of education, many of them of truly respectable, though reduced families. They are well calculated for the situations of governess or lady's companion. Having no sinister interest to serve. I beg most sincerely to recommend these interesting young emigrants the immediate notice of families requiring their services." We are truly glad to hear this, although the statement is somewhat at variance with others which have reached us
- Lieut Sampson Marshall & Mrs Marshall + 6 children
- Joseph Docker - Surgeon + Mrs Docker + 1 child
- Richard King + Mrs King + 5 children (brother-in-law of Lieutenant Sampson Marshall)
- Thomas BIRKBY - born 1804 in Yorkshire, Innkeeper. Spouse Mary Wareham, Arrived on David Scott 1834
- Julia BROWNLEE - 24/12/1841 - Admitted to Newcastle goal from Maitland on a charge of larceny. Sent for trial.
- Sarah MARTIN / alias Sarah EVANS 24/6/1850 Came free. Admitted to Newcastle from Cassilis on a charge of bigamy. Sent for trial
351 Free Settlers
- Elizabeth Allen
- Elizabeth Ames
- Mary Anderson
- Ann Atkins
- Elizabeth Bains
- Sophia Baker - 12/7/1836 Servant - Born in Gibraltar. Admitted to Newcastle goal under sentence of six weeks labour
- Mary Ann Ballard
- Ann Bandock
- Abigail Bassingthwaite
- Mary Ann Basten
- Elizabeth Bean
- Ann Bellamy
- Mary Bellamy
- Elizabeth Bow
- Elizabeth Bowse
- Hannah Brady
- Mary Ann Brett
- Sarah Brett
- Hannah Brewer
- Mary Ann Bridges
- Caroline Brock
- Ann Brown
- Charlotte Brown
- Mary Ann Brown
- Ann Bryan
- Elizabeth Bryant
- Maria Buckner
- Lydia Bullock
- Anna Burmston
- Frances Cambridge
- Catherine Cameron
- Julia Carey
- Margaret Carey
- Mary Carmody
- Emma Cayford
- Sarah Christie
- Clarissa Clarke
- Ann Cleaves
- Maria Clune
- Rebecca Cogden
- Mary Ann Collins
- Jane Conway
- Mary Ann Cooper
- Matilda Cornfelt
- Kenzeah Cox
- Mary Coyle
- Sarah J Crane
- Ann Crely
- Catherine Crely
- Charlotte Croaker
- Eliza A Croaker
- Elizabeth Croaker
- Martha Croaker
- Mary Croaker
- Ruth Croaker
- Sarah Croaker
- Caroline A Crofton
- Louisa E Crofton
- Marianne Crofton
- Catherine Crowley
- Rosetta Cuthbert
- Margaret Cutts
- Mary Ann Dann
- Maria Day
- Amelia DeLaCroissette
- Ann Denny
- Mary Driscoll
- Charlotte Dunstan
- Martha Dwyer
- Clarissa Eitinger
- Jane Eyre
- Sophia Eyre
- Sarah Filbourne - 10/12/1839 - Edmond McGRATH age 23 arrived on Forth, application to marry Sarah FILBOURNE age 23
- Matilda Forby
- Charlotte M Fowles
- Elizabeth Freeman
- Jane Freeman
- Ann Frost
- Louisa Fuller
- Mary Ann Garrard
- Anne G Gibbons
- Catherine Gibbons
- Ellen Gibbons
- Geraldine Gibbons
- Hannah Gibbons
- Mary Gibbons
- Prudence Gibbs
- Amelia Giles
- Harriet Gobert
- Sarah A Gold
- Sarah H. Goodwin
- Ann Graham - 20/5/1836 Laudress from Co Mayo - Admitted to Newcastle gaol charged with murder. Forwarded to Supreme Court for trial on 22/6/1836. - 9/8/1836 Emigrant. Indicted for wilful murder of her newborn child. Case dismissed
- Elizabeth Graham
- Caroline Granger
- Susannah Green
- Elizabeth Guyer
- Elizabeth Hains
- Hester Hambrook
- Agnes Hammond
- Lucy Harding - 1834 wife of Thomas HOGAN
- Susannah Harding - 31/1/1842 Came Free. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Murrurundi. Sentenced to 5 months hard labour 3rd class factory as a common prostitute - 14/2/1843 Admitted to Newcastle goal from Murrundi. Sentenced to 3 months hard labour for being a common prostitute - 23/12/1843 Came free. Admitted to Newcastle gaol from Murrurundi charged with being a vagrant and common prostitte. Sentenced to 90 days hard labour
- Maria Harmer
- Elizabeth Harper
- Maria Hawker
- Louisa A Hawkins
- Rosetta Hawkins
- Louisa Hawley
- Jane Hay
- Mary Ann Hayman
- Phoebe J. Hayman
- Mary Hayward
- Jane E Henley
- Sarah Henshaw
- Elizabeth M Hill
- Jane Hill
- Lydia H. Hill
- Mary Hogan
- Sarah Holmes
- Harriett Howard
- Elizabeth Huckstep
- Ann Hurley
- Frances Hurley
- Susannah Hutchings
- Sarah Isaacs
- Caroline Isleton
- Eliza Isleton
- Jane E Jackson
- Margaret Jackson
- Mary Ann James
- Lydia Jay
- Maria Johnson
- Susannah Johnson
- Harriett Jones
- Isabella Jones
- Mary Ann Jones
- Catherine Jones-Byrnes
- Elizabeth Joyce
- Hannah P Kightley
- Eliza Knight
- Sarah Knight
- Elizabeth E Knock
- Harriet Koette
- Johanna Koette
- Nicolene Koette
- Isabella Laing
- Diana R Lane
- Louisa Lane
- Sarah Lane
- Mary Ann Lang
- Mary Leech
- Isabella LeFevre
- Mary Ann Lewis
- Ann Lincoln
- Mary Ann Little
- Elizabeth Lockwood
- Sarah A Loveless
- Matilda A Lucas
- Eliza J Lynn
- Ruth MacKenzie
- Mary Macnamara
- Amelia Marshall
- Caroline Marshall
- Alice Martin - Born 1805 South Wales. Spouse James WARE.
- Hannah Mayhew
- Lucy McGaffin
- Mary McManus
- Ann Metcalfe
- Jane Milbourne
- Phoebe Mitchell
- Jannette Mully
- Ann Murphy
- Anna E Murray
- Rachel Netto
- Emma Nicholson
- Mary Ann Nicholson
- Phoebe Nicholson
- Ellen O'Brien
- Ellen O'Hara
- Bridget O'Leary
- Ann Palmer
- Ann Payne
- Jane Payne
- Mary Ann Payne
- Margaret Perkins
- Lucy Petty
- Mary Pile
- Eliza Plant
- Sarah Pond
- Ann E Price - 12/7/1836 - Anne PRICE - came free. born in Hampstead. Occupation dressmaker. Admitted to Newcastle gaol under sentence of one months labour
- Phoebe Price
- Charlotte Prince
- Eliza Prince
- Elizabeth Prout
- Margaret Pym
- Anna M Reardon
- Elizabeth Roach
- Hannah Rogers
- Mary Ann Roper
- Ann Salmons
- Jemima Salmons
- Harriett Salvage
- Sarah Saunders
- Maria Scammell
- Mary Ann Scammell
- Selina Scott
- Eliza Shannahan
- Mary Slater
- Catherine Smith
- Emily Smith
- Martha Smith
- Mary Ann Smith
- Harriett Snook
- Anna Tant
- Jane Tapp
- Sarah A Tarr
- Isabella Taylor
- Cecilia Thompson-Hooper
- Esther Tyerman
- Phoebe Wainwright
- Ann Walden
- Sophia Walker - I believe she is the same Sophia Walker who married Robert Barnes on 27 Jul 1835; Robert was a convict who arrived aboard the ship Mariner then after serving his sentence, became a publican. Sophia gave birth to six children from 1835 to 1847 - Robert, Mary Ann, Henry, Sophia, Elizabeth and George William. I believe the burial registered as "Sophia Barns" in 1852 is this Sophia; she was listed as living in Phillip Street and was 38 years old.
- Mary Ann Watches
- Sarah Weatherly
- Hannah Webb
- Frances K Webber
- Harriett S Webber
- Mary Weller
- Emma Wells
- Maria Wells
- Ann Welsh
- Mary Ann Weymouth
- Ann Whiffen
- Mary Ann White
- Mary Ann White
- Sarah Whitehouse
- Jane A Whyte
- Sarah Wilkins
- Sarah Wilkinson
- Selina Willey
- Mary Ann Williams
- Sarah A Willis
- Mary Windle
- Lavinia Winter
- Ann Wood
- Martha Wood
- Elizabeth Wyllie
- Sarah Wyllie
- Charlotte Young
28/10/1934 - Joseph BRADLEY (former chielf) and Frederick William HORNE (2nd officer) of the "David Scott" brought before the Magistrates by Captain OWEN charged with endeavouring to incite the crew to revolt on entry into the harbour.
The Monthly Review - Lang on Transportation and Colonization A few facts will serve to open the eyes of people of common understanding in England, as to the real character and tendency of the female emigration system. The David Scott, a female emigrant ship, chartered and loaded with merchandize on his own private account by Mr. John Marshall, agent of the London Board, arrived in Sydney about the beginning of November, 1834. Sixty of the females who formed part of her cargo were common prostitutes; forty of whom were so thoroughly vile, that my informant, a respectable free emigrant, who arrived in the colony as a cabin-passenger by that vessel, assured me, " he did not believe they could be matched in England." The captain's authority was accordingly set at defiance by the crew, and the vessel converted into a scene of the most abandoned licentiousness during the whole voyage. The ship Layton, which had arrived some time previous, had been similarly circumstanced; and the consequence was, that although a considerable number of reputable females emigrated by both vessels, many were ruined for ever, from the vile society into which they were thus thrown. The Canton, which arrived rather more than a year after the David Scott, was at first reported to have brought out a much better cargo: it was ascertained, however, that within three days after the females by that vessel were landed in Sydney, forty of them were regularly domiciled in houses of bad repute in the colonial capital.