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"The Blundell" Immigrant ship to Otago New Zealand

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Robert Law (1844 - 1907)
Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy : Jun 25 2016, 5:10:14 UTC
William Somerville (1832 - 1898)
Family Profiles on Ancestry: is of Janet and John's lot that came over to Otago on the Blundell. He was a Clerk of the Magistrate supposedly. Not only that but he and his son James Cleland Hall Somervi...
Robert Somerville (1826 - 1879)
Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jun 17 2018, 5:46:06 UTC * Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jun 17 2018, 5:46:06 UTC
Source: https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/119310283/person/430179116255

Agnes Law (bef.1807 - 1873)
AGNES SOMERVILLE (aka AGNES SOMERVILLE)===SOMERVILLAGNES ROBERT SOMERVILL/JANET AITKIN FR303 (FR303) F10/09/1807 680/ 10 309 Cranston* Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy : Jun 24 2018, 2:37:49 UTC
Isabella Somerville (1815 - 1895)
ISABELLA SOMERVILLE (aka ISABEL SOMERVILLE)===SOMERVILLEISABEL ROBERT SOMERVILLE/JANET AITKIN FR375 (FR375) F00/07/1815 680/ 20 14 Cranston===SmartCopy Reference===* Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - Sma...

One of many important ships that came over, while it wasn't the first or last, it carried many important families.

The Blundell, a barque of 573 tons, was built at Moolmein in Burma. She made several voyages to Australia and New Zealand.

 8 Jul 1844 - 9 Nov 1844 Woolwich, England to Norfolk Island (captain Henry Neatby) convict transport

 4 Apr 1848 - 21 Sep 1848 Gravesend, England to Port Chalmers, New Zealand (152 passengers)* (captain Charles Renaut))

 to Port Phillip (voyage commissioned by Caroline Chisolm)

 17 Jan 1853 - 5 May 1853 from Plymouth to Port Jackson, Sydney (311 passengers)**

 18 Jun1856-11 Oct 1856 from Southhampton to Adelaide (master A Lumley)

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