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Stray Ships Covering the Period 1800 - 1864

The ships listed here were found in various places but cover the period of 1800-1864. Information has been extracted from books, government records, and other sources. Often, if mentioned in a book, there are some details or part of a diary account given. This is especially so of The Great Migration by Guillet. This is a work in progress and items will be added as they are found. However, if you can fill in a blank for any vessel please contact Marj Kohli

Vessel Master From Date To Date Passengers Deaths Comments

Artemisia 1848 Quebec 1848 from The Great Migration by Guillet (children from the Ragged Schools)

Astrea 1834 Quebec? Halifax? 211 from The Great Migration by Guillet (wrecked off Louisburg and 208 lost)

Boscius from The Great Migration by Guillet

British Tar April 1834 Quebec 1834 from The Great Migration by Guillet (Petworth - few cases of measles, pp. 26-27 )

Brunswick
541 tons June 13, 1818 Quebec July 29, 1818 (54 families) 24 children from The Great Migration by Guillet (31 to Perth, other on to Township of London - believe they were Talbot Settlers) p. 21
also in Irish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, pp. 65-6

Brutus Liverpool May 18, 1832 Quebec 1832 330 81 from The Great Migration by Guillet (cholera)

Camillus from The Great Migration by Guillet

Camperdown Limerick June 25, 1819 Quebec Sept 7, 1819 330 4 deaths "one of the best appointed vessels which has cleared out of this port for a long time" fromIrish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, B., p. 92

Caroline 1832 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Charles Kerr 1835 Australia 1835 brought "poop" governesses fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 60

China Limerick 184? Quebec 184? from The Great Migration by Guillet (10 weeks and lack of food) p. 56

Constitution from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

Countess of Morley Scotland? 1826 Rio de la Plata,
Argentina 1826 250 from The Great Migration by Guillet (settled 250 miles from Buenos Aires. Settlement failed and they were moved to Galt, ON via New York. p. 23)

Cumberland Lass Smith Belfast 1841-2? Quebec 1841-2? 139 from The Great Migration by Guillet (66 days voyage), p. 54

David of London Greenock May 21, 1821 Quebec June 25, 1821 400 (1 of the 4 births survived) from The Great Migration by Guillet (settled in Lanark area) p. 22

Diana Dumfries April, 1820 Quebec 1820 from The Great Migration by Guillet (good voyage)

Dolphin County Down 1842 Quebec 1842 fromIrish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, B., p. 127

Donegal May, 1827 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Duncan Gibb from The Great Migration by Guillet

Edward 1834 from The Great Migration by Guillet (hit an iceberg and sank)

Elizabeth Grimmer 1847 Quebec from The Great Migration by Guillet (ship so filthy could not get anyone to clean it) p. 16

England Portsmouth April 25, 1833 196
1 cabin
6 infants from The Great Migration by Guillet (Petworth, pp. 25-26)

Emily Greenock July 1814 Quebec 1814 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Fanny Feb 2, 1818 from The Great Migration by Guillet (blown off course)

Fidelity 1834 from The Great Migration by Guillet (sank)

Florence Liverpool 1831 Quebec 1831 from The Great Migration by Guillet, pp. 48-49 re Michael Donnolly and wife.

Frances Ann Loch Broom 1817 Pictou, NS 1817 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Garrick from The Great Migration by Guillet

Hannibal May 2, 18?? New York from The Great Migration by Guillet

Hebe London 183? Quebec 183? from The Great Migration by Guillet (crew were vile; wrecked off Cape Ray July 11, 1833) p. 36

Hercules 800 from The Great Migration by Guillet, (Highland Scots) p. 29

Hope from The Great Migration by Guillet

Importer London 1817 from The Great Migration by Guillet (re: John Palmer, p. 50)

Indian 1849 Australia 1849 assults on the female passengers fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 96

HMS Iphigenia Portsmouth 1818 Quebec July 29, 1818 carrying the Duke of Richmond, the new governor, fromIrish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, B. p. 66

Isaac Webb Liverpool 1850 New York 1850 780 from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship cost Ł4 steerage) p. 51

Isaac Wright from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

James Limerick 1834 Quebec (sank April 8, 1834) 267 from The Great Migration by Guillet (wrecked off Newfoundland and only 11 survive

James Ireland? 1827 Quebec 1827 160 5 from The Great Migration by Guillet (cholera; 35 left in Newfoundland)

James Ireland 1834 Quebec 250 250 from The Great Migration by Guillet (wrecked) p. 37

James Pattison Cork 1835 Sydney 1835 took 288 women fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 54

John Stamp London 1835 Quebec 1835 from The Great Migration by Guillet (Fitzroy Tp.)

John Dennison Greenock 1833 Quebec? 1833 from The Great Migration by Guillet, p. 49

Julius Macgregor June 1842 from The Great Migration by Guillet (no separation of the sexes) p. 16

Lady Hood Stornoway 1841-2? Quebec 1841-2? 78 (14 families) from The Great Migration by Guillet (70 day passage) p. 54

Lady Macnaughton 1837 Quebec from The Great Migration by Guillet (filthy)

Lancaster 1833 Quebec 1833 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Larch Sligo 1847 Quebec 1847 440 108 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Laurel Scotland? Montreal from The Great Migration by Guillet

Layton 1833 Australia 1833 female emigrants fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 59

Lightning Liverpool New York from The Great Migration by Guillet (had a 6 piece German band)

London Wright from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

Lord Ashburton Liverpool 1847 Quebec 1847 475 107 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Lord Melville
425 tons Portsmouth 1832? Montreal 1832? from The Great Migration by Guillet (Petworth immigrants) p. 27

Lord Wellington from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

Magnet 1819 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Margaret 1834 from The Great Migration by Guillet (picks up survivors of the James)

Mary Ann Bell Cunningham May, 1817 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Mediator 1837 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Mercury Quebec 1833 from The Great Migration by Guillet (took the Hebe survivors to Quebec)

Montezuma Lowber from The Great Migration by Guillet

Napoleon Smith from The Great Migration by Guillet

New York Lines Le Havre New York 250 8 from The Great Migration by Guillet (largely Germans)

New World from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

Nimrod
120 ton sloop from The Great Migration by Guillet (rescued the women and children from the Hebe when it sank and took them to Cape Breton)

Ontario Liverpool New York from The Great Migration by Guillet

Oxford 300 (Irish) from The Great Migration by Guillet

Panope Quebec 400-500 from The Great Migration by Guillet (sent by Lord Darnley from his Irish estate with rations for 23 days and voyage took 50) p. 28

Queen Victoria Hull April 11, 1843 Quebec May 24, 1843 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Queen of the West from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

Randolph Blackwall Canterbury, NZ from The Great Migration by Guillet

Rothiemurchus Watson Scotland? 1817 ? 1817 from The Great Migration by Guillet (Selkirk settlers) p. 12

Sheridan Cornish 1847 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Sheridan from The Great Migration by Guillet

Siddons from The Great Migration by Guillet

Sir Henry Pottinger Cork 1847 Quebec 1847 399 98 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Snow Sparrow Liverpool Aug 24, 1800 Halifax Oct 4, 1800 from The Great Migration by Guillet

St. Vincent London 1844 from The Great Migration by Guillet

St. Andrew 1837 New York from The Great Migration by Guillet

Star of the West
1,200 tons maiden voyage) Liverpool 1850 385
(360 of them Irish) from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

Tennessee Liverpool New York from The Great Migration by Guillet

Thomas Gelston Londonderry 450-517? from The Great Migration by Guillet

Troy May, 1839 Wellington, NZ 1839 first ship to Wellington, without government approval before British annexation of New Zealand fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 77

Ulster
330 tons Londonderry 1831 Quebec 505 from The Great Migration by Guillet (slept in shifts due to lack of bunks placed in three tiers) p. 14-15

Victoria 1843 maiden London from The Great Migration by Guillet

Virginius 1847 Quebec 1847 596 158 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Warrior Bristol 1828 New York Oct 4, 1828 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Washington 1850 900 from The Great Migration by Guillet (passengers treated badly) p. 18

West Point from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

Westmoreland 1834 Quebec 1834 from The Great Migration by Guillet, p. 37

William Thomson July?, 1832 New York Aug?, 1832 from The Great Migration by Guillet

William M'Gilevary March 28, 1825 Quebec 1825 from The Great Migration by Guillet

Yorkshire from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)

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Vessel	Master	From	Date	To	Date	Passengers	Deaths	Comments
Artemisia			1848	Quebec	1848			from The Great Migration by Guillet (children from the Ragged Schools)
Astrea			1834	Quebec? Halifax?		211		from The Great Migration by Guillet (wrecked off Louisburg and 208 lost)
Boscius								from The Great Migration by Guillet
British Tar			April 1834	Quebec	1834			from The Great Migration by Guillet (Petworth - few cases of measles, pp. 26-27 )
Brunswick 541 tons			June 13, 1818	Quebec	July 29, 1818	(54 families)	24 children	from The Great Migration by Guillet (31 to Perth, other on to Township of London - believe they were Talbot Settlers) p. 21 also in Irish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, pp. 65-6
Brutus		Liverpool	May 18, 1832	Quebec	1832	330	81	from The Great Migration by Guillet (cholera)
Camillus								from The Great Migration by Guillet
Camperdown		Limerick	June 25, 1819	Quebec	Sept 7, 1819	330	4 deaths	"one of the best appointed vessels which has cleared out of this port for a long time" fromIrish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, B., p. 92
Caroline			1832					from The Great Migration by Guillet
Charles Kerr			1835	Australia	1835			brought "poop" governesses fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 60
China		Limerick	184?	Quebec	184?			from The Great Migration by Guillet (10 weeks and lack of food) p. 56
Constitution								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
Countess of Morley		Scotland?	1826	Rio de la Plata, Argentina	1826	250		from The Great Migration by Guillet (settled 250 miles from Buenos Aires. Settlement failed and they were moved to Galt, ON via New York. p. 23)
Cumberland Lass	Smith	Belfast	1841-2?	Quebec	1841-2?	139		from The Great Migration by Guillet (66 days voyage), p. 54
David of London		Greenock	May 21, 1821	Quebec	June 25, 1821	400	(1 of the 4 births survived)	from The Great Migration by Guillet (settled in Lanark area) p. 22
Diana		Dumfries	April, 1820	Quebec	1820			from The Great Migration by Guillet (good voyage)
Dolphin		County Down	1842	Quebec	1842			fromIrish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, B., p. 127
Donegal			May, 1827					from The Great Migration by Guillet
Duncan Gibb								from The Great Migration by Guillet
Edward			1834					from The Great Migration by Guillet (hit an iceberg and sank)
Elizabeth Grimmer			1847	Quebec				from The Great Migration by Guillet (ship so filthy could not get anyone to clean it) p. 16
England		Portsmouth	April 25, 1833			196 1 cabin 6 infants		from The Great Migration by Guillet (Petworth, pp. 25-26)
Emily		Greenock	July 1814	Quebec	1814			from The Great Migration by Guillet
Fanny			Feb 2, 1818					from The Great Migration by Guillet (blown off course)
Fidelity			1834					from The Great Migration by Guillet (sank)
Florence		Liverpool	1831	Quebec	1831			from The Great Migration by Guillet, pp. 48-49 re Michael Donnolly and wife.
Frances Ann		Loch Broom	1817	Pictou, NS	1817			from The Great Migration by Guillet
Garrick								from The Great Migration by Guillet
Hannibal			May 2, 18??	New York				from The Great Migration by Guillet
Hebe		London	183?	Quebec	183?			from The Great Migration by Guillet (crew were vile; wrecked off Cape Ray July 11, 1833) p. 36
Hercules						800		from The Great Migration by Guillet, (Highland Scots) p. 29
Hope								from The Great Migration by Guillet
Importer		London	1817					from The Great Migration by Guillet (re: John Palmer, p. 50)
Indian			1849	Australia	1849			assults on the female passengers fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 96
HMS Iphigenia		Portsmouth	1818	Quebec	July 29, 1818			carrying the Duke of Richmond, the new governor, fromIrish Migrants in the Canadas A New Approach by Elliott, B. p. 66
Isaac Webb		Liverpool	1850	New York	1850	780		from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship cost Ł4 steerage) p. 51
Isaac Wright								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
James		Limerick	1834	Quebec	(sank April 8, 1834)	267		from The Great Migration by Guillet (wrecked off Newfoundland and only 11 survive
James		Ireland?	1827	Quebec	1827	160	5	from The Great Migration by Guillet (cholera; 35 left in Newfoundland)
James		Ireland	1834	Quebec		250	250	from The Great Migration by Guillet (wrecked) p. 37
James Pattison		Cork	1835	Sydney	1835			took 288 women fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 54
John Stamp		London	1835	Quebec	1835			from The Great Migration by Guillet (Fitzroy Tp.)
John Dennison		Greenock	1833	Quebec?	1833			from The Great Migration by Guillet, p. 49
Julius Macgregor			June 1842					from The Great Migration by Guillet (no separation of the sexes) p. 16
Lady Hood		Stornoway	1841-2?	Quebec	1841-2?	78 (14 families)		from The Great Migration by Guillet (70 day passage) p. 54
Lady Macnaughton			1837	Quebec				from The Great Migration by Guillet (filthy)
Lancaster			1833	Quebec	1833			from The Great Migration by Guillet
Larch		Sligo	1847	Quebec	1847	440	108	from The Great Migration by Guillet
Laurel		Scotland?		Montreal				from The Great Migration by Guillet
Layton			1833	Australia	1833			female emigrants fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 59
Lightning		Liverpool		New York				from The Great Migration by Guillet (had a 6 piece German band)
London Wright								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
Lord Ashburton		Liverpool	1847	Quebec	1847	475	107	from The Great Migration by Guillet
Lord Melville 425 tons		Portsmouth	1832?	Montreal	1832?			from The Great Migration by Guillet (Petworth immigrants) p. 27
Lord Wellington								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
Magnet			1819					from The Great Migration by Guillet
Margaret			1834					from The Great Migration by Guillet (picks up survivors of the James)
Mary Ann Bell	Cunningham		May, 1817					from The Great Migration by Guillet
Mediator			1837					from The Great Migration by Guillet
Mercury				Quebec	1833			from The Great Migration by Guillet (took the Hebe survivors to Quebec)
Montezuma	Lowber							from The Great Migration by Guillet
Napoleon	Smith							from The Great Migration by Guillet
New York	Lines	Le Havre		New York		250	8	from The Great Migration by Guillet (largely Germans)
New World								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
Nimrod 120 ton sloop								from The Great Migration by Guillet (rescued the women and children from the Hebe when it sank and took them to Cape Breton)
Ontario		Liverpool		New York				from The Great Migration by Guillet
Oxford						300 (Irish)		from The Great Migration by Guillet
Panope				Quebec		400-500		from The Great Migration by Guillet (sent by Lord Darnley from his Irish estate with rations for 23 days and voyage took 50) p. 28
Queen Victoria		Hull	April 11, 1843	Quebec	May 24, 1843			from The Great Migration by Guillet
Queen of the West								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
Randolph		Blackwall		Canterbury, NZ				from The Great Migration by Guillet
Rothiemurchus	Watson	Scotland?	1817	?	1817			from The Great Migration by Guillet (Selkirk settlers) p. 12
Sheridan	Cornish		1847					from The Great Migration by Guillet
Sheridan								from The Great Migration by Guillet
Siddons								from The Great Migration by Guillet
Sir Henry Pottinger		Cork	1847	Quebec	1847	399	98	from The Great Migration by Guillet
Snow Sparrow		Liverpool	Aug 24, 1800	Halifax	Oct 4, 1800			from The Great Migration by Guillet
St. Vincent		London	1844					from The Great Migration by Guillet
St. Andrew			1837	New York				from The Great Migration by Guillet
Star of the West 1,200 tons maiden voyage)		Liverpool	1850			385 (360 of them Irish)		from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
Tennessee		Liverpool		New York				from The Great Migration by Guillet
Thomas Gelston		Londonderry				450-517?		from The Great Migration by Guillet
Troy			May, 1839	Wellington, NZ	1839			first ship to Wellington, without government approval before British annexation of New Zealand fromEmigrant Gentlewomen by Hammerton, J.A., p. 77
Ulster 330 tons		Londonderry	1831	Quebec		505		from The Great Migration by Guillet (slept in shifts due to lack of bunks placed in three tiers) p. 14-15
Victoria			1843 maiden	London				from The Great Migration by Guillet
Virginius			1847	Quebec	1847	596	158	from The Great Migration by Guillet
Warrior		Bristol	1828	New York	Oct 4, 1828			from The Great Migration by Guillet
Washington			1850			900		from The Great Migration by Guillet (passengers treated badly) p. 18
West Point								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)
Westmoreland			1834	Quebec	1834			from The Great Migration by Guillet, p. 37
William Thomson			July?, 1832	New York	Aug?, 1832			from The Great Migration by Guillet
William M'Gilevary			March 28, 1825	Quebec	1825			from The Great Migration by Guillet
Yorkshire								from The Great Migration by Guillet (packet ship)