SHIP ARRIVALS WITH PASSENGERS, U.K. TO BAY CHALEUR N.B. From the Chatham N.B. newspaper The Miramichi Gleaner.
Compliments of Paul Delicaet
June 19/1827 : MOUNTAINEER, Captain Chapel, Waterford to Quebec-left 60 Passengers off at Gaspe, for lack of food, and landed at Miramichi, June 11/1830 : BRIG NEPTUNE, Captain Miller, from Saltcoats, 56 days, 50 Passengers for Bathurst. May 31/1831: SHIP BALONA, Captain Williams to leave within the week to trans- Port 50 Irish Passengers from the Miramichi to their final destination Dalhousie. June 14/1831: The BRIG PANMUR, Captain Campbell from Belfast with 220 Passengers bound for Baie Chaleur, put into Miramichi to discharge her passengers. August 16/1831: LADY SHERBROOKE, Shipwreck, 377 tons, Londonderry bound For Quebec, 285 passengers and 15 crew. Wreck occurred near Cape Ray on the Coast of Newfoundland. June 2/1832 : BRIG CLETUS, Captain Miller, Saltcoats 38 days to Bathurst, with 38 passengers. August 28/1832: BARQ.PIT, Captain Shields, from Ayr, 25 days, with passengers For Dalhousie. July 19/1833: CLETUS, Captain Miller, from Cork, 49 days to Bathurst , for J. Cunard & Co. 63 oassengers all well. Dec. 17/1833 : BRIG HELEN, bound for Quebec, wrecked on Miscou Island, part of the crew and several passengers arrived at Bathurst during the week. May 27/1834: BRIG HORTA, Captain Wood, from Cork to Bathurst 128 Passengers. June 17/1834: BRIG CLETUS, from Cork to Bathurst, with 150 passengers. May 6/1835 : SALUS, from Greenock for Chaleur Bay with 9 passengers. " Glasgow Press " May 23/1836: BRIG THE WARRIOR, Captain Miller, from Irvine 32 days to Bathurst and Wm Shields, with passengers. June 2/1836 : The BRIG CLETUS, Captain Barcklay, from Cork to Bathurst, for William Steever, with 105 passengers. June 3/1836: The BRIG AID, Captain Attridge, from Cork to Bathurst, J. Cunard & Co. with 60 passengers. June 13/1837: THETIS from Cork to Bathurst with 63 Irish Passengers. Note there is a 'Passenger List' for this vessel at PANB, which has been reproduced in the Bathurst, Northern Light newspaper c.1980 , and also in the publication , The Irish Ancestor, 1980 Vol. 1 & 2, pages # 65 & 66. July 27/1847: The BIG ELIZA LIDDELL, Sligo to Shippegan with 164 passengers. Note, most of the passengers were tenants of Lord Palmerston's Estates in Co. Sligo. They were part of a contingent of some 2000 Souls, shipped to North America ( Quebec, Shippegan and St. John) in nine ships in the year 1847. The ships were ; Transit, Numa, Lady Sale, Carricks, Marchioness Bredalbane, Rd. Watson, Springhill, Eliza Liddell, and the Aeolus. See British Parliamentary Papers, relating to Canada and Immigration in The Provinces, 1847-48, for a list of names,