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Ancestors
Voyage

 Widow Elizabeth EDWARDS (nee NANCARROW) and her two daughters travelled in 1873 to South Australia on CITY OF ADELAIDE. Elizabeth's brother William, his wife and seven children were also on the ship. Elizabeth died of typhoid just days after arriving in Adelaide. Description of arrival in REGISTER 4 July 1873 in Mortlock Library

Bessie and Sarah Jane Edwards, Redruth, Cornwall, c1872.

 

City of Adelaide c1865

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1873 Passenger list
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Passengers
1873 voyage

 

 

 108 passengers including my ancestors:

Elizabeth Ann Edwards, 45 years
Sarah Jane, 10 years (daughter of above)
Bessie Edwards, 11 years (daughter of above)
William Nancarrow, 44 years (brother of Elizabeth Ann Edwards)
Elizabeth (nee Rabey), 43 years (wife of above)
William Henry Nancarrow, 20 years
Elizabeth Jane Nancarrow, 19 years
Joseph Towan Nancarrow, 17 years
Mary Cain Nancarrow,  14 years
Sarah Ann Nancarrow, 11 years
John Raby Nancarrow, 9 years
Maria Nancarrow, 5 years
 

Description

 Composite (iron and teak) full rigged clipper ship, originally rigged with single topsails. Iron frame with teak planking, felt and yellow metalled, copper fastened.
Length 53.85m, Width 10.13m, Depth 5.64 m [176'67×33'25×18'50]
Tonnage 860 GRT om and 791 NRT.nm

 

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