THE VOYAGE OF THE CARDIGAN CASTLE  1876-7

BINT FAMILY OF NZ

THE VOYAGE

AN ACCOUNT OF THE VOYAGE

DIARY OF SARAH  STEPHENS

1877 NZ  NEWSPAPER

THE POEM

The Passenger List

Philip and Charlotte Bint and their family set off for New Zealand on the 30th of September 1876. It would have been a very uncomfortable time for Charlotte. Added to the usual inconvenience of 19th century maritime travel, she was pregnant and gave birth seven weeks later on November the 20th. They named the child Walter.

I was interested to find three families from my local Forest of Dean area on the passenger list.

Stone mason William Kear who was born at Blakeney in 1838 married Esau Lewis's daughter Jane Lewis in 1859. After living at Pillowell and Whitecroft they migrated to New Zealand with their four children, Oliver 17, Fanny 15, Mary 11, and Sarah 8.

Another mason, Isaac Cox, born English Bicknor in 1841 and married to Coleford girl Mary Jenkins at Cinderford in 1866, lived and worked at Yorkley Wood. They had three children with them on the voyage, Charles 7, William 5, and Lucy 2. Their time at sea became a nightmare when Isaac tragically lost both his wife Mary and 5 year old son William to sickness.

Farmer's son Edwin Marshall (1838) from Littledean was also aboard with his wife Priscilla Ryder and two daughters Annie 11 and Flora 6. Priscilla was from Westbury and they were married there in 1861.

Thanks for letting me see your web-pages and the Reigate family history. They do not seem to have had much luck in those early days. I see that their only son Edward William Reigate was only 13 when he died at Timaru in 1881.

Your site shows that daughter Ada (1870) married Peter Campbell in 1891 and they had at least eight children. Her sister Anne (1874) married John William Briggs Gilchrist in 1900 and their widowed mother Ann had remarried in 1878. He was Thomas Hewson.

Peter and Ada Campbell, John and Annie Briggs and Thomas and Ann Hewson are all apparently buried at Timaru.    Tom Bint