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Bombay: Complete Crew list for 1864

The crew of the Bombay on the 1864 voyage From London to Auckland, taking so many passengers that will settle in Bombay as part of the Waikato Immigration scheme and the ancestors of so many New Zealanders today consisted of a Captain, three mates, twenty one seamen, three apprentices, several other ranks and a Surgeon. Crew are as per below, and in known order of rank.

If anyone can help deciphering the handwriting from the Ships Log, your valuable input would be greatly appreciated.

Crew List.

1.George Sellars. Ships Captain.

Born on the 24th of August, 1814 in Dundee, County of Forfar, Scotland. 

Captain Sellars worked his way up from a Apprentice, Seaman, Mate, and master before becoming Captain, working out of Dundee then later Sunderland. 

Besides commanding the Bombay 62-66. Captain Sellars commanded other notable ships including the Electra 69-73 and Zealandia 74-82, before being appointed Ships Husband in London in 1882.

2. Thomas  Ambrose. First Mate.

No information yet found. 

3. Charles (Possibly Andrews). Second Mate.

No information yet found. 

4. George Howard. Second Mate. 

No information yet found. 

5. Robert (Possibly Williams). 

No information yet found. 

6. William Baird. (Possibly Carpenter). 

No information yet found. 

7. Edmond James. (Possibly Carpenter Mate). 

No information yet found. 

8. Thomas (Possibly Richards).

No information yet found. 

9. Richard Norwood. Cook.

No information yet found. 

10. James L.  

No information yet found. 

11. Albert L.

No information yet found. 

12. Thomas (Possibly Took). Bakker. 

No information yet found. 

13. Joseph ( Possibly Pearson).

No information yet found. 

14. George

No information yet found. 

15. Patrick. Seaman.  

No information yet found. 

16. Thomas Barton. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

17. Fredrick Petersen. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

18. (Possibly L Barrow). Seaman. 

No information yet found.

19. James Daniels. Seaman.  

No information yet found.

20. (Possibly Johnny Arlington). Seaman. 

No information yet found.

21. (Possibly John Harding). Seaman. 

No information yet found.

22. Peter. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

23. John Langreen. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

24. Thomas Robinson. Seaman.  

No information yet found.

25. William T. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

26. William R. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

27. A O. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

28. Charles Hartley. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

29. James Reed. Seaman. 

No information yet found.

30. Thomas Lee. Seaman

No information yet found.

31. Joseph Green. 

No information yet found.

32. Charles. 

No information yet found.

33. Alfred. 

No information yet found.

34. James Jones. 

No information yet found.

35. Thomas B.

No information yet found.

36. George F Bloxholm. Surgeon. 

No information yet found.

37. William L. Apprentice. 

No information yet found.

38. John (Possibly Farrar). Apprentice. 

No information yet found.

39. Thomas T. Apprentice. 

4 responses to “Bombay: Crew List for 1864 Voyage”

  1. What parts did you want help with deciphering? I spent a bit of time on some Ararimu diaries from 1895 -1905, so got pretty good at reading this kind of thing.

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      Hi
      I have managed to get a copy of the ships log of the Bombay for the 1864 voyage from the National Maritime Museum in England
      But it is in really hard to read handwriting 😫
      It’s such a amazing find and I want to put it up online to share
      Perhaps I can send you a page and you could see?

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    2. Hi, I have just found out I have a comments section on the website…lol… are you still interesting in deciphering?

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      1. This must be the slowest conversation on record! I have deciphered some names if you’re still interested. I find WordPress rather clunky to use and it locked me out so often I gave up. Just managed to log in and reclaim my account today. If you want to contact me via an easier interface my Facebook page is Ararimu South Auckland District Page. 🙂

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