Alfred Abbott was aged 24 years old at the time of registering for passage on the Bombay.
Harriet Abbott was aged 22 years old at the time of registering for passage on the Bombay.
Information regarding the Abbott’s has been unable to be verified.
Josiah Adams was aged 30 years old at time of registering passage for the Bombay.
Information regarding Josiah has been inconclusive, but it is suspected Josiah Anglicized his name to Joseph. It should be noted that several Adams settled in the Franklin area, but has proved difficult to prove a connection.
David Burnie Allison was aged 26 years old at time of registering passage for the Bombay. David was born on the 11th of June,1838 in Penninghame, in what was then Wigtownshire, Scotland. David’s father Samuel Allison was from Ireland, and had came to Scotland seeking better prospects, finding himself in Wigtown he married local lass Isabella Mclauchlan.
David’s parents lived, worked and died on a farm called Barskeoch, whose owner of which David was named after. When his mother, Isabella died in 1858 and father, Samuel in 1861, David and his nine older siblings faced tough times ahead. In 1864, David with his future bride Helen Peterson, left Scotland and made roads south, heading for London and the Bombay, enroute they stopped in York and Wed at Saint Margaret Church on the 22nd of September,1864.
David and Helen settled in Williamson Clearing, later renamed Bombay and will prosper, proving the long perilous voyage from England to New Zealand a gamble worth taking. David played a active role in local affairs and became the Steward of the Bombay Methodist Church.
David died on the 15th of February,1919 at the residence of his daughter Annie in nearby Glenbrook.
Mary Helen Allison (Maiden name Paterson) was aged 24 years old at time of registering passage for the Bombay. Helen as she was preferred to be called was born on the 27th of January,1840 in Newton Stewart, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, to Helen Hughan and Samuel Paterson, a agricultural worker.
Helen was a dressmaker by occupation and is also the younger sister of Jessie Caie a fellow passenger on the Bombay. Helen and her future husband David Allison married enroute to the sailing of the Bombay on the 22nd of September,1864 at Saint Margaret’s Church in York, England. Helen voted in the 1893 New Zealand Election, making her one of the first women in the world able to vote, and like her husband was active in the community.
Helen is remembered as being always cheerful and happy and of kindly disposition. Helen passed shortly after her husband, on the 10th of March,1919, and is buried with her husband at St Peter’s in the Forest.
Helen and David’s known children are:
Jessie Isabella Allison. Jessie was born on the 10th of November, 1868, in Williamson Clearing (Bombay). Jessie married Ebenezer Harry Smith in 1897 in Bombay.
Ebenezer Smith was also born in Williamson Clearing on the 1st of January 1868 (A young man named Frederick Smith also travelled on the Bombay, but it has not been verified that Harry is related). Jessie like her mother also voted in the 1893 New Zealand Election, making her one of the first women in the world to vote.
Samuel Allison. Samuel was born on the 9th of June,1871, in Bombay. Samuel married local girl Lucy Lindsey on the 23rd of September,1906, but sadly she died from from Influenza on the 26th of November,1918. Lucy’s sisters were married to the Buttimore, Roke and Sawyer families, who all travelled on the Bombay.
Samuel then remarried to a Edith Graham in 1924, sadly when she died in 1950 Samuel married for a third time on the 20th of December,1852 to a Emma Armstrong.
Mary Helen Hugan Allison. Mary was born on the 22nd of June,1873 in Bombay. Mary married James Rogers on the 25th of November 1896.
William Robert Allison. William was born on the 22nd of October, 1875 in Bombay. William was a Goldfields Rugby Representative and married Kate Elizabeth O’Meagher on the 28th of December,1904 at Te Aroha.
Annie Paterson Allison. Annie was born on the 8th of December, 1877 in Bombay. Annie married William Robert Crump on the 13th of April,1906, also in Bombay. William was born in Salt Water Creek, Maryborough, Queensland on the 2nd of October,1880 and served in the Boer War with the 5th Queensland Imperial Bushman.
Annie and William’s eldest daughter Edna May married Raymond Enoch Wootten, son of Bombay passengers Joseph Enoch Wootten and Jessie Robinson. There eldest son Walter William Crump is the father of John Barrie Crump MBE, a well known Kiwi icon.
David Alexander Burnie Allison. David was born on the 9th of July, 1880 in Bombay. David worked as a School Teacher and married Jean Edgar Miller on the 18th of January,1911 in Remuera. Below is a description of their return from the Honeymoon and a traditional way of celebrating a marriage called ‘Tin Canning’.
‘All the young fellows turned out with tins cans, guns, etc’, to welcome him home. ‘They were invited inside and treated to all sorts of good things’. After a resident ‘made a nice little speech’, Allison ‘suitably replied’, and then three men sang. On Friday evening, at ‘a pleasant little social’ the couple ‘were presented with a beautiful clock suitably inscribed’, which had been purchased by ‘their many Waiorongomai friends’. After the chairman of the school committee presented it with ‘a few well-chosen words’, Allison ‘returned grateful thanks’. During the evening two men sang, another man ‘danced a hornpipe in excellent style’, and three residents played musical instruments. ‘A nice supper was handed round about 11 o’clock and heartily partaken of. Dancing was kept going with spirit until 1.30, when the evening wound up with Auld Lang Syne. Thanks are due to the ladies who so willingly helped with supper’. This was a typical social event. Of the many similar ones, four years later a Waiorongomai couple who had married elsewhere were welcomed home by a large gathering and presented with ‘a cream jug, sterling silver sugar basin and silver inkstand, and a Morocco bound book of Shakespeare’s works’. Dancing ‘was indulged in throughout the evening’, and ‘a dainty supper, supplied by the ladies, was handed round, and a most sociable function concluded at about 1 a.m.’
Sourced from: Waiorongomai Correspondent, Te Aroha News, 31 January,1911, p. 2.
William Anderton was aged 24 years old at the time of registering for passage on the Bombay. William was born on the 15th of August 1840 in Walton-le-Dale near Preston, Lancashire, England, to Henry Charles Anderton and Alice Wilson. The family farmed at Bank Head, Walton Le Dale.
William married Elizabeth Ingham Robinson in 1860, but in 1864 he and his brother Charles will leave for New Zealand, leaving Elizabeth and two young children at home. Eleven years later William returned to England onboard the Fernglen and collected his wife, returning to New Zealand onboard the Jessie Osborne.
William and Charles mother Alice with there three sisters also emigrated to New Zealand in 1868 aboard the Royal Dane, his sister Ellen will marry fellow Bombay passenger Charles Wootten. The mother Alice will marry the father of Charles… Joseph Wootten.
William died from a protracted illness on 29th of December,1899, Elizabeth followed on the 6th of July,1911 aged 71, both died in Bombay.
William and Elizabeth’s known children are:
Susanna James Howarth. Susanna was born on the 24th of May,1861 in Bamber Bridge, Lancashire, she remained in England and married John James Howarth in 1881.
Alice Anderton. Alice was born in Lancashire on the 15th of May, 1864.
William Henry Anderton. William was born on the 18th of January, 1877 in Bombay. William married Lancashire born Nellie Smith in 1911.
Mary Jane Anderton. Mary was born in 1879 in Bombay and married Edward Joseph Fahey (Edward’s parents also travelled on the Bombay).
Charles Henry Anderton was aged 19 years old at the time of registering for passage on the Bombay. Charles is the younger brother of fellow Bombay passenger William, and was born on the 17th of April,1846 and Baptised on the 31st of May.
Charles married Amy Wilhemina Bentinck Robinson (nee Head) on the 2nd of July,1874 in Russell, Northland. Amy had been born on, and named after the ship Lord William Bentinck while her parents were enroute to New Zealand in 1850, her father was a Royal Engineer and was being redeployed to the Colony.
Amy had been a widower, she had married at 18 years old to a Sea Captain, Master Frank Robinson of the ship Charlotte Ann. After just a few years of marriage the Captain drowned off the coast of Whangarei Heads, leaving Amy with two children.
Charles and Amy will settle in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand and farm.
Charles died on the 11th of August,1895 in Otane, Hawkes Bay and Amy lived to 91 years, passing on the 23rd of July,1941 in Whangarei, New Zealand.
Charles and Amy’s children known are:
Alice Maude Clifton Anderton. Alice was born on the 1st of April, 1875 in Mechanics Bay, Auckland. Alice married Thomas Peter Lorenzen in 1903. Thomas was born in Flensberg, Denmark, but after the Second Schleswig War of 1864, the region passed to the Kingdom of Prussia.
William George Anderton. William was born on the 31st of August, 1878 in Dannevirke, New Zealand, and married Alice Mary Drew in 1915.
Arthur Anderton. Arthur was born on the 8th of January,1880. Arthur married Amelia Williams in 1912.
Albert Charles Anderton. Albert was born on the 20th of August, 1881. Albert married Margaret Louisa Thomas in 1908.
Emily Florence Anderton. Emily was born on the 6th of August,1883 in Drury, Auckland. Emily married Charles Ernest Beachen in 1904.
Harriet Mary Anderton. Harriet was born on the 21st of April,1886 and married Charles Allen Mason in 1912.
David Henry Anderton. David was born on the 16th of August,1887 in Bombay. David married Evelyn Pearl Mudgway on the 1st of January,1924.
Elizabeth Jessie Anderton. Elizabeth was born on the 21st of June, 1891 and married David McNeill in 1912.
Mary Jane Kathleen Anderton. Mary was born on the 26th of November,1892.
Frank Alfred Percy Anderton. Frank was born on the 19th of November,1894, but died in 1896.
Alfred Andrews was aged 20 years old at the time of registering for passage on the Bombay. No information is able to be found.
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