Departed Liverpool, England, 11 July 1859; arrived Auckland, New Zealand, 19 October 1859.
The following is an alphabetical list of the passengers who travelled to Auckland on the Mermaid during its 1859 voyage. The list has been compiled from those published in the DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS (19 October 1859 issue) and THE NEW ZEALANDER (21 October 1859 issue). A description of the voyage was also included in THE NEW ZEALANDER, and reads, in part: "….the MERMAID has come into port in capital order, clean comfortable, and a credit to the line to which she belongs. The passangers speak very highly of Capt. White and when we (the reporters) left the ship, they (the passangers) were mustered on the quarter-deck for the purpose of presenting him with a complimentary address from all on board. The ship has been remarkably healthy. There were two births and three deaths of population, and as far as appearances go of a desirable class."
For further information, see James Qualtrough's Diary of the voyage of the Mermaid.
The passenger list included:
AICEEN or AICKIN, Dr Thomas & Mrs., John, William, Casement, Agnes, Ellen, Thomas, Somerville & George
ALEXANDER, Mr Andrew
ANDERSON, Miss Isabella
ANDERSON, Mr Robert, Charles, Robert, Emma & Esther
ARMOUR William
ATKINSON,Messrs. George, Flora, Mary Louisa, Frederick William, James Henry & Alfred
ATKINSON, Thomas & John K. (or R).
AUSTIN, Misses Sarah & Sarah Jane
BAKER, Mr Despard
BELL, Mr Alexander M.
BINNING, Mr E.
BINNS, Mr Joseph, Hannah, Martha, Earnest (?), & Sarah
BLACKBURN, Mr George
BLAKE or BURKE, Mr Charles, Margaret, Charlotte & Francis
BLAKE, Mr William, Jane & William
BOWDEN, Mr Michael
BRADNEY, Master Joseph, Emily, James Henry, William, Isabella & Emily
BRAITHWAITE, Mr John
BRIDSON, Messrs. William & Thomas
BROWN, David
BRUCE, Mr Robert
BURKE or BLAKE, Mr Charles, Margaret, Charlotte & Francis
BURY, Mr Mark
BUTTERWORTH, Messrs. Isaac & Emmanuel
CAIN, Mr John
CAIDER, Mr Arthur & Miss Margaret
CALEY, Mr & Mrs (& possibly 6 children)
CANTWELL, Joseph, Eliza & Joshua (or Joseph)
CANTWELL, Messrs. William, Mary, William, John, George, Michael & Elizabeth
CHADWICK, Mr Hiram (?)
CHAPMAN, Mr Henry
CHISHOLM, Mr Alexander
CHRISTIAN, Messrs. John & Robert
CLIFFORD, Master Robert, Jane, Robert, Mary & Richardson
CLIFFORD, Miss Sarah Jane & Robert Henry
CLINTON, Mr John
COLLINS, Mr Zachariah
COPE, M.A.
CORKELL, Mr William
CORLETT, Mr & Mrs. (& possibly 4 children)
COUSANS, Hannah, Mary & Johannah
COWELL, Miss Jane
COWLEY, Mr John
COWLEY, Mr & Mrs Robert, Messrs. Robert H., George, Walter, Jane & William
CRICHION, Mr & Mrs John
CRICHION, Mr Robert
DEAN, Mr Alfred
?DEEIGWATER, Mr John
DICKINSON, Mr Robert
?DITTY, Mr Cambel
DONOVAN, Mr Simon
DUNBAR, Mr James, Ellen (?), & Archibald
DUNFORD, Mr Robert
ENGLISH, Mr J.
EYRE, Mr & Mrs Charles, Miss Anne, Arthur, George, Thomas, Charles, Lucy & Maria
FALLS, Mr Henry
FELL, Mr & Mrs James, Mr John, Catherine, Jane, Robert, Eliza, Sophia &Thomas
FEWTRALL, Mr William
FIELD, Mr William
FISHER, Mr Alexander
FISHER, Miss Margaret
FITZPATRICK, Mr James
GALE, Mr & Mrs Edward, Mr Edward, Eliza & Margaret
GARROWS, Mr Andrew
GEORGE, Mr William
GILL, Mr Evan
GLEDHILL, Mr George
GLOVER, (2 persons)
GOLOGHY or GALOGHY, Miss
GRANT, Mr & Mrs David, Miss Agnes, Anne, Margaret, Jane, Peter & Alexander
?GRINDRED, Mr Edward
?GRUMMELAND, Mr Deidrick
HARPER, Mr Robert
HART, Mr M.H.
HELLATT, Mr & Mrs John A., Miss Elizabeth, Jane, Amelia, Augustus, Frederick, Christina & Eva
HENDERSON, Mr Robert
HERD, Mr George
HOMPTON or HAMPTON, Mr Thomas James
HOOKER, Messrs. Stephen, Louisa, ? , Stephen, Frank, Louisa, Albert, Charles & Frederick
HOP, Mr Thomas
JOUGHIN, Mr & Mrs Robert, Messrs. Robert, William, Andrew, Anne, Thomas & Eliza
JOYCE, Mr W.G.
?KAKERTY or KAKERLY, J.
KAVANAGH, Mr Joseph
KELLY, Mr James
KELLY, Miss Julia
KELLY, Mr Thomas
KERSHAW, Mr Alfred
KINGSLEY, Mr & Mrs James & infant
LAVER, Mr Samuel
LEWIN, Mr Albert
LEWIN or LEWIS, Mr Herbert
MARRIOTT, Messrs Thomas, Charlotte & Charlotte
MARTIN, Mr & Mrs., Messrs. Robert, John, William, Thomas & James
MARTIN, Miss Ellen
MARTIN, Miss Charlotte
McCARTNEY, Mr William
McGAW, Mr George & Miss Wilhelmina
McKAY, Mr Charles & Miss
McMAIR, Mr Edward G.
McMATH, David & Miss
McMULLEN, Mr James
McNAB, Messrs. Alexander & Christian
MILNE, Mr Alexander
MOSS, Mr & Mrs, Miss, Masters Thomas & Robert
MOWAT, Mr James
MUIR, Mr & Mrs., Margaret, David & A.
MURRAY, Miss Jane, Mary & Isabella
MYLECHEEST, Mr John, Ellen & Frederick
NESBITI', Mrs., Anne, Mary, Susan & Jane
NESBITT, Messrs. George & William R.
OLDHAM, Alfred, Elizabeth, Frank, William & Herbert
OSMOND, Mr John
PAKNERE, Mr Ralph
PALMER, Mr & Mrs Alfred, Master Henry, Anna & Dora
PEMBERTON, Mr Arthur W.
POWER, Edward or Edmund
PRESTON, Mr John
QUALTROUGH, Mr & Mrs., Messrs. James, Eliza, William, Richard, Anne, Thomas, Sarah & Emily
QUAYLE, Mr William
RABBITT, Mr P.J.
RADCLIFFE, Mr James
RANKEN, Mr Deidrick
REED, Mr & Mrs James, Miss Eliza
REID, Mr Richard
RHODES, Master William, Anne & John A.
ROBERTS, Messrs. John & Richard
ROBERTSON, Mr David
SANDERSON, Mr
SANGER, Mr & Mrs
SEDDON, Mr Latham
?SELSAN, William
SHANNON, Mr Ephraim
SHAW, Mr & Mrs Frederick, Messrs. Frederick, Henry & Charles James
SHERWOOD, Mr J.
SLOAN, Mr James & Miss Mary
SMITH, Mr & Mrs James
SMITH, Mr Robert
SPENCER, Miss Anna
SPRINGALL, Mr & Mrs John & Master Sidney
STARKEY, Mr James
STRACHEN, Mr Charles
SWIFT, Mr John
TAYLOR, Mr John & Miss Mary
TAYLOR, Master Richard, Rose-Anna (?), Mary & Anne
THOMAS, Mr James William, Eliza & William
THOMPSON, Miss Margaret
VIELLOP, Mr William
WALPOLE, Mr Edward
WANHOPE, Jane
WELLS, Mr William
WHITMORE, Mr Samuel T.
WILKIE, Mr G.
WILLIAMS, Mr George
WILLIAMSON, Mr John
WILSON, Mr William
WOOD, Mr George
WOOD, Mr P.H.
WRIGHIT, Messrs. Edward & Frederick
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You will see some very obvious Manx surnames included in this list...and possibly others which may also be from IOM...
For a description of the journey of the Mermaid, see James Qualtrough's Diary as published in A QUOTA OF QUALTROUGHS (Barlow & McDougall 1984) here:
www.qualtrough.org/mermaid.htm
Enjoy
Elizabeth