Over the Mountains of the Sea: Life on the Migrant Ships, 1870-1885Auckland University Press, 2006 - 294 էջ Drawing upon more than 80 personal diaries and journals of those on board, this resource explores the rich experience and the trials and tribulations of hopeful Anglo-Celtic pilgrims headed to Australia and New Zealand aboard migrant ships in the late 19th century. From daily routines to matters of food, health, religion, crime, and mutiny, this history unearths the humor, scandal, and personal triumph that defined the nautical pilgrimage of hundreds. |
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... Vesey's behaviour , which reflected a large proportion of the most violent of the recognised symptoms for hysteria , led to numerous complaints from fellow passengers . They described her temper , her quarrelsome nature and her abusive ...
... Vesey's behaviour , which reflected a large proportion of the most violent of the recognised symptoms for hysteria , led to numerous complaints from fellow passengers . They described her temper , her quarrelsome nature and her abusive ...
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... Vesey , not Wall , was at fault and that something drastic needed to be done . This time her behaviour had gone ... Vesey broke free and for the second time assaulted Catherine Wall , who was nursing a seven - month - old baby on her lap ...
... Vesey , not Wall , was at fault and that something drastic needed to be done . This time her behaviour had gone ... Vesey broke free and for the second time assaulted Catherine Wall , who was nursing a seven - month - old baby on her lap ...
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... Vesey , but with a complaint made by Vesey's husband Thomas against her arch foe Catherine Wall . The basis of the complaint was the row over the tea towel . " Thomas Vesey alleged that Wall had provoked his wife by hiding the towel in ...
... Vesey , but with a complaint made by Vesey's husband Thomas against her arch foe Catherine Wall . The basis of the complaint was the row over the tea towel . " Thomas Vesey alleged that Wall had provoked his wife by hiding the towel in ...
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A great wrench at the heart | 16 |
The mountains of the sea | 43 |
A time to every purpose | 73 |
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Agent-General AJHR ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY Alfred Lawrence Alumbagh Anne Vesey Auckland Bebington Bennewith Berar Brodick Castle bunk captain Cardigan Castle cargo Chile complaints Cospatrick Coughtrey Coughtrey's Cowie crew deck diarists diary disease doctor DRAKE BROCKMAN FAMILY Dunedin Emigrant Emilie Letts epidemic Euterpe evidence Findlayson forecastle Heginbotham Hermione Hillary Hosking Hunter Ibid immigration commissioners John Julius Vogel Knowsley Hall labour land Loch Gloy London married MARY DOBIE matron mess migrant ships Millen Coughtrey Munro mutiny night Oamaru official Otago Passengers Act Pirie poop Port Chalmers punishment Queen sailors sails saloon scarlet fever second-class Shaw Savill ship's shipboard single women single women's compartment social map steerage steerage passengers surgeon surgeon-superintendent Thorpe took Vesey's violence Vogel voyage washing WELLINGTON wife William Gray William Hosking wind woman wrote Zealand Herald