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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