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John and Elisa Drew and Children arrived Sydney, Australia on the Adams Lodge 14th Feb 1840

I am unable to find Port of  departure and also would like to find out about John Drew, Parents John and Mary and also Elisa as her father only listed as Peppern and mother Cath Clark. John and Elisa have 6 children the eldest being George 19, Standish 16, William 14, Charlotte 12, Cath 10, Sarah 8yrs old in 1840 on arrival in Sydney. John was listed as farmer and Elisa as house servant. John passed away 4yrs later in Sydney but Elisa lived for many years, she passed away 1876 and was living with her son George at the time of her death and was using her maiden name Peppard not Drew. This is all the information I have to date, if anyone can enlighten me further would be wonderful.

Thanks and Regards

Dianne Drew

Dianne

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Hi,
You say.................
also Elisa as her father only listed as Peppern and mother Cath Clark
Can you post this record please or say where you got it. I can't find it, sorry.
Could this be Elisa's sister or a relative?   Usually names like Charlotte pop up in the next lines. Standish was another name.
Name:Charlotte Ann Peppard
Gender:Female
Baptism Date:18 Dec 1810
Baptism Place:Kilmeedy, Limerick, Ireland
Father  Standish Peppard
Mother Eliza 

 

Port of departure would usually be Queenstown, County Cork.  Known today as Cobh.
Ship records show where they start from not where they pick up and drop off before the main voage, so it may say Liverpool or Glasgow.
Kilmeedy
https://www.bing.com/maps?q=kilmeedy+limerick&cvid=df144181e7a64737a184eb43f1182c2e&FORM=ANNTA1&PC=U531
 

This link is of the John Drew's in Limerick, you would need to know the Parish to get the correct John Drew.
http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?surname=drew&firstname=john&county=Limerick&parish=&townland=&search=Search

Margot Secrette

The Adam Lodge left Cork in October 1839 for that trip, probably Queenstown (Cobh) as Margot mentioned. The ship is a mentioned in a number of articles in Australian Newspaper, which you can view without charge on the Trove website, e.g. :

Ship News - Sydney Gazette & NSW Advertiser Saturday 15th Feb 1840

"The Adam Lodge arrived yesterday
from Cork, with 272 Government Emigrants,
having made the passage in three
months and one day. The Emigrants
have arrived in a very healthy state, only
two deaths having occurred during the
passage--and one birth. She has brought
only a small mail, consisting of a few
letters. The only vessel she spoke was
the Mary Ridgeway on Monday last, in
Bass' Straits, from this port bound to
Port Phillip."

The voyage was for Assisted Passengers and was apparently oversubscribed, it seems to have included emigrants from several south western counties - including Cork, Limerick, and Clare.

The marriage of the John Drew and Eliza Peppard is included in Rosemary Ffolliot’s collection of transcripts (FindMyPast) and shows that they married on the 18th September 1820 in Rathkeale, Co. Limerick. The groom is recorded as being a resident of the parish of Kilcornan, and the bride lived in Rathkeale parish. RootsIreland show a transcript of the same marriage, and confirms that it took place in the Church of Ireland Rathkeale.

I dont see any sign of baptisms for their children - possibly they moved to the groom’s parish after they married - unfortunately the registers for KIlcornan Church of Ireland parish are only available back to the 1890s...the earlier records were lost.

 

shanew147IrelandXO Volunteer

Thank You for all this information Margot and Shanew it is great and I do use trove for information and have information on the arrival of Adams Lodge from that site. I just am having trouble with Elisa Drew parentage as if it was the on the immigration file that was typed from original documents on Trove. Just great that you both have given my so much information to continue on as sometimes just get stuck and go in circles.

Thank You both again it is wonderful this site and just found it. Still having trouble with how to navigate it and all the rest but will eventually get there.

Regards

Dianne

Dianne

Hi,
I wet back to basics, found the ship record in Ancestry. This is what I read.
1.  Married Females....
Grace Drew aged 50....daughter of John Meagher and Bridget Quinn.
With her son Thomas aged 17
2.  Married Males.
John Drew aged 35.....son of Jno .....meaning John
3. Married Females....
Eliza Drew aged 35......with her children and Peppearn. 
4. Married Males
Edward Drew aged 32......son of Francis.
5. Married Females
Mary Drew aged looks like 10 but poss 18. ......daughter of James Supple.  Native place, looks like Pallis, Chaplerussell, which is just up the road going north from Kilcornan.
6. Unmarried Males
George Drew aged 19............son of Jono
7. Ummarried Females.
Anne Drew aged 21........daughter of Franics
I hope this helps.
Margot

Margot Secrette

DianneThanks Margot, I will add this information. It is great to be able to get information from other sources and real people as well. It has been interesting to trace back family as my mother side goes have to both Ireland as Coughlan and her fathers mother was a Fayh and then my mothers side her mother goes all the way back to first.fleet convicts and first  20 convict marriages and then then were given a land grant later on and did so well in new colony that there land became a town called Eggleton in New South Wales. So from convicts to upright citizens in their live time. So all very interesting. Thank you again 

 

Dianne

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