DERWENT 1847

from Portsmouth 2 - 09 1847 - Captain Innes McPherson, arrived at Adelaide in December 1847 - the journey occupying 117 days.
The Bishop chartered the DERWENT to bring his family and several clergymen to South Australia.

CABIN PASSENGERS:
      Right-Reverend Augustus SHORT, (first Lord Bishop of Adelaide)       Mrs, SHORT, 5 daughters and 2 servants       Millicent SHORT (daughter of Rev Short)
Millicent, the eldest child of the Right Rev. Dr Augustus Short, first Bishop of Adelaide, was born at the vicarage, Ravensthorpe, Northamptonshire, England on September 29 1837. With her parents she arrived at Adelaide in December 1847. The Bishop chartered the DERWENT, of 362 tons, to bring his family and several clergymen to Australia, the journey occupying 117 days. Miss Millicent Short became Mrs Glen. She had vivid recollections of the appearance of Adelaide at that time, and remembered seeing stumps of trees in Rundle Street, and bullock waggons bogged there. (Sir James Fergusson named the town of Millicent after her).
Matthew Blagden HALE, (born 1811 at Alderly, England - 1895), his 2 children (born to Mrs Sophia Hale nee Clode, deceased) and 2 servants - cabin
Rev. A BURNETT,     Mr BUTLER,     Mr Fred. MONCKTON,     Miss SEATON,     Mr TALFORD,     Thomas, TAYLOR, surgeon     Rev. T. P. WILSON, - Bishop's chaplain

STEERAGE PASSENGERS:
   ARMITAGE, Robert
   CAMPBELL, Joseph
   FIRTH, George
   JAFFREY, James
   JAMES, John
   LEWIS, Robert
   MAINSLOW, Elizabeth
   MALDON, Richard
   PRICE, Francis
   RESTERTON, Harry and 2 children
   STEPHENS, Sarah
   STURT, Sarah
   THOMSON, James
   THOMSON, Mary
   WELCOME, Margaret
   WELCOME, Robert - child
   WELCOME, Charlotte - child
   WELCOME, Alfred - child
   WELCOME, Sarah - child
   WELCOME, Lamond - child
   WYATT, Henry