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From: "Irene Schaffer" <>
Subject: Re: [AUS-Tas] More Charles Kerr Newsreports
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 12:18:22 +1000
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I have a Thomas Capon on the 1832 map. He had 100 acres along the Faulkner
Rivulet by 1832. Any chance there is a connection here. Would be interested
to hear form anyone researching this family.

Regards


Irene

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Subject: [AUS-Tas] More Charles Kerr Newsreports


> Hello All
>
> Here is another Newspaper Report of the Voyage of the Charles Kerr
> 1835 including Passengers Names.
>
> Cheers
>
> Jill FORSTER in Sydney
>
> CORNWALL CHRONICLE, LAUNCESTON, 20th NOVEMBER 1835.
>
> To HARFORD ARNOLD, ESQ, Commander of the Charles Kerr.
>
> Sir, - We, the Undersigned Passengers by the Charles Kerr, from
> England to Van Diemen's Land, desire, previous to our leaving the
> vessel, to present you with our sincere and heartfelt thanks, for the
> gentlemanly conduct, and for the kind and considerate attention you
> have shewn us during the time we have been on the voyage.
>
> Without referring to the reasons that induced us to leave England by
> your ship, or our pretensions upon arriving in the land of our
> adoption. We feel ourselves peculiarly fortunate that you should have
> been chosen to conduct our passage from that part of the world to
> this; - for without disrespect to the service of which you are
> unquestionably destined to become a distinguished member, we imagine
> some improper individual might have been found, but feel convinced at
> the same time, that no one more proper than yourself could possibly
> have been selected to conduct so important and delicate a commission.
>
> It has given us great pleasure to observe, (and we have equal
> pleasure in recording) that during the indisposition of your
> officers, and from numerous inexplicable causes peculiarly incident
> in the life of a Seaman, the general regard you have shewn to the
> passengers and crew - that steady perseverance of conduct, and
> promptness of execution, we cannot too much admire, and but
> insufficiently commend.
>
> We have only now, Sir, to express a hope, that during the time you
> may think proper to continue in your present important and
> enterprising situation, your voyages may be prosperous and happy -
> that the conduct by which you have been guided on the present
> occasion may guide you the remainder of your public life - and that
> upon your retirement into private society you may carry with you kind
> protection of that providence, who, through you, has so graciously
> conducted us to the shores of this land - the approbation of your
> friends, and the testimony of a good conscience - an honest man's
> reward.
>
> Bass's Straits, Nov. 12, 1835.
>
> M.A. Sibley
> Caroline Trimlett
> Jane Patterson
> Emily Gordon
> Jane Gibson
> Catherine Curry
> Ann Goodall
> Eden Macabe
> Mary B. Clarke
> Margaret Knot
> Ann Thomas
> Helen Capon
> Margaret Capon
> Ann Capon
> S. Stevens
> Jane Goldsworthy
> Mary Spicer
> Joanna Cassady
> Temperance Neall
> Ann Roberts
> Mary A. Gurr
> Mary Brain
> Mary Gardiner
> Ann Faudington
> Ann Hammond
> MATRONS - Mary Kirk
> Amelia Sherridan
> For themselves, and for the female Emigrants under their care and
direction.
> Anthony Brain
> Thomas Spicer
> Wm. Stevens
> John Cassady
> Wm. Neall
> Henry Gurr
> Leonard Roberts
> Alfred Api - ?
> Thomas Jeffert?
> Isaac Jarman
> Edward Chichester
> John Hearn
> William Gardiner
> Wm. Stevens
> Stephen Kerrison
> John Cassady, Jnr.
> Thomas Brain
> William Stevens
> F.G. Spicer
> James Sibley
> William Capon
> William
>
>
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