PIONEERS AND SETTLERS BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA

CANTON 1838

506 ton - 122'6" x 30'6" x 7'2"
Owner: Pirie & Co, not registered London until 1846 Gould & Co
3 mast ship built 1834 at Hylton, Durham, England (near Sunderland).


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CANTON departed London and Plymouth in April 1838
under the command of Captain J. Mordaunt
arriving Adelaide on May 2nd, 1838 with 143 Passengers (83 Adults, 60 Children)

On 18 May 1838, The Colonial Register printed a letter of thanks to Captain Mordaunt on behalf of the passengers.

To the editors of the SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GAZETTE,
GENTLEMEN, If you can spare room in the columns of the newspaper, will you kindly insert the accompanying letters, and oblige,
yours truly, J. MORDAUNT. May 9, 1838

Dear Sir,
We have much satisfaction in finding ourselves called upon by our fellow passengers to hand you the accompanying letter, in every sentiment of which, believe us, we join most cordially, and remain,
Dear Sir, yours very faithfully,
John Newman and David Wylie, St Vincent's Gulf, April 29, 1838

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Information is available on my CD about the following passengers:

BULL, John Wrathall and wife Mary Bran(d)t nee BOWYER

CHAPMAN, James Paul

KINGSWELL,William, his wife and four children

McKEY / McKAY / MacKAY, George and wife Mary nee WILLIAMS, 2 children including William

NEWMAN, John and wife Josephine

WARE, Charles snr

WARE, Robert Frederick

Mr J WILLIAMS may have been on this voyage