PIONEERS AND SETTLERS BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIARECOVERY from London 1839from London May 19, 1839, arrived Port Adelaide on Sept 19th, 1839.The RECOVERY, a three-masted ship, weighed anchor on 19 May 1839 at Plymouth with Captain Thomas Johnson and 237 passengers. The passenger list included 110 adults accompanied by 65 children travelling under the Emigration Fund, 19 non-Fund passengers with 17 children, and ten Superior Class passengers with three children. In the latter group was Lt. Frome who was the incoming Surveyor-General for South Australia. |  Return Home |
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 One of the passengers wrote: Among the passengers was a detachment of Sappers and Miners under Captain Frome, Sergeant-Major Robert Gardiner (in the Adelaide Land Office for many years), William and wife Sarah Mary PARKIN (later part of the PARKIN TRUST), John Benjamin GRAHAM (a large shareholder in the Burra), |
