Whirlwind 1861

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News Item

Report by Dr. T.A. Chalderott, surgeon superintendent aboard the Whirlwind:

There is of course no doubt that a bona fide immigration of respectable families is very much to be desired, but it would in my opinion be far better to give up the idea entirely rather than introduce into the Colony such specimens of the sex as many of those ones aboard the "Whirlwind" were. I think I am justified in stating that most of the women on board the "Whirlwind" were only married to their so called husbands immediately before the sailing of the ship, and that the men were tempted to bring them by the twenty dollars advance allowed for them in China. . . . As a consequence of this we had on board the "Whirlwind" two notorious prostitutes, four idiots, one helpless cripple, one hunch back, one deaf and dumb and several much disfigured by scars.

The Ship Whirlwind from Hong Kong out 114 days, arrived yesterday with 347 immigrants. Captain EDGHILL reports that the Lancashire Witch left Hong Kong 15 days before the Whirlwind, and that when this last named vessel left the Cape of Good Hope, the other had not been heard of. The Whirlwind experienced some severe weather and it is to be hoped that no accident has occurred to the Lancashire Witch, now out 129 days. [Royal Gazette, 1 Aug 1861]

Allocation to plantations

Allotted to	M	F	B	G	I		Allotted to	M	F	B	G	I		Allotted to	M	F	B	G	I
Bel Air	20	8	--	2	--		La Jalousie	41	4	--	--	--		Unallotted (1)	8	3	--	--	--
Cumings' Lodge	21	6	--	--	--		Malgre Tout	21	4	--	--	--		In Alms House	--	1	--	--	--
Farm	23	2	--	--	--		Peter's Hall	23	2	--	--	--		In Lunatic Asylum	1	--	--	--	--
Diamond	23	4	--	--	--		Versailles	25	--	--	--	--		Died (2)	2	1	--	--	1
Haag's Bosche	22	3	--	--	--		Vive-la-Force	22	5	1	--	--		.	.	.	.	.	.
Houston	23	2	--	--	1		Windsor Forest	21	4	--	--	--		.	.	.	.	.	.

Notes: (1) One interpreter unallotted, 6 men and 2 women in Immigration Department, one man and one woman in Colonial Hospital. (2) In Colonial Hospital.

Immigrants

Note: Because of poor penmanship and deterioration of the historic documents, it was sometimes difficult to read the handwriting in the records and this has resulted in some duplication in the transcription of some passenger numbers as well as variations in spelling from what was originally inscribed. 

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