arrived Auckland 4-May-1857
having sailed from London on Saturday 3-Jan-1857
her registered displacement was 537 tons
captained by James Thorn
with surgeon Dr. Weekes
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Those people in my tree who were on board this ship were :-
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May 4 Kenilworth, ship, 537 tons, James Thorn, commander, from London. Passengers Ist class Mr. and Mrs., Frederick J., Misses Jane and Ada Carrington; Major Barnard, Mrs. Barnard, Miss Baker, Mrs. Wilkinson, Messrs. Carrick, Alfred Adams, Edward Strangway, T. H. Alderson, Dr. Weekes (ship's surgeon), Mrs. and Master Francis Weekes, Mr. James Richmond, Mrs. Richmond, Mr. Johnston Barley, Mrs. Barley. 2nd class: Mr. John Seabrook, Mrs. Seabrook, Mr. C. Manby, Mrs. Manby, Messrs. E. Bishop, Charles R. Thomas, George Harton, Charles J. Storey, Edward Wheeler, Charles R. Bloxam, David Selva, David Hutchinson. 3rd class: Jeremiah Wafer, George May, James Miller and wife, Dalrymple Muir, Mrs. Muir, John, James, and Hugh Muir; John Danby, wife and infant, John J. Anning, Charles Griffin, wife and child, James Pearce and wife, James G. O'Donnell, Wm. Caldicut and wife, William Sandereon, John Machar.
ARRIVAL OF THE KENILWORTH.
The Kenilworth, which anchored yesterday at one o'clock, left Gravesend on the 3rd January, but, owing to the dreadful gales then prevalent in the English Channel, did not reach the Downs till the 10th. She sailed thence on the 12th, and had light westerly winds with calms while going down Channel. She sighted Madeira on the 24th January, and crossed the equator, in long. 25 on the 10th Feb. In this region she experienced an unusual length of variable and calm weather and, on getting the southeast trades, had them very light - the ship not generally logging more than 4, 5, and 6 knots. On the 6th of March the island of Tristin d'Aeunha was passed, and on the 18th, in lat. 40 the meridian of the Cape. In running eastward, the ship was kept in as high a lat. as 46 south, but the winds, contrary to expectation, continued light. She rounded Tasmania well to the southward, and first sighted the New Zealand coast - Cape Maria Van Diemen - on the morning of the 28th ult. On the afternoon of the 29th she rounded the North Cape, but saw nothing of the Denny. The Kenilworth has been detained between the N.Cape and port by light easterly weather. She brings 60 passengers, a few of whom are for New Plymouth, all seemingly in good health, and of a superior class. Two deaths have occurred on the voyage - one a child named Emma May, aged 7 years, who died on the 9th of April, and the other the second cabin steward, Thomas Murray, who died a lew days ago - both of general debility. The Kenilworthis fitted with Cunningham's new reefing patent, which has been applied throughout the voyage to the ship's fore and main topsails. It is an improvement on the plan first propounded, and the Kenilworth was the first ship to give it a trial. Its use involves the inconvenience of putting the ship before the wind during the process of reefing, but the time occupied is very short, and Capt. Thorn reports favorably of the new system. By the Kenilworth an old fellow - colonist returns to our shores Dr. Weekes several old colonists also return to New Plymouth, numbering Mr. Carrington and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Richmond.
Daily Southern Cross 5/5/1857
