See also

Anna Marie HANDO (1837-1852)

Individual Events and Attributes

  • Birth:

  • 1837

  • Hutton, Somerset, UK

  • Emigration:

  • 4 Aug 1852 (age 14-15)

  • from Liverpool, UK to Port Phillip, Victoria, Austalia

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  • The Ticonderoga was infamous for its "fever ship" voyage in 1852 from Liverpool to Port Phillip carrying 795 passengers, arriving on the 22nd December 1852. It was a double-decker ship, overcrowded, and with more than its recommended load.

    100 passengers died during the voyage of what was later determined to have been typhus. When the ship arrived, it was initially moored off Point Nepean and the headland was turned into a quarantine station, where many more passengers died and were buried, rather haphazardly in shallow graves.

  • Death:

  • 23 Aug 1852 (age 14-15)

  • Died at sea on Ticonderoga