The Steamship Anglo-Saxon, from
Liverpool
out of
Londonderry
Ireland,
for
Quebec,
while in a dense fog, some three miles distant from
Cape Race,
on
the 27th of April,1863
went on shore, and in a short time became a total wreck. Of 444 passengers
and crew who were wrecked on board 180 have reached land, or been picked
up in small boats;
"The deck broke up in about one hour after the Anglo-Saxon struck. Nothing
but the misenmast is standing. Several persons clung to the fore rigging
untill the foremast fell. No assistance could be rendered. Guns are being
fired at the
Cape
to attract the attention of the missing boats.
The following is a list of passengers on board the Anglo-Saxon:-
CABIN PASSENGERS.- Miss Malley, Hon.[Honourable?] John Young and Family,
11 in number; Captain and Mrs. Stotherd and servant; Captain Cassidy, Rev.
C.P. Eaton, Mrs. Wright, Captain T.R. Read, Mrs. Caldwell, Lieutenant Clark,
Mr. J.S. Mill, Mr. J. Martin, Mr. Guy Pemberton, Mr. S. Rodgers, Mr. Fraser,
Mr. Tealby, Mrs. Jackson and child, Captain Hyler, Lieutenant Simpson, Mr.
P.H. Nott, Mr. J. McGregor, Mr. Houghton, Mr. W. Kirkness, Mr. James Bullock,
Miss A. Ashwith, Mr. Towers, Mr. and Mrs. Kirkwood, Mrs. James and child,
Mr. Withers.
STEERAGE PASSENGERS
boarded in LIVERPOOL.- Samuel Stevens, wife, and child; Thomas
Churchyard, wife, and three children; Honor Ripley and one child, Mrs
Borroughs and two children, Mr. Little, Jane Fulton and one child,
R.Mitchell, Edward Dance, George Dance, William Berry, John Fisher, Wilelm
Cronebry, wife, and two children; Issac Chapman, wife and one child;
Bernard Shanley, John Rorke, Peter Spahr, Christen Olson, Hans P.
Christianson and wife, Neils C. Anderson, Michael Cullan and wife, Thomas
Jones, David Evans, Walter Waller, Thomas Lockett, Allen S. Horne, Mrs.
Thomas, Susannah Cooper, Richard Jones and wife; Richard Harrison, David
Rees, wife, and two children; David Lload, David Beran, Margaret Jones,
Wm.[William?] Griffith, John Griffith, Griff Griffith, David Davies, wife,
and two children; John Morgan, Catherine Davies; Evan George, wife and four
children; Mary Harris and two children, Wm. [William?] Ankres, Wm. [William?]
Wainwright, Benjamin Douglas, J. Douglas, Sarah Douglas, Edwin Dingle, J.
Cunnel, W.H. Stanley, T.A. Feler, Reubin Painter, wife and one child; Lembros
Painter, J. Hartley, Thomas Irwin, David Newsome, Philip Jones, wife and one
child; J. Chadwick, John Jones, John Vickerman, Henry Callaghan, wife, and
six children; George Dallir, Mrs. J. Alexander and two children, Thomas
Bishop, Jonathan Walker, Bangcroft Marsden, Richard Tapper, Harriet Roberts,
Mary Ronlston, Ellen Ryan, John Townsend, Samuel Whormby and wife, Henry
Brookfield, Edward Walter, wife and two children; Joel Mellor, Thomas Barber,
Denis Woolhouse, John Duckworth, Joseph Hill Samuel Bardsley, John Booth,
Frederick Boyes, John White, William Cross, Mary Ann Boyes, Elizabeth
Stevens and five children; Ambroze Underhill and wife, James Stevens James
Wood, William Sape, John Wickett, William Burrow, James Damrell, Thomas Allen
William Allen, James Brent, Isaac Packwell, William Turtey, Robert Legg, Mary
Waldren and one child, William D. Woonacott and wife, John Headon, William
Hockridge, Henry Morgan and wife, Richard Colville and wife, Robert Oatsons,
Charles S. Dunbar, Robert Blair, C. Brown, Martin Shechy, Luke Wood, Lesette
Graetz and
two children, Martin Schneider, Eliza Schneider Jean Becker,
Jean Fealtan, wife, and five children; Jean Melenstein, wife, and four
children; Augusta Loubre, Alex. Lafercade, B. Billyard, Andmo Brizio, Fidele
Elschi, Mathios Neter, Sybella John, Bosli Christen, wife and one child; Wm.
[William?] Jessy, Alex. Meuri, Thomas Jessy, Hyacinth Jessy, Josephine
Jessy, Rudolph Beningusta.
Passengers boarded in Londonderry -
Davis, Hugh Strachan, Samuel Morgan, M. Henderson, Jose Jameson, Louisa
Gibbs and two children, John Norman, W.S. Finlay, Angus McLane, F. Mackenzie,
Robert Parker. Matilda Ganley and one child, James Kirk, Robert Bruce,
Hamilton Magee, Edward Kerr, wife, and one child, William Johnston, Mary
Kearney, Alice Stewart, John Keeley, Daniel Ferguson, John Meaney, Daniel
Coulter, Mary Coulter, Catherine Early, Bernard Early, John Morrow and
wife, Marjorie Morrow, John Carrol, John Reilly and wife, George Atkinson,
Robert Atkinson, Ellen Atkinson, Joseph Eagan, Mary Eagan, William Rodgers,
John McNally, Francis McDonald, Peter Nolan, and wife, and two children;
Peter Watson, John Davison, wife, and child; Thomas Power, Mary A. Adam,
Martha Rimp, Francis Gornley, Patrick Gormley, Anne Gormley, Samuel
Cotter, William Glover, wife, and seven children, John McCrew, Alexander
Storey, Thomas M. Cambridge, James A. Direa, James Finlay, Rose A. Gartin,
Sarah Smith, Charles McClusky, David Dinsman, Daniel Gerahty, James Murtagh,
C. Crawford, Mary Binnek, Margaret Binnek, Mrs. Black, George Black, Ann
Orr, John Livingstone, Peter Crumplin, Samuel Menice, John Wright, Peter
Connagher, Margaret Fernie, James Barclay, Peter McMillen, Thomas Anderson,
John Small, Jose Winch, Catherine Cameron, Rose Bell.
List of the Crew.-
W. Burgess, master; John Hoare, first
officer; John McAllister, second officer, Robert Allan, third officer; George
Scott, fourth officer; Alfred Patton, surgeon; William Jenkins, purser;
Gilbert Little, assistant purser; John Allan, carpenter; William Read,
carpenter; Edward Newell, boatswain; Hugh Jones, boatswain. Able bodied
seamen.- Wm. [William?] Cape, John Williams, Andrew Gibbie, Robert Cain, John
Johnson, William Bennett, Thomas McCormick, Thomas Lloyd, John Larkin, Thomas
Quayle, John Pritchard, James Wilson, William Edmonston, Joseph Heasley,
Thomas Chapman, Frederick Hunter, Thomas Phelom, George Taylor, John M.
Ellis, Peter Patterson, James Martain, George Moffatt, Thomas Hannibal, James
Redmond, John Halloran.
ENGINEERS' DEPARTMENT.- Wm. [William?] McMaster,
first engineer; Alexander Mackay, second engineer; William Ritchie, third
engineer; James Henderson, fourth engineer; Charles Cardle, fifth engineer;
Firemen.- John Dow, Michael Toole, Thomas Murphy, Henry McKenney, John
Williams, George Roberton, Thos.[Thomas?] Davidson, John Murphy, John Riley,
Henry Norton, Thomas White, Berry Bridge, John Howard, James Baxter, Patrick
Purcell, James McCartney.
STEWARDS' DEPARTMENT.- Thomas Wood, first
steward; Wm.[William?] Jones, second steward; Charles Barlow, Wm.
[William?] McStay, Henry G. Davis, John J. Carr, George Purcel, John
Davidson, Robert Corlett, Wm. [William?] Montgomery, John Reeve, George
Woolner, John Leah, Edward Evans, John Haggup, John McDermot, Martin Cleary,
John Pennington, and Ewd.[Edward?] J. Lloyd, assistant stewards; Mrs.
Parry, stewardess; Arthur Grace, first cook; John Harvey, second cook; Henry
Weston, Alfred Costello, and Bobt.[Robert?] Hodgson, ships cooks; Andrew
Kennedy, baker's mate; Wm. [William?] Jones, butcher; Wm.[William?] Carrol,
baker.
HALLIFAX, APRIL 30.- The following is a list of the steerage passengers by
surname saved from the Anglo-Saxon:-
Parker, Parsons, Saint, Marie, Collagan, Dallie, Cooth, Fleck, Ferguson,
Callaghan, Pautrie, Wilpolm, George, Wood, Stanley, Naglies, Lahn, Barbour,
Coulter, Finlay, Morgan, Rooke, Lloyd, Furre, Jones, Griffiths, Churchyard,
Wickett, Burrow, Nance, Black, Jones and wife, Fideles, Jones, Loubrier,
Barclay, Jamieson, Small, Bishop, Gourley, Corder, Mackillavey, Johnston,
Drusmon, Reid, Howell, Mackay, Murtagh, Garetty, Christianson, Davies,
Tupper, Macnally, Atkinson, Rees and child, Townsend, Damsell, Cross, Cronen,
Berry, Crawford, Gauley and child, Christiana Brown, Elizabeth Wood, Dance,
Pale, Harrison, Walter Bruce, Jones, Wamby, Mary Ann Adams, Mina Christian,
Jessie Christian, Mary Waldron, Mary Lenwick, Martha Lenwick, Maggie Lenwick,
Ann Gourneley, Jane Colton, Mary Ralston, Ann Stevens, Mary Cullan, Mary
Calligham, Alice Stewart, Mary Kenney, Fanny Mackenzie, Mary Reed, Jane
Walker, Ellen Ryah, Sarah Smith, Kate Early, Margaret Evans, Sophia Davis,
and child, Eliza Grity and two children, two children unknown.
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