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Passenger list of 'Kennebec'
This list is not necessarily complete or correct. There is a passenger list and an account of the journey to Council Bluffs here.

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The May party
who left England in 1852

George May born 1809
Hannah May born 1809
Elizabeth May born 1830
James May born 1832
Harriet May born 1838
Thomas May born 1840
Richard May born 1843
William May born 1846
Emily May born 1850

Henry Ballard born 1832

Adamson, Thomas
Archibald, William
Arnold, Emma
Arnold, George
Ashcroft, Josiah
Ashton, Molly
Ashton, Nancy
Ashton, Thomas

Bailey, Lois Locke
Bailey, Mary Ann
Ballard, Henry
Beecroft, Elizabeth
Beecroft, Emma
Beecroft, Isabella
Beecroft, Isabella Jr
Beecroft, Robert
Bell, Elizabeth
Bell, Jane
Bell, John
Bell, Matthew
Bell, Peter
Bishop, Mary
Bridgehood, Elizabeth
Bridgehood, Frances S.
Bridgehood, Virginia
Buckingham, John
Butler, Ann H.
Butler, Argent
Butler, Caroline Farazine Skeen
Butler, David
Butler, Elizabeth
Butler, Henry
Butler, John
Butler, John L
Butler, John Q.
Butler, Sarah

Calishan, Matthew
Carr, Ann
Chevalier, Mary
Clarke, William
Colvin, John
Colvin, Marion
Cook, Jesse
Corbridge, Ellen
Corbridge, Janet
Corbridge, John
Corbridge, Margaret
Corbridge, Samuel R.
Corbridge, William
Corbridge, William E.
Cottier, William (Isle of Man)
Coulam, John
Cousins, Elizabeth
Crump, Thomas

Darton, Mahala
Davis, Ann
Davis, John
De La Mare, Mary
De La Mare, Mary Jane
De La Mare, Philip
De La Mare, Philip F.
De La Mare, Theophilus
Deane, John
Dorton, Mahala
Drake, D.'arcy
Drake, Eliza
Drake, Emily
Drake, George
Drake, Julia
Drake, Mary
Duff, Edward (Isle of Man)
Duff, Elizabeth (Isle of Man)
Dunbar, Euphemia
Dunbar, Franklin L.
Dunbar, Helen
Dunbar, William C.
Duncan, Charles
Duncan, Isabell
Duncan, Janet
Duncan, Margaret
Dunn, Elizabeth
Dunn, Hannah
Dunn, James

Edwards, John
Ellis, Ann
Ellis, Edward
Ellis, James B.
Ellis, Mary
Ellis, Samuel

Fleming, Mary Ann
Fleming, Sarah
Follet, Elizabeth
Follet, John
Follet, Joseph H. S.

Galishan, Matthew
Gardner, George
Gardner, Sarah
George, Henry R.
George, Mary Ann
George, Sarah
Gilbert, Edwin
Gilbert, George
Gilbert, George H.
Gilbert, Josephine
Gilbert, Mary
Gilbert, William
Gleadhall, Mary
Goodrich, Elmira
Goodrich, Hannah
Goodrich, Sarah A.
Goodson, Elizabeth
Grainger, Christopher
Grainger, Jane
Grainger, Mary A.
Guy, Anne E.
Guy, Lorenzo
Guy, Mary Ann
Guy, Mary E.
Guy, Samuel
Guy, Samuel G.
Guy, Sarah J. T.

Harris, George H. A.
Harwood, Ann
Harwood, George
Harwood, Samuel
Hawkins, Elizabeth
Headly, Fenwick
Headly, Mary H.
Headly, Susannah
Hepworth, Frances A.
Hepworth, John
Hepworth, Mary
Hepworth, Sarah J.
Hepworth, Thomas
Higbee, John S.
Hilliker, Mary E.
Hodgert, Ellen
Hodgert, Jane
Hodgert, Robert
Hodgert, Thomas Fenn
Houguard, Fanny L. (Jersey)
Hutchins, Ann
Hutchins, Edith
Hutchins, James
Hutchins, John

James, Daniel
James, David
James, Franklin
James, James
James, Margaret
Jarvis, Charles
Jarvis, Hannah
Jarvis, Harriet
Jeune, Fanny
Jeune, Fanny E.
Jeune, Julia M.
Jeune, Philip
Jeune, Philip J.
Johnson, William
Jones, John
Jones, Thomas

Kilgore, James
Kilgore, Katren
Kilgore, William


 

 


 

Langford, Amelia
Langford, Eliza,
Langford, Henry
Langford, Louisa
Lavender, Ellen
Lavender, Emma
Lavender, George
Lavender, John
Lavender, Mary Ann
Livingston, James
Livingston, Janet
Livingston, Mary
Livingston, Mary
Livingston, William
Luck, John
Luck, Rosanna
Lynch, Ann

May, Elizabeth
May, Emily
May, George
May, Hannah
May, Harriet
May, James
May, Mary A.
May, Richard
May, Thomas
May, William

Munus, Daniel
Munus, Elizabeth
Munus, Frederick
Munus, Sarah

Neilson, Agnes
Neilson, Edward
Nelson, Elizabeth
Newton, Clara
Newton, William

Old, John H.
Old, Margaret
Old, Robert
Owen, Emma
Owen, Harry

Pack, John
Palmer, Anna
Palmer, Elizabeth
Palmer, George
Palmer, Harriet
Palmer, John
Palmer, Philip
Palmer, Phillis
Patterson, William
Pearce, Charlotte
Perkins, John
Price, Edward
Price, William
Probert, Charles

Quirk, Margaret (Isle of Man)
Quirk, Mary Ann (Isle of Man)
Quirk, Thomas (Isle of Man)

Ragg, Martha
Randall, Emma
Reader, Robert
Reid, Thomas
Richards, Mary
Roberts, Edward
Roberts, Ephraim
Roberts, John
Roberts, Joseph
Roberts, Selina
Roberts, William
Rodgert, Ellen Fenn
Rodgert, Jane
Rodgert, Robert
Rodgert, Thomas Fenn
Rollings, Elizabeth
Rollings, James
Rollings, Samuel
Rowley, Ephraim
Rowley, Hugh
Rowley, John
Rowley, Mary Ann
Rowley, Ralph
Ryecroft, James

Sampson, Emily
Sampson, Harriet
Sargent, Ellen
Sargent, John
Sargent, Joseph
Sargent, Louisa
Sargent, Sarah Ann
Scheib, Anna M.
Scheib, Catherine
Scheib, Elizabeth
Scheib, Jacob
Scheib, John P
Scheib, Joseph
Scheib, Peter
Scheib, Sabina
Simmons, Rebecca
Smith, Eliza
Smith, Lydia
Smith, Mary
Smith, Susannah
Smith, Thomas
Sneddon, Agnes
Sneddon, Janet
Sneddon, John
Sneddon, Mrs Elizabeth
Sneddon, William
Spencer, J.
Spiers, John
Stabler, George
Stabler, John
Stabler, Mary
Stabler, William
Still, Amelia A. B.
Still, Charlotte

Tate, Ann
Tate, John
Tate, Sarah A.
Thomas, Charles
Thompson, Jane Maria
Thompson, Robert
Tibbitts, Eliza
Tibbitts, James
Tibbitts, Jane
Tibbitts, Sarah
Tibbitts, Wilford
Torkington, Emma

Van Lembrouck, Jane
Van Lembrouck, Lewis
Van Lembrouck, Matilda

Walker, Elijah
Walker, Mary Jane
Walton, Joseph
Walton, Joyce
Ward, Levi
Ward, Maria
Ward, Samuel
Ward, William
Waters, Ann
Waters, George
Waters, Jane
Waters, Jane I.
Waters, Mary
Wayman, John
Wayman, Sarah
Weaver, Elizabeth
Whitehead, Catherine
Whitehead, George
Whitehead, Isabel
Whittaker, Joan
Wise, Harriet
Wise, Thomas
Wiseman, Matilda
Wolvin, Millicent

Yates, Jane

 

This narrative gives only the known experiences of the May family, together with brief details of the conditions they are likely to have experienced on their journey. There are many more detailed accounts of such journeys, and these can be accessed through the 'Sources' button on the left.

 

A passenger list with place of origin and occupation, together with an account of the voyage of the 'Kennebec' and of the disastrous explosion on board the 'Saluda' can be seen here