the passengers

Comprehensive passenger list

The deaths: a chronology

Detailed fates of selected passengers

Passengers not on embarkation list

Couples who married

Helpers

Images of Emigrant passengers

Click here to open a a table of details of the passengers of the Emigrant

This table includes details of passengers including their names, ages, native place, backgrounds, religion, education, and their fates. It has been compiled from the embarkation records and two arrival lists held at the State Library of QLD, and an incomplete arrival list held at the QLD State Archives. It also includes information obtained from various birth, death and marriage certificates of several Australian states and the United Kingdom, as well as from newspaper articles, family histories and other sources.

This list is a work always in progress. If you have more information about any of the passengers named in this list that you would like to include in the table, ​please contact the author.

Click here to open a document that lists the passengers and crew of the Emigrant who died during the voyage or quarantine. The document is a transcription of the information on the plaque at Dunwich, with some notes added by the author.

• The Carroll family

• The Cummins family

• The Lipscombe family

• The Slattery family

• The Lynch family

• The Foote family

• The Real family

• George Badman

• The petty criminals

The stories of several families and individuals didn't make it into the book. Click on the names below to find out more.

About 60 passengers’ names appear on the arrival lists that were not on the embarkation list. Click here to open the list. A number of reasons have been suggested for the discrepancy, though none are entirely satisfactory. The possibilities are:

1. The passengers boarded between 14 April, when the embarkation list was compiled, and 17 April, when it departed. I am not convinced by this suggestions because, being a government-assisted ship, the embarkation list was sent with the ship, so that the list of arrivals could be checked off against the embarkations. It would not make sense that all of the passengers were not included. However, there may have been a separate list that has not survived.

2. Some passengers boarded at Deptford before the ship left Plymouth. My doubts about this reason are the same as for reason (1)

3. Some of the passengers may have worked to pay their fare and that these might not have been on the original list, but were on the arrival list because all passengers were put into quarantine. This is the most likely explanation. However, under the assisted emigration scheme the captain and surgeon were paid per head of immigrants that were landed safely. They were paid for all 261 who survived the voyage.

4. It has been suggested that while most of the passengers were travelling under the Assisted Scheme, these extras might have been travelling under the Bounty Scheme, under which individuals or businesses arranged and paid for the passage of certain categories of immigrants (eg labourers and domestic servants), and the government paid set amounts of money or ‘bounties’ per immigrant to these individuals or businesses. Their names might have been kept on a separate list that has not survived. Doubts about this reason are the same as for reason (3).

At least ten marriages resulted from the voyage and quarantine of the Emigrant. Click here to learn more detail about passengers who married fellow-passengers after the ordeal was over.

Several passengers of the Emigrant were rewarded for their assistance during the quarantine period. Click here for details.