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Pete Smith has been doing some more detective work, and has provided us with a list of the Children who went out on the “Layton” in 1837, but who don’t appear to have arrived in Sydney in 1838. It has been confirmed that out of 42 Bisley children on board, these 17 children died at sea from the measles epidemic that was on board the Ship.
(2 Adults - unknown - also died. The good news is that 2 children were born on the voyage).
Those who died were: Butt, Eliza born 1829 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Butt, Emma born 1834 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Millard, Robert born 1837 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Millard, Samuel born 1835 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Mills, Emma Born 1830 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Mills, Ephraim Born 1835 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Mills, Rhoda born 1828 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Mills, Samuel Born 1834 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Pacey, Henry born 1835 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Parsons, Abel born 1836 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 183 Parsons, George born 1834 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Perrett, William born 1834 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Phelps, Emma born 1829 Bisley Gloucester Died at Sea 1837 Phelps, Henry Arthur born 1836 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Tyler, Maria born 1835 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Tyler, Martha born 1833 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Witts, Caroline born 1833 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Wheeler, Rosanna Born 1835 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837 Wheeler, Daniel 1834 Bisley Gloucester Died At Sea 1837
Amazingly the other Families didn’t lose any children. The Mills Family lost all of their children, but one was born on the ship.
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