I have ancestors on this voyage surnamed "Ibell". I don't have a passenger list, but I do have the surgeon's report, which I can check for any relevant names. Here is some info extracted from it:-
Mary Ann Ibell was the first of 17 infants who died on the voyage and was buried at sea, she died only days after the ship sailed, of hydrocephalus ("water on the brain") .
The ships' surgeon's report of the voyage noted that "The adults were very healthy, the sickness being only amongst the children . . . It would be advisable not to send so many children in one ship. A good many of these people were very poor and consequently had had very bad diet before coming on board, the children were unable to stand the trials of a sea voyage.
He was really a bit harsh and added "These people have no material love for their children and therefore do not pay sufficient attention to them . . . . We had some of "Johnsons patent berths" in the married peoples' compartment. These berths are undoubtedly the best, as they ensure great cleanliness and privacy on account of they folding up in the day time, no dirt can accumulate and more space is given for ventilation . . ."
However, it seems from the report of the schoolmaster on board the ship that this space was generally occupied as a school in the daytime, girls on one side, and boys on the other. The schoolmaster reported that the compartment was "a place totally unnfit for a school", and complained that during the rainy weather "the people flocked to their berths rendering school impossible on those occasions". Really, where else did he expect them to go?
The ship carried 655 people, of whom 554 were immigrants. The newspaper report of the voyage noted that these "are mostly labourers, from Warwickshire; they come out under the direction of a Mr Thomas Osbourne, one of the delegates of the Agricultural Labourers Union; 232 have come out under his direction. Of these, eleven children have died during the passage. The greater portion are farm labourers, sawyers, waggoners, and shepherds."
