Quarantine Sydney 1855 JUNO

[Crabby]

Can anyone kindly direct me to where I might find the names of persons quarantined upon arrival at Port Jackson in 1855?

My interest is in the crew of the JUNO which had travelled via Mauritius where contagious and infectious diseases eg small-pox and cholera, were prevalent.

With thanks for your interest.

CRABBY

[Siouxsie]

Hi Crabby,
Just wizzing out the door.......thought this might be as good a place as any for you to start........had a quick look and "Juno" isn't mentioned in the Quarantine history for the 1855 period........but this organisation would be able to direct you further.

http://www.manlyquarantine.com/QSmain.htm

Cheers
Siouxsie

[majm]

Hi there,

http://www.nla.gov.au/ferg/issn/14403897.html

This link should get you to the newspaper,  The Shipping gazette and Sydney general trade list.  Its online covering 1844 to 1855.   

HMS Juno took the NSW Governor (General  ) on a cruise in 1855, and towards the end of 1855 the Juno was cruising in the South Pacific, around "Feejee" (Fiji  )

I don't know if the Juno was quarantined at all in 1855, but I am interested in a crew list too...    Captn Freemantle is the only name I have found at present, and I'm looking for a chap surnamed
Cheers,  JM

[Crabby]

Thank you Siouxsie and JM

The JUNO was, in fact, the HMS JUNO which became the Colony Governor's residence in Port Jackson.

I am attempting to confirm that George Gilbert EDMONDS was on the HMS JUNO.

I have not found any immigration records for him:  There is a whole lot of information about Captn. FREMANTLE.  The port of Fremantle was named after his brother.

GGE was married in Sydney in 1857 and later came to Brisbane where he died in 1906.

I will keep an eye out for PRICE

Crabby

[PrueM]

Hi Crabby 

http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au  shows a ship called the Juno (presumably a private/merchant vessel) arriving twice into Sydney, as Just Moi has already found - once in January 1855 and once in October 1855.  The January arrival shows they came in from the "Bay of Pines".  I'm not sure where that actually is/was, but Google tells me it's the old name for the Monterey area in California.  The second trip appears to have been around unspecified "South Sea Islands".

Unfortunately, neither crew list shows George Gilbert EDMONDS.

If he was on the HMS Juno, we will have to search elsewhere for records.  I'm not sure where "elsewhere" is, but the National Maritime Museum in the UK has a collection of official records of Capt. Fremantle - log books etc. could mention your George:
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/archive/catalogue/record.cfm?ID=FRE%2F201-207

Others more experience with naval historical research may have suggestions as to where you can look, I hope 

Cheers
Prue

[PrueM]

Added:  Someone else was also looking for George Edmonds back in 2005:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,83327.0.html

As you can see, I wasn't much help then, either! 

[majm]

 

I think Bay of Pines on that manifest image could be a little closer to OZ,  perhaps around Noumea   or one of the former French colonies ...  

JM

[PrueM]

Probably right, JM - seems to have been quite a small vessel, so California is perhaps a bit of a stretch!! 

[PrueM]

Perhaps more helpful this time...

The National Archives UK has guides for finding Royal Navy sailors in different time periods:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/default.htm (scroll down to "Navy")