Arethusa
Ship: 1272 tons
Captain: John Stiven
Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Edward Husband
Sailed Plymouth September 3rd 1879 - arrived Wellington December 7th 1879
| Name | Age | County | Occupation | |
| Families & Children | ||||
| Bradley | Patrick | 34 | Meath | Agricultural Labourer |
| Mary | 30 | |||
| Cowan | Charles | 50 | Ayr | Dairy Farmer |
| Euphemia | 48 | |||
| Elizabeth | 20 | Dairy Maid | ||
| Charles | 16 | Farm Boy | ||
| George | 14 | Farm Boy | ||
| Euphemia | 11 | |||
| Robert | 7 | |||
| Davison | Joseph H | 23 | Yorkshire | Carpenter |
| Mary | 23 | |||
| Shaw | 8 months | Died on board - 20/09/1879 Dentition & diarrhoea |
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| Deut | John | 34 | Yorkshire | Blacksmith |
| Mary | 34 | |||
| France | Allen | 35 | Yorkshire | Joiner |
| Mary A | 36 | |||
| Ada | 11 | |||
| Elizabeth | 7 | |||
| Ireland | Robert | 24 | Durham | Agricultural Labourer |
| Ellen | 22 | |||
| Jane | 1 | Died on board - 25/10/1879 Muco Enteritis |
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| Moult | Edwin | 24 | Cheshire | Farmer |
| Juliet | 26 | |||
| Harry | 10 months | |||
| Pearson | Thomas | 34 | Yorkshire | Mason |
| Martha | 37 | |||
| Elizabeth | 10 | |||
| George William | 7 | |||
| Mary | 5 | |||
| Sarah J | 1 | |||
| Power | Lawrence | 60 | Kilkenny | Farm Labourer |
| Ann | 65 | |||
| Colonial Nominated Families & Children | ||||
| Apperley | Alfred | 24 | Herefordshire | Wheel Wright |
| Elizabeth | 22 | |||
| Bailey | Benjamin | 38 | Salop | Labourer |
| Ann | 37 | |||
| Robert | 19 | Iron Moulder | ||
| Martha | 17 | Servant | ||
| William | 14 | |||
| Thomas | 12 | |||
| Sarah | 9 | |||
| Lucy | 6 | |||
| Bluikhorue | Charles | 54 | Leicestershire | Labourer |
| Sarah | 59 | |||
| Boggs | Hales | 26 | Essex | Joiner |
| Jane | 25 | |||
| Harry | 3 | |||
| Bertha | 4 months | |||
| Bowie | David | 29 | Kincardine | Ship Wright |
| Agnes | 26 | |||
| Euphemia | 1 | |||
| Burke | Richard | 43 | Dublin | Wharf Labourer |
| Margaret | 42 | |||
| Margaret | 19 | Servant | ||
| Thomas | 16 | Wharf Labourer | ||
| Partick | 14 | Messenger | ||
| Richard | 11 | |||
| Joseph | 7 | |||
| Couchman | Frederick | 44 | Kent | Signalman |
| Charlotte | 44 | |||
| Martha | 10 | |||
| Couchman | Charles | 24 | Sussex | Carpenter |
| Eliza | 22 | |||
| Emily | 1 | |||
| Frederick | 5 months | |||
| Couchman | Frederick | 22 | Sussex | Railway Employee |
| John | 20 | Railway Employee | ||
| Horace | 18 | Railway Employee | ||
| Jane | 16 | Servant | ||
| William | 13 | Shop Boy | ||
| Craven | John | 30 | Lancashire | Joiner Bound for Fielding |
| Alice | 29 | |||
| Sarah | 8 | |||
| Elizabeth | 6 | |||
| Frederick | 2 | |||
| Herbert | 1 | |||
| Downer | Haydon E | 36 | Hamptonshire | Ship Wright |
| Anne | 33 | |||
| Fitz E | 3 | |||
| Alfred | 2 | |||
| Driver | William | 31 | Middlesex | Chairmaker |
| Harriet | 25 | |||
| Eadie | Andrew | 29 | Fife | Agricultural Labourer |
| Honora | 28 | |||
| Ferguson | William | 38 | Lanark | Ship Joiner |
| Margaret | 35 | |||
| Thomas | 6 | |||
| William | 5 | |||
| John H | 3 | |||
| James | 2 | |||
| Alex | 8 months | |||
| Fleming | Gaven | 26 | Lanark | Labourer Bound for Fielding |
| Sarah | 23 | |||
| William | 6 | |||
| James | 4 | |||
| Garnett | James | 27 | Yorkshire | Railway Guard |
| Henrietta | 24 | |||
| Martha E | 5 | |||
| Gillbanks | Isaac | 32 | Lancashire | Bootmaker |
| Ann | 32 | |||
| Mary | 10 | |||
| Gillbanks | William | 34 | Lancashire | Labourer |
| Mary | 35 | |||
| John Henry | 14 | |||
| Benjamin Wilson | 8 | |||
| Joseph | 3 | |||
| William | 1 | |||
| Gosling | Lawrence | 24 | Middlesex | Stevedore |
| Sarah | 22 | |||
| Ellen | 2 | |||
| Mary | 11 months | |||
| Infant Son | Born on board -15/09/1879 | |||
| Harper | James | 39 | Forfar | Millwright |
| Helen | 37 | |||
| Mary | 10 | |||
| Margaret | 8 | |||
| Helen | 6 | |||
| Agnes | 4 | |||
| James | 2 | |||
| Heald | William | 22 | Lancashire | Joiner |
| Alice | 23 | |||
| Mary | 1 | |||
| Heald | Ralph | 26 | Lancashire | Joiner |
| Ellen | 25 | |||
| Mary E | 4 | |||
| Ralph | 8 months | |||
| Wilkinson | Sarah | 24 | Lancashire | Servant travelled with Heald |
| Hutchins | Thomas | 28 | Cheshire | Blacksmith |
| Elizabeth | 26 | |||
| Edward | 2 | |||
| Elizabeth | 3 days | |||
| Jones | Daniel | 32 | Monmouth | Blacksmith |
| Emily | 32 | |||
| McAuerie | James | 30 | Tyrone | Labourer |
| Harriet | 27 | |||
| Harriet | 6 | |||
| James | 2 | |||
| Eva | 8 months | |||
| McKeown | John | 43 | Tyrone | Agricultural Labourer |
| Mary A | 32 | |||
| James | 8 | |||
| Mary | 6 | |||
| John | 4 | |||
| Margaret | 11 months | |||
| Martin | James | 44 | Salop | Labourer |
| Fanny | 40 | |||
| Martha | 20 | General Servant | ||
| Elizabeth | 17 | General Servant | ||
| George | 14 | |||