Migration to Australia 1874

Ship Winefred

When Margaret Johnston was 24 years old, she travelled by ship “Winefred” to Brisbane, Queensland in Australia.  Margaret R Johnston is listed as “Free”.  Her name is spelt Johnson in the shipping list not Johnston. 

George (aged 25) and his brother Horace (20) Goodfellow were Assisted passengers in the shipping list for the ‘Winefred’ which sailed from London 4 October 1873 and arrived in Moreton Bay 14 January 1874.  There is a strange column called number of land order: George was no. 1014 and Horace no. 942. 

Not all assisted passengers have such a number.  Assisted passengers are separate from Saloon, Second Class, Steerage, Free and Remittance.  So George was not a remittance man, but the Free passengers do not have Land Order numbers.  The Shipping List does not include any place of birth or residence for the passengers.

Twelve days after arriving in Brisbane, on 26 January 1874, George Henry Goodfellow aged 27 and Margaret Rebecca Johnston aged 22 were married at the manse of the Presbyterian Church, Anne Street, North Brisbane, on 26 January 1874. 

The witnesses at their marriage were William Dodimead and Maria [her mark] Caps.  Edwin W Dodimead was an Assisted passenger on the 'Winefred' shipping list.  His land order number is 941, just one before Horace Goodfellow’s.  I can’t see Maria Caps amongst the passengers.