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This site pays tribute not only to the Ticonderoga passengers who lost their lives both during the infamous voyage of 1852 from

Birkenhead to Port Phillip Bay but also to the hardships endured by those passengers who did survive such a traumatic course of events.

The Journey

The Journey is a brief account of the fever ship's voyage.  As a response to a labour shortage in Australia, the  'double-decker' clipper was hired to carry emigrants to Australia. It departed Liverpool on 4 Aug 1852 and crawled into Port Phillip Bay on 5 Nov 1852 flying the yellow flag and carrying the stench of death.  Passengers were quarantined and those who survived arrived into Melbourne on 22 Dec 1952.

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Passenger List

The passenger list has been transcribed from the original manifest with due care.  Survivors' details include age, place of origin, occupation, religion and literacy level.  Passengers who died during the voyage or in quarantine are only listed by name and age.  The latter have now been honoured on a memorial stone located in the cemetery of the Portsea Quarantine Station.

Memorial rock

Articles

Whilst much has been written on the Ticonderoga, the newspaper articles of the day give the reader a sense of the time, the mood and language. 

Special thanks  to Lorraine Begg for providing a transcription of the British Parliamentary Papers (1854) Correspondence relating to Emigration. 

The Argus, 1934

Fever Beach

“Fever Beach” is an exceptionally detailed account that takes you on a journey back in time, from the Emigrant Depot at Birkenhead to the Quarantine Station at Point Nepean and on to the final landing at Hobson’s Bay. 

Mary Kruithoff, the author and a Ticonderoga descendant herself, is selling copies of the book via her website at www.qualityinsights.com.au/heritage/books.html.

Fever Beach

Portsea Quarantine Station

The Portsea Quarantine Station on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia was established in 1852 as a response to the arrival of the "fever ship", the Ticonderoga.

 

On Sunday 10 Nov 2002, the Quarantine Station celebrated its 150th anniversary and a bronze plaque was unveiled commemorating the occasion.  Also a memorial rock dedicated to the deaths on the voyage and in quarantine was unveiled in the cemetery.

For further information on the Quarantine Station, please contact the Point Nepean Community Trust on  info@pointnepeantrust.org or visit their web site at http://www.pointnepeantrust.org.

Bronze plaque
Quarantine Stn Hospital

Descendants' Database

The database and gallery is a forum for descendants to share information on their family.  The aim is to include 3 generations per family (the Ticonderoga adults being the first.  Details of parents of passengers, parents of spouses and their immigration details may also be included in order to make it easier for anyone seeking their Victorian ancestors but are short on detail.  

The Halls, Horsington desc.

Contacts

If you are researching a Ticonderoga family and would like your name added to the Descendant contacts, please email Julie Ruzsicska at

    

Most contacts listed have contributed information on their families to the descendants' database.

 

Memorial rock

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