Java
A square rigged ship with three masts and being 1175 ton built at Calcutta in 1811 by Blackmore & Company, the Java was the last of the East Indiamen.
The Java has been well documented - there have been some excellent accounts of the doings of this ship published, including Java - The Melancholy True Story of the EastIndiaman Java by by Stephen Barrett.
Barrett wrote about the infamous trip to Adelaide from London and Plymouth between October 1839 and February 1840 during which some 50 of the 500 passengers on board starved to death. These included cabin and intermediate passengers, as well as assisted emigrants.
A Royal Commission into the affair was held, and her owners, Scott & Co. of London were ordered not to be paid.
A Medical Board inquiry was held by the Government of South Australia into the Java incident.
The Java arrived here on 6 February 1849 from London and Plymouth carrying between 426 and 500 passengers.
Between 30 and 50
perished from starvation on the voyage which began in London on 12 September
1839 under command of Captain Alexander Duthie.
The Surgeon Superintendant was
H C Martin, and ship's surgeon Mr J Smith
connections to the Java
(this Reynolds connects to the Davis family - not the Ewens)
Reynolds, William ( 1821) - wife Elizabeth nee Andrew (1821).
married late 1839
in St Gluvias, aged 19 & 18.
They must have left soon after the marriage to Plymouth sailing on board the
Java
to South Australia as bounty emigrants
(it left London on 12
October and Plymouth on 29 October 1839).
William's details give his address as Penryn, Cornwall and his trade as a
Mason.
Humberstone, William - wife & 1 child is this William Umpherston? - though there is no sign
of John and Ann who were supposedly with him.
Hamlyn, Elizabeth? is this her?
Marriage Notices 6 April
1844
Yesterday Morning at Trinity Church, by the Rev. James Farrell,
Mr Emanuel Spiller, son of Mr Robert Spiller, late of Chichester in the county of Sussex, England,
to Miss Elizabeth Hamlyn.