Marr PlaceChesterton, Cambridgeshire, England
Migration PlaceSouthampton, Hampshire, England
MemoTantivy of 1,040 tons left UK on 3 June and arrived New South Wales on 3 Sept taking 92 days. The surgeon was J.G. Moir. The total number of immigrant adults was 148 males and 105 females and 66 male children and 80 female children giving a total count of 399. The deaths on the voyage totalled 1 female adult, 3 male and 6 female children under 14, a total of 10 deaths.
The Peacock family of Isaac, 30, farm labourer of Histon, Cambridgeshire, could read, his wife Anne, 28, could read and son Henry, 6, could read and other son John S, age 1 year. The immigrant list gives Isaac’s parents as John and Anne residing in Easton and that he has a cousin in Sydney named Thomas Baston who came to the Sydney Railway Company. (Mary) Anne’s parents are recorded as Simeon and Alice Leet of Histon.