On the 11th instant, lost at sea, in the steamship _London_, on her
voyage to Melbourne, Gilbert Andrew Amos, Esq., Police Magistrate and
Warden, Heidelburg, Victoria, and third son of the late Andrew Amos,
Esq., of St. Ibbs, Hitchin, Herts; also, at the same time and place,
Isabella Dick Amos, wife of the above; also, at the same time and
place, Miss Catherine McLachlan, aged 22, sister of the said Isabella
Dick Amos.
On the 11th inst., in the steamship _London_, on her voyage to
Melbourne, Edward Youngman, Esq., aged 44, greatly beloved and
regretted by a numerous circle of friends.
On the 11th inst., lost at sea, in the steamship _London_, George F. P.
Urquhart, Esq., of Evandale, Auckland, New Zealand, and Mary Chauncy,
his wife, late of 11, Kensington-park Villas, W., daughter of the late
Major James Burke, of the 77th and 99th Regiments, of Arlaman, county
Limerick, Ireland.
These are only a few instances out of many that might be given; but now
to look at names, well known, take first the story of the Cumberland
emigrants.
It appears that no less than ten persons who went out in the _London_
were connected with Cumberland; one family, consisting of William
Graham, his wife, and three children, having gone from Carlisle. It is
a sad story--one which cannot be read even by strangers without the
most sorrowful feelings. William Graham, tailor, aged 51 years; Ellen,
his wife, 49 years; George, his son, 10 years; a daughter, 3 years;
a baby, aged 4 months; Thomas Graham, aged 40 years; Mary, his wife,
aged 27 years; David Graham, aged 37 years; David McVittie, aged 30
years, blacksmith, Newtown; and John Little, aged 30 years, fireman on
the North British Railway. The three Grahams were brothers. Thomas had
been out in Victoria twelve years, and David followed him four years
afterwards, and had since been engaged in business with him. Success
followed their farming operations, until they were enabled to purchase
an estate. In their prosperity the brothers were not unmindful of
their old home, and during the prevalence of distress at Longtown, in
consequence of the cotton famine, they generously sent over a sum of
60_l._ for the relief of the sufferers. They also sent a large amount
of relief to Manchester. In August last they came to England, with the
view of seeing their friends, and of purchasing implements. Upwards of
1000_l._ they laid out in this way, and sent out before them a variety
of implements for the farm. Thomas had another purpose to effect, also,
in visiting the old country, and that was to marry, and take home with
him a wife. He married Sarah Bruce, a native of Banff, and they were
married only a week before they left Carlisle to take up their berths
on board the _London_. Their brother, William Graham, agreed to go out
with them, they paying his passage, and he took with him his family, as
stated above. Little and McVittie, friends of the Grahams, were also
going out with them.
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