Liverpool Journal 3rd Feb 1849
Birth at sea
On board the BRITANNIA for Dublin on Tuesday night, a young woman apparently much indisposed, made application to come down into the cabin just before midnight. The weather being rough and most of the passengers ill, the Captain, with great feeling, allowed her to sit down and warm herself, when her malady soon turned out, not to be sea-sickness, but something else.
Fortunately there was a surgeon on board, and very assistance was rendered to her in the ladies cabin. In about three hours the lady was delivered of a fine girl, who with the mother are both doing as well as can be expected.
The baby was called, JENNY LIND, for she gave a specimen of her lungs. A collection was made for her amongst the cabin passengers. Capt SARSFIELD gave orders that nothing should be wanted that the ship could supply, the attention of the Stewardess was unremitting.
Daily Post Jan 2nd 1860
At sea 7 days out of Liverpool on board the S.S EDINBURGH, Jane wife of Charles S. MAY and daughter of Mr MC SHEAN, Trafalgar Hotel, a son.
The saloon passengers received the little stranger with all honours. A subscription was entered into and a very handsome silver cup was presented to “the ocean child,” on their arrival to port, with a neat and suitable inscription accompanied by the following address to the young mother ;-
Capt Mrs MAY - We, the undersigned, members of the elephant club, on the steamship EDINBURGH be leave to present to “the ocean child,” through you its mother, the accompanying cup as a memento of our very pleasant trip to Liverpool from New York in which your child formed such an interesting episode.
We beg to add our sincere wishes that the child may be spared to accompany and comfort you through the voyage of life, and that he may prosper in all that makes manhood worthy and noble. Though destined to be far separated through our lives, and probably never to meet again, yet we will indulge the hope that at some point of the future we may, at our mature years greet the ocean babe, grown to be an honoured member of society ;-
Henry H. LANDEN, New York, J. F. BOWLE, Richmond Va, Joseph NICHOLSON, Chicago, John NEWMAN, New York, Morrison EWING, Purser, William H. BAKER, Callao, James B. BLACK, M.R.C.S, England, George BUT?ER, Birkenhead, R. W. M. NAYLOR, Limerick, John E. MC ELROY, Albany, New York, Louis Woolf GLESSEN, Germany.
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BIRTHS
Liverpool Mercury, Friday, June 29, 1849
April 18th, At sea, on her passage to the Cape of Good Hope, the lady of S. R. CLARKE Esq, of a daughter
Liverpool Mercury, Tuesday, December 2, 1851
Nov 19th, at sea on board the royal West India, mail steamship Medway, the Lady of Capt COLLELL, 67th, Regt, Barbadoes, of a son
Liverpool Mercury, Tuesday, April 5, 1853
March 25th, At sea, on board the Great Britain, on her passage from Australia, the wife of Mr C. YUILLE, a daughter
Liverpool Mercury, Tuesday, May 3, 1853
March 6th, at sea between Aden and Ceylon, on board the Peninsular and Oriental steamship Pottinger, the wife of Rev J. K. BEST, S.P.G, a son
Liverpool Mercury, Tuesday, November 14, 1854
Dec 20th, on board the ship Persia, from this port to Sydney N.S.W, the wife of Capt ROBERTS, a son. Death Oct 2nd, on board the ship Persia, from Calcutta for London, the wife of Capt ROBERTS.
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