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Fever Stricken Vessel and Life on Early Clarence River
An article recounts the 1852 fever aboard the Ontario voyage from Liverpool to Sydney, detailing high illness and deaths among 310 passengers, including the captain buried at sea. It follows Margaret Ross McQueen, a child who survived and later became a pioneer’s wife on the Clarence River, with notes on her family, Scotland origins, and early Barrington life and bread-baking practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ontario
Clarence River
Port Jackson
Liverpool
Sydney
England
Australia
Margaret Ross
McQueen
Alex Ross
Alex
Sydney Harbor
Hunter Andarrington
Hunter River
Scotland
Neil McQueen
Barrington
Free Presbyterian Church
J. 8.McPherson
W. N. Wilson
Robert Allen
Clarence
Dungog