From the port of Adelaide to Port Darwin 16/12/1869.
Passengers ex Adelaide listing:
Devine, Mr and Mrs plus 3 children.
Gillatly, Richard J.
Plus 12 other adults and 13 other children
Source: Shipping to and from Port Darwin 1870. Courtesy of Genealogical Society of NT.
Unfortunatly Ann Devine kept no diary of her journey and of her life in Palmerston, however the same year another settler arrived and later wrote of her experience.
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Tuesday 1st of March 1870. Men complaining of Spencely as cook. Dr Millner engaged Gillatly at 1/- per day to assist Devine to cook for both officers and will be employed as a striker in the Blacksmith shop until we have enough shoes for all the horses. George Deane�s report on the sheep. Sheep landed from Kohinoor 143. Sheep killed up to 3rd February = 28, sheep died up to 3rd February = 28. In hand = 87.
Sunday 6th of March 1870. No church today, Dr Millner being unwell. Tuckwell, Hayball, Edwards, Devine and Fry each fined a days pay for going with their wives and children into the native camp, contrary to clause 3 of regulations.
Thursday 10th of March 1870. Neale hodge and Miller cutting timber for building purposes. Mr Packard and Cornish getting natives to cut bark for roofing houses. Two drays carting in timber, one stone and gravel. Dispute and fight between Devine and Gaire, two cooks. Arranged that Gaire is to cook for the men and Edwards is to cook for Mr Millner and myself. Thunder, lightening and rain at 6pm
On the 23rd of August 1870, Ann gave birth to James Douglas Palmerston Devine, one of three children to be born in the new settlement that year, and the second european child to be born in the Northern Territory.
James and Ann Devine, as well as Ann�s brother Richard, appear on the Northern Territory pioneer register and in acknowledgement of their early arrival in the Territory, Devine and Gillatly have streets named after them in the Litchfield Shire.
-South Australia annexed the Northern Territory in 1863.
-Several attempts had been made to settle coastal areas of the Northern Territory and had failed.
-George Goyder was successful in establishing a settlement of 135 men and women in 1869.
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