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GRO Reference: 1858 DQuarter in WIRRAL Volume 08A Page 379.
Gabriel Blewett and his sons John and Gabriel embarked on the Mobile from Liverpool as unassisted immigrants. Departure date: 'Shipping Intelligence', The Argus, 17 November 1853, p.4.
Ruth Blewett (62) and her two youngest children, Emma (28) and Edward (22), embarked on the Saldanha from Liverpool as unassisted immigrants. Departure date: 'Anglo-Victorian Shipping', Geelong Advertiser, 7 September 1859, p.2.
Elizabeth's mother Ruth Blewett was a witness. The other witness was Robert Morgan, neither father nor brother of John Morgan. Was he an uncle?
John Morgan's granddaughter Florence recalled later in life (letter to Joan Wallis), ‘All I heard of my father’s father was that on the journey out from Wales he acted as Schoolmaster on board ship.’ (They left from Liverpool, not Wales.) As time would show, John didn’t seem temperamentally suited to the role. But were there any candidates more likely than John on board the Bloomer who could have acted as schoolmaster? No. More than a third of the emigrants were agricultural labourers from Scotland. The rest were made up of ‘a superior class of mechanics’: carpenters, smiths, bricklayers and a wheelwright, with masons making up the second largest group by profession. A good proportion of the adult passengers could both read and write. (Analysis based on shipping manifest.)