1751 Murdoch

Captain: Robert Hamilton
From: Rotterdam 22 Jun 1751
Arrival: Halifax 19 or 30 Sep 1751

Left with 298 passengers (100 families). Arrived with 269 passengers. Twenty-nine people died during the voyage (9.7 %). 

A large number of the passengers on this ship came from the Palatinate (Bayern-Pfalz) region as well as from Erbach, Stolberg, Isenburg, Hessen-Darmstadt, Kleinheubach, Baden-Durlach, and Württemberg. The names on the reconstructed list have been rearranged according to their place of origin from the southwest to northeast.

It is not possible to identify all the people on the ship because often a family would take an older parent or step children who are not easy to identify in the available sources, however all those in each household were listed under "Freight". Following are the abbreviations used here: 1m = 1 (adult) man, 1w = 1 (adult) woman, 1 hf = 1 half freight (i.e. child between 4-14 years old), 1c = 1 child under 4 (goes free), 3f = 3 freights (total, e.g could be a family of five: parents, two children between 4-14, and one child under 4), 5h = 5 heads (i.e. total number of people in the group).

The place of origin was generally the state, province, or city-state, however in some cases a town was listed (or the town might have been a small duchy or independent town in 1753). The actual towns of origin of these people will be verified in the future and updated on this site as time permits.