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to bring free

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s to

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; the other ships being the and the ''

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''. The ''Chaseley''s captain was C. F. Aldridge and its medical superintendent was William Hobbs. The ''Chaseley'' departed The Downs on 27 December 1848 and arrived in

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on 1 May 1849.

Notable immigrants on Chaseley

* John Lloyd Bale, banker and politician of

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, businessman and politician of

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* George Grimes, farmer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly *

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, farmer and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly * Mary McConnel, founder of the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane

References

{{reflist 1845 ships Ships built on the River Wear History of immigration to Australia Sailing ships of the United Kingdom History of Queensland Pre-Separation Queensland