THE IMMIGRANT'S
GUIDE TO AUSTRALIA
All passengers, regardless of their travel class, were allowed to take baggage to the extent of fifteen or twenty cubic feet. For the many months of the voyage, wives were instructed to take three cotton dresses, one pair stays, four petticoats, sixteen chemises, two flannel petticoats, whilst husbands were instructed to take two fustian jackets, waistcoats, and trousers, three pairs canvas trousers, one over-coat, and two felt hats.

Men were advised that the wife make as many of her clothes on board as possible, as the occupation serves to pass away many an otherwise idle, heavy hour.

Three types of travel were available -- cabin, intermediate, and steerage with tickets costing between £20 and £70. Women received the same rations as men. Children between one and fourteen received half an adult's rations. Children under one, no ration, except one quart of water daily. Matrons were appointed to undertake the motherly duty of seeing that all the young females are in their sleeping apartments at a proper hour.

Passengers were required to rise by 7am and to be in their beds by 10pm.
Source: Capper J. 'The Immigrant’s Guide to Australia', George Phillip & Son, 1853.

Article: Research by P.H.V. Cumpston and colleagues in critical care medicine provides new insights.
Article from: Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week Article date:June 14, 2009

This page includes some general data about Cumpston[e]s in Australia. Where more information about the individual is available they will have a separate page - scroll under the CUMPSTON tab. Since I started my research I have made contact with 52 relatives in Australia.

Click on the name to view the data. Births are in yellow boxes, marriages in pink and deaths in green.

Western Australia Directory 1897 page 310

L. B. Cumpston Architect, 236 St George's Terrace Perth
L. Bowser Cumpston architect; p.r. Verona, Lamb Street, Perth
L. P. Cumpston see Mercantile Agency Co.

R. S. Cumpston see Commercial Agency Co.

www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/battye/pods/1897/0194.pdf

THE RYERSON INDEX to contemporary death notices and obituaries in Australian newspapers

Surname Given Names Notice Type Date Type Age Other Details Publication Published
 
CUMPSTON Alan George Death notice 07AUG 2001 Death Courier Mail (Brisbane) 11AUG2001
CUMPSTON Helen Ida Death notice 11 JUL 2005 Death 95 Canberra Times 13JUL2005
CUMPSTON Ina Mary Probate notice 15 DEC 2003 Death late of Barton, formerly of Deakin Canberra Times 15DEC2003
CUMPSTON Lorrain Death notice 02 APR 1955 Death late of Black Rock Sydney Morning Herald 06APR1955
CUMPSTON Mary Funeral notice 08 DEC 2003 Funeral Canberra Times 08DEC2003
CUMPSTON Mary Death notice 03 DEC 2003 Death 84 at Clare Holland House Canberra Times 05DEC2003
CUMPSTON Una Florence Death notice 27 SEP 1985 Death Sydney Morning Herald 30SEP1985

Shirley G Cumpston death year 1890 Box Hill Victoria

COMPSON, Alice Daw Kapunda Christ Church Anglican Burial, Grave, Headstone, Cemetery, South Australia. http://headstones.weebly.com/kapunda-christ-church-ang.html

DEATHS

Registration Number Last Name Given Name(s) Father's Given Name(s) Mother's Given Name(s) District
7108/1892 CUMPSTON AMY J JOSEPH P ANNIE LEICHHARDT
 
49490/1973  CUMPSTON WESLEY LIDGETT  SAMUEL BOLTON MARY ANNE NOWRA
 New South Wales

Do you recognise Mary Compston, one of 170 convicts transported on the Tory, 26 April 1848? Please tell me if you have any information.

Sentence details: Convicted at Lancaster Assizes at Liverpool for a term of 7 years on 11 December 1847.

Vessel: Tory. Date of Departure: 26 April 1848. Place of Arrival: Van Diemen's Land. Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 92, Class and Piece Number HO11/15, Page Number 301 (152)
 
Author/Creator: Great Britain. Home Office. ; State Library of Queensland. ;
Publisher: Canberra A.C.T. : Australian Joint Copying Project Is Part Of: Criminal : Convict transportation registers [HO 11] http://srlopac.slq.qld.gov.au/

Place of Conviction Lancashire HO/62 province Tasmania, Title Pardons Years 1852-3
[New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859]