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Charles Porter, William Fielder, Isaac Fisher, James Daniels, Robert Leech, Thomas Chandler, James Bosworth, Peter Elder, James Connal, Thomas Condon, William Park, John Foster, Dennis Kelcher, George Daxwell, Thomas Burke, Martin Frederick, John Bishop, William Bears, Richard Pugh, Thomas Rodgers, William Tyndale, John Jones, William Siddell, Samuel Simmers, Thomas Hathaway. Many of these men married Maori women and became good settlers, some of them having large families. Others amongst them went over to the Melbourne diggings.
Arthur Eaton, 1840-50, came to Wellington in the Oriental in 1840 with his father and four brothers. He served in the early Native wars. He came to Lyttelton in 1862. He died at the age of eighty-one years at Lyttelton, and leaves a widow, one son, and three daughters.
Richard Augustus Eaton, 1840-50, came to Wellington in the Oriental in 1840 with his father and four brothers. He served in the Maori war, and found his way to Lyttelton in 1860. He worked for many years in the tunnel, and afterwards on the eastern breakwater under Martindale and H. H.
