Mitchell, Henry
Confusion exists between Thomas MITCHELL (miller) and Henry MITCHELL (butcher), both appearing in various news articles and lists as arriving on the Duke of York.
Thomas Hudson Beare in 1858, questionably reported Thomas [sic] Mitchell, butcher, was a steerage passenger.
THE FIRST VESSEL. (1858, January 5). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article49778363William Loose Beare (son of Thomas Hudson Beare) in 1891 refutes his father by stating that Henry Mitchell, butcher, was a passenger.
Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912), Saturday 8 August 1891, page 4Henry MITCHELL was a passenger on the Duke of York, employed by the South Australian Company as a butcher.
The Registrar of Emigrants for Henry Mitchell: single, b.1825, aged 21, embarkation no. 40, address Woodford, Essex, occupation butcher. [c.f. Thomas Wilson, miller, was born in West Sussex].
Robert Morgan describes an incident where he stood between the steerage passengers (which included Mitchell) and some of the crew who were intent on causing trouble. - Dorothy Heinrich
According to W L Beare he arrived on Kangaroo Island as a butcher "to kill and sell - he had nothing to kill and refused to do anything else, so he was sent back again."
Holmesby, W. P. (1986). The First of the Many: An Account of Some Early History of South Australia and of the Family of Thomas Hudson Beare. Australia: W.P. Holmesby.
In the Payneham Cemetery there is a cenotaph memorial to the Thomas MITCHELL family, along with an unattributed plaque, questionably stating that Thomas Mitchell arrived on the Duke of York. Thomas was more likely on the Bolivar to Launceston 5 Oct 1842, and then to Port Adelaide in 1846.