Peach

David Mansfield has a link to his page on the barque "James Thomas Foord", more commonly referred to in extant records as “James T. Foord”. It was a converted whaling ship of some 790 tons, built in Quebec, Canada in 1844, by Thomas Hamilton Oliver, Shipbuilder, at his shipyard in the Seigniory of Saint Roch on the River Saint Charles. Her length was 131 feet, breadth 29 feet (the widest part of the vessel from outside plank to outside plank above or below the water-line) and depth 22 feet (hold measured from tonnage deck to ceiling amidships). She was later sold to Halheads of Liverpool, England. Rated as A1 for five years by Lloyds, she had some damage repaired in 1848, when she was sheathed with yellow metal for speed.

The worst cholera ship afloat
The James T. Foord arrived in Port Phillip on 7th. November 1849 after a journey from England lasting four months. Of a total of 269 Bounty passengers (81 children) and a crew of 37 embarking from Plymouth, England on 17th. July 1849, 54 emigrants died on the voyage and were buried at sea, 23 of these being children. Concise accounts of this voyage can be found in the books, "THE SOMERSET YEARS" by Florence Chuk, State Library of Victoria, and "PERILOUS VOYAGES TO THE NEW LAND", by Michael Cannon.
It was a terrible voyage. The master of the ship, Charles Henry Elliott, had given the passengers bad food and cut their supplies of toiletries and water. Thirty-three passengers died of cholera alone, besides other deaths on the voyage to Australia. The "James T. Foord" initially left Gravesend, England on about the 7th. of July 1849, arriving at Plymouth, England on the 12th. July. She lay here at anchor for five days before sailing for Port Phillip Australia, arriving there on the 7th. of November, 1849. Complaints about conditions on board led to a special Board of Enquiry being convened in Melbourne in 1849. The enquiry found that the master and the third officer were guilty of fraudulent and unfeeling conduct and in the case of the third officer of brutal conduct. It was said of the surgeon that while he apparently "carried out his duties with efficiency and humanity" during the epidemic, he was not blameless because he failed to "see the immigrants done justice to in the issue of their rations".
Thomas Peach, father to Ephraim Peach, had severe personal losses on this trip. His eldest son John, aged 18 years, died of cholera on 31st. July, 1849. His wife Catherine gave birth to a daughter on September 23rd. but died on 30th. September of puerperal fever. The baby died ten days later, succumbing to 'summer diarrhoea'. It is likely that Catherine's health, like that of many of the emigrants, had been severely affected by the fraudulent behaviour of the ship’s officers.

Thomas Peach aged 42, born c1803, and Catherine believed to be from Ellington, Huntingdon, England. From Death index, Thomas Peach 1806 - 1880 #9489 aged 74, son of Sarah Whitney and Thomas Glenboro Peach

From Lisa & Ken Peach, on Tue, 29 Apr 2003 - email sent 5 Dec 2008 bounced. Just a note - Ephraim Peach (1837-19 July 1912 aged 75 born in Huntingdon, England) remarried after the death of Edith, his first wife, on February 27, 1877 to Eliza Jane Miners and had another 7 children (one being my great-grandfather). Eliza was born in Tucking, Cornwall in 1845 and died on January 23, 1907.

Ephraim Peach on February 27, 1877 to Eliza Jane Miners