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[TSL] Questions on passenger lists
Patty Pickett <PATTYP@wpgate1.ahs.state.vt.us> on 12/30/1997


My library finally got one index plus two rolls of microfilm for me from agll
for Quebec. They are rolls C-4521 and C5422 and cover mid 1866 to mid
1868. This is my first look at Canadian records. I have actually very little
hands on passenger list experience anyway - one trip to the Pittsfield
archives two years ago was it.
So these lists came as a bit of a surprise to me. This is what I found.

I discovered that when a ship sailed from one port of embarkation that
there was the list attached to that port and if they stopped elsewhere
along the way a separate list was added. This list was in a totally
different handwriting and style as well. Passengers on the ships
were broken down ethnically as well or so it seemed. For instance, on
one ship the English passengers were usually listed first, then the
Scotch, then Irish, the "other". The original list from say Liverpool would
list all these people in that order, then there was another list added to it
and usually it was a German list. These lists were not on real "list"
paper- they looked like sheets of white paper with no lines or column
headings. They were very faint and extremely hard to read.
Often I would see other things like entire families being crossed off
the list with the note "not at clearance". There would be a page called
the town agents and others list. Who were they?
the standard time for these trips was listed as 32 days. I had a hard time
believing all ships arrived that regularly. Most of them said they did.

I should clarify that I only had time to look at the 1868 portion of the
reel last night but found it fascinating. There was a master list of sorts in
very nice handwriting listing ships arriving in Quebec in 1868. The reel
began in 1868 and worked its way back and I diligently tried to record
each ship and particulars, then found this list between the end of 1867
and the beginning of 1868. I am going to try to organize that, it was
rather difficult to copy on the reader.

What was a prepaid passage? That was listed as well.

I am looking for a specific Irish family said to have arrived in 1867
according to the Vermont census information in 1900. I did find a lot of
Irish names, but I also found far more Swedes than I ever thought
possible. My husbands family came from Sweden and I had an
erroneous notion that most of them came at the turn of the century.
There were many on the lists that I saw. Ports of departure were all
Liverpool, Glasgow, London, Dublin, Kragenor (?) Hamburg and Bremen,
Abderdeen, one looks like Ahrishana (?), Bergen, Christiana (?),
Strauvauger (?) Skien, Londonderry or Derry, Dramen and one that
looked like Drontheins. Many of the ships with Scandinavian
passengers listed the ultimate destination - many were Lacrosse
Wisconsin, Chicago, New York, Portland Maine. Many many of the
Swedes were miners. And I did love the names. I printed parts of
some lists , like the Peruvian which arrived 4-30-1868. A small
part reads:
Anna Andersdattar 22, spinster
Angus Larsdattar, 22, miner (shouldn't he have been Larson?)
Clara Svensdattar 24
Brida Svensdattar 30 both spinsters
with Olafson, Larson, Peterson, Johanson, Anderson, Hanson, Olsen,
Helgason, Jansen, Alsfon, Erickson.

Is this typical of passenger lists (broken down by nationality, lists
a compilation, with things like town agents and prepaid plus people
being crossed off as not at clearance? Does that mean not there
when the boat boarded?
Sorry this is so long. I was very excited to have a chance to read
through this last night. Thanks for any input.
Patty


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