Thanks Marilyn For my inquiry: what a generous offer. Let's hold, however, because if I keep letting myself get side tracked, I won't finish the Armstrong / Allen work. Hate to admit it but it's been more fun talking about Peacocks than beating my head against these brick walls of late. In fact have a tee-shirt drawing I want printed that has a person hitting their head against a high brick wall and saying: "Just one more"!l, but the perspective of the drawing is from high over head and the reader can see a pedigree of brick walls in pairs spanning out into the vanishing point, thousands of them. Ooops, no... that's the nightmare after eating Haggis. I'm so confused. ;>) My wife wants me to get a tee-shirt that we saw on the web that says: "Genealogist: Disturbing the Dead and Annoying the Living." Cheers, > HI...am I wrong or didn't the William and Mary make more than one trip with > more than one bunch of passengers to the new world? I am pretty sure it > did. I am quite sure (although I 'll have to look them up now) that my > ancestors were English when they came here. There were several and I'd have > to go back through some genealogies to find them but I will try if you need > me to do that. > > Marilyn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert E. Armstrong" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 1:12 PM > Subject: Re: [ARMSTRONG] ARMSTRONGE, De Mormaer & De Dampierre > > > >> Dear James, >> There were only 208 passengers aboard the William and Mary. Most were >> Irish, and the second largest contingent were Dutch. There was two small >> families of English passengers, my grandmother's family was from >> Scotland, and there was one additional Scottish male, Mr. Miller from >> Edinburgh. There was one Frenchman aboard. The two English were named >> Mr. Luke Stewart with a wife and two daughters, and Mr. Joseph Brooke >> and his wife. >> All the Dutch passengers have names difficult for me to spell. >> Sincerely, >> Bob Armstrong >> >> >> James D. Allen wrote: >> >> >>> Here's a good example of unintentional consequences. >>> I have a relative that came in to New Orleans as an orphan about 1853. >>> We couldn't figure out why he CAME as an orphan but this would be an >>> interesting angle to check out. >>> One of those "duh" revelations. >>> >>> THANKS! >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Robert E. Armstrong wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Dear James, >>>> For what it's worth, I found the microfilmed passenger list of one of >>>> the two rescue boats that brought survivors of the William and Mary >>>> disaster to New Orleans in 1853. I found them at the Clayton >>>> Genealogical Library in Houston. All five members of my grandmother's >>>> family of Browns were listed, however two of the names were hardly >>>> legible. >>>> Sincerely, >>>> Bob Armstrong >>>> >>>> >>>> James D. Allen wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Marilyn and List: >>>>> >>>>> Any idea where I'd go to get passenger list for a Scotsman who came to >>>>> the US (ending up in either MA or RI) after the Civil war (I assume >>>>> 1865-72) from an unknown port of departure? >>>>> >>>>> I've drawn blanks from searching the standard on line or MA Archive >>>>> passenger lists, and am not real familiar with different books or other >>>>> resources out there. There are so many ports and boats, >>>>> I'm not sure where to best spend my energy. When you refer to "ships >>>>> records" is that a single source or do you have to search each ship >>>>> somehow? >>>>> >>>>> Any suggestions? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Marilyn Otterson wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Hello, Faye, >>>>>> You have given very little information to help find more about your >>>>>> William >>>>>> Armstrong. (It's a very common name.) >>>>>> >>>>>> You might try researching ships' records for 1820 arrivals to Australia >>>>>> from >>>>>> Ireland. It's possible you could find more information about your >>>>>> William >>>>>> there. Do you know if the children who were left behind were with their >>>>>> mother? Do you happen to know her name? Do you know the names of the >>>>>> kids? >>>>>> Can you find immigration records about William in Australia...sometimes >>>>>> those reveal more information about the person arriving there. (For >>>>>> instance, there were probably 100 or more William Armstrongs in Ireland >>>>>> in >>>>>> 1820 and you would need to know what country William came from.) Do >>>>>> you >>>>>> know if he ever was able to bring the children to be with him in >>>>>> Australia? >>>>>> Without knowing more, I think you are going to have a difficult time >>>>>> finding >>>>>> more information about William's family in Ireland. >>>>>> >>>>>> Sorry not to be of more help. >>>>>> >>>>>> Marilyn >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> ------------------------------- >>>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>>>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>>>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >>> >>> >>> >> -- >> Sincerely, >> Bob Armstrong >> in Houston, TX >> picture >> "I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily and without >> regret." Roderick Haig-Brown >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Robert E. Armstrong, DVM, MS, member Dog Writers Association of >> America, author of the veterinary >> mystery/thrillers, CANIS - paperback, ISBN 0-595-29795-1 or eBook, >> ISBN 0-595-75078-8 and >> INDEX OF SUSPICION - ISBN: 0-595-20485-6 Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble >> Visit my home page at http://home.houston.rr.com/rarmstrong9/ >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

"My wife wants me to get a tee-shirt that we saw on the web that says: "Genealogist: Disturbing the Dead and Annoying the Living." ROTFLMBO Where can I get one of those?!?!? That's priceless!!! :D Take care, Rob.