In July of 1847, the small bark Ajax anchored at Grosse Ile to discharge her cargo of desperately ill passengers. The dead had already been thrown overboard, the victims of disease and starvation. Any remaining healthy passengers sailed on to Quebec when the quarantine was lifted. Ajax had sailed from Liverpool, England >Dublin Harbor, Ireland, to Grosse Ile, the quarantine station for Canada, before leaving for her final leg of the journey to Quebec. My gr-grandfather, Thomas GAVAGAN, age 16, had been aboard. A fellow passenger, Timothy GAVAGHAN, age 67, had died and been buried at sea in the harbor at Grosse Ile. I'm assuming that he and Thomas were related, but I don't know for sure. Sadly, with the exception of 1847 Famine Ship Diary The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship by Robert Whyte, I have been unable to find any information about this little ship and its passengers on this trip. Obviously, my great-grandfather survived his nightmare journey and settled in Boston, MA, where he married and raised a family of nine children. However, if anyone has any scraps of data about the ship or her passengers, I would be just thrilled to hear from you. Thanks for bearing with me. Fran Weeks