Dear Shipslisters I am searching for information on the immigration of James Patton and Martha Perry for the period 1853-55. They immigrated from County Donegal, Ireland to Simcoe County Ontario with their four children; Francis b1845, James b1847, Anne b1849 and Sarah b1851. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Jim Patton Glendale Az

I just recently bought this book and wanted to share what I found within it as I went through my email messages. According to "Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cook Line and the McCorkell Line" compiled under the direction of Brian Mitchell ISBN# 0806312068 lists four ships with some Patton(s) which just might be those that filled your inquiry. One J & J Cooke's ship named the "Helen Thompson" within the year of 1847, has one of its passengers, James Patton (no age listed) from Ballybofey (Ballyshannon District) going to Quebec. A second ship in 1854, called the "Mary Ann" has a woman passenger on it with the name of Francis Patton, who is 26 yrs of age, who is from Ballyshannon District in Ireland. The ship's distination is to St. John, Canada. A third ship in Feb of 1864, named the "Stadacona" via the McCorkell & Co., left from Derry, Ireland, in Feb 1864, with an arrival destination of Quebec, in March of 1864, with two passengers, Margaret and a male named James Patton, both who were from Ballybofey (Ballyshannon District) of the County of Donegal, Ireland. (The Perry surname wasn't mentioned) A fourth ship in 1853, named the "Roger Stewart" via J & J Cooke, left from Derry, Ireland, with an arrival destination of Philadelphia. On this ship, two individuals were listed among the passengers. They were Sarah Patton (with no age listed) from Ballybofey (Ballyshannon District) and a William Tate (with no age listed) who was also from Ballyshannon District. It appears that they knew each other (being from the same County of Donegal and district) and were traveling together. http://www.ingeneas.com/ingeneas/index.html By using this search engine, you can find some record of Ann Patton: Anne PATTON Age: Not available Year: 1858 Price: $6.50US; $8.00Cdn. Description: Marriage Registers of Ontario, Canada (1858-1869) -- TORONTO, CITY -- Typical records in this document contain: name of groom and bride, their age, residence, and place of birth, religious denomination, date and place of marriage, names of parents, names of witnesses; occupation of the groom, and may also include residence of witnesses. (NOTE: each party is indexed separately in the database, therefore, one need only order one of the spouses to receive full information on both). The usual manner in Ireland, was for ships' captains not to keep passenger lists because it wasn't a requirement, however lists that survive owe their existance instead to the ship owners, who kept them for business reasons. The port of Londonderry have two series of list/shipping lists of J. & J. Cooke, 1847-1867, and William McCorkell & Co. 1863-1871. What these original passenger lists show is the passenger name, the passenger's residence, and age. The spelling of Leighton may be different than it is today, as the spellings of where each passenger lived is spelled differently today. A comparable reference book by Brian Mitchell of Irish lists that predates the above listed book I also have and it is called "Irish Passenger Lists 1803-1806 ISBN# 0806314583 It explains what population of the Irish were actually allowed to leave the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and why the Government was hostile to and withdrew and denied permission for some potential Irish passengers who wanted to emigrate. All this information was contained within what the British call the "Hardwicke Papers" which the author, Brian Mitchell, believes predates any custom passenger lists which record the arrival of immigrants at North American ports from 1820, which are presently held by the British Library in London. Hope this assists with your searching for ships. In the last book I am going to list, holds a list of 43 Irish vessels listed, named, with resources where information can be obtained such as passenger and emigrant lists leaving Ireland, giving in chronological order, from which Irish port each ship departed. In this book there are other many genealogical resources provided and directions on how to obtain them via counties which will assist to find information about Irish families available in Ireland. Here's the ISBN # 0806316179 -It's put together by John Grenham and called, "Tracing your IRISH ANCESTORS" This one is truly AWESOME. Rhonda Houston -----Original Message----- From: Jmpat737@aol.com [mailto:Jmpat737@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 7:25 PM To: CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CanShipsPre1865] Passenger Lists Dear Shipslisters I am searching for information on the immigration of James Patton and Martha Perry for the period 1853-55. They immigrated from County Donegal, Ireland to Simcoe County Ontario with their four children; Francis b1845, James b1847, Anne b1849 and Sarah b1851. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Jim Patton Glendale Az ==== CAN-SHIPSLISTS-PRE1865 Mailing List ==== Don't miss TheShipsList.com for a variety of records re immigration http://www.theshipslist.com/ ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

On 26 Sep 2002 at 3:06, Rhonda Houston wrote: > > > One J & J Cooke's ship named the "Helen Thompson" within the > year of 1847, has one of its passengers, James Patton (no age > listed) from Ballybofey (Ballyshannon District) going to Quebec. > I have the complete passenger list of the Helen Thompson online at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/can_helent1847.shtml I have many other ships to Canada online on Olive Tree Genealogy. You can start your search at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tocanp01.shtml or you can use my custom built Search Engine to search not only Olive Tree, but many other Internet sites for ships to Canada. For the search engine, go to http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml Lorine **Search Ships Passenger Lists to USA http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_ships.shtml **Search Ships Passenger Lists to Canada http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml **Search Ships Passenger Lists to Australia/New Zealand http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/searchships_aus.shtml otg@csolve.net