Hi, Looking for info of g.grand-father John A.Moody.His naturalization papers say he arrived July 1,1880 port of NY.He was naturalized in 1905,so there were no details on his paper work. John was b.1835 in Devon England.He left England,yr unknown,going to Canada,where we find him having his first child in 1870. He is then found on the 1880 NY census with wife Margaret O'Donoghue(b.Co.Kerry Ireland) and 4 children.I do not know if they arrived together from Canada. Does anyone have or know of an on line source that could help me locate the name of the ship he arrived on? I have a 6yr old and I don't drive,so basically I am stuck with mainly internet research and the kindness of others. Maureen (NY,USA) Ye Old Directory Shoppe Select from approx.166 directory cds http://yeoldedirectoryshoppe.com/oldcitydirectories/CD.html FREE transcription and look-up pages now on-line!

Hi Molly. This doesn't directly answer your question but if Moody's first child was born in Canada it is a good possibility that he was also married in Canada. The marriage record and birth record will certainly be available on microfilm which you will be able to order in. For Ontario births try MS 931 and for marriages try MS 934. You should be able to order them from the Ontario Archives or the LDS. Good luck. I have a question of my own which I hope a reader will answer. My g. grandfather Samuel Cameron Smith emigrated to the US from Canada (actually across the river from Windsor, Ontario to Detroit, Michigan) sometime before 1880. He and his wife (name unknown but likely Alice Barsley) had a child (Catherine Nina, b. January 19, 1880) while living in Detroit, and his wife died shortly thereafter. By 1881 Smith is back in Windsor living with his infant daughter in the home of his mother and father and thereafter the family remained in Canada. I am searching for these particular birth and death certificates without much success but my question concerns immigration records. Would Samuel and his wife have had to register as immigrants when moving to Detroit and would the US-born infant have been registered as an emigrant when leaving the US? How strict and efficient was the border regulated c.1880? If they did register, where would those records be held? -----Original Message----- From: molly [mailto:molly6@optonline.net] Sent: 13 May 2002 09:53 To: CASTLE-GARDEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [CASTLE-GARDEN] July 1,1880 coming from Canada Hi, Looking for info of g.grand-father John A.Moody.His naturalization papers say he arrived July 1,1880 port of NY.He was naturalized in 1905,so there were no details on his paper work. John was b.1835 in Devon England.He left England,yr unknown,going to Canada,where we find him having his first child in 1870. He is then found on the 1880 NY census with wife Margaret O'Donoghue(b.Co.Kerry Ireland) and 4 children.I do not know if they arrived together from Canada. Does anyone have or know of an on line source that could help me locate the name of the ship he arrived on? I have a 6yr old and I don't drive,so basically I am stuck with mainly internet research and the kindness of others. Maureen (NY,USA) Ye Old Directory Shoppe Select from approx.166 directory cds http://yeoldedirectoryshoppe.com/oldcitydirectories/CD.html FREE transcription and look-up pages now on-line! ============================== 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