In a message dated 5/30/2002 6:01:25 PM Central Daylight Time, CASTLE-GARDEN-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: > Pasenger's Name: John Ch. Dietrich > Age: 31 > Gender: Male > Occupation: Farmer > Last Residence: Germany > Date of Arrival: Jun 9, 1879 > Final Destination: USA > Purpose for Travel: Staying in USA but not a citizen > Ship's Name: City of Chester > Captain's Name: Brooks > Manifest ID Number: 35245 > Port of Embarkation: Liverpool & Queenstown > Mode of Travel: Steerage > Sandra, this seems to be the closest record that I've found, but I'm not too familiar with these items. It said Port of Embarkation was Liverpool & Queenstown, but he must have come from Germany. Where would he have left Germany, and why would he have two embarkations in England? I know you don't really know, but do you have any ideas? Also, Clara Kies, was with him, was she listed on the records? I understand they got married aboard ship. I'm just beginning to learn about emigration lists, so I'd appreciate any help anyone has to offer. Thanks a lot, Sandra Ruth

Hello Ruth, I'm pretty green at travel details myself. My best guess would be that the reason there are two ports of embarkation listed pertains to the ship taking on passengers (not referring to the individual passenger as having 2 points of embarkation). Clara Kies was not listed on my disk, but that does not mean that she was not on the ship. There are many, many names on the disks that are filled in in with question marks because they were illegible to the transcriber (example: K???, C.). As you can see, this could have been your Clara. Unless gender was included on the transcription, you would have to jump way out in left field to believe this was definitely her. If you are fairly sure that this John Dietrich is your man... send to NARA for the ship transcript and read thru to see if you can locate Clara. If they were traveling together, they would most likely be listed on the same page (she would most likely be listed on the line above or below him). It will only cost you $17 to find out. If you order the "entire" ship's manifest, it could get spendy. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Ruthfam@aol.com> To: <CASTLE-GARDEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 8:20 PM Subject: [CASTLE-GARDEN] Re: CASTLE-GARDEN-D Digest V02 #101 Pasenger's Name: John Ch. Dietrich Age: 31 Gender: Male Occupation: Farmer Last Residence: Germany Date of Arrival: Jun 9, 1879 Final Destination: USA Purpose for Travel: Staying in USA but not a citizen Ship's Name: City of Chester Captain's Name: Brooks Manifest ID Number: 35245 Port of Embarkation: Liverpool & Queenstown Mode of Travel: Steerage Sandra, this seems to be the closest record that I've found, but I'm not too familiar with these items. It said Port of Embarkation was Liverpool & Queenstown, but he must have come from Germany. Where would he have left Germany, and why would he have two embarkations in England? I know you don't really know, but do you have any ideas? Also, Clara Kies, was with him, was she listed on the records? I understand they got married aboard ship. I'm just beginning to learn about emigration lists, so I'd appreciate any help anyone has to offer. Thanks a lot, Sandra Ruth