"Jo Kester" <Jo.Kester@comcast.net> wrote: : In accessing the new Castle Garden website www.CastleGarden.org : I found a James Redmond from Ireland with the same birth year as my : grandfather and of course, the same name. : This immigrant had sailed from Glasgow & Larne to NY. : A question for you Ireland and Scotland geography buffs: : Would a resident of Dublin, Ireland area have traveled to this port to sail : to America? : What would be the distance and mode of transportation ca1875-1885? It's less distance to take the train to Larne and board a ship originating in Glasgow than to take a train to Queenstown and board a ship that originated in Liverpool. What makes you so certain he was resident in Dublin at the time of emigration? He could have gone North to find employment in Belfast and decided at some point to try his luck in America. Look for the actual passenger manifest and see if the boat also picked up passengers in Dublin on the way. You should also look for him in the 1900 census, if he was alive then, and see what year it says he came to the U.S. and whether he was naturalized. If he was naturalized, the record may include his date and port of arrival, though if he was naturalized in New York it may not have that much detail. -dja