Patrick Sullivan wrote: > Has anyone seen a ship with the name of "Chaos" in your research? Word has > it came from Liverpool in 1847 and landed in NY. Why anyone would board a > ship with this name in those days is beyond me, but my ggrandpa did and made > it. Thanks. > Patrick > sfps484@sio.midco.net > Patrick -- The name is from Greek mythology: "CHAOS - in one ancient Greek myth of creation, the dark, silent abyss from which all things came into existence. According to the Theogony of Hesiod, Chaos generated the solid mass of Earth, from which arose the starry, cloud-filled Heaven. Mother Earth and Father Heaven, personified respectively as Gaea and her offspring Uranus, were the parents of the Titans. In a later theory, Chaos is the formless matter from which the cosmos, or harmonious order, was created. " (Doesn't sound like a good name for a ship to me especially from a marketing standpoint!) This is probably the 1847 ship you are looking for but no passenger list was given: but maybe you can find one by Googling the Master's and ship name, date & ports. (found at http://www.grimshaworigin.org/WebPages/CalebShip.htm) (1847) Chaos (tons 771) Master: J. L. Wilson This was a Liverpool to New York run. -- No passenger list given nor exact date. ============ Here's a passenger list for an earlier voyage of the Chaos to New Orleans, in case it has any interest for you. There was a different Master two years earlier. (probably a partial list, as I notice they are mostly "B" names. Odd. Found this at http://www.genesearch.com/neworleans/neworleans1845j.html 1845 January 29 Ship Chaos (Ship's Master: Larkin) Liverpool Wm Larkin (25, U. States) James Swift (30, laborer, Ireland) Mary A Swift (34, Ireland) Mary Creighton (48, England) Mary Creighton (22, England) Thos Wason (36, laborer, England) Geo Barker (63, laborer, England) Sarah Barker (60, laborer, England) Jane Barker (36, laborer, England) Jas. Barker (34, laborer, England) George Barker (27, laborer, England) Isabella Barker (25, laborer, England) Ralph Barker (21, laborer, England) Emma Barker (18, laborer, England) Sarah Barker (17, laborer, England) Jeanne Surber surberj@earthlink.net