[email protected] wrote: > > Subject: > > IRL-WESTMEATH-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 84 > > Today's Topics: > #1 [Irl-Westmeath] Sailing from Green ["Jil E" <[email protected]>] > #2 [Irl-Westmeath] Ellis Island ["Charlotte Smith" <[email protected]] > #3 Re: [Irl-Westmeath] Ellis Island ["Elizabeth Regina 111" <cavenkorne] > #4 Re: [Irl-Westmeath] Ellis Island ["Elizabeth Regina 111" <cavenkorne] > #5 Re: [Irl-Westmeath] Ellis Island ["K. Phelps" <[email protected]] > #6 Re: [Irl-Westmeath] Delvin Parish [[email protected]] > #7 Re: [Irl-Westmeath] Ellis Island [[email protected]] > > Administrivia: > > ______________________________ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: [Irl-Westmeath] Sailing from Greenstown? > Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:23:54 -0500 > From: "Jil E" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > I have a copy of a ships manifest that we believe carried our ancestors from > Westmeath. They sailed from Greenstown but I cannot find it located on any > maps. Anyone familiar with where this is? Also, the ships manifest doesn't > have the arrival port filled out but it does look like the number 183 is > stamped there. Any ideas? My aunt that got this is long since passed and I > have no idea where she got it from. Jill, >From seeing examples of the handwriting of those days, I'd bet the actual name of the departure port was Queenstown. The fancy Q in their writing style might easily be taken for a G. The port of Queenstown, down in Cork Harbor near Cobh, was a big emigration port. Rachel Smith