Not intending to contradict anyone, but the last few times that I travelled on ferries I have booked and paid via the internet, your "ticket" is then posted to you via e-mail, it is up to you to print off the document, but on at least one occasion I managed to misplace it prior to arrival at the docks, no problem, name, address how many travelling and the lady with the magic keyboard took all of twenty seconds to confirm that someone with my name had booked and paid passage, handed me a dangly piece of cardboard to display in the front window and waved us through with a smile. FAIRY TICKETS. Like the Penny Black There's no going back To the times of Victorians Who, For future historians Made passenger lists That still exist With names complete In script so neat With destinations And assignations. The ports of leaving And countries receiving. Alas no longer is that the case You're just a number in a database

Hello, I hope you all don't mind, but I am interested in a few things Irish !! Does anyone know how much it would have cost (US dollars) to travel from the UK to the US in 1880-1900? If someone came over from Ireland (1800's) to the US and they weren't a wealthy or eduacted lot, would they have spoken Gaelic or English? Was it very common to take a loved on back to Ireland from the US for burial? I might have more questions later !! Go raibh maith 'ad, Cece

I think that perhaps it was not affordable to take a loved one back to Ireland to bury them. in that time frame, but that does not mean that there was no exceptions to the rule, but when thinking about the way they would have had to travel, what system would have been used to contain the body to bring back from USA. Was cremation an option in those days,?and if the person was Catholic I think cremation would have been a no no, I realise by reading on laws of the time that cremation was around, but some of these people that left Ireland were not really well off, they sent home what they could when they could. I do know from the headstones that I have compiled that memorial stones were placed on family at homes graves saying died in USA can supply examples of those, and also it must be said that not everyone on a headstone lies beneath that headstone. So my answer to did they take a loved one home to bury them...............would be no but there were exceptions to every rule, bu that didnt mean a little piece of Ireland wasnt buried with them, If I had all the soil that had been removed from Ireland as a keepsake I sure would have a very large mound of earth over here in Australia that belonged to Ireland Keep on asking these questions they are great input to the list Cheers for now Cara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cece" <mawcee@mindspring.com> To: <IRL-WICKLOW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 5:59 AM Subject: [Wicklow] Basic Questions > Hello, > > I hope you all don't mind, but I am interested in a few things Irish !! > > Does anyone know how much it would have cost (US dollars) to travel from > the UK to the US in 1880-1900? > > If someone came over from Ireland (1800's) to the US and they weren't a > wealthy or eduacted lot, would they have spoken Gaelic or English? > > Was it very common to take a loved on back to Ireland from the US for > burial? > > I might have more questions later !! > > Go raibh maith 'ad, > > Cece > > ==== IRL-WICKLOW Mailing List ==== > *Folk lore* is a wonderful additive to family research, but one must not > base their whole search around it. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >