Hello, I'm forwarding this list as it can be useful in tracing ancestors who have emigrated to the new world. Good hunting Best regards Charles Flawn > From: theshipslist-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 105 > To: theshipslist@rootsweb.com > Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 01:01:26 -0600 > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. *new* for TheShipsList website (Sue Swiggum) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 30 May 2010 18:47:03 -0300 > From: Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> > Subject: [TSL] *new* for TheShipsList website > To: TheShipsList@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.1.20100530182212.03a5d090@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > *new* for TheShipsList website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > > All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own > page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows > --------------> <--------------- > > At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous > month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth > between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of > *new* page links on the Home page. New for May 2010 is . . . > > o Passengers: > o John Molson - 4th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 25th May 1832 . . > nearly 800 passengers > o John Molson - 5th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 1st June 1832 > o ... > o ship Grand Trianon, from Liverpool to Port Adelaide 23rd April 1860 > > Only three new passenger lists this week, but l o t s of passengers. The > JOHN MOLSON steamboat 4th trip with almost 800 passengers amd the 5th trip > with about 320. I really like this particular list compiler because you > can mostly read his handwriting and he usually adds first name of the > 'head' of the group. eg. The John Rowentree / Rowntree family on the 5th > trip with tickets from the Canada Company has quite a bit written about him > ... he ran saw-mills in York (Toronto). I'm sure many of the other > family's have their stories too. > ... > The GRAND TRIANON was the first emigrant vessel from UK to Adelaide for > 1860, with about 360 passengers ... quite a few Scots on this > voyage. There was two births aboard although we don't know who they were > and there was only one death, an adult ... all in all a good trip. As they > neared their destination, they barely avoided going ashore at Holdfast > Bay. They were distracted by what they thought was the "Lightship" (used > to guide them) but averted trouble when they realised they were in shallow > water. I found the reason mentioned later, in the newspaper. Seems the > lamp from the "St. Leonard's Inn" was the culprit, so the harbour master > arranged for that lamp to be darkened on the south and west sides. > > Please share this *new* for TheShipsList website email, with any other list > to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those > list members (in other words, on-topic). > > Enjoy > > Sue > -- > TheShipsList Website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the THESHIPSLIST list administrator, send an email to > THESHIPSLIST-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the THESHIPSLIST mailing list, send an email to THESHIPSLIST@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to THESHIPSLIST-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 5, Issue 105 > ******************************************** _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now