Hi Thomas JENKINS was at: 39 James St, Llanover, Monmouth on the 1881 census together with his family. I have him in Ohio from 1900 though he arrived in the USA in 1887. Unfortunately the US Census of 1890 was destroyed in a fire. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Bates" <lewbat@tiscali.co.uk> To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [MON] From Wales to the USA > Where in Monmouthshire? > Blaenavon? > > -----Original Message----- > From: monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:monmouthshire-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of John Jones > Sent: 22 January 2007 04:01 > To: monmouthshire@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MON] From Wales to the USA > > Hi Pam. > > Thanks for the info > > Regards > > John > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pam Thornbury" <pthorn@ihug.co.nz> > To: <monmouthshire@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:12 AM > Subject: Re: [MON] From Wales to the USA > > >> By 1887 steamships were favoured for emigration [only 15 days to cross > the >> Atlantic]. >> >> '...five million of the five and a half million people who left > Britain >> for North America between >> 1860 and 1890, sailed from Liverpool.' [from "Liverpool and the > American >> Cotton Trade" B.H >> Tolley] >> >> The railway links from Wales would have made this a fairly easy > journey. >> >> Pam >> in New Zealand >> >> On 21 Jan 2007 at 23:27, John Jones wrote: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> I am new to this list so bear with me if I ask a lot. >>> >>> My Grt Grt Uncle left Monmouth for America in 1887* I cannot find him > on >>> any ships manifest that I have searched on Castlegarden.org or >>> Immigrantships.net. >>> >>> Thomas Jenkins left Monmouthshire with his wife Abigail and children >>> David, Gertrude, Caroline. >>> >>> I am wondering if there was recruiting going on during 1886/1887 that > >>> would have taken many families from Sth Wales off to work in the >>> Iron/Steel Industries of the USA, and if there were then where would > they >>> have arranged passages from. Newport? >>> >>> Any help or guidance here would be very much appreciated as although > I >>> am certain that the family is in Ohio in 1900/1910 & 1920 I have yet >>> to make the link between them leaving Wales and arriving in Ohio. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> John Jones >>> My Website http://genesrus.org >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MONMOUTHSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >