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
Our families left Ystradyfodwyg and Tredegar via Liverpool for the PA coal fields via New York in the cases where we can find their passage. My late wife's great grandmother (Mary Jones) is reputed to have worn a path she went back and forth so often. Every other child seems to have been born on the opposite side of the Atlantic from the previous one. Most of the manifests we identified were through the Ellis Island listings. Bill Evans 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 > > >
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 >
What information or advertisement did the people of Wales have for the jobs in the USA? Did the US companies send representatives to solicit for workers? My Greatgrand father Noah Howell was a Coal miner in LlanSamlet, came to the USA and settled In Martins Ferry, Ohio, as a Coal miner in 1869. My other Greatgrand father Wyndham Davies was a tin sorter in Pontypool, and settled in Martins Ferry, Ohio as a Mill worker in 1873. How did they know where the jobs were in the USA? Wyndham N. Davies Newark, Ohio
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 > >