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