In a message dated 1/26/02 4:41:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, wicket@eatel.net writes: << www.eatel.net/~wicket/index.html >> Hi i am searching for my GG/grandfather James Braniff and Family .they left Downpatrick Or Portaferry Co Down N Ireland around 1845 . I was told that he might have gone to New Orleans but all this is guess work ,If you could look up your records as BRANIFF is not a very common name I would appreciate it or if you would have any ideas how I would go about searching this mistery I would be very thankful. Ellen{Braniff}De Souter

Hi Ellen, I would suggest that you try the web sites with ship's passenger lists probably from England to New Orleans. I think that I had a relative of my wife who was named Hopley who went from Liverpool to N.O. in May 1854. The ship was the "Ella A. Clark". Others in the same family tried to go to NY but were caught in a hurricane and were rescued and taken back to England where they tried again. Whether it would work in your case, I don't know, but a cousin of mine sent a request to NARA for the name of the port where out grandfather arrived from Germany. In 1885 he left Germany. Nara came thru with a ship's list and immigration info. plus port of arrival. The hitch here may be the year. Nara may not go back to 1845. Cliff EDesouter@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 1/26/02 4:41:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, wicket@eatel.net > writes: > > << www.eatel.net/~wicket/index.html >> > > Hi i am searching for my GG/grandfather James Braniff and Family .they left > Downpatrick Or Portaferry Co Down N Ireland around 1845 . I was told that he > might have gone to New Orleans but all this is guess work ,If you could look > up your records as BRANIFF is not a very common name I would appreciate it or > if you would have any ideas how I would go about searching this mistery I > would be very thankful. Ellen{Braniff}De Souter > > ==== NorthernIrelandGenWeb Mailing List ==== > ROLL CALLS? Not permitted unless instituted by the List Admin. But post > your interests and areas of search often. New members join every day. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

There is a Dominic braniff who lives in Scribb Drumaroad outside Castlewellan and his brothe Pat is a Blacksmith in Dromara village. Don't know if there is any connection Ella Ella Patterson Cataloguer Resources Management Division Information Services Main Library The Queen's University of Belfast Belfast BT7 1LS Northern Ireland Telephone: +44 28 9027 3639 Fax : +44 28 9032 3340 Email : e.patterson@qub.ac.uk -----Original Message----- From: EDesouter@aol.com [mailto:EDesouter@aol.com] Sent: 28 January 2002 16:50 To: NorthernIrelandGenWeb-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NIR-GW] Re: [NIRGW] Ships to New Orleans LA, USA In a message dated 1/26/02 4:41:53 PM Eastern Standard Time, wicket@eatel.net writes: << www.eatel.net/~wicket/index.html >> Hi i am searching for my GG/grandfather James Braniff and Family .they left Downpatrick Or Portaferry Co Down N Ireland around 1845 . I was told that he might have gone to New Orleans but all this is guess work ,If you could look up your records as BRANIFF is not a very common name I would appreciate it or if you would have any ideas how I would go about searching this mistery I would be very thankful. Ellen{Braniff}De Souter ==== NorthernIrelandGenWeb Mailing List ==== ROLL CALLS? Not permitted unless instituted by the List Admin. But post your interests and areas of search often. New members join every day. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237