You're welcome! And, I am no closer to completely understanding the attraction to Bovina other than it was development over time, from countyman to countyman, that influemced generation by generation to settle there (and the rest of Delaware county). Many of us have relations in one generation or in successive arriving generations from Roxburgshire. The time frames tell that they had to know one another. Aren't list-serves wonderful?!! On another list, I learned that a possible ship that could have brought my ancestor to Canada (as he is not found at Castle Garden port) is found in the Montreal Transcript of July 8, 1841 in the shipping section. The bad news is, Canada does not have archived passenger lists for this period [1841], I was told. Still searching... ~Valerie --- "Alan J. Downie" <adownie@hughesarchitects.com> wrote: > I owe a note of thanks to all for the > Scottish-Delaware County question and comments. > Through this I became aware for the first time of > the Castle Garden Port in NYC. I had wondered why I > couldn't find a record of my ancestors at the Ellis > Island website. I found them listed by using the > search engine at castlegarden.org. From 1830 to > 1892, immigrants to New York City came through a > port called Castle Garden, where Castle Clinton > National Monument is located today at The Battery on > Manhattan. Ellis Island opened in 1892. This gave > me the name of their ship "The City of New York", > and with that I found http://immigrantships.net. At > this site I found a complete passenger list > http://immigrantships.net/v7/1800v7/newyorkco18580630.html > which was actually more accurate than the one at > castlegarden.org that contained mistakes in my > ancestor's ages and country of origin. The list > wasn't transcribed until 2005, so if you haven't > searched for a passenger list since then, I re! > commend this site. > > Oh, interestingly enough they listed their > destination as Ohio, not Bovina. I think they went > to Bovina to settle with relatives, but then they > did end up moving to Ohio for the land rush and > later back to Virginia, but that's another story. > > Thanks so much! This was a major break-through for > my research!!! What a great Independence Day gift! > All the more meaningful as we welcome our new > daughter and American citizen Sofia home from > Guatemala. Woohoo! > > Alan Downie > > To contact list administrator send email to > nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/