Dear Roy Going from the transportation of my great aunt, aged 15, along with a number of Dr. Barnardo's children in 1898, to Canada from the port of Liverpool (so could just have stopped in Ireland but probably not), it took around three weeks. I think they landed in Quebec but can't quite call the port of entry to mind at the moment. I'd have to search through a lot of papers to see if I could find the details. When the Barnardo's children arrived, they took a group photograph of them and there were quite a lot of them. It was a bit like a school photograph. After this, they were collected into a "home", kept there until they had been found employment, usually as domestic servants in the case of the girls, and then distributed over that vast country. My great aunt went to Ottawa. Liverpool was a collecting port for these children. My great aunt had been at the Girls' Village in Barkingside from the age of 10 to 15, having been sent there from the East End of London. So, I would say that three weeks approximately is the answer to your question. I don't know the tonnage of the ship in which she sailed but it may have been similar to the one you were thinking of. Audrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected] com" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 9:15 PM Subject: [OEL] Slightly off Topic! > Good Evening All - > > Hope you will forgive this but as the airways seem a little slack at > present, perhaps some kind sole could approximate how long a vessel of > 1497 > tons in 1870, would have taken to sail to New York from Liverpool, with > 187 > immigrants on board plus the crew, and which may have called at an Irish > port on the way? > > Not all at once I beg of you! > > Regards - Roy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.13.27/517 - Release Date: > 03/11/2006 > >