I have found relatives on the ship Vincenzo Florio May 5 1905 arriving in New Orleans, but the names have a line through them. I looked at the end and it said for the people on line # 23 -26 were deported. But each page had names on those #s. What does the line through th name mean? Jeanne

I had been searching for years for the Naturalization Papers of a relative who immigrated to Texas in the mid 1850s. Eventually, I noticed his name listed in the minutes of the County Commissioners Court. Upon closer examination, I discovered that, after the Civil War ended the county had difficulty locating enough people to serve as potential jurors so they made a recruiting drive throughout the county. As a result, the County Commissioners Court swore in seventeen men and declared them to be citizens of the United States.

Hi Lindajoy, Your ship was the PRESIDENT ADAMS which was renamed PRESIDENT GRANT in 1940 and wrecked 1944 in New Guinea. The other PRESIDENT GRANT was taken over by the Navy in 1940 and renamed USS HARRIS for the duration of the war before reverting to PRESIDENT GRANT. There is a detailed history of the ship (80 pages) in the book "The Stately President Liners" by Mark H. Goldberg, ISBN 1-879180-1-11 which can be obtained via your local library. It contains details of each wartime voyage and many photos. regards Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindajoy Fenley" <lindajoy@laneta.apc.org> To: <TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 2:12 AM Subject: [TSL] SS Grant > This inquiry is in reference to the website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/dollar.htm > My father was on the SS President Grant briefly during his first few > days in the US Navy in June of 1942. The ship was a transport that took > him to from San Francisco to Hawaii. In looking over your list, I find > two ships named Grant, both built in 1921. The tonnage is different and > the history (previous names) is different,. Which one would have been > his ship? Can you tell me more about it's role in WWII, particularly on > the voyage my father was on? > > I have just built a website about my father and can link a Grant site > to it.... I'd also be interested to know if you would like to link your > site to mine. I will send the URL as soon as it is up later this week. > > Thank you, > Lindajoy Fenley > (daughter of the late Cmdr. Albert George Fenley) > > > ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > TheShipsList Website > http://www.theshipslist.com/ > *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* > > >

Hi You would have to know the name of the port they arrived at to find a picture. There are over 60 ports. Barb tipperboo12@msn.com ----Original Message Follows---- From: TheShipsList-D-request@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com To: TheShipsList-D@rootsweb.com Subject: TheShipsList-D Digest V06 #265 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:00:37 -0600 Content-Type: text/plain TheShipsList-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 265 Today's Topics: #1 Kronprinz Wilhelm Postcard [Louis Francken <louis_nicole@yahoo] #2 Re: [TSL] Ship list ["Olive Tree Genealogy" <otg@csolve] #3 "city of philadelphia" shipwreck ["Robert Schlachter" <bschlachter46] #4 Re: [TSL] "city of philadelphia" s [Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca>] #5 SAN GIORGIO OR NAPOLI PASSENGER SH [<foley66@bellsouth.net>] Administrivia: TheShipsList Digest is distributed by RootsWeb. RootsWeb's home page is at http://www.rootsweb.com/ To UNSUBSCRIBE from TheShipsList Digest, click on the following link. mailto:TheShipsList-D-REQUEST@rootsweb.com Leave Subject Line BLANK and type ONLY the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of message. Do NOT include your name, address or any other text in the message. To POST a Message to the members of the list, which will be included in TheShipsList Digest, click on this link: mailto:TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com To REPLY to a Message in THIS Digest: When you hit "Reply To" in your email program, remember to 'edit' the rest of the messages. Change the subject line to reflect the topic. "TheShipsList-D Digest V06 #**" is meaningless. Remember, your subject line is your "head-line." If in doubt, it is better to copy/paste the message you are responding to, into a new email message. Search our Archives to see if your Ship has been discussed before you joined. TheShipsList RootsWeb Archive http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TheShipsList/ TheShipsList fully Searchable Archives http://www.oulton.com/cwa/newsships.nsf/by+date TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ To contact listowners click on link below: mailto:TheShipsList-admin@rootsweb.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ______________________________ X-Message: #1 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:35:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Louis Francken <louis_nicole@yahoo.fr> To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20060824073544.30400.qmail@web26809.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Subject: Kronprinz Wilhelm Postcard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On the shiplists website I find a postcard representing Kronprinz Wilhelm steamship with some handwritten wishes (courtesy of Malcolm Cooper) addressed to a man named Harry . I am presently searching traces of Harry Bäker (my great uncle) who was mariner between 1885 and 1902 and crew member on Delta Lloyd Bremen ships among other lines. I would like to find the owner of this document and ask for a copy of the back of this postcard to see through name, date and address if this concerns the same person. Thank you in advance for this information Best regards Louis Francken ______________________________ X-Message: #2 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:40:49 -0400 From: "Olive Tree Genealogy" <otg@csolve.net> To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <44EDC881.3063.1BB4B17@localhost> Subject: Re: [TSL] Ship list Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body On 22 Aug 2006 at 15:31, Nlepinske@aol.com wrote: > I am trying to find the ship list for the Ship: Emma > Godwin, Capt. Chester arrived at Quebec on the 2nd of July, > 1856 from Ahtwerp with 121 passengers. I believe my > Greatgrandfather and his wife we on board. Name Felix Droog > and Bernadine Evrard Droog. > > Could you advise me where I can get the list. > There are no comprehensive lists of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies were not required by the government to keep their passenger manifests. There are search engines to search multiple websites for ships going to Canada at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml They include most ships lists on the Internet going to Canada and the online InGeneas databases for immigration to Canada 1800s ****************************************** Immigration Projects Online There are a few surviving passenger lists which were kept by shipping agents in the originating country. The Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents gives sailings from Londonderry to Quebec and St. John New Brunswick from 1847 to 1871. These are online at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml ****************************************** Newspaper Arrivals TheShipsList website has Quebec ship arrivals extracted from contemporary newspapers. See http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/index.htm ****************************************** Miscellaneous Websites with Immigration Information on Ships to Canada Immigrants to Canada http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html The Ships List http://www.theshipslist.com/ Ships Passenger Lists Online http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ Finding Ships Passenger Lists to Canada http://shipslists-online.rootschat.net/canada/ Ships Passenger Lists to Canada 1400-1930 http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/tocan1400-1800.shtml -- Lorine McGinnis Schulze * Olive Tree Genealogy (Ships Passenger Lists) http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ * Naturalization Records http://naturalizationrecords.com/ * Images of Ships Lists http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/ otg@csolve.net or olivetreegenealogy@gmail.com ______________________________ X-Message: #3 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:49:14 -0400 From: "Robert Schlachter" <bschlachter46@hotmail.com> To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <BAY103-F29E4A3F6F56FEA4D99E2EAB2440@phx.gbl> Subject: "city of philadelphia" shipwreck Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Can anyone tell me where I write to obtain articles regarding the wreck of the "City of Philadelphia" which was stranded off Cape Race Newfoundland in Sep 1854. A source suggested that I write this list. He told me that many articles appeared in the local papers - Public Ledger and Morning Post - along with the results of London's and Liverpool's Marine Boards of Trade published on Feb 5, 1855. I also seemed to have hit a brick wall in trying to find where to obtain the passenger list. I believe one of my ancestors was on that vessel when it wrecked. Apparently, many of the passengers remained in St. John's Newfoundland for about 5 weeks waiting for a vessel to take them on to Philadelphia, the ship's original destination. Bob Schlachter ______________________________ X-Message: #4 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:38:01 -0300 From: Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Message-id: <5.1.1.6.1.20060824175841.02c6dd48@pop1.ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: [TSL] "city of philadelphia" shipwreck Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hello Bob, At 04:49 PM 2006-08-24 -0400, Robert Schlachter wrote: >Can anyone tell me where I write to obtain articles regarding the wreck of >the "City of Philadelphia" which was stranded off Cape Race Newfoundland >in Sep 1854. A source suggested that I write this list. He told me that >many articles appeared in the local papers - Public Ledger and Morning >Post - along with the results of London's and Liverpool's Marine Boards of >Trade published on Feb 5, 1855. I also seemed to have hit a brick wall in >trying to find where to obtain the passenger list. I believe one of my >ancestors was on that vessel when it wrecked. Apparently, many of the >passengers remained in St. John's Newfoundland for about 5 weeks waiting >for a vessel to take them on to Philadelphia, the ship's original destination. > >Bob Schlachter I don't have a list of passengers for this one, but I do have a couple of news items. Ship Wrecks http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/index.htm City of Philadelphia, Liverpool to Philadelphia 1854 http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Wrecks/cityofphiladelphia1854.htm The Arctic was lost at the same place less than three weeks later with great loss of life, so the papers were full of that. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ ______________________________ X-Message: #5 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 18:01:49 -0400 From: <foley66@bellsouth.net> To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <001801c6c7c8$e691cfa0$6101a8c0@yourfsyly0jtwn> Subject: SAN GIORGIO OR NAPOLI PASSENGER SHIP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" DEPARTURE PALERMO ITALY SEPTEMBER 13 1910 ARRIVAL NEW YORK SEPTEMBER 29 1910 I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO LOCTATE OF PICTURE OF THE SAN GIORGIO PASSENGER SHIP BUT CANNOT LOCATE ONE. THE SHIP WAS RENAMED NAPOLI IN 1922 AND SCRAPPED IN 1926. MY GRANDMOTHER AND HER THREE SONS SAILED ON THIS SHIP FROM ITALY TO AMERICA IN 1910

This inquiry is in reference to the website http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/dollar.htm My father was on the SS President Grant briefly during his first few days in the US Navy in June of 1942. The ship was a transport that took him to from San Francisco to Hawaii. In looking over your list, I find two ships named Grant, both built in 1921. The tonnage is different and the history (previous names) is different,. Which one would have been his ship? Can you tell me more about it's role in WWII, particularly on the voyage my father was on? I have just built a website about my father and can link a Grant site to it.... I'd also be interested to know if you would like to link your site to mine. I will send the URL as soon as it is up later this week. Thank you, Lindajoy Fenley (daughter of the late Cmdr. Albert George Fenley)

Looking for a Ship that arrived in United States Octobor 28,1886 on East Coast Port of U.S. My Grandfather CHARLES H.F.NÖHREN.His Natuarliazation Papers state that arrival date. William L.NOEHREN Tolland,Ct.

I might have asked for help on this before, but possibly someone new might have the answer. My ggrandfather, Karl Endlein, wife, Katherina, daughter Maria and son, Casper, sailed from Liverpool, England and landed at Castle Rock in May of 1871. Someone said that they might have come down to Liverpool from Hull. I only know that they came from Nassau, were married in Baden, but no idea how they got to Liverpool. All suggestions and any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Cas Endlein

Hi again Dan, I meant to mention there is another male Dietrich aged 24, also a Baker, same other details, listed on line 14. It is on the fold so first name is hard to make out, about 5 letters. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ At 04:19 PM 2006-08-29 -0700, Daniel Dietrich wrote: > Name: Leon Dietrich > Arrival Date : 9 May 1885 > Estimated Birth: abt 1857 > Age : 28 > Gender: Male >Port of Departure : Aspinwall, Panama > Destination: Paul > Place of Origin: Paul > Ship Name: Crescent City > Port of Arrival: New York > Line: 3 > Microfilm Serial : M237 > Microfilm Roll: 485 > List Number: 519 > Port Arrival State: New York >Port Arrival Country: United States > > I have had this information for some time now but unfortunately have > not had any luck moving further. > I have no idea where Paul is. I hope there's some one out there that > can brake some ice for me. > Thank Dan

Hi Dan, It is a mistranscription, it says PARIS in each instance. He was a Baker and was just in transit. Also, he is on line 13, not 3. Hope this helps, Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ At 04:19 PM 2006-08-29 -0700, Daniel Dietrich wrote: > Name: Leon Dietrich > Arrival Date : 9 May 1885 > Estimated Birth: abt 1857 > Age : 28 > Gender: Male >Port of Departure : Aspinwall, Panama > Destination: Paul > Place of Origin: Paul > Ship Name: Crescent City > Port of Arrival: New York > Line: 3 > Microfilm Serial : M237 > Microfilm Roll: 485 > List Number: 519 > Port Arrival State: New York >Port Arrival Country: United States > > I have had this information for some time now but unfortunately have > not had any luck moving further. > I have no idea where Paul is. I hope there's some one out there that > can brake some ice for me. > Thank Dan

I AM TRYING TO LOCATE A PHOTO OF THE SHIP MY UNCLE WAS ON DURING THE 2 ND WORLD WAR. 10 44-1947. IT WAS EITHER THE USS EGERIA OR USS EJERIA. I AM NOT SURE OF THE SPELLING. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED

http://www.military.com/HomePage/UnitPageHistory/1,13506,201937|792562,00.html foley66@bellsouth.net wrote: I AM TRYING TO LOCATE A PHOTO OF THE SHIP MY UNCLE WAS ON DURING THE 2 ND WORLD WAR. 10 44-1947. IT WAS EITHER THE USS EGERIA OR USS EJERIA. I AM NOT SURE OF THE SPELLING. ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* TO CONTACT LISTOWNER: Sue mailto:TheShipsList-admin@lists2.rootsweb.com *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Bryce www.myspace.com/brumbar www.myspace.com/georgetc2006 --------------------------------- Get your email and more, right on the new Yahoo.com

Name: Leon Dietrich Arrival Date : 9 May 1885 Estimated Birth: abt 1857 Age : 28 Gender: Male Port of Departure : Aspinwall, Panama Destination: Paul Place of Origin: Paul Ship Name: Crescent City Port of Arrival: New York Line: 3 Microfilm Serial : M237 Microfilm Roll: 485 List Number: 519 Port Arrival State: New York Port Arrival Country: United States I have had this information for some time now but unfortunately have not had any luck moving further. I have no idea where Paul is. I hope there's some one out there that can brake some ice for me. Thank Dan

New York Times, October 17, 1853 > Whatever alien intends to vote at the next Election must needs > get out his papers 10 days before said Election. Yesterday the > Clerks of the County were run down with applications for > naturalization papers. This sounds very informal. Although we often mention Declarations of Intent and Naturalization certificates, I can't recall any references to the mechanics of U. S. naturalization. I believe that in the early days, naturalization could be granted by any court, state or federal, so that surviving documentation may be in a variety of court records. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi list, Can someone tell me the route taken by ships from Liverpool & Belfast to the USA in the 1850's. Regards, Keith.

"Bob Hansen"<spadriver145@cox.net> posted: >> Ancestor William Burton and family immigrated from England to US in 1855. Ship Caroley Magney left from Liverpool, England and arrived New York 17 October 1855. Looking for ship information and pictures. >> The ship was the Carolus Magnus (Caroley Magney may be an Ancestry transcription?). Here is the arrival report, New York Times, 17 October 1855 Arrived New York 16 October Ship Carolus Magnus, [captain] Coffin, Liverpool Sept 13, mdse. and 465 passengers to [agent] Wm. Whittock, Jr. The Carolus Magnus was a ship (three masts, square rigged on all), of 1448 tons, built in 1852 at Damariscotta, Maine and owned in 1857 by Robinson of New York. Source: 1857 New York Marine Register, Mystic Seaport website. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Mike, 19.10.1887 Anna Oline Hollan ug Arb k 27 Levanger Chicago, Ill Allan Hero Bill. bet. i Trondhjem I wonder if this is her? Might she have gone to Chicago first? This family was listed above her and I wondered if it might be Anton's sister-in-law . . . I don't know where Thjem is (what it's current name is). Where was Anton from? 9.10.1887 Kirstine Anderson g Arb k 43 Thjem Chicago, Ill Allan Hero Bill. bet. i Amerika 19.10.1887 Sigrid Anderson ug Barn Arb k 16 Thjem Chicago, Ill Allan Hero Bill. bet. i Amerika 19.10.1887 Sigurd Anderson Barn m 9 Thjem Chicago, Ill Allan Hero Bill. bet. i Amerika 19.10.1887 Haakon Anderson Barn m 4 Thjem Chicago, Ill Allan Hero Bill. bet. i Amerika They are all sailing from Trondheim on the 19th October 1887 on the Wilson Line feeder-ship HERO, to join an Allan Line ship, which means they would have arrived via Canada. These are the connecting ships for that HERO sailing http://www.norwayheritage.com/t_corresp.asp?id=7038 The Allan Line SARMATIAN would be the first possible connecting ship. Sue -- At 07:54 AM 2006-08-28 -0700, Mike \"Dino\" Peterson wrote: >I am pretty sure I have finally found Anne in Union, Grand Forks County, >ND on 1900 Census. She married Anton Anderson and there are so many but I >think these are them. The census indicates that Anne immigrated in 1887, >b. Oct 1861 and that her husband Anton immigrated in 1882, b. Oct 1858. I >am hopeful this will help in finding how they got to US. >Sincerely, >Mike > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mike "Dino" Peterson > To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: 28 August, 2006 7:03 am > Subject: Departed Norway > ND - 1875-1885 > > > Anne Oline Hallanvald, probably from Skogn. This is her maiden name. > Born about 1861. We believe she left between 1875-1885. Would like to > confirm her departure from Norway to USA and any stopovers. > Sincerely, > Mike Peterson

At 07:00 AM 2006-08-28 -0700, Mike \"Dino\" Peterson wrote: >Reguline (Lina) Bjorngaard, probably from Hegra/Stjordal. This is her >maiden name. Born about 1860. We believe she left between 1875-1885 and >possibly on Star-Line, Tasso. Would like to confirm her departure from >Norway to USA and any stopovers. >Sincerely, >Mike Peterson Hi Mike, Is this her ? 08.05.1879 Reguline J. Bjørngaard Tjenestepige k 19,5 Øvre Størdalen Zumbrota Minn Stjerne Dampskib Tasso 222 65 She wasn't on the same ticket as this family, but she was listed just below them, from the same place, going to the same place, sailing from Trondheim on the 8th May 1879 08.05.1879 Tomas Ols. Arbeidsmand m 29 Øvre Størdalen Zumbrota Minn Stjerne Dampskib Tasso Bill. bet. i Amerika Tilladelse 08.05.1879 Randi Ols. Kone k 28 Øvre Størdalen Zumbrota Minn Stjerne Dampskib Tasso Bill. bet. i Amerika Tilladelse 08.05.1879 Karen Anna Ols. Datter k 4,5 Øvre Størdalen Zumbrota Minn Stjerne Dampskib Tasso They are aboard the Wilson Line "feeder ship" TASSO, to Hull, England. They were going to join a White Star Line ship in England. This shows the connecting ships for the passengers aboard that sailing of the TASSO http://www.norwayheritage.com/t_corresp.asp?id=6594 There is no confirming "arrow" but the White Star Line ship GERMANIC arrived at New York on May 24th (or 26th) 1879, or the ADRIATIC on May 30th both certainly fit well. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/

Hello Bill, Here's a guide for finding Boston passenger lists that you may find helpful... Finding Boston Passenger Lists 1820-1943 http://home.att.net/~wee-monster/boston.html Happy searching. Regards, Joe -- Genealogy Roots Blog (for finding online records & resources) http://genrootsblog.blogspot.com/ "DR WILLIAM STEWART" <bildoc3@verizon.net> wrote: > Where might I find a list of passenger ships sailing from Glasgow,Scotland to the Port of > Boston in Massachusetts in the years 1886 and 1887? > My grandfather William Stewart was born in Stirling,Scotland in early 1886 and, > according to family history, came as an infant to the U.S. His younger brother was born > in Salem,Massachusetts in October of 1887. Since the family settled in Salem,it is logical > that they came to this country through the Port of Boston, about only 20 miles away. > My great-grandfather had been a leather worker in Scotland and was perhaps attracted > to the active leather industry in the Salem and Peabody,Massachusetts area. > I have searched the records of the the Port of Salem, but unfortunately, record for ships > arriving during these years are "missing". > > Thank you , > > Bill Stewart

Good morning, Thank you very much for both information. I am French, from France, but I have relatives who left France to New Orleans around 1840 / 1860. So, every bit of information which allow me to imagine what they discover when they arrived in New Orleans are of interest for me. Thank you again. By the way, do you have a scanned copy of the New York Time article? If yes, could you please be kind enough to forward me a copy of it? Best regards Jean-Louis Crespin e-mail: jean-louis.crespin@total.com af877@freenet.carleton.ca (Harry Dodsworth) 28/08/2006 04:31 Veuillez répondre à af877@freenet.carleton.ca A TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com cc Objet [TSL] Impressions of New Orleans, 1853 To mark the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, here is part of a column about New Orleans from the New York Times, September 14, 1853. The second part of the column (as long again as this) concerned the beauty of the "free women of slight African blood" and the details of taking them as mistresses! While I think of New Orleans as a blend of English and French, I was surprised to read of the Irish and German influences. According to the Cabildo website, New Orleans was the second biggest immigration port in the United States, after New York, before the Civil War. Cabildo Online Project http://lsm.crt.state.la.us/cabildo/cab8.htm I have copied this as accurately as I can but there were some errors in the printed text. New York Times, September 14, 1853, page 2. THE SOUTH Letters on the Production, Industry and Resources of the Slave States. NUMBER THIRTY EIGHT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE N. Y. DAILY TIMES First impression of New Orleans...Curious variety of the population.. The free people of slight African blood...Prostitution, &c. I was awakened by the loud ringing of a hand-bell, and turning out of my berth, dressed by dim lamp-light. The waiters were serving coffee and collecting baggage in the cabin; and upon stepping outside, I found that the boat was made fast to a long wharf, or wooden jetty, and the passengers were going ashore. A ticket for New Orleans was handed me as I crossed the gang-plank. There was a rail-track and a train of cars upon the wharf, but no locomotive; and I got my baggage checked and walked toward the shore. It was early day-light, but a fog rested on the waters of Lake Pontchartrain, and only the nearest point of land could be discerned. There were many small buildings erected on piles over the water, bathing-houses, bowling-alleys, and billiard rooms, with other indications of a place of holiday resort, and on reaching the shore, I found a village quietly slumbering. The first house had a garden about it made of complex alleys, and plats, and tables, and arbors, and rustic seats, and cut shrubs, and shells, and statues, and vases; and a lamp was still feebly burning in a large lantern over the entrance gate. I was thinking how like it was to a rural restaurant in France or Germany, when the locomotive backed, screaming hoarsely, down the jetty, and I returned to get my seat. Off we puffed, past the restaurant, through the village; - the name of which I did not inquire, everybody near me seemed so cold and cross, and I have not learned in since - and through the little village whatever it was, of white houses, we rushed, and from among them into the midst of a dense gray cypress swamp. For three or four rods each side of the track, the trees had all been felled and removed, leaving a dreary strip of swamp covered with stumps. This was bounded and intersected by broad ditches or narrow and shallow canals, with a great number of small punts in them, which I supposed were used for shrimp catching. So it continued for two or three miles; then the ground became drier, there was an abrupt termination of the gray barrier of wood, and I looked far over a flat country, skirted still, and finally bounded in the back-ground with the swamp forest. There were scattered irregularly over it a few low houses, one story high, and all with verandahs before them. At length a broad road struck in by the side of the track; houses of the same description became more frequent, fronting upon it. Soon it was a village, smoke ascending from breakfast fires, windows and doors opening, steps swept off, a baker's wagon passing, broad streets little built upon breaking off at right angles, and with, what was strange, tall poles at the corners from the tops of which, connecting them, were ropes with blocks and halyards to swing great square lanterns over the middle of the street. Just as in France, I said to myself; and turning to one of my cold and cross companions, a man wrapped in a loose coat with a cowl over his head, I asked the name of the village for my geography was all at fault. I had expected to be landed at New Orleans by the boat, and had not been informed of the railroad arrangement, and had no idea in what part of Louisiana we might be. "Ner Anglishe" was the gruff reply. There was a sign, "Cafe du Faubourg;" putting my head out and looking forward, I saw that it was indeed a Faubourg, and we were thundering into New Orleans. We reached the terminus, which was surrounded with fiacres in exactly the style of Paris. "To the hotel St. Charles" I said to a driver, confused with the loud French and quiet English of the crowd about me; "Oui, yer 'onor, " was the equally cosmopolitan reply of my evidently Irish young fellow-citizen. He obtained another "fare" and away we rattled, through narrow, dirty streets, grimy, old, stucco walls, high round arched windows and doors with entrecols between the first and second stories; balconies and French signs ten to one of English, and with occasional odd bits of other tongues, "Vins et liqueurs;" "Vins tres vieux," "Kossuth Coffee House," "A la fee aux roses;" "Depot de graines pour les oiseux," "Chambres a louer;" "Gasthaus zur Rhein platz," "Vin, Biere en detail," "To LOYANTE Intelligence office only for the girls and women answering ho, On demande 50 homes pour le Chemin de Fer," etc. The other fare, whom I had not ventured to speak to, was set down at a salle pour le vente des somethings, and soon after the fiacre turned out upon the river bank, a broad place covered with bales of cotton, and casks of sugar, and weighing scales, and disclosing an astonishing number of steamboats lying all close together, with their heads in the same direction, run diagonally upon the bank, in a line, the other end of which was lost in the mist, which still hung upon the river. Now the signs became English, and the new brick buildings American. We turned into a broad street, in which shutters were being taken from great glass store-fronts, and clerks were exercising their ingenuity in the display of dry goods. In the middle of the broad street there was an open space, equal perhaps to one-third its width, of waste ground, looking as if the corporation had not been able to pave the whole of it at once, and had left this interval to be attended to when the treasury was better filled; whatever the purpose, it had a most shabby and poverty-stricken appearance. Crossing through a gap in this waste, we entered a narrow street of high buildings, French, Spanish, and English signs, the latter predominating and at the second block I was landed before the great, white, stuccoed, Grecian portico of the stupendous, tasteless, ill-contrived and inconvenient St. Charles Hotel. After a bath and breakfast I went out to look at the town. There is no city in America so interesting to the traveler, or in which one can stroll with more pleasure and with so long-coming weariness as New Orleans. I doubt if there is a city in the world where the resident population has been so divided in its origin, or where there is such a variety in the tastes, habits, manners, and moral codes of the citizens, Although this hinders civic enterprise and prevents the esprit d'corps, and public spirit, which the peculiar situation of the city greatly demands to be directed to the means of cleanliness, convenience, comfort, and health; it also gives a greater scope to the working of individual enterprise, taste, genius, and conscience, so that nowhere are the higher qualities of man, as displayed in generosity, hospitality, benevolence, and courage, better developed, or the lower qualities, likening him to a beast, less interfered with by law or the action of public opinion, There is no place where a stranger, no matter what his predilections, could be so sure of finding society to suit him as in New Orleans. You meet in succession Englishmen, staid, awkward, but reliable and true good fellows; Frenchmen, graceful, impulsive, whimsical; every variety of European grim, melancholy refugees; startling, wild, eccentric professors, teachers and artists; severe, animated, smoothly-dressed commercial men; uneasy questioning, impatient sea-faring men; energetic suspicious, and self-conscious New Englanders; proud and arrogant, showy and swaggering, but true, open-hearted, genial and hospitable Southerners; rough, rash, strong and manly Western men; Irish emigrants, hasty, uncertain, and ready for anything; German emigrants, moving on with steady, well-considered purpose; languid, proud, eccentric, wealthy, handsome and courtly, old French and Spanish creoles; little, graceful, chatty, happy, good-for-nothing, poor old French habitans; Indians, half-breeds, frontier, white demi-savages; negroes, mulattos, quadroons, of every possible condition and character; and all mingling and mixing and working together, without in the least loosing unwholesomely, but rather intensifying and developing all their individuality of character. Whether virtue or vice gains the most under this order of things I am not prepared to answer. <text about mistresses snipped> -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------- ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== TheShipsList Searchable Archives Database http://www.oulton.com/cwa/newsships.nsf/by+date TheShipsList RootsWeb Archives http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TheShipsList/ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

I am pretty sure I have finally found Anne in Union, Grand Forks County, ND on 1900 Census. She married Anton Anderson and there are so many but I think these are them. The census indicates that Anne immigrated in 1887, b. Oct 1861 and that her husband Anton immigrated in 1882, b. Oct 1858. I am hopeful this will help in finding how they got to US. Sincerely, Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike "Dino" Peterson To: TheShipsList-L@rootsweb.com Sent: 28 August, 2006 7:03 am Subject: Departed Norway > ND - 1875-1885 Anne Oline Hallanvald, probably from Skogn. This is her maiden name. Born about 1861. We believe she left between 1875-1885. Would like to confirm her departure from Norway to USA and any stopovers. Sincerely, Mike Peterson