Mr GGgrandparents and six children left County Louth, Ireland around the 1st of November 1852 on the Plantagenet and arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana January 10, 1853. The ship's master was "Price". I got that much information from the New Orleans Public Library many years ago but their copy of two pages only showed three children. In the past few years I wrote to the library wanting a better copy (complete) of passengers and was told that that those records had been moved somewhere else and were ruined by Hurricane Katrina. The ship was listed from Liverpool. Is it likely that they boarded the ship at Belfast, where seven years before they had landed when they left Scotland, or did they have to cross back over and leave from Liverpool?   Mary McArthur Lander

Mary It is unlikely the family sailed from Ireland if the ship sailed from Liverpool. The family most likely took a ferry to Liverpool and then boarded the ship. This was very common. I checked sailings from Liverpool around this date and did not find this ship. There are several vessels by this name and they were sailing to Australia and Canada. The one you are talking about does not appear in the London Times. The NY Times of Mar 8, 1853 reports a vessel by that name being passed by the steamship Wm. Penn, which was arriving from New-Orleans so we know there was a ship by that name in the area. So...I did some more checking and in the column "America" in the London Times on Thursday, Jan 27, 1853 I found: Arrived at New Orleans,--The Blanche and Plantaganet[sic], from Liverpool; Stephen Glover, from Newport, Wales. As to passenger lists -- I am sorry I cannot help. Regards.. Marj At 09:01 PM 11/21/2010, jacknday wrote: >Mr GGgrandparents and six children left County Louth, Ireland around >the 1st of November 1852 on the Plantagenet and arrived in New >Orleans, Louisiana January 10, 1853. The ship's master was "Price". >I got that much information from the New Orleans Public Library >many years ago but their copy of two pages only showed three >children. In the past few >years I wrote to the library wanting a better copy (complete) of >passengers and was told >that that those records had been moved somewhere else and were >ruined by Hurricane >Katrina. The ship was listed from Liverpool. Is it likely that they >boarded the ship at Belfast, where seven years before they had >landed when they left Scotland, or did they >have to cross back over and leave from Liverpool? > >Mary McArthur Lander >------------------------------- >visit TheShipsList Website >http://www.theshipslist.com/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >THESHIPSLIST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message