Hello Sue I have a GGGMother (Mary Ann Morter) who was with her family in the 1851 census (Norfolk) and had her children re-baptized, December 1851, in a small church in Ohio, USA. Rumor has it she came to Canada first and migrated south to the USA. I don't know what ship or date they left England, but would be very interested in what sailing arrangements you discover. Thank you Regards Jack Morter USA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 3, Issue 265 Today's Topics: 1. Emigrants for Canada 1851 (Sue Swiggum) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:16:28 -0300 From: Sue Swiggum <[email protected]> Subject: [TSL] Emigrants for Canada 1851 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed After I posted the "Emigrants waiting to sail 1851" yesterday, I was reminded about some other Emigrants I had found in the 1851 England census a couple of years ago, but had totally forgotten ! These 103 persons were Army Pensioners and their families living at the Tilbury Fort in Essex on census night (March 30th) and the notation for them was :: Emigrants waiting for embarkation for Canada :: so at least we know where they were going. What makes this find particularly special is because it helps fill another gap in the pre-archiving of passenger lists to Canada (1865). Because they were living at Tilbury Fort, they most likely embarked at London, but I haven't been able to learn which vessel .. yet .. it might have even been a Navy Transport ship. When Marj returns from holiday, she may hopefully be able to find mention of their sailing in the London Times. I included an example of one of the children who I found as a 60 yr old living at Barrie, Simcoe North, Ontario. They look like a veritable United Nations, even within some of the families, with children born all over UK and Ireland as well as other parts of the world. I will include the link in the *new* for October page when I upload it, but thought you might like to have a look now :-} Emigrants for Canada 1851 http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/tilbury1851.htm Please share this email with any other list to which you belong if you think it might be of interest or value to those list members (in other words, on-topic). Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ ------------------------------ To contact the THESHIPSLIST list administrator, send an email to [email protected] To post a message to the THESHIPSLIST mailing list, send an email to [email protected] __________________________________________________________ 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 email with no additional text. End of THESHIPSLIST Digest, Vol 3, Issue 265 ********************************************