Hello All, Was wondering if anyone would be able to help me find the departure of my Aunty. Nora G B Corrigan and her husband Lorne R Corrigan left Calgary Canada with there baby daughter Grace Alice Corrigan between 1920 and 1922. Baby Grace was born in Calgary in April of 1920. They had a son who was born in New Zealand in Oct 1923 so left sometime between 1920/23. My Cousin Grace is now 88yrs old and would love to know any information. She does not know what the ships name was and would love to be able to locate all this info. I would appreciate anyones help in this. Kind Regards Karen
Hi Karen, Are there New Zealand passenger lists available for that period? If so, are they indexed? That might be your best bet, because North America did not retain (archive) outbound lists. From Calgary, the shortest route would be by train to Vancouver, British Columbia, then embark at that port for the transpacific voyage. Of course they could have taken the train in the opposite direction and first sailed to England, however I checked on "find my past" and found no Corrigan sailing from England for New Zealand 1920-1923. I can give you some names of ships which sailed _from_ New Zealand for Vancouver during part of that period. eg. this shows all the way-ports and length of passage. MAKURA Sydney, N.S.W. Australia 1921-09-08 / Auckland, New Zealand 1921-09-13 / Suva, Fiji 1921-09-17 / Honolulu 1921-09-24 Vancouver, B.C. 1921-10-01 (CAU) Canadian-Australian Royal Mail Steam Ship Co. Master: R. Crawford From 1919 until 1924 Canada used a different manifest form (30A) so I have fewer ship details for that period. 1920 ... MAKURA ; NIAGARA 1921... MAKURA (there could have been more) In 1919 I see, in addition to MAKURA and NIAGARA, the TAINUI and LAHAINA (sailing vessel). In 1925 NIAGARA, TAINUI and HAURAKI. I hope this helps a bit Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ At 11:46 PM 2008-09-19 +1200, Karen & Peter wrote: >Hello All, > >Was wondering if anyone would be able to help me find the departure of my >Aunty. > >Nora G B Corrigan and her husband Lorne R Corrigan left Calgary Canada >with there baby daughter Grace Alice Corrigan between 1920 and 1922. Baby >Grace was born in Calgary in April of 1920. They had a son who was born >in New Zealand in Oct 1923 so left sometime between 1920/23. > >My Cousin Grace is now 88yrs old and would love to know any >information. She does not know what the ships name was and would love to >be able to locate all this info. > >I would appreciate anyones help in this. > >Kind Regards > >Karen