At 06:46 PM 2006-04-24 -0700, robin mullaney wrote: >I'm looking for ancestors who came over from Sligo Ireland in 1869. There >are ports in Sligo Ireland but I never see a ship list/manifest from >there. I mostly see ships from Liverpool via Queenstown or Limerick or >Glasgow. Has anyone ever seen a ship list from a Sligo port? Hi Robin, As Harry noted, by 1869 even if an individual came from Sligo, it is highly unlikely they sailed from that port. I agree that Londonderry would be the most likely port of departure for people from Sligo in 1869. As Harry also noted, there were several place names for departure from different parts of that area . . . <<Moville/Lough Foyle/ Derry/Londonderry>> You don't say where your ancestors were sailing to . . or where they settled, but for instance, in 1869 there were 32 direct sailings from Liverpool via Londonderry, to Quebec, Canada. If you are interested in the port of Sligo itself, if you go to http://www.theshipslist.com/ scroll to the bottom of the page and type Sligo into the search box, you'll find 63+ pages where that name appears. either on a passenger list or a newspaper report &c. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/

Hi List My ancestors John And Alice Doherty/Dougherty and children John And Catherine came from Longford to settle in Prescot Lancs early 1800's my questions are where would they sail from and how do I find where in Longford they came from Cheers George Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: At 06:46 PM 2006-04-24 -0700, robin mullaney wrote: >I'm looking for ancestors who came over from Sligo Ireland in 1869. There >are ports in Sligo Ireland but I never see a ship list/manifest from >there. I mostly see ships from Liverpool via Queenstown or Limerick or >Glasgow. Has anyone ever seen a ship list from a Sligo port? Hi Robin, As Harry noted, by 1869 even if an individual came from Sligo, it is highly unlikely they sailed from that port. I agree that Londonderry would be the most likely port of departure for people from Sligo in 1869. As Harry also noted, there were several place names for departure from different parts of that area . . . <> You don't say where your ancestors were sailing to . . or where they settled, but for instance, in 1869 there were 32 direct sailings from Liverpool via Londonderry, to Quebec, Canada. If you are interested in the port of Sligo itself, if you go to http://www.theshipslist.com/ scroll to the bottom of the page and type Sligo into the search box, you'll find 63+ pages where that name appears. either on a passenger list or a newspaper report &c. Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ ==== TheShipsList Mailing List ==== *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/ *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Cheers George