Hi Karen, welcome aboard At 06:39 PM 2006-05-09 -0700, Karen Woodworth wrote: >Hi...I'm new to this list and hope someone can help me. > >I'm looking for Hector Ridout and family on a passenger list. His birth >certificate shows "This child was born at sea on the Banks of >Newfoundland on board the steamship >Hector from London": I don't know where the ship landed. > >His birth date was 5 June 1872 and birth was registered in Toronto, >Ontario, Canada 18 July 1872. <snip> This fits your information like a glove :-} Ship Desciption & History http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/descriptions/ShipsH.html From the CD-ROM --"TheShipsList Passenger Ship Arrivals Canadian Ports 1865-1899"-- http://theshipslist.com/cdrom/index.htm Reel Number Ship Name Departure Information Arrival Information Shipping Line Special Group(s) Remarks C-4527 HECTOR London, England 1872-05-21 / Plymouth, England 1872-05-24 Quebec, Que. 1872-06-11 (TEMP) Temperley Line - charter (U): Cow Cross Mission (22) & (U): National Emigration League (8) & (U): Mr. Haggs' Institution (6) & (J): Home for Little Boys (3) List Number: 33; Captain T.H. Sheen The passenger manifest is on Microfilm at the Library & Archives of Canada [LAC], in Ottawa. The Ships are placed on the reel, in order of arrival. You can borrow this reel on an Inter Library Loan [ILL]. You can find the details for this procedure at this LAC Genealogy Research URL http://www.collectionscanada.ca/ill/index-e.html You are also able to ILL from Ottawa, to libraries in the US, and outside North America. These microfilms contain arrivals from ALL ports, they are not indexed. The LDS do also have copies of this microfilm, their number LDS number 0889447 ~ 1872 ~ port of Quebec I see you have a Canadian email address. Here find a list of institutions in Canada who also have copies of this microfilm. You may have one close by http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-903-e.html Good Luck Sue -- TheShipsList Website http://www.theshipslist.com/