"Hoskins" <hoskinsr@broadreach.net> posted: >> Would like info on the Ida Kiss that arrived in New York, 10 January 1850, from Newport, Wales. My gggrandmother was a passenger, arriving with her children, to join my gggrandfather in NE Pennsylvania. The internet only shows one arrival for this ship. Is there any info on this voyage or ship....time taken, size of ship, etc. >> Basic arrival reports can be obtained after September 1851 from the New York Times. There may be a similar report in the New York Herald for the 1850 arrival but I don't have access to that newspaper. Certainly the Magellan list of New York arrivals suggests the Ida Kiss only made one arrival. The ship is not listed in the American registers (1857+) at the Mystic Seaport site. There is a note about an Austrian ship Ida Kiss landing at Albany, Western Australia in 1853 on Mariners list (2005). This queries the method of calculating tonnage. Apparently the Ida Kiss was entered at Albany as 594 tons while the Austrian Maritime Register listed her as 735 tons. Either figure is low for a ship in 1850. -- Harry Dodsworth Ottawa Ontario Canada af877@freenet.carleton.ca ----------------------------------------------------------------