I am participating in the DearMyrtle study group called Tracing Immigrant Origins - Passenger Records Study Group.
We are to provide a link to a passenger list record we have found for one of our ancestors. This passenger list that I found was a treasure, because it took a long time to find.
The family of my husband was Lundquist. The earliest census that I found for them was the 1870. Brothers "Andrew" and Gustave were living next door to each other in Jefferson County, Iowa.
They each had a wife and children. This census gave no immigration data.
This family was difficult to find. I couldn't find any Lundquist families that fit the pattern of the family. Then I remembered about the naming patterns of Swedes. Gustav's and Anders' father's name was Elias. Maybe they were listed with the surname Eliasson?
Sure enough, I found the two brothers and their family on the ship list of the SS Manchester, which arrived in New York 9 Jul 1866.[1]
The image of the ship was also at Ancestry.com [2]:
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[1] "Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1957," online images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jun 2011), manifest, City of Manchester, 9 Jul 1866, line 25, Alfred Eliason; citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, Record Group 36, Roll 268.
[2] Photo of S.S. City of Manchester (built 1851), image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jun 2011), retrieved by choosing the "ship" link attached to the "Passenger Record" database for the Alfred Eliason search, arrived 9 Jul 1866 aboard S.S. City of Manchester.
Copyright © 2015 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.
We are to provide a link to a passenger list record we have found for one of our ancestors. This passenger list that I found was a treasure, because it took a long time to find.
The family of my husband was Lundquist. The earliest census that I found for them was the 1870. Brothers "Andrew" and Gustave were living next door to each other in Jefferson County, Iowa.
They each had a wife and children. This census gave no immigration data.
This family was difficult to find. I couldn't find any Lundquist families that fit the pattern of the family. Then I remembered about the naming patterns of Swedes. Gustav's and Anders' father's name was Elias. Maybe they were listed with the surname Eliasson?
Sure enough, I found the two brothers and their family on the ship list of the SS Manchester, which arrived in New York 9 Jul 1866.[1]
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| 1866 Ship List for Anders Alfred Eliasson aboard the SS City of Manchester |
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| SS Manchester |
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[1] "Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1957," online images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jun 2011), manifest, City of Manchester, 9 Jul 1866, line 25, Alfred Eliason; citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, Record Group 36, Roll 268.
[2] Photo of S.S. City of Manchester (built 1851), image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 1 Jun 2011), retrieved by choosing the "ship" link attached to the "Passenger Record" database for the Alfred Eliason search, arrived 9 Jul 1866 aboard S.S. City of Manchester.
Copyright © 2015 by Lisa Suzanne Gorrell, My Trails into the Past. All Rights Reserved.
I'm a Lundquist And our family name used to be Eliasson
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