SNGF -- Who is Your LAST Immigrant Ancestor?

Calling all Genea-Musings Fans:

It's Saturday Night again -

time for some more Genealogy Fun!!

Our assignment tonight from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:

1) Which of your ancestors was the LAST immigrant to your current country?  When did they arrive?  Where did they arrive?  Why did they migrate?  

Here’s mine:
The last ancestor of mine to arrive in the United States would be my paternal great-grandmother, Anna Maria Gleeson, who came to the United States perhaps in 1879 from Canada with her parents, John Gleeson and Margaret Tierney, and her nine siblings. They settled in Dakota Territory in Davison County.

Now, where they came in is a mystery. Four of the family filed Intent to Naturalize and gave conflicting dates and places of immigration.

Name	Immigration  Date	Immigration  Place	Date of  Intent	Age at  immigration	Age at  1st paper
John J Gleeson[1]	1878-04	Milwaukee	1885-05-21	17	24
John Gleeson[2]	1879-04	Port Huron	1880-11-02	44	45
Martin Gleeson[3]	1880-02	Huron	1880-10-07	22	22
Ann Gleeson[4]	1880-02	Huron	1880-10-07	21	21

I have sorted the list by immigration date, but John Gleeson is the father and the others are his children. Martin and Ann made their intent on the same day, so that can explain the same answer. Their answer agrees with their father on the place but is off by a year. The younger son was off two years, but seven years had passed, so perhaps he could not remember the date or the place. Port Huron is in Michigan, while Milwaukee is in Wisconsin. It is possible they traveled across Lake Michigan to Milwaukee and John J didn’t realize that Port Huron was in the United States.

Shortly after immigrating, John, Martin, and Ann applied for homestead land. This is likely the reason they came to Dakota Territory.

My husband’s last immigrant was his great-grandmother, Hulda Charlotte Anderson-Carlson, who came to the United States on 8 May 1893 aboard the SS Umbria, which arrived from Liverpool.[5] She stated she was traveling to Ohio. Originally, she came from Göksholm in Stora Mellösa, Örebro, Sweden.[6] She married on 20 May 1893 in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio to Nils Malkom Nilsen, as his second wife.[7] The reason she came to America was to marry the Rev. Nilsen. He had returned to Sweden to get a new wife after his first wife and son died.

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[1] "South Dakota, County Naturalization Records, 1865-1972," images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2078640) > Davison > Declarations of intention 1883-1891 vol 2, box 3 > image 106 of 198, p. 179, John J. Gleeson; South State Historical Society, Pierre.

[2] Ibid, Declarations of Intention 1880-1886 > image 32 of 240, p. 30, John Gleeson, 1880, South State Historical Society, Pierre.

[3] Ibid, Declarations of Intention 1880-1886 > image 29 of 240, p. 24, Martin Gleeson, 1880, South State Historical Society, Pierre.

[4] Ibid, Declarations of Intention 1880-1886 > image 29 of 240, p. 24, Ann Gleeson, 1880, South State Historical Society, Pierre.

[5] "Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York, New York, 1820-1957," digital images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/7488/) > Date > 1893 > May > 08 > Umbria > image 1 of 19, p. 1, no. 29, Hulda Carlson; NARA M237, roll 608; Line: 29.

[6] Household Examination Record, 1891-1895 (AI:28A), Stora Mellösa, Örebro, Sweden, p 22, Hulda Charl Andersdotter digital image, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2225) > Örebro > Stora Mellösa > Husförhör (Household examination) > 1891-1895 (AI:28A) > image 29; citing Swedish Church Records, Archive, Johnneshov, Sweden.

[7] “Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016,” FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9392-S53Y-J4) > Mahoning > Marriages records 1890-1893 vol 7 > image 347 of 349, p. 563, Nils Malkom Nilsen & Hulda C. Carlson, 1893.

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