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PDF This thesis lists all passengers of six ships (it excludes Africaine, Buffalo and Tam O' Shanter), including occupations, and examines their and their descendants' social mobility after arrival. Leadbeater, Barry. "South Australian Shipping & Immigration: Passenger Lists". FamilyHistory. "Passenger lists". Bound for South Australia.
Since the 1980s, passenger lists are recorded electronically in the United States. One leader in data digitization was the "Center for Immigration Research" [6] at the University of Philadelphia/ Pennsylvania. The German Emigrants Database has received its extensive overall data for the years 1850-1891 from the Center for Immigration Research.
In 1800 William and Archibald McCorkell, sons of the founder started to expand the firm by using American owned ships, with voyages ranging from Canada to the West Indies. Their first ship was Marcus Hill , bought in 1815, at the conclusion of the American War; she continued to traverse the Atlantic until 1827.
Starting in 1820, some federal records, including ship passenger lists, were kept for immigration purposes, and a gradual increase in immigration was recorded. More complete immigration records provide data on immigration after 1830. Though conducted since 1790, the census of 1850 was the first in which place of birth was asked specifically.
Passengers disembarking from Cressy.In the background are Lyttelton town and other ships riding at anchor in Port Victoria, December 1850. The First Four Ships refers to the four sailing vessels chartered by the Canterbury Association which left Plymouth, England, in September 1850 to transport the first English settlers to new homes in Canterbury, New Zealand.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, heritage officials in Nova Scotia sought to commemorate the Hector ' s contribution to Nova Scotia's Scottish history. In 1992, the Ship Hector Foundation was formed from a group of volunteers in Pictou County and elsewhere who began to raise funds for the construction, maintenance and operation of a replica of Hector.
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Sixteen families who subscribed in advance did not sail with the Brooklyn when the time came, but forty-eight additional surnames were added to the final passenger list as word spread. R About 60% of those who actually sailed had not subscribed by December 13, 1845. [ 61 ]