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Research in Other Countries => Immigrants & Emigrants - General => Topic started by: wales0706 on Tuesday 07 September 10 17:10 BST (UK)
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Can anyone help, i am trying to find a passenger list with a Harriet Jones, Elizabeth Jones, Possibly a Thomas Jones also coming from Russia bewteen 1888 - 1901. Harriet was born in Russia about 1885, Elizabeth nee Skyrme was born in Wales in 1865C
i have searched ancestry with no luck!!
Thanks
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If they came from Russia to a British port they are unlikely to be recorded.
The incoming passenger lists only include ships that sailed from a port outside of Europe, with very occasional entries for passengers from European ports where the ship came from outside Europe and made a stopover.
Similarly outgoing passenger lists do not, as a rule, cover ships going to Europe.
Were they in Russia owing to Thomas' work? You may be able to find Harriet's birth on the GRO overseas indexes.
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My grandfather came to the UK in 1903 from Lithuania. His immigration isn't to be found on Ancestry, but it is on the Hamburg Passenger Lists as he travelled Hamburg to Grimsby, like many Eastern Europeans.
The passenger list is in German, so allow for mis-spelling of names if you look for your your people. My grandfather's age is wrong on the list, but that could be either the person completing the paperwork, or my grandfather lying about his age!! I suspect the latter as he was only 15 and travelling alone!
All the best
DG