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Title: James Stokes
Post by: eddunc on Sunday 23 March 14 17:49 GMT (UK)
Looking for James Stokes, born about 1850 emigrated to America about 1870
any help appreciated

Eddie
Title: Re: James Stokes
Post by: dawnsh on Sunday 23 March 14 18:14 GMT (UK)
Hi Eddie

Specifically, what information are you looking for?

For example, have you found him on the 1880 census?

Do you know who he married and when?

Dawn
Title: Re: James Stokes
Post by: eddunc on Sunday 23 March 14 18:34 GMT (UK)
He was my wife's great grandfather and married Mary Doran in St Helens in  Lancashire1870, he promptly shipped out to America leaving her pregnant and was never seen again. Any information would be appreciated.
regards

Eddie
Title: Re: James Stokes
Post by: wrjones on Monday 24 March 14 00:52 GMT (UK)
You maybe looking in the wrong country.The passenger list for James Stokes in 1870 in which it states a birth of c 1847 gives a destination of Canada.

Regards
William Russell Jones.
Title: Re: James Stokes
Post by: eddunc on Monday 24 March 14 10:34 GMT (UK)
Thanks William does it give a port of embarkation
regards Eddie
Title: Re: James Stokes
Post by: wrjones on Monday 24 March 14 12:09 GMT (UK)
Quote from: eddunc on Monday 24 March 14 10:34 GMT (UK)
Thanks William does it give a port of embarkation
regards Eddie

He left from Liverpool on the ship "James Foster Jr".His date of arrival is given as the 29th of July 1870,my apologies for my post,his birthyear is in fact given as c 1849.

Regards
William Russell Jones.
Title: Re: James Stokes
Post by: dbree on Tuesday 25 March 14 05:52 GMT (UK)
Hi Eddie,

There is a small online tree for James which gives his birthplace as Scotland. Is that a possibility?

The ship the James Foster Jr. appears in number of articles in the New York Times. This one from
1870 about the awful conditions for the passengers.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F7061EF93A59107B93C2A8178AD95F448784F9

Perhaps, it wasn't a good crossing for James! ;)

Cheers,
DB
Title: Re: James Stokes
Post by: denial_44 on Saturday 31 May 14 06:20 BST (UK)
When he married?