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Research in Other Countries => Immigrants & Emigrants - General => Topic started by: snickersnee on Saturday 08 October 22 23:15 BST (UK)
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Are there any resources or data relating to ships that left or arrived at Liverpool headed for Canada in the 1830s? I have Irish ancestors who traveled from Londonderry to Liverpool, where they had to wait 2 weeks for a ship heading for Canada. I know the name of the ship, the Pleasant, a steerage vessel that took immigrants to Canada and then returned with lumber from Canada.
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Possibly of use if you know the year and names.
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/
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I have tried Shipslist and found nothing. I was hoping there might be records of ships leaving Liverpool such as harbormasters lists of some sort.
Thanks.
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It may be worth looking here using various search terms, names/surnames...
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
Annie
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I have tried looking in newspapers. There are a few items about various emigrant ships to Quebec from Liverpool, but none that mention the "Pleasant" as far as I can see. eg,there is the "Brutus" and "Transit" in 1832 and "General Graham" in 1834 mentioned in detailed accounts.
There is a "Mary Pleasants" mentioned a bit later sailing to Sydney, in 1859.
Modified to add:
Actually I see an advertisement for the "Mary Pleasants" in 1849 going to Philadelphia, says it is only 3 years old. So not your ship. :)
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Are there any resources or data relating to ships that left or arrived at Liverpool headed for Canada in the 1830s?
I'm wondering where all your info. came from if you don't have a source?
If you're unsure of any info. it's always best to state so, otherwise it sends people off on a Wild Goose chase...
"I have Irish ancestors who traveled from Londonderry to Liverpool, where they had to wait 2 weeks for a ship heading for Canada. I know the name of the ship, the Pleasant, a steerage vessel that took immigrants to Canada and then returned with lumber from Canada."
"I know the name of the ship", please tell us where the info. was found, to help others help you?
Annie
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I agree that newspapers may be the best possibility. My gg-grandparents traveled from Liverpool to New York on the ship Victoria in 1834. Fortunately, I was able to find them on a passenger list recorded at Castle Garden in New York. I also found a short announcement of the arrival of the Victoria in the Albany Evening Journal which gave the date of its departure from Liverpool. The main purpose of the announcement seems to have been to advertise the availability of recent [one month old!] English newspapers which had been transported to New York on the ship.
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FYI
"The federal government began keeping passenger lists in 1865 to use as immigration records. Very few of these lists before 1865 survived."
see:
Immigrants before 1865 - https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/immigration/pages/immigrants-before-1865.aspx