The list I have saved is headed Merchant Shipping Act 1906 and Aliens Act 1905, then it has on the next line a heading "Out-Going Passengers" and under that is printed, "Returns of Passengers leaving the United Kindom in ships bound for places out of Europe, and not within The Mediterranean Sea. Then there is a note about which passengers are to be listed. The list itself looks like an old account sheet and handwritten before the columns is Port of Departure Liverpool, then Date of Departure February 25th 1911. The first lot of columns are headed Ship's Name, Official Number, Steamship Line, Master's Name, Registered Tonnage, Aggregate Number of superficial feet in the several compartments set apart for Passengers, other than Cabin Passengers, Total Number of Statue Adults, exclusive of Master Crew and Cabin Passengers, which the Ship can legally carry. and finally Where Bound. Then the master has had to sign that the provisions carried are sufficient etc.
Underneath all that lot is another large heading Names and Descriptions of British passengers. Then underneath that are more columns giving Port of Embarkation, Contract Ticket Number, Name of Passengers (and in brackets a note stating that passengers holding contract tickets as steerage passengers should be entered first and a space left between them and the other passengers) Then the class (and on this particular form 3rd is printed), then there are columns A, C and I, for Adults, Children and Infants which are ticked appropriately. then Profession, Occupation or Calling of Passengers, then a whole load of other columns divided into English, Welsh, Scotch, Irish and British Colonial. These columns are subdivided into Adults 12 and upwards, subdivided again into 2 columns accompanied by husband or wife, or unaccompanied by husband or wife, or single. Then Children between 1 and 12 and finally Infants. All these columns are subdivided again into Males and Females. And the totals of all columns are shown at the bottom of the sheet.
I thought this was a passenger list. The shipping line is Cunard, so maybe each line had its own list. My "relative" is down as adult labourer and under the unaccompanied column where some ages are shown for him and others it just shows 'a' which I assume just means adult and no age given.
Unfortunately, due to the copyright of the form, I couldn't copy and paste it, so have had to describe it as best as I can. Nowhere on the form is there any space to put where they are going to (apart from the ship is going to New York) and certainly nowhere are there any other names and addresses of next of kin etc.
Anna - I note that you say the lists on Ellis Island website are different to the ones on Findmypast. Perhaps that's where the confusion arises.
Liz
