Passenger List Liverpool - Canada 1910

[tickerwheel]

HI,

I am wondering if someone can help me with this please.

Matthew Whittaker emigrated to Canada and returned with Canadian Forces and was killed on the Somme in 1916.  I have all the normal details with that and have obtained his attestation papers online via the Canadian Website that I discovered on here.

I am trying to read the ships passenger lists and they are barely legible. Those particular years are not indexed either on the Canadian site and are photocopies of the written lists.

I believe that he sailed from Liverpool to NB (New Brunswick) in 1910.

If anyone has access to any other sites with passenger lists that would be great.

He was born in 1891 and last address was in Chorley.

Thanks very much.

Neil

[CaroleW]

Hi

Have you tried the ancestors onboard website which is a pay per view.  However - I don't know whether you will encounter the same problem with the quality of the image

www.ancestorsonboard.com

This is the entry on their free index - no age shown

WHITTAKER Matt   male departure 1910 Liverpool to  Canada Port of arrival Saint John Nb

I searched the index for all Whittaker entries with the same year/port details etc

There was only one female Whittaker with the same departure/arrival details - Jane aged 30

There were 3 other male Whittakers without ages shown but I don't know if they were Matthews children

Arthur
FM
RB

These are other male Whittakers with the same voyage details

aged 24 - no name/initials

E aged 21
RS aged 19
W aged 28

[ShaunJ]

I had a look at that passenger list and there isn't much to add. The ship was the Allan Line's Virginian, sailed 4 March 1910 to Halifax and St John. Matt. Whittaker,  single, male, a labourer.

[aghadowey]

Neil- have you found him in 1911 Canadian census? If not:
www.automatedgenealogy.com

[tickerwheel]

Thanks so much everybody for your help, really appreciate it.  That has given me a lot more to go on.

He was single and would have been 18 at the time of sailing.  I will see if I have any luck in the census.

Thanks again

Neil

[aghadowey]

Neil- forgot to mention that if you do find him on census be sure to check actual scanned census page not just the transcribed page. Scanned page has more information (click on link from transcribed page).

[tickerwheel]

Thanks for all your help with this. I did check the census but no sign of him yet.

I did actually find him on the ships passenger list, (the handwritten one) on the Canadian site, the details were correct except for him being listed as a Clerk.

It was good to be able to identify the ship and that made the search a little easier for him too.

Thanks again everyone

Neil

[ShaunJ]

On the UK passenger list there is very little attention paid to detail, and the occupation is just a ditto mark in a long column of ditto marks under a previous entry of "labourer". The Canadian list may be more accurate.

[tickerwheel]

Look up completed - with thanks to everyone.