Age on immigrant list please.

[aus*jen]

What is the age of Richard Jones, labourer from Tipperary Ireland please?  There are labourers
on this list aged only 13 years!

[Milliepede]

That's a hard one to call isn't it    Could be 17 or 19.  It looks a straighter line than another 3.

[majm]

I wonder if you could share the ship's name, and year of arrival  particularly if a voyage to New South Wales.  Some of the digitised passenger lists were originally filmed ... decades ago ....  there may be other versions available.

JM

[aus*jen]

Hi JM,  Not Australia this time alas   It is the Shenandoah arriving in Philadelphia in 1850.
           Hoping for an age in the teens, but transcribed much older.  He states on the U.S Federal
           census that he arrived in 1850.  His birth year abt. 1835/6.  His sister emigrated to Aust.

Jen.

[aus*jen]

   I agree Millipede, it looks like a 1 but can't make out the number beside it.  The record is on
   FamilySearch.

[majm]

The first digit  is 1 the next is 7 or 9, length of down strokes,  7 and 9 both being drawn down past the 'imaginary line'  a feature that continue with numbers well into 20th century in Australia.

1,2,3, all sat on the line
4 ... it's central  down stroke ended on line, so the cross stroke was above that imaginary line
5 ... on the line
6 it's upstroke started markedly higher than 1, 2, 3 and it sat on the line.
7 and 9  their tails finished well below the line,  and 9 belly sat on the line
8 was tall and sat on line,
0 was on the line but short line 1, 2 & 3

So to me that's why I support Millepede's  17 or 19.

It is so very faded 

JM.

[aus*jen]

Thankyou JM for your detailed number analysis,  17 or 19 years is within range to support his birth year still unconfirmed.  This record relies on Richard Jones to give his correct age, only 2 of 5 US
census records agree so he may be hazy as to his birth year.  The name and County of origin are
correct and year of immigration agrees with his statement on the 1900 US census.  This is a possible record for his immigration.

Regards,
Jen.
 

[Dulaigh]

Looks like 23.

[josey]

I agree it could be '2' as the first number, none of the '1's have that leading upstroke, but the length and angle make me think it is a '1'. I think the second number is '9' as there appears to be a tail is below the line. I have applied a filter which makes it a little clearer [to me anyway].

I would like to see a '9' from the same page.