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From: "egailb" <>
Subject: Re: [BENJAFIELD] Immigration Collection
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:21:51 -0500
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Now that is a terrific piece of research, Marian (Powell).

Can you tell she is a librarian!? :) Gail
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trevor Powell" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [BENJAFIELD] Immigration Collection


> Hello Mary and list,
>
> I have been having fun with the immigration collection. I wonder on which
> part of Ancestry.com it will ultimately reside. I have only Canada and
> the
> UK subscriptions. What is really great is the access to the digitized
> passenger lists.
>
> I did find my ancestor Charles and Matilda Benjafield--but by a circuitous
> route. My story might prove illustrative.
>
> I had a few weeks earlier plugged "Benjafield" surname into the
> Castlegarden.org site and up popped one reference only to a Benjafield
> family with no give names who arrived from England on the S.S. City of New
> York, 29 April 1873:
>
> Mr. Benjafield, Gentleman age 32
> Mrs. Benjafield, Lady age 28
> Unknown Benjafield, Child, Youngster age 1
>
> The group fit perfectly ( except Mrs B's age) the Charles Benjafield
> family.
> It had to be them. They were known to be in Nebraska in 1876 (eldest
> daughter Lillian born there) and their eldest son was born in 1872-3 in
> England.
>
> When the Immigration collection came up, I tested the Benjafield name and
> got no hits!! I knew they were there, so I searched the name of the ship
> and arrival date and looked at the digitial images. Sure enough, there
> they
> were, (last page in Cabin class) as transcribed at Castlegarden.org. (I
> have no idea what the name is indexed under in the Immigration
> collection).
> The digital image provided perfect proof that this is the correct family.
> Travelling with them was Master Charles Cowen (name spelled "Cowan") age
> 15.
> Charles Cowen was the younger brother of Matilda Cowen Benjafield who had
> eventually homesteaded near them in Saskatchewan, Canada. I had no idea
> he
> had travelled to the USA with them.
>
> So one more case of being wary of transcribed indexes!
>
> Marian
>
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "mary" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 12:49 AM
> Subject: [BENJAFIELD] Immigration Collection
>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> With free access to the entire immigration collection in November on
>> ancestry.com I've found a widow & daughter arriving 20 Nov 1946 from
>> Southampton on the New York Passenger Lists.
>>
>> After some searching I believe this is the widow of a Walter Stanley
>> Benjafield born June qtr 1895 in Kensington District. Can anyone identify
>> Walter Stanley?
>>
>> He married Daisy A Swain Dec qtr 1926 Paddington District. They had
>> Marion
>> Benjafield Mar qtr 1928 Croydon District. Walter died Mar qtr 1943
>> Croydon
>> aged 47.
>>
>> I can't find Walter in the 1901 census.
>>
>> Any help gratefully accepted.
>>
>> Mary
>>
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