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Subject: Passenger Lists from Grenada
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 11:45:52 EDT

Lenora, not that I know very much about shipping routes, but which ports of
arrival have you tried? I found my kin, who ended up in mid-state NY, came
through Philadelphia rather than NYC. In 1908, yours might have come through
New Orleans or even Galveston, possibly D. C. or Philly, thence northward by
train. They might even taken the Panama route?

By 1908-1910, our railroads made it possible to run from one side of the
coutry to the other with some regularity. People didn't think it unsual at
all. For example, my Crucian natives travelled, not infrequently, between New
York, Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska by train in the 1870s-80s & 90s.

The question that elicits sometimes at least the direction to a particular
haystack is which mail packets or other ships routinely plied the waters
between that island and the US? You might look for ship's schedules in
newspapers of the time.

Of course, you also have the problem of lost ship's lists or ones that were
water-logged, rotted, faded, etc. There are unfortunately quite many list
casualities.

Finally, as an aside, you might try the California voter's registration
lists. I don't know in which years these began, but I do know they included
physical descriptions of the applicants (males, of course) and so might get
some nice details we Easterners don't have the chance of.

Happy hunting. Laura in NC


In a message dated 4/2/01 10:52:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
writes:

> From:
> Can someone tell me WHY I cannot find my Peter Brown and family on ANY
> ships
> Passenger Lists though I know they left Grenada in 1908 according to a post
> card that grandmother Anna deFreitas-Brown wrote to a family member telling
> them they were ready to sail as other family had gone ahead.....And we
> know
> for sure that Peter Brown and family were in Los Angeles California area by
> 1910 when they had another child.... I have looked up their namess in all
>

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