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From: "J Olsen" <>
Subject: Re: [Mar] 1880 cargo ship from Norway
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 16:47:00 +0000


I think there is online info for ships leaving Norway, late
19thC. Cant remember where I saw them. try googling for the University of
Bergen, which hosts the census as well.


Judy

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>From: anne hanson <>
>To:
>Subject: [Mar] 1880 cargo ship from Norway
>Date: 02, Sat Apr, 2005, 5:42 pm
>

> Hi!
>
> I just joined this list and realize that we are not supposed to ask
> questions about immigrants but ... Debbie Beavis said this is okay so
> here goes:
>
> My great grandfather -- Harald Edmund Hanson -- emigrated from Norway
> on April 2, 1880 and arrived in Richebucto New Brunswick, Canada 48
> days later. He was one of only two passengers on the ship so I imagine
> it was a cargo ship. He mentions eating dinner with the captain, first
> and second mate, and helping the crew when they hit an iceberg and were
> trapped in ice floes. I do not know where in Norway it left from --
> only that the ship passed Shetland Island "3 days out" and this was the
> last land they saw. I am looking for information on the name of the
> ship and any other details available, particularly where in Norway it
> left from.
>
> Anne Hanson
>
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