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From: Margaret Wilkinson <>
Subject: Re: [STEER] STEER emigrant to USA 1875
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 06:15:47 +0000
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I have looked again at the image of this traveller (my reply below was from work where I did not have access to it, was working from memory).

The departure port was London itself, so my question below (Which port were London people likely to have travelled from?) is irrelevant.

''List of all passengers taken on board of the said 'France' at London, from which the port the steamship has now arrived'


Margaret




It makes it quite clear that the deparure po

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> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:11:25 +0000
> Subject: Re: [STEER] STEER emigrant to USA 1875
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> Jack, I saw this one when I was looking for John Thomas STEER and son John Horace STEER, and thought it might be John Horace STEER, as the departure point was given as London, till I saw the age and occupation.
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> Age is difficult to read, as you say could be 30 or 35, I am more inclined to think it is 30.
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> As for candidates - no idea. Are travellers from Devon likely to have given London as a departure point? Which port would Devon people have travelled from? (Which port were London people likely to have travelled from?)
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> Margaret
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>> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:54:44 +0000
>> Subject: [STEER] STEER emigrant to USA 1875
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>> On board the steam ship "France" that arrived in New York on 26th June 1875 was a John H STEER, aged 30 or 35, male, engineer, country to which personally belong: England; country of which intend to become inhabitants: USA. Perhaps his travelling companion was Thomas HILL, also an engineer.
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>> I can find just two births for a J H STEER on Free BDM in the 1837 to 1850 period. Both from Devon.
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>> John Henry Grills STEER was registered in Q3 1846 in Totnes district (GRO IX 520). E was the son of John STEER and Mary nee GRILLS and grandson of Edmund STEER and Sarah nee GRILLS. I don't think that he was an engineer. He appears on every census from 1851 to 1891 at least, living on a farm in Diptford.
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>> That leaves one other candidate - John Hobbang STEER - he was registered in Q1 1845 in Stoke Damerel district (GRO IX 497). Apart from that I know nothing about him.
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>> Has anyone got any information that might clear up this mystery or has anyone any other candidates that I have missed?
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>> Regards,
>> Jack Steer
>> Banbury
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