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From: "fritzh31" <>
Subject: Re: [TSL] "Tunisian" England>Wisconsin, USA
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 12:11:04 -0500
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Hi Heather:

In an effort to induce you to follow the earlier advice of Sue and Lorine, I
will augment their advice as follows:

NRP Bonsor, in his excellent multi-volume work entitled "North Atlantic
Seaway" shows two ships named TUNISIAN transporting immigrants across those
waters to either Canada or the US. One of them was the Allan Line's ship
which operated from 1900 to 1921; the second one was owned by Canadian
Pacific and it operated from 1907 to 1922. Since you are interested in a
1904 voyage you obviously are interested in the Allan Line ship.

The "Morton Allan Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals" fails
to show the TUNISIAN of the Allan line as being one of their ships that
called at the US ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, or Philadelphia.
Thus, to me, it looks like Sue has already pointed you to the correct
voyage, which arrived Halifax, Nova Scotia on 1904-04-23 and
St. John, New Brunswick 1904-04-24. If your ancestor was destined for
Wisconsin, then he probably had railroad connections from one of those two
ports through Montreal, and might very well appear in the St. Albans VT
arrival lists. Those lists are available on microfilm accessible at your
nearest Mormon Family History Center and maybe at your local public library,
depending on how active a genealogical section the latter has. Lorine has
earlier advised you of the link to discover the identifying information for
the correct microfilm.

Here's hoping you find the above helpful. Good luck in your research.

Fritz

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Subject: [TSL] "Tunisian" England>Wisconsin, USA


> Hello Listers:
> I'm searching for information on my gggrandfather Nikolai LINDSTRöM
who
> was born in Sweden. I don't know his b. date, nor how old at his death on
2
> June 1927 (I think: Iron Co., MI, USA). He was married to Anna Ellen
Johanna
> JOHNSON (poss. Jönsson) b. 2 may 1875 Sweden (possibly Uppsala) and d. 18
> Sept 1945 in McKean, Erie Co., PA, USA. I have info that they had their
> first child born in Sweden abt 1897/98, the 2nd b. Finland 10 Feb 1900,
then
> 3 children born in Crystal Falls, Iron Co, MI, USA between Sept
1904-Jan1911,
> and 2 more in MI, USA 1912-17, and the last child i do not have anything
but
> a name: Selma Lindstrom.
> When I searched the Institute of Migration website:
> http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/migration/ml/index_e.html
> I found info about a Nikolai Lindström (Age: adult man) departing Hanko,
> Finland 6 Apr 1904 on the ship "Polaris" to England, departing England on
> the ship "Tunisian" 14 Apr 1904. The site also stated his destination as
W.
> Superior, WI, USA.
> Through TheShipsList website I did locate info about Tunisian, which
was
> owned by Allan Line at the time, but I cannot find a passenger list for
this
> ship. Also I cannot find anything about the Polaris, which I'm assuming
> would be a feeder ship from Hanko, Finland to England.
> If anyone could help, I'd really appreciate it.
> Thanx,
> ~*~Heather Nearhoof~*~
>
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