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[TSL] *new* for TheShipsList website
Sue Swiggum <swig@ns.sympatico.ca> on 06/12/2010

                               *new* for TheShipsList website
                                  http://www.theshipslist.com/

All the new and updated files and databases have been placed on their own
page(s) Find them on the front page in between the big arrows
                                         -------------->      <---------------

At the bottom of each of these pages I have placed links named " previous
month " and " next month " so you are able to navigate back and forth
between the monthly *new & updated* pages, as I only keep three months of
*new* page links on the Home page.  New for June 2010 is  . . .

     o Passengers:
        o John Molson - 6th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 6th June 1832 ... 
more than 900 passengers
        o John Molson - 7th trip up, Quebec to Montreal, 11th June 1832
        o ...
        o barque August, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 9th May 1855
        o ship La Rochelle, from Hamburg, to Port Adelaide 3rd September 1855

I've been a little out of sight these last couple of weeks transcribing 
literally hundreds and hundreds of passengers. ..phew!

The 6th trip of the JOHN MOLSON steamboat was the last with those huge 
numbers of emigrant passengers.  I just can't get my head around being able 
to fit SO many on that steamboats.  It was large compared to some of the 
others,154' long and 23' wide, ......... but I can't imagine a couple of 
days in those conditions, especially right after weeks on the ocean !!
New regulations were introduced by a Montreal committee and published in 
the Montreal Gazette in June 1832, limiting the numbers of passengers.  eg. 
the John Molson could only carry 300.  The full text is on the index page ...
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/1819_36stlawrence.htm
The 7th trip carried only 32 cabin passengers and 302 steerage passengers 
(they made an error and throught they only had 292 steerage 
passengers)  From passenger number 167 to 229 there is no "Amount Paid" 
entered, so those passengers would have held Emigration Society (ES) 
tickets.  I would make a leap to consider that all / most of those on the 
7th trip with ES tickets were Scots.  When the 1832 newspapers are 
transcribed, we'll be able to check which vessel(s) brought those settlers 
to Quebec in the few days prior to June 11th.

Of the two new passenger lists for 1855 from Germany to South Australia, 
the LA ROCHELLE certainly carried the most ... about 500.  I think that is 
the most passenger that Robert and I have had to deal with, from UK or 
Germany.  By comparison the AUGUST carried fewer that 200 passengers, 
mostly single, however, interesting to note that this vessel carried quite 
a large number of Swiss, many with very Italian names.  Not surprising 
really, as they came from the Italian border side of Switzerland.
Both of these lists are terrific, and we could do lots of cross-referencing.

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Enjoy

Sue
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