hi Len I am following bread crumbs is the simple answer. My dad died relatively young and I had an insatiable curiosity for family history. He told me all he could remember, which was considerable, being told by his father etc... Being a child I have lost too much of those memories. Following the bread crumbs led me to this great site which I believe you have found my family in Pomeroy, John McKee. One of the crumbs was an oral history that we left via Belfast. I say we because oral history says we came as a group on board the same ship. This has misled many in our family to search the Belfast records for John believing him to have been born in Belfast. However my dad said we left from Belfast not lived there. I am also very open minded and have searched other records for Londondery etc with out success. If I found our families from some other shipping site I would be just as thrilled but I have always been surprise at how accurate my family recollection has been. I have not been able to find any of their names on online shipping sites so I am trying to find other records such as shipping news that might narrow down the search.
Thank you again Ron McCoy On 2018-08-18 7:58 AM, Len Swindley wrote: Hello Ron, I am pondering what evidence you have that states your forebears left Ireland via Belfast. The Pomeroy district fell within the net cast by the Londonderry shipping companies: Kelso, Barry McCorkell and J & J Cooke. The considerable passenger trade to North America commenced in Londonderry c1720 and reached a peak during the Famine years and thereafter. Prior to the Famine, the great majority of emigrants were Presbyterians. Online J & J Cooke records can be found on Olive Tree Genealogy and can be found at https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml Hope this assists your search, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: CoTyroneList <cotyronelist-boun...@cotyroneireland.com><mailto:cotyronelist-boun...@cotyroneireland.com> on behalf of Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList <cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com><mailto:cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 2:44:59 PM To: cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> Cc: Ron McCoy Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] sailing information Hi All Thanks for the information. The lack of shipping list is a problem and as has been noted travel between Canada and Ireland was not registered. A real problem... I have tried the steam ship lines from Quebec to Montreal with out success but they also ran Bateaux service which is how I assume they must have come. I think the suggestion of the Belfast News, The Quebec Mercury or the JJ Cooke shipping records might give me the names of ships that would have sailed out of Belfast and arrived in Quebec in the time I suspect. That would be a great help. Iola would you have the online site that these can be found on? Thank you all for your help Cheers Ron McCoy On 2018-08-17 9:33 AM, Elizabeth Vervaeke via CoTyroneList wrote: My family came from Brackagh (Errigal Keerogue) through Londonderry on the Sesosthis in 1847 . I was able to find their passenger list from the JJ Cooke Shipping records . There are many ships listed. Perhaps it’s worth a search here ... https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/qu_seth1847.shtml Kind Regards On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 9:30 AM Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList <cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com>> wrote: Hi all I have tried several times to find sailing records for the year 1828 from Belfast to Canada. This is the year I believe my family and their neighbours left Tyrone and immigrated. However I am told there is no passenger records in the early years of the 1800's. I was wondering if there was a list some where of just ships names that sailed even if there was not passenger lists. I am confident that they sailed after iceberg season and arrived in the Montreal area around the end of August or beginning of September of 1838. If I had a list of ships sailing out of Belfast I might be able to deduce which ship they sailed on? If anyone has experience or an idea where ships names or records that might have sailed from Belfast it would be of great interest to me? Cheers Ron McCoy _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com -- Libby Vervaeke e.verva...@gmail.com<mailto:e.verva...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com<mailto:CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com> http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
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