"UK and Ireland, Incoming Passenger Lists, 1878-1960" is a database
on-line through Ancestry.com.
Description: This database is an index to the Board of Trade’s passenger
lists of ships arriving in the United Kingdom and Ireland from foreign
ports outside of Europe and the Mediterranean. Exceptions to this are
vessels that originated outside of these areas but then picked up
passengers in European or Mediterranean ports en route. The UK port of
arrival was not necessarily the final destination of the ship. In
addition, the names found in the index are linked to actual images of
the passenger lists, copied from The National Archives (TNA) collection
series BT26.
The passenger lists date from 1878 to 1888 and 1890 to 1960. However,
many of the pre-1890 lists were irregularly destroyed by the Board of
Trade in 1900. Therefore, there are not many lists included in this
database that date from these earlier years.
Separate lists were kept for British (and Commonwealth) passengers and
Alien passengers. In addition, there was a variety of form types used
throughout the years. These differences in forms may result in a variety
of information recorded for different passengers.
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As an example of what you might find, when I do a search for one of my
County Tyrone ancestor surnames, Hadden (of any spelling, including
Haddon, Haddan, Hayden, etc.), arriving 1878-1898, the results are 417
names. Ports of departure include New York, New York; Boston,
Massachusetts; Montreal, Quebec; St. John, New Brunswick, Canada;
Sydney, Australia; Natal, Brazil; Savanilla, Columbia; South Africa;
Valparaiso, Chile; River Plate, South America; Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Calcutta, India; Wellington, New Zealand; and others.
Annie
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