Immigrant Ships
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Ship Washington Alston


Bangor, Wales to Boston, Massachusetts
5 June 1847

DISTRICT OF BOSTON – PORT OF BOSTON
There was no captain's sworn statement with this list.
COPY of Report and List of the Passengers taken on board the Ship Washington Alston of Boston whereof Laban Howes is Master, burthen 399 tons and 4/95ths of a ton, bound from the Port of Bangor (Wales) for Boston.
Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country to which they severally belong, country of which they intend to become inhabitants, died on the voyage. All the passengers intended to become inhabitants of the United States, so that column will be eliminated here.
    
  
  1 William Jones              34  male    mechanic           Wales   
  2 Katherine Jones         *  3?  female  wife of above      Wales
  3 Jane Jones                  5  female                     Wales
  4 Hugh Jones                  3  male                       Wales
  5 Ann Jones              infant  female                     Wales
  6 Griffith Jones             39  male    mechanic           Wales
  7 Margaret Jones             34  female  wife of above      Wales
  8 Jane Jones                 13  female                     Wales
  9 William Jones              10  male                       Wales
 10 Margaret Jones              5  female                     Wales
 11 Ann Jones                   3  female                     Wales
 12 Griffith Jones, Jr     infant  male                       Wales    died at sea 27th May
 13 Mary Roberts               25  female  domestic servant   Wales
 14 Elizabeth Evens            11  female                     Wales
 15 Robert Roberts             24  male    labourer           Wales
 16 Richard Owen               24  male    mechanic           Wales
 17 Peter Martin               35  male    labourer           Ireland
 18 David Williams             21  male    mechanic           Wales
 19 Owen Samuel                40  male    mechanic           Wales
 20 Grace Samuel               37  female  wife of above      Wales
 21 Ann Samuel                 11  female                     Wales
 22 Ellen Samuel                9  female                     Wales
 23 Grace Samuel                7  female                     Wales
 24 Henry Samuel                5  male                       Wales
 25 Richard Samuel         infant  male                       Wales
 26 Jane Samuel            infant  female                     Wales
 27 Samuel S?mes            *  25  male    labourer           Ireland
 28 William Day                30  male    labourer           Ireland
 29 John Jones                 46  male    mechanic           Wales
 30 Jane Jones                 31  female  wife of above      Wales
 31 Samuel Jones               21  male    mechanic           Wales
 32 Eliza Jones                 5  female                     Wales
 33 Robert Cuddy               21  male    mechanic           Ireland
 34 Patrick Odonough           22  male    mechanic           Ireland  
 35 James Hartigan             28  male    mechanic           Ireland
 36 Mary Jones                 20  female  domestic servant   Ireland
 37 Hugh Hughs                 50  male    joiner             Wales
 38 Margaret Hughs             23  female  single woman       Wales
 39 Jane Hughs                 20  female  single woman       Wales
 40 Ellen Hughs                11  female                     Wales
 41 John Samuel                34  male    mechanic           Wales
 42 Mary Samuel                31  female  wife of above      Wales
 43 Hugh Samuel                 6  male                       Wales
 44 John Samuel                 4  male                       Wales
 45 Margaret Samuel         1y6mo  female                     Wales
 46 Ann Samuel             infant  female                     Wales
 47 Robert Moses               41  male    mechanic           Wales
 48 Katherine Moses            40  female  wife of above      Wales
 49 Margaret Moses             13  female                     Wales
 50 Robert Moses               11  male                       Wales
 51 George Moses                8  male                       Wales
 52 William Moses               5  male                       Wales
 53 William Owens              25  male    mechanic           Wales
 54 Even Thomas                21  male    mechanic           Wales
 55 Samuel Owen                67  male    mechanic           Wales
 56 Ann Owen                   66  female  wife of above      Wales
 57 Robert Williams            29  male    farmer             Wales
 58 Margaret Jones          *  ?0  female  widow              Wales
 59 Mary Jones                 21  female  single woman       Wales
 60 Griffith Jones             19  male    labourer           Wales
 61 Elizabeth Jones            12  female                     Wales
 62 Jane Jones                  9  female                     Wales
 63 Ann Jones                   7  female                     Wales
 64 Owen Jones                  6  male                       Wales
 65 Katherine Jones             3  male                       Wales    died 22nd May of sickness
 66 William Williams           55  male    shoemaker          Wales
 67 Elizabeth Williams         50  female  wife of above      Wales
 68 Maria Williams             11  female                     Wales
 69 Ebenezer Williams          18  male    labourer           Wales
 70 Mary Robarts               22  female  domestic servant   Wales
 71 Daniel Williams            71  male    weaver             Wales
 72 Ann Williams               68  female  wife of above      Wales    died May 9th of sickness
 73 Katherine Williams         31  female  single woman       Wales
 74 John Jones                 20  male    labourer           Wales
 75 Henry Jones                19  male    labourer           Wales
 76 David Evens                33  male    mechanic           Wales
 77 Margaret Evens             31  female  wife of above      Wales
 78 William Evens               2  male                       Wales
 79 John Evens             infant  male                       Wales

Transcriber's Notes:     
 #2 age probably 30, possibly 36.
 #27 surname probably Simes. 
 #58 age probably 50. 
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 23.
Contributed and Transcribed by Mary Koelzer a member of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
17 September 1999



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