Immigrant Ships
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Ship Margaret

There was no captain's sworn statement with this list.

List of Passengers on board the Ship Margaret, Thomas Marsh, Master, bound for New York, from Newry, 18 April 1803.

Columns represent: name, age, occupation.

    
  1 Eliz.        Brothers       44
  2 Mary         Brothers       19
  3 Saml.        Brothers       12  labourer
  4 James        Brothers       10
  5 William      Brothers        7
  6 M. Ann       Anderson       30
  7 Matn.        Doubly      *  12
  8 James        Farrell         3
  9 James        Harkness    *  40  labourer      
 10 Jane         Harkness       36
 11 Thos.        Harkness       12
 12 Margt.       Harkness       10
 13 Sarah        Harkness       10
 14 Abigal       Harkness    *   8          
 15 Robert       Harkness        6
 16 James        Harkness        4
 17 Eliz.        Story          47
 18 Ben          Story          18  farmer
 19 Ann          Story          16
 20 Hugh         Alexander      29  labourer  
 21 Jane         Alexander      22
 22 Jane         Alexander       3
 23 Sarah        Alexander       2
 24 Robert       Goocy          20  farmer
 25 Samuel       Douglas        18  farmer
 26 Thomas       Haxten         19  labourer
 27 John         Rolston        27  labourer
 28 Ann          Beard          24
 29 Ann          Beard           2
 30 James        McClean        60  farmer
 31 Eliz.        McClean        60
 32 David        McClean        24  labourer
 33 John         McClean        22  labourer
 34 George       McClean        28  labourer
 35 William      Riddle         19  labourer
 36 Samuel       Magil          21  labourer
 37 Samuel       Magil          39  labourer
 38 Biddy        Enery          35  labourer

Transcriber's Notes:   
* This was probably near the date of departure from Ireland.  It probably 
  arrived during the summer months. 

  #7 first name abbreviation as found.
  #9 the Harkness family bracketed together with note that states: "his 
     family".
 #14 first name as found.
 #20 the Alexander family bracketed together with note: "his family".

This information was originally published in "Passenger Lists to America" 
in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, along with 
a number of other lists, between 1906 and 1912, by Gerald Fothergill.  
These lists were found by Fothergill, while searching through the 
British Archives, in British Museum Manuscript Add. 35932. 

It was subsequently published in "Ship Passenger Lists" by Carl Boyer 3rd, 
in 1977, Newhall, California.  Library of Congress Catalogue number: 
76-37355.

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