Immigrant Ships
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Ship Rachel

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

List of Passengers to proceed by the American Ship Rachel, Benjamin Hale, Master, to New York from Sligo, 15 April 1803.*

Columns represent: name, occupation.

 
  1 Robert       Ormsby         clerk
  2 James        Gillan         farmer
  3 John         Read           clerk
  4 James        Henderson      clerk
  5 Peter        McGowan        schoolmaster
  6 Chas.        Armstrong      clerk
  7 Lauce.       Christian   *  labourer
  8 Patt         Christian      labourer
  9 James        Donald         labourer
 10 Wm.          Corry          labourer
 11 Danl.        McGowan        labourer
 12 Owen         McGowan        labourer
 13 Fredk.       Corry          labourer
 14 Pat          Gilmartin      labourer
 15 Pat          Gilan       *  labourer
 16 Pat          Foley          labourer
 17 Pat          Feeny          labourer
 18 Michl.       Horan       *
 19 John         Farrel
 20 John         Commins
 21 Danl.        Gilmartin

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

  #7 first name abbreviation probably for Laurence.
 #15 Gilan spelled as found, though spelled Gillan for #2.
 #18-21 no occupation for these were recorded. 

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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