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SS Alhambra

I, Mark Patten McElhinney, Master of the Steamship, Alhambra, do solemnly sincerely and truly believe that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of New York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said Steamship Alhambra at Halifax Nova Scotia from which port said SS Alhambra has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.

Sworn to this 11 Feby 1878 ????
So help me God
M.P. McElhinney.

List or Manifest of all of the Passengers taken on board the Steamship "Alhambra" of Quebec whereof McElhinney is Master, from Halifax N.S. burthen 722 tons

Columns represent: No., Names, Years, Months, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the voyage, Part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage. Since the months column was not used, and no passengers died during the voyage, those columns have been omitted.

1  Capt I.M. Allen        40 M Seaman  Nova Scotia    Nova Scotia    Cabin
2  Capt V.   Fielding     38 M Seaman  Nova Scotia    Nova Scotia    Cabin
3  Capt Wm   Lawrence     28 M Seaman  Nova Scotia    Nova Scotia    Cabin
4  Mrs       Rule         37 F None    Nova Scotia    Nova Scotia    Cabin
5  P.N.      Malone       23 M Groom   Nova Scotia    Nova Scotia    Steerage
6  John      Shaffenburg  19 M Seaman  United States  United States  Steerage

                                                          M.P. McElhinney

 The use of a ? indicates a letter or word unable to be read.
 The signature of the Customs collector is a flamboyant scrawl.

 
 Correspondence added 1-23-2006 regarding the Captain of this ship
 
 Captain Mark Patten McElhinney is my great great uncle.
 My great grandfather Captain Olonzo David McElhinney was
 Captain of the Alhambra as well.

 They sailed out of Levis, Quebec. Olonzo taught navigation in
 Glasgow Scotland. He drowned in the Fraser River at
 Steveston, BC when caught in a storm in a one man sloop.
 Mark Patten was a marine architect for the Canadian Government
 and designed ships for laying cable. My cousins and I have
 photos of Mark Patten and a couple of the ships he helped design.

Harold Steves 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Roll 411, List 125

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