Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Ship Isaac Webb

List or Manifest of ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Ship Isaac Webb whereof Jas C. Stowell is Master, from Liverpool, burthen (blank) tons.

Columns represent: given name and surname, age, sex, occupation, and country to which they severally belong. Since every passenger intended to become an inhabitant of the "United States", and no one died during the voyage, these two columns are omitted in this transcription.

 1  John Howard           47      M    Labr       England
 2  Pat Clare             40      M               Ireland
 3  Jno Taylor            32      M    Labr       England
 4  Geo D. Graves         22      M    Mech       U. States
 5  Jas Crimen            26      M    Mech       U. States
 6  Henry Gerrity         22      M    Servt      Ireland
 7  Mich Dever            24      M    Labr       Ireland
 8  Joh Eneir             24      M    Labr       Germany
 9* ??? McCall            20      M               England
10  Ann Wiltan            22      F               England
11  Margt Clare           18      F               Ireland
12  Mary Clare            16      F               Ireland
13  Honora Clare          14      F               Ireland
14  Bridgt Dunn           28      F               Ireland
15  Michl Dunn             2      M               Ireland
16  Hughie Dunn            2      M               Ireland
17  Cath Cairns           30      F               Ireland
18  Ellen Cairns           2y8m   F               Ireland
19  Honora Dunn           23      F               Ireland
                

Transcriber's Notes:

  An asterisk (*) indicates either difficulty in deciphering the handwriting of
  the manifest or something in the Transcriber Notes to which the reader should
  refer.

  A question mark (?) indicates a letter or a number that can not be
  transcribed definitely.

  The transcribers numbered the passengers consecutively 1-19, even though they
  are not numbered in the original manifest.
 
  The recorder did not always use ditto marks to indicate "same as above".
  Many sex and occupation entries are left blank and the reader is confronted
  with the problem of interpreting the recorder's intended meaning.  The
  transcribers use the sex last entered for a passenger above, and correlate
  this interpretation with whether the passenger has a masculine or feminine
  given name.  Occupations are only given in the transcription if the recorder
  entered them.  Since it was common for recorders not to make an entry in the
  occupation column for female passengers or for children, a possible though
  not a certain interpretation of the intended occupation where left blank is
  that of the occupation of the last adult male entered above. 

  The recorder of the manifest often abbreviated a passenger's Occupation, such
  as "Labr" for "Labourer", "Mech" for "Mechanic" or "Servt" for "Servant".  
  
5  Fourth letter of surname is not clear, but might possibly be "o", "e", "c"
   or "v", resulting in possible surnames "Graves", "Graces" and perhaps
   others.
9  Letters of given name are poorly formed and difficult to decipher, but
   there appears to be three letters, possibly though not certainly "Ana".  

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 291, List 103.

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