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SS Oceanic
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Liverpool, England & Queenstown, Ireland to New York
22 April 1874
DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK
I, John W. Jennings, Master of the SS Oceanic do
solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the
following List or Manifest, subscribed by me and now
delivered 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
Steamer Oceanic at Liverpool and Queenstown from which
ports said Oceanic has now arrived; and that on said
list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the
occupation of each of said passengers, the location of
the compartment or space of the said 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
dates, and the names and ages of those who died. So
help me God. (signed) J. W. Jennings
Sworn to this 22 Apl 1874 before me ???????? DC
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board
the Oceanic whereof John W. Jennings is Master from
Liverpool and Queenstown burthen 2349 tons.
Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The
Country to which they severally belong, The country in
which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the
voyage. All Passengers intend to become inhabitants of
the United States so that column was eliminated. No
Passengers died on the voyage so that column was
eliminated.
Steerage Passengers
328 Robert Jones 38 male lab. Wales
329 John Lloyd 35 male lab. Wales
330 James Powell 35 male lab. Wales
331 Ferd. Schliewerz 13 male child Germany
332 Christina Schliewerz 11 female child Germany
333 Ernst Wille 40 male farmer Germany
334 Wilhelm Kruger 38 male farmer Germany
335 John Haitz 48 male farmer Germany
336 Maria Haitz 48 female wife Germany
337 Joh. Haitz 10 male child Germany
338 Mag'a Haitz 7 female child Germany
339 Carl Brenmer 25 male lab. Germany
340 Mag. Brenmer 25 female wife Germany
341 Carl Brenmer 1 male infant Germany
342 Joh. Vorkopper 50 male lab. Germany
343 Hen. Sahi 25 male lab. Germany
344 Luia Rohleden 23 male lab. Germany
345 Karolina Kaiser 41 female wife Germany
346 Julia Kaiser 9 female child Germany
347 Constantina Kaiser 7 female child Germany
348 James Nelson 41 male lab. Germany
349 Anton Leinowa 28 male lab. Germany
350 Johanna Leinowa 44 female wife Germany
351 Aug't Leinowa 14 male student Germany
352 Anton Ohl 46 male lab. Germany
353 Joh'n Kerster 43 male lab. Germany
354 John Wrtzsch 25 male lab. Germany
355 Herm. Kiepsch 28 male lab. Germany
356 John Sleipener 16 male lab. Germany
357 Fred M. Lahed 35 male lab. Germany
358 E. Dyenhart 34 male lab. Germany
359 Aug't Schier 38 male lab. Germany
360 Hein. Kaifalt 48 male lab. Germany
361 S. W. Bachmann 28 male lab. Germany
362 H. W. Hertal 33 male lab. Germany
363 Henrietta Hertal 23 female servant Germany
364 Emmanuel Losche 30 male lab. Germany
365 Marie Losche 30 female wife Germany
366 Fred. Losche 1 male inf't Germany
367 Hein. Wolf 46 male lab. Germany
368 Ernst Wolf 9 male child Germany
369 Edw. Gerci 26 male lab. Germany
370 Hanna Gerci 20 female wife Germany
371 Gust. Hoffman 23 male lab. Germany
372 Paul Hoffman 16 male lab. Germany
373 H. R. Hoffman 38 male lab. Germany
374 Bertha Hoffman 30 female wife Germany
375 Aug't Hoffman 10 male child Germany
376 Gustav Hoffman 8 male child Germany
377 Fran. Hoffman 5 male child Germany
378 Ida Hoffman 2 female child Germany
379 Auguste Logatz 15 female serv't Germany
380 Gust. Kuntze 26 male lab. Germany
381 Henriette Kuntze 28 female wife Germany
382 Emil Kuntze 9 male child Germany
383 Carl Luidenburg 26 male lab. Germany
384 C. Wichmann 40 male lab. Germnay
385 Anna Wichmann 32 female wife Germany
386 Maria Wichmann 6 female child Germany
387 Heinrich Wichmann 4 male child Germany
388 Dora Wichmann 2 female child Germany
389 Ernestine Jistenhold 38 female wife Germany
390 Herm. Jistenhold 11 male child Germany
391 Anna Jistenhold 9 female child Germany
392 Franz Jistenhold 8 male child Germany
393 Emma Jistenhold 5 female child Germany
394 Rich'd Jistenhold 1 male inf't Germany
395 A. Marwerz 27 male lab. Germany
396 Carl Knoset 37 male lab. Germany
397 Augusta Knoset 37 female wife Germany
398 Franz Knoset 9 male child Germany
399 Ernst Shert 40 male lab. Germany
400 Role Shert 11 male child Germany
401 Rob Noak 33 male lab. Germany
402 Amelia Noak 33 female wife Germany
403 Helena Noak 2 female child Germany
404 Jn. Bahl 30 male lab. Germany
405 Pauline Bahl 33 female wife Germany
406 Bertha Bahl 9 female child Germany
407 Rich'd Bahl 4 male child Germany
408 Maria Bahl 1 female inf't Germany
409 Aug't Richter 49 male lab. Germany
410 Rich'd Bengner 32 male lab. Germany
411 Aug't Rille 42 male lab. Germany
412 Rosalia Sherschen 30 female wife Germany
413 Helena Sherschen 4 female child Germany
414 Gotthelf Urtel 34 male lab. Germany
415 Augusta Urtel 30 female wife Germany
416 J. G. Lamnciel 34 male lab. Germany
417 Emily Lamnciel 35 female wife Germany
418 Anna Lamnciel 5 female child Germany
419 Oscar Lamnciel 1 male inf't Germany
420 S. O. Dalley 41 male lab. Germany
421 S. Iversen 30 male lab. Germany
422 Jonetta Iversen 27 female wife Germany
423 A. Espersen 33 male lab. Germany
424 Anne F. Gromadz 50 female wife Germany
425 Bertha Gromadz 19 female serv't Germany
426 Erich Gromadz 11 male child Germany
427 Rakku Gromadz 9 male child Germany
428 John Hansen 33 male lab. Germany
429 Anne Hansen 42 female wife Germany
430 Hans Hansen 11 male child Germany
431 H. Jacobsen 39 male lab. Germany
432 Mad. Jacobsen 40 female wife Germany
433 Chir. Jacobsen 11 male child Germany
434 Jacob Jacobsen 9 male child Germany
435 Mars Nigersen 27 female serv't Germany
436 Rachel Egeride 50 female serv't Germany
437 Fh. Pedersdather 35 male lab. Germany
438 Serene Kmapon 34 female serv't Germany
439 Carolina Batcher 37 female wife England
440 Charles Batcher 32 male butcher England
441 Absalon Batcher 11 male child England
442 Phoebe Batcher 7 female child England
443 Charles Batcher 4 male child England
444 Martha Batcher 3 female child England
445 Caroline Batcher 1 female inf't England
446 Th'os Batcher 7 male child England
447 Jos. Houldis 21 male lab. England
448 Anne Houldis 23 female wife England
449 James Quinlan 27 male mason England
450 Sam'l Roberts 55 male mason Wales
451 Fanny Jones 21 female serv't Wales
452 Eliz'th Roberts 23 female serv't Wales
453 Marg't Roberts 17 female serv't Wales
454 Mary Delaney 30 female serv't Ireland
455 Owen Roberts 29 male lab. Wales
456 Owen Williams 20 male lab. Wales
457 W'm Thomas 30 male lab. Wales
458 Robert Jones 24 male lab. Wales
459 D. W. Stewart 28 male lab. England
460 Joh. Leeson 31 male lab. England
461 Anne Leeson 30 female wife England
462 Thomas Williams 21 male lab. Wales
463 Fred Perkins 23 male lab. England
464 Emman'l Prattley 19 male lab. England
465 Charles H. Payne 20 male smith England
466 R. E. Louis 24 male smith England
467 John Atkinson 22 male smith England
468 Fred Walker 25 male lab. England
469 Sara Williams 25 female serv't Wales
470 Thomas Lawler 26 male lab. England
471 John B. Dusmann 27 male lab. Germany
472 Guiseppe Demartine 42 male lab. Germany
473 Maria Demartine 22 female wife Germany
474 Giovanni Demartine 9 male child Germany
475 Isabella Demartine 5 female child Germany
476 Seraphina Peroluste 11 female child Germany
477 Maria Demartine 22 female serv't Germany
478 Guiseppe Montedoni 40 male lab. Germany
479 Maria Cerisola 20 female serv't Germany
480 Jullia Rivara 20 female serv't Germany
481 Mucenjo Depaoli 18 male lab. Germany
482 Alex'r Hall 21 male lab. England
483 Mary J. Hall 18 female serv't England
484 Rich'd Burrows 25 male lab. England
485 John Beay 20 male lab. England
486 Joseph Coleman 28 male lab. England
487 Henry Brady 20 male lab. Ireland
488 Pat'k McGushin 18 male lab. Ireland
489 Andrew McLive 42 male lab. Ireland
490 Wilhelm Dananbosy 36 male lab. Germany
491 William Niely 25 male lab. England
492 Fred Lueton 26 male lab. England
493 Pat'k McDonnell 22 male lab. Ireland
494 Honoria OMally 22 female wife Ireland
495 Ann OMally 4 female child Ireland
496 Mary OMally 1 female inf't Ireland
497 Mary OMally 18 female serv't Ireland
498 Bridget ODonnell 23 female serv't Ireland
499 Rich'd Bourke 49 male lab. Ireland
500 Belinda Bourke 42 female wife Ireland
501 Marg't Bourke 14 female serv't Ireland
502 Anne Bourke 7 female child Ireland
503 Joseph Bourke 6 male child Ireland
504 Fra's Bourke 5 male child Ireland
505 Mary Quinn 20 female serv't Ireland
506 Mary Walsh 24 female serv't Ireland
507 Anne Kelly 27 female serv't Ireland
508 James Slater 20 male lab. England
509 Jeffery Gibbons 30 male lab. England
510 Mary Gibbons 29 female wife England
511 Infant Gibbons 1 male inf't England
512 W'm Oates 27 male lab. England
513 W'm Quayle 20 male lab. England
514 Alfred Wills 18 male lab. England
515 Mary A. Giles 30 female serv't England
516 Rich'd Daton 26 male lab. England
517 E'd Barnscroft 20 male lab. England
518 Priscilla Wells 32 female wife England
519 Geo. E. Wells 4 male child England
520 Rob't A. Wells 2 male child England
521 Priscilla Wells 1 female inf't England
522 Eliza Hobson 21 female serv't England
523 George Smith 45 male lab. England
524 Mary A. Smith 12 female serv't England
525 Julia Smith 8 female child England
526 W'm Wood 38 male lab. England
527 John F. Lloyd 19 male lab. England
528 Henry Taylor 19 male lab. England
529 Rose McMahon 25 female serv't Ireland
530 John Stewart 25 male lab. Ireland
531 Marg't Judge 18 female serv't Ireland
532 Lewis Lions 27 male lab. England
533 Mahow Williams 41 male lab. Wales
534 Mich'l Howland 34 male lab. England
535 E's Lynan 27 male lab. Ireland
536 Owen McGee 20 male lab. Ireland
537 Ann McGolarick 19 female serv't Ireland
538 John McGolarick 25 male lab. Ireland
539 Kate McGolarick 23 female wife Ireland
540 Thomas McGolarick 1 male inf't Ireland
541 James Dury 20 male lab. Ireland
542 Fra's Hope 23 male lab. Ireland
543 M. Morley 23 male lab. Ireland
544 Miss Morley 18 female serv't Ireland
545 Peter McNamee 20 male lab. Ireland
546 Fra's Gaffney 18 male lab. Ireland
547 Cath'e Armstrong 16 female serv't Ireland
548 Maria Coal 18 female serv't Ireland
549 Ellen Wood 40 female wife England
550 W'm Wood 23 male lab. England
551 W'm McWeeny 20 male lab. Ireland
552 Harriet Maxwell 18 female serv't Ireland
553 Ann McDermitt 20 female serv't Ireland
554 Pat'k McConville 24 male lab. Ireland
555 Mary A. McConville 24 female wife Ireland
556 W'm Harper 25 male lab. England
557 Thomas Clarke 20 male lab. England
558 Rich'd E. Freethy 20 male lab. England
559 Fra's Richards 18 male lab. England
560 Pat'k Lynch 24 male lab. England
561 Joseph Lynch 18 male lab. England
562 Ann McAter 18 female serv't England
563 Thomas Jenkins 23 male lab. England
564 Henry Jenkins 28 male lab. England
565 W'm Wyatt 22 male lab. England
566 Joseph Morten 19 male lab. England
567 W'm E. Rowe 28 male lab. England
568 Susan Rowe 18 female wife England
569 W'm J. Harris 19 male lab. England
570 Thomas Donald 19 male lab. England
571 Henry Dressin 23 male lab. England
572 Thomas James 33 male lab. England
573 John Johnston 29 male lab. England
574 Rob't Jackson 29 male lab. England
575 James Green 52 male lab. England
576 Jane Livingston 1 female inf't England
577 W'm J. Rawlings 18 male lab. England
578 C. W. White 21 male lab. England
579 Frank Herman 24 male lab. England
580 Thomas Miller 17 male lab. England
581 Fred'k Miller 16 male lab. England
582 Martin Harrison 21 male lab. England
583 Louisa Fountain 29 female serv't England
584 Pat'k OBrien 21 male lab. Ireland
585 W'm Reddick 23 male lab. Ireland
586 Ellen McDonald 30 female serv't Ireland
587 Thomas Cullen 28 male lab. Ireland
588 Mary Cullen 20 female wife Ireland
589 Thomas McAlley 21 male lab. Ireland
590 Marg't Kinnealy 20 female serv't Ireland
591 Cath. Sullivan 16 female serv't Ireland
592 J. Chas. Pearce 18 male lab. Ireland
593 Arato Acostins 28 male lab. Germany
Cabin Passengers
594 W. C. Batterscombe 32 male gent. England
595 Mrs W.C. Batterscombe 28 female wife England
596 James Lock 30 male gent. England
597 Ellen Chissell 30 female spinster England
598 Sister Jane Chissell 45 female spinster England
599 P. J. Keary 28 male gent. England
600 Rev'd D.M. Jones 38 male clergyman England
601 A. K. DeGuiscard 40 male gent. England
602 Fred Gordon 40 male gent. England
603 H. W. Atkinson 38 male gent. England
604 Jos. Jones 28 male gent. England
605 F. C. Hoge 40 male gent. England
606 H. E. Caun 38 male gent. England
607 Bern'd von Ammon 39 male gent. England
608 Mrs. von Ammon 36 female wife England
609 Bertha von Ammon 1 female child England
610 Anne Keyaustember 38 female nurse England
611 Mrs. Lawson 28 female wife England
612 Miss Lawson 6 female child England
613 Mrs. E. Ramsey 50 female wife England
614 E'd Edwards 29 male gent. England
615 Mrs. E. Roberts 27 female wife England
616 Ellen Roberts 3 female child England
617 Rich'd Leeson 28 male gent. England
618 Mrs. Leeson 24 female wife England
619 B. W. Leeson 6 male child England
620 Charles Douglas 29 male gent. England
621 Louis Goodman 32 male gent. England
622 Mrs. S.E. Goodman 30 female wife England
623 Sam'l P. Colt 32 male gent. England
624 Mrs. T.D. Colt 40 female wife England
625 Julius Davis 35 male gent. England
626 A. Gumpert 42 male gent. England
627 W'm McDowell 40 male gent. England
628 Mrs. A. McDowell 38 female wife England
629 Anne McDowell 6 female child England
630 Alex'r McDowell 4 male child England
631 Nellie McDowell 2 female child England
632 G. A. Salk 35 male gent. England
633 Eliza Layton 30 female serv't England
634 James McNamera 38 male gent. England
635 M. G. Newton 40 male gent. England
636 H. C. Smith 38 male gent. England
637 C. S. Munn 40 male gent. England
638 Mrs Munn 35 female wife England
639 C. S. Munn 6 male child England
640 Miss Munn 1 female inf't England
641 Pauline Pratt 32 female serv't England
642 Fred C. Law 35 male gent. England
643 Victor Law 32 male gent. England
644 N. K. Paice 35 male gent. England
645 W. R. Smith 32 male gent. England
646 John Eraas 35 male gent. England
647 John Sampson 40 male gent. England
648 Mrs. L.A. Guiscard 38 female wife England
649 C. E. Fuller 28 male gent. England
650 P. J. Hickey 32 male gent. England
651 James Haskard 35 male gent. England
652 Mrs. Haskard 30 female wife England
653 Miss Jones 20 female spins. England
60 Cabin Passengers
593 Steerage Passengers
653 total
(signed) J. W. Jennings
Transcriber's Notes:
* An asterisk is used to call attention to additional information in the
Passenger Notes.
? A question mark is used to indicate illegible letters or words.
' Indicates an abbreviation.
* No births or deaths were recorded during this voyage.
* Names were transcribed as written without regard to spelling.
* Lab. and spin. are abbreviations for laborer and spinster.
Correspondence 11/22/2004 passenger # 597 Chisell
A Brief Account Of The Life Of Ellen Chissell.
Ellen A. Chissell was born November 9,1846 in Wimborne, County Dorset, England. She was one of several children of Thomas and Ann Chissell of Wimborne. The Chissell family owned and operated a butcher shop and other businesses in Wimborne, in addition to their farming interests. In 1874, at the age of 28, Ellen Chissell traveled to the United States to join her fiancée, John Lock, then living at Burlington in the State of Iowa. John was a recent immigrant to the United States from the town of Wool, also in Dorset.
According to family memory John and Ellen became engaged prior to John making his way to Iowa and finding work as a butcher. Ellen made this same voyage one year later on board the White Star Line ship Oceanic, accompanied by John Locks brother James Lock. She kept a diary throughout her journey, documenting her experiences on board ship, stopping in New York City, and traveling by train to Burlington Iowa.
On April 30, 1874, she was joined in marriage to John Lock. After a year in Burlington they traveled to Nebraska, where they purchased farmland from the Union Pacific railroad in 1875. They built a home and farm buildings there one mile south of the Platte River. This home and other farm buildings are still lived and used by Lloyd Lock, a great grandson of John and Ellen Lock.
John and Ellen had five sons, Leslie, Harold, Elmer, Harry and Roy. All five sons became farmers, with Roy moving to Wallace Kansas, and the other four sons owning land and farming in Hamilton County Nebraska near the original farm home of John and Ellen. After over 25 years on the farm, John and Ellen purchased property and built a house in nearby Central City, Nebraska. They lived there for the remainder of their lives. In 1907, Ellen and John made a return trip to their ancestral homes in southern England to visit relatives, returning to Nebraska several months later.
Both Ellen and John were charter members and active in the Christian Science Church. Ellen died in Central City at age 83 on February 4th, 1930, mourned by family and many friends, and remembered in her obituary as a faithful believer and worker in her church.
By keeping a diary of her trip to America, Ellen apparently intended to give English relatives a report of the long journey, the differences between her home country and the newly emerging United States, and her adventures as she traveled to join her fiancée. At the time of her marriage to John, at the end of her journey, Ellen noted in her diary that she gave the diary to her new groom to mail home to her Aunt and Uncle in England. As she notes in her diary, the lovestruck John forgot to mail it. She forgave him after she later found the diary in his topcoat. She then mailed it relatives in Dorset who kept the diary there for over one hundred years.
In April of 1978, Kathryn McHargue of Central City Nebraska was contacted by a Mr. William Topp of Dorset, as a result of a letter Mr. Topp had written to the editor of the Central City Nebraska newspaper. Mr. Topp had been given the diary of Ellen Chissell by his mother, who was a niece of Ellen Chissell. In a series of letters which have been kept by the family, Mr. Topp suggested that he would send the original diary to Mrs. McHargue. He indicated his desire that someone in the Lock family living in the United States should have the diary of Ellen Chissell Lock. Kathryn McHargue was the granddaughter of Ellen Chissell Lock, and the daughter of Leslie Lock, one of her sons. Mr. Topp mailed the diary to Mrs. McHargue, who in turn later entrusted it to William Lock, the great grandson of Ellen Chissell Lock. The original diary remains in the possession of Mr. Lock, of Lincoln, Nebraska. Many copies have been made and distributed to Lock relatives throughout the United States. Through the efforts of Judy Lock, of Texas, a transcript of the diary have been made available to The Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild.
Interested family and historical researchers are invited to use the diary, with permission of the Lock family, and are invited to correspond with Judy Lock, or Mr. William Lock, if material in the diary is published or used for research. It may be useful to those examining the history of immigrants, and most particularly women migrating to the American West. No other writings of Ellen Chissell are known to exist, although family members in the United States now prize several drawings by her hand.
Ellen Chissell’s diary contains frank and negative views of the Irish people, and other views that may have been held by persons of her social class and background at that time. Ellen Chissell would probably be surprised today at the diverse views and beliefs of her great grandchildren, and their children, including some marriages made to people of Irish descent who also emigrated to the United States. She would no doubt be pleased that they continue to lead happy and productive lives in the area to which she emigrated, and in the States of Kansas, Colorado, and in other locations on both coasts of the United States.
Several descendants of Ellen Chissell and John Lock have made pilgrimages to the County of Dorset to visit the birthplace of Ellen and John, and others such as Judy Lock have made extensive efforts to document the lives and genealogy of the Lock families.
Lock or Chissell family members are invited to correspond with Judy Lock or William D. Lock at the following addresses:
Judy Lock
P. O. Box 726
Panhandle, Texas
William Lock
January 7, 2002
1415 South 7th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska 68502
Diary of Ellen Chisell, passenger #597
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