Immigrant Ships
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Ship Baltic

I, A H Zerega Master of the Ship Baltic do solemnly, sincerely and truly (omitted) 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 Ship Baltic at Liverpool from which port said ship Baltic 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.

So help me God.
(Signed) A H Zerega

Sworn to this 18 Augt 1858
Before me (Signed) ??offman

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Ship Baltic whereof A H Zerega is Master, from Liverpool burthen 1326 tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the Voyage, and Part of the Vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage. No deaths were recorded on the voyage and the Space Occupied for all passengers was "Deck House"; these columns have been omitted from the transcription.

  1  Francis Muldoon  34y      M  Brazier   U.S.America  America
  2  Mrs. Muldoon     30y      F            U.S.America  America
  3  Sarah Muldoon    15y      F            U.S.America  America
  4  Hanah Muldoon    11y      F            U.S.America  America
  5  John Muldoon     10y      M            U.S.America  America
  6  Thomas Muldoon    7y      M            U.S.America  America
  7  Eliza Muldoon     6y      F            U.S.America  America
  8  Francis Muldoon   3y      F            U.S.America  America
  9  Mary Muldoon      0y 11m  F            G Britton    America
 10  Peter O'Hara     35y      M  Mechanic  G. Britton   U. S.
 11  John Williams    21y      M  Mechanic  G. Britton   U. S.
 12* Mrs. Williams    2?y      F            G. Britton
 13  Fredrick Altill  18y      M  Cooper    G. Britton
 14* Wm Marston       ?3y      M  Cooper    G. Britton
 15  John Maston      28y      M  Mechanic  G. Britton
 16* Joseph Smith     23y      M  Black??i? G. Britton
 17  Peter Cleworth   49y      M  Farmer    G. Britton
 18  Sarah Cleworth   22y      F            G. Britton
 19  Robert Hall      27y      M  Laborer   G. Britton
 20  M^r Maddock      32y      M  Carpenter U.S.America
 21  M^rs Maddock     22y      F  Laborer   G Britton
 22* Joseph Harrison  4?y      M  Laborer   G Britton
 23  Joseph Day       32y      M  Laborer   G Britton
 24* Abram Ziegul     ?8y      M  Salesman  Germany
 25  Thomas Holmes    43y      M  Baker     U. States
 26  W. Ditch         40y      M  Brewer    G Britton    Canada
 27  M^rs Ditch       35y      F            G Britton    Canada
 28  Maria Ditch      13y      F            G Britton    Canada
 29  Walter Ditch      9y      M            G Britton    Canada
 30  Louisa Ditch     11y      F            G Britton    Canada
 31  Fredrick Ditch    7y      M            G Britton    Canada
 32  Fany Ditch        5y      F            G Britton    Canada
 33  William Ditch     3y      M            G Britton    Canada
 34  Ann Ditch         0y  9m  F            G Britton    Canada
 35* D^r R Bown       43y      M  M.D.      U.States     U States
 36  Alice Brown      32y      F            U.States     U States
 37  Wm Cook          48y      M  Farmer    G Britton    U States
 38* Caroline Cook    ?0y      F            G Britton    U States
 39* Caroline Cook    ?6y      F            G Britton    U States
 40  Wm Cook          20y      M  Farmer    G Britton    U States
 41* Ellen McMahon    3?y      F            G Britton    U States

At end of manifest:                             (Signed) A H Zerega


Transcriber's Notes:

*  An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber,
   or is used to call your attention to additional information in the Transcriber's Notes
   below.

?  The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due to quality of the
   original document.

^  The use of a ^ indicates that the letter/letters following are superscripted.

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

The manifest scribe numbered the passengers.

All ditto marks on the original manifest have been replaced with the actual words indicated.

The manifest scribe used vertical lines probably to indicate continuation/duplication of the
last written word(s).

12-25  Destination omitted, no ditto marks or vertical lines.
14  2nd number of Age not clear because of fold/roll in manifest paper, could be 23y or 33y.
16  Ending of Occupation illegible.
22  2nd number of Age not clear because of overwriting, could be 44y.
24  1st number of Age illegible.
35  Surname could be miswritten Brown.
38-39, 41  2nd number of Age illegible because of fold/roll in manifest paper.


 Correspondence added November 11, 2005, passengers 1-9 MULDOON

I am happy to provide you with some information about this
MULDOON family, who are ancestors of my wife. Francis and his
wife Eliza are my wife's great-great-grandparents. (A few of the details
do not match what we know about these people, but the list of names and
ages is such a close fit that we are sure these are the right people.)

Francis and Eliza were both from Ireland but moved to England where they
married at St Peter's Chapel (Roman Catholic) on 14th Jan., 1844.
Francis was a Provision Dealer (perhaps a greengrocer) in Liverpool.

After they arrived in the USA, they had at least one more child, a
daughter Susan, who we believe to have been born in St Louis about 1862.

They returned to England some time before the 1871 British census (2nd
April 1871) where Francis was once more a provision dealer in Liverpool.
The two sons John and Thomas became mariners (John, my wife's
great-grandfather was a ship's steward). Both Francis and Eliza died in
Liverpool, Francis in 1895, Eliza in 1873.

John married Margaret HALE in Liverpool in 1869 and their daughter Sarah
Louisa MULDOON (b. 15 Sep. 1875) married my wife's grandfather Thomas
James Alfred BUTLER in Liverpool in 1900.

Well, I hope that the above is sufficient information. We have been
searching for about 3 years trying to find when this family sailed to
the USA, having found them on the UK censuses of 1851 and 1871 (and
later) and knowing that they had a child in the USA.

Once again, thank you for performing this transcription and to the ISTG
for making it available. (Now we have to search for their return to
England.)

Passenger no. 3, Sarah MULDOON, is most unlikely to have been the
daughter of Francis and Mrs (Eliza) MULDOON. She may perhaps have been a
sister of Francis. To date, the only known record of her is the one on
the manifest of The Baltic. It is possible that she may have remained in
the USA when Francis and family returned to England.

Regards,

Arthur Pye 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 186, List 777.

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