Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Glasgow

I, James B. Thomson do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest of passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of Customs for the District of New York, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the S. S. "Glasgow", whereof I am Master, from Glasgow.
                                                                                     So help me God.
Sworn to this January 10 1859                                        ?? Thomson (partially illegible)
Before me C?????? (signature illegible)

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Steamship "Glasgow", whereof James B. Thomson is Master, from Glasgow, burthen Nineteen hundred & Sixty ???* tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, and Died on the Voyage. No deaths were recorded on this voyage and the column has been omitted from the transcription.

  1  Robert Guig           11y  Male    None           Scotland      Canada
  2* Ann H?lliday          25y  Female  Spinster       Scotland      United States
  3  Margaret Brown        20y  Female  Spinster       Scotland      United States
  4  Margaret Ness         50y  Female  Wife           Scotland      United States
  5  Mary McGuire          26y  Female  Wife           Scotland      United States
  6  E. Murray             24y  Female  Wife           Scotland      United States
  7  Mary McGall           26y  Female  Wife           Scotland      United States
  8  Agnes Barr            28y  Female  Wife           Scotland      United States
  9  William Barr          29y  Male    Merchant       Scotland      United States
 10  Robert Crawford       34y  Male    Engineer       Scotland      United States
 11  George Halliday       50y  Male    Merchant       Scotland      United States
 12  Micheal Logan         24y  Male    Shoemaker      Scotland      United States
 13  John Watts            37y  Male    Merchant       Scotland      United States
 14* William Gimbert       50y  Male    C?rrier        Scotland      United States
 15* Robert McNeil         ?0y  Male    Carpenter      Scotland      United States
 16  John Lucas            34y  Male    Farmer         England       United States
 17* John Whyte            40y  Male    Gardner        England       United States
 18  Susan Whyte           39y  Female  Wife           Ireland       United States
 19  Margaret Watson       25y  Female  Spinster       Ireland       United States
 20  Mary Porteous         27y  Female  Wife           Scotland      United States
 21  John Porteous          9m  Male    None           America       United States
 22  Donald Sutherland     49y  Male    Farmer         Scotland      Canada
 23  John Farrier          25y  Male    Farmer         Scotland      Canada
 24  Adam Farrier          82y  Male    Gentleman      Scotland      Canada
 25* James Kelso           58y  Male    Merchant       Scotland      Britian
 26* Edward Davies         37y  Male    Merchant       England       Britian
 27  Robert Grandison      41y  Male    Machinist      Scotland      Mexico
 28  Robert Rigby          16y  Male    None           West Indies   West Indies
 29* J. G. Si?bald         23y  Male    Merchant       Ireland       United States
 30* Oswald M???i? Anbigne 23y  Male    Merchant       Switzerland   United States
 31  W^m W. Smolley        36y  Male    Master Mariner United States United States
 32  M^rs W^m Smolley      32y  Female  Wife           United States United States


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.

* Burthen tonnage not clear, could be 'Nineteen hundred & Sixty two tons'.

 2 2nd letter of surname obscured by lower extension of
   letter 'g' in surname above, could be Halliday or Holliday.
14 Occupation could be Carrier or Currier.
15 Age could be 20y or 30y.
17 Occupation as written.
25-26 Destination as written.
29 3rd letter of surname obscured by lower extension of 
   letter 'y' in surname above.
30 Most of middle name illegible.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 189, List 16.

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