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Ship Cambridge


Bristol, England to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
16 April 1830

REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the British Ship Cambridge whereof Richard Pearse is Master, from Bristol, England, burthen 533 16/95 tons and owned by Lemuel Cambridge of Prince Edward Island of -- and bound to Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Passenger number, given name, surname, age, sex,occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit.
 1   Samuel     Toney      44     male       clerk  
 2   Mary       Toney      44     female    
 3   Ruth       Toney      15     female    
 4   Mary       Sparks     45     female    
 5*  ?.         Sparks     13     male      
 6   John       Sparks      2     male      
 7   Fanny      Sparks      4     female    
 8   Elizabeth  Sparks      2     female    
 9   George     Roberts    26     male       carpenter
10   Thomas     Jones      21     male       miner
11*  John       Cheeve?    26     male       fireman
12*  Margaret   Cheeve?    26     female    
13*  Mary       Cheeve?     6     female    
14   Richard    Russell    45     male       miner
15   Eliz^h     Russell    45     female    
16   Thomas     Lester     36     male       clock maker
17   Jane       Lester     32     female    
18*  Thomas     ???non     24     male       moulder
19   David      Herbert    22     male       labourer
20   Walter     Herbert    26     male       mason
21   John       Talling    21     male       labourer
22   Joshua     Purnel     20     male       mason
23   William    Peaves     60     male       fireman
24   Morgan     Jenkins    42     male       fireman
25   William    Abraham    30     male       collier
26   William    Williams   30     male       collier
27   John       Louis      21     male       watch maker
28   George     Wade       28     male       carpenter
29   Thomas     Cox        24     male       shoe maker
30   Mary       Cox        22     female    
31   Thomas     Cox         3     male      
32   Fanny      Cox         6mos  female    
33   Edward     Edwards    22     male       shoe maker
34   Mary       Edwards    18     female    
35   Watkin     Price      22     male       draper
36   John       Roberts    22     male       draper
37   W^m        Morse      24     male       mason
38   Susan      Morse      22     female    
39   Isaac      Billy      28     male       labourer miner   


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.

? Indicates a letter or number which could not be determined due to the
  condition of the manifest or handwriting of the original recorder.

^ Indicates letters are omitted and the following letter is superscripted.

All are claimesd to be from England & Wales and going to the United States so 
these two columns have been omitted.

Passenger numbers assigned by transcriber for ease of search.

Ancestry.com claims arrival 16 April 1830.


11-13  Surname may be Cheever or Cheeves. 
18     Surname may be Bynon


National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 45.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
30 April 2008



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