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Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS C Melrose

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada to Boston, Massachusetts
23 April 1860

Copy of Report and List of Passengers taken on board the Yarmouth of Sch^r C Melrose whereof Enos Cooke is master, burden 93 /95ths tons, bound from the port of Yarmouth for Boston.
Coloumns represent: name, age in years and months, sex, occupation, the country to which the severally belong, the country of which they intend to become inhabitants, *died on voyage.
  1  Thomas Dane         55   m   merchant    Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  2  M^rs T Dane         50   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  3* Auttles Dane        20   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  4  Leona Dane          19   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  5  Mary Dane           15   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  6  Ina Dane            12   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  7  Zeriah Dane         10   m               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  8  Oscar Dane           5   m               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
  9  M^rs R. Fletcher    25   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 10  George Fletcher      5   m               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 11  Sarah Fletcher       3   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 12  M^rs R. Patten      34   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 13  Harriet Patten      14   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 14  Jacob Patten         9   m               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 15  M^rs G Doty         30   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 16  M^rs J Hatfield     35   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 17  Alice Hatfield       6   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 18  Anna Hatfield        4   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 19  Miss Morrill        16   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 20  M^rs Pilling        45   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 21  M^rs Fitts          18   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 22  James Pilling       14   m               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 23  Thomas Pilling      12   m               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 24  Sarah Pilling       10   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 25  Elizabeth Pilling    8   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 26  Jane Pilling         6   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 27  M^rs J Cain         45   f               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 28  George Cain         22   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 29  John Jenkins        21   m   merchant    Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 30  W^m Milbary         21   m   mariner     Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 31  Geo Chute           25   m   carpenter   Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 32  Nemiah Chute        22   m   carpenter   Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 33  Henry Williams      21   m   carpenter   Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 34  Aaron Goudy         45   m   carpenter   Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin
 35  Edward Chute        20   m               Nova Scotia   Nova Scotia   cabin

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.

^  A ^ followed by a letter indicates that the letter was superscripted.

*  Names were transcribed as seen regardless of spelling.

*  Passengers were numbered by the transcribers for ease of referencing.

*  the sworn statement is at the end of the list of passengers.

 3 the first name could be Aulles.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 56.
Transcribed by Harry Green and Ines Mannhardt,
members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
14 June 2006


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