SS Cornwall
I, William Stamper, master of S.S. Cornwall do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me and now delivered 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 Steamship at Bristol, England, from whih ports said _____ has now arrived; and that on the said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of the 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, W^m Stamper
Sworn before me this 25 November 1876 (signed) unreadable
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the S.S. Cornwall whereof William Stamper, is master, from Bristol, England burthen 1205 tons.
Columns represent: given name, surname, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, country which they intend to inhabit, accommodation.
1* Peter Stonling 61 m painter U.S.A. U.S.A. intermediate 2 Julia Ellis 42 f wife England U.S.A.. intermediate 3 Mark Phillips 19 m carpenter England U.S.A. steerage 4 William Weber 20 m painter England U.S.A. steerage 5 Richard Behema 20 m labourer England U.S.A. steerage 6 William Bailey 29 m labourer England U.S.A. steerage 7 Thomas Brooks 35 m labourer England U.S.A. steerage 8 John Sweet 23 m engineer England U.S.A. steerage 9 George Williams 27 m warehousing U.S.A. U.S.A. steerage 10 John Walters 25 m miner England U.S.A. steerage 11* Steaman Rogers 21 m labourer England U.S.A. steerage 12 Joseph Giles 29 m labourer England U.S.A. steerage 13 Richard Giles 16 m labourer England U.S.A. steerage 14 Nicholas M^cCullan 22 m groom Ireland U.S.A. steerage 15 Charles Bruce 30 m traveller England U.S.A. steerage 16 Anna Wentworth 46 f spinster England U.S.A. steerage 17 Joseph Engles 39 m mariner Austria Austria steerage 18 Charles Latham 32 m miner England U.S.A. steerage 19 Vent^n Latham 28 f wife England U.S.A. steerage 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. * None died during the voyage, therefore this column was eliminated. 1 Surname may be Stornling. 11 Given name is difficult to read. 17 Surname may be Englis.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 406, list 1110.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
12 February 2008
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