Passenger lists leaving America

kathyc · Post by **kathyc** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:19 pm

This is my first post, so I hope you don't mind me jumping right in with a question.

I've found lots of online sources - fee charging and otherwise - for passenger lists for ships arriving in America. Do you know of any for ships _leaving_ the States?

My gg grandmother Mary Ann MacLean (nee MacRae) packed up her eight children and returned to Scotland after the death of her husband in Minnesota sometime around 1895, and I'm trying to find more information about her experience.

Thanks!
Kathy

JustJean · Post by **JustJean** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:08 pm

Hi Kathy

First let me welcome you to TalkingScot and then secondly to reassure you that your first question has not been intentionally overlooked! I wish I could tell you that these type of records exist and right were to find them but this is not the case. I'm not aware of any online access to emigrating passenger info for the US. You might and that is just possibly might find something on the receiving end in the UK but from reading here:

http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/ukrecords.html

it sounds like the records might be buried in unindexed boxes of disintegrating papers. The time frame you're looking at does appear to fit the range of dates for their incoming passenger lists......now just to figure out how important it is to pursue the search.

I hope you'll continue to visit and ask more questions...and maybe even answer a few too!

Best wishes
Jean

kathyc · Post by **kathyc** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:22 pm

Thanks, Jean. I'll have a look at the website.

I think it's likely the information is just "disintegrating in boxes" as you put it, sad as it is to think so.

I'd love to know how she managed to afford to book passage for herself and eight children. It's a mystery. According to her granddaughter, the family had no money.

Thanks also for the welcome.

Kathy