Visitors to my website Olive Tree Genealogy often ask me for a list of all the free ships passenger lists I have published online. Since my site is quite large and can take time to navigate to find the records, here is the list of free passenger lists and naturalization records on my site. I hope this will help those looking for an ancestor!
Missing Friends The Missing Friends Project
is abstracting the names of those who immigrated from UK to America or
Canada and who were inquired about by family in various 19th Century
newspapers.
Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents sailings from Londonderry Ireland to Quebec, St. John New Brunswick, New Orleans Louisiana and Pennsylvania from 1847 to 1871
Pennsylvania Baggage Lists 1809
New York Almshouse Records 1819 to 1840 contain the names of the ship each person sailed on, plus dates of arrival. Includes arrivals in Canadian ports
Emigrants from England in New York City Almshouse 1818-1830 - 254 names of English immigrants to Canada & USA including the name of the ship they sailed on.
New York Almshouse Records 1855 to 1858 contain the name of the ship and the arrival date and port for each person.
List of those who died while in Staten Island Quarantine May 1849 - Dec. 1850
Names of Emigrants from 1845-1847 from the Records of James Allison, Emigrant Agent at Montreal Quebec Canada
Return of Emigrants Landed at the Port of Kingston Ontario, Canada (1861-1882)
Peter Robinson Settlers
sailing 1823 & 1825 Ireland to Canada
English to America 1617-1778 Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London England
English Immigrants to USA 1773-1776
Poor Irish to England Includes Ports of Departure & Arrival plus number of years in England or Scotland. Over 1,600 names
Irish Emigration Lists, 1833-1839 Lists of Emigrants Extracted from the Ordnance Survey Memoirs from Counties Londonderry and Antrim
Passenger Lists from the New York Times (Arrivals & Departures)1851-1929
New Netherland Ships Passenger Lists Project Lists of those sailing from The Netherlands to New Netherland (now New
York) 1654-1664 came from the West India Company Account Book and consist only of names of those who owed for their passage. There is no published record of those who
paid for passage before leaving. Olive Tree Genealogy has reconstructed several passenger lists
for these ships using other primary sources.
Naturalization & Citizenship Records
Naturalization Records
Naturalization Records in the USA & Canada. Includes searchable
Naturalization Records, Declarations of Intent, Certificates of
Citizenship
USA Passport Applications
USA Alien Registrations
USA Oaths of Allegiance
USA Voters Registrations
Canadian Passport Records
When the Irish Famine hit in the late 1840s, thousands upon thousands of starving immigrants made their way to N. America in what became known as Coffin Ships. Many died during the sea voyage and many more died once they reached the port of arrival.
My Irish McGinnis ancestors arrived in Upper Canada (present day Ontario) in 1847 with a one year old child. I cannot begin to imagine what they endured to come to this new land.
In New York so many Irish immigrants died while in quarantine that the city ran out of spaces to bury the bodies. Because of the lack of space, thousands of bodies were stacked anonymously, three and four deep, in
trenches dug behind the hospital.
Now, more than 150 years later, the remains of 83 men, women and children, recovered from the quarantine’s hastily dug ditches, will be re-interred and given a proper burial.
Read the rest of the story at Refugees of Irish Famine to Get a Proper Burial
