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passengerlist/usa census look up please

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Joy

Joy Report 21 Sep 2007 10:53

Hi

Thank you for your help. I think this is my Thomas.

Thelma

Thelma Report 8 Sep 2007 18:32

Poor writing but this man is a carpenter from Glasgow.
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957
about Thos Highet
Name: Thos Highet
Arrival Date: 12 Apr 1886
Estimated birth year: abt 1859
Age: 27
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: Minnesota
Place of Origin: Glasgon, Scotland
Ship Name: Aurania
Search Ship Database: Search the Aurania in the 'Passenger Ships and Images' database
Port of Arrival: New York
Line: 32
Microfilm Serial: M237
Microfilm Roll: M237_493
List Number: 374
Port Arrival State: New York
Port Arrival Country: United States

There is no 1890 census and no BMD records on line,for USA

Joy

Joy Report 8 Sep 2007 18:00

My gr gr gr grandmother Lovinia Hyett daughter of Thomas Highet/Hyett and Emma Ball was born in Harrison Hudson New Jersey in 1889 (Latter Day Saints records) Her brother Thomas's grandson told me she was born in Newark/Queens.

The family knew her as Lavinia Highet-which is on her death certificate.

The story goes that as a young child she arrived alone on a ship to Scotland-poss Greenock. She then shows on the 1901 census, she was 11 living with her Highet grandparents in Kilmarnock. Her mother and father not in house. Think her father went to New York from Liverpool on the Aurania in 1886.

Her father remarried in Glasgow 1900. The family have no info about Emma Ball, other than she is on Thomas's death certificate as a widow along with his second wife.

It would solve a family mystery to find out what happened to Emma.
Ex where did she die, did she marry Thomas Highet
Thanks
Joy