[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migration through England

Jack Milner wjmilner at shaw.ca
Fri Jan 15 07:46:24 PST 2010


 Here is another web site that complements the information supplied by  
the other site listed by Helen Gillespie:

http://www.jmr.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conJmrArticle.28

Jack Milner

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kander25 at cableone.net wrote:

> The link to the "Trains, Shelters and Ships" article is:  
> http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/teaching/papers/newman1.htm
>
> Karen
>
>
>
> On Fri Jan 15 1:47 , Helen Gillespie sent:
>
>     Found an interesting article on emigration from Eastern Europe,
>     although much relates to Jewish emigration .....
>
>
>     http://www.thebakers.ie/trains%20and%20shelters%20and%20ships.htm
>     <parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebakers.ie%2Ftrains%2520and%2520shelters%2520and%2520ships.htm>
>
>
>     One branch of my Baier family emigrated from Volhynia via Riga
>     (the train goes there from Aleksandrija Kr. Rowno) and thence to
>     Liverpool before going to New York - arriving December 24 1904.
>     From there to Benton Harbor, MI..... And curiously the ship's
>     manifest listed them as the Menginger family - but all of their
>     first name's and ages matched my Baier family - and their sponsor
>     family was Menginger, so I figured the agent simplified the
>     process and changed their names.
>
>     Helen
>
>
>
>     --- On Fri, 1/15/10, Nelson Itterman <colnels at telus.net
>     <javascript:top.opencompose('colnels at telus.net','','','')>> wrote:
>
>> From: Nelson Itterman <colnels at telus.net
>     <javascript:top.opencompose('colnels at telus.net','','','')>>
>> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migration through England
>> To: "'Brandt Gibson'" <ironhide781 at hotmail.com
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>     ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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>> Date: Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:20 AM
>> My family boarded a train in Zhitomir
>> and went to Moscow then to Riga Latvia
>> and a ship to London, England, then by train to Liverpool
>> and a ship to St.
>> John, New Brunswick. I believe this was all arranged by the
>> CPR in Winnipeg.
>> Nelson
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ger-poland-volhynia-bounces at eclipse.sggee.org
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>> On Behalf Of Brandt
>> Gibson
>> Sent: January-14-10 4:32 PM
>> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
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>> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migration through England
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm looking for some help in tracing the emigration route
>> of my ancestors,
>> Samuel and Pauline (Rosen) Joseph and their kids. They
>> arrived in Montreal,
>> Quebec on October 5, 1910 on the S.S. Tunisian, which left
>> Liverpool,
>> England a week or so before. I don't know when or how they
>> got to England,
>> and would appreciate any help anyone could offer on
>> researching this. The
>> only clues I have as to where they originated in Russia are
>> in the Canadian
>> border crossing records. In them, Sam stated he was from
>> Olanuwka/Ulanowka
>> or Zitomar (depending on the record).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>> Brandt Gibson
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