[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Liverpool to Canada

[Christopher Menke]

My great-grandfather Gustav Menke, at age 16 with 2 friends from Volhynia, made their way across land to the port of Libau, Russia (today Liepaja, Latvia); from Libau to Liverpool; then to Halifax, Nova Scotia; then by train to Winnipeg. 
I think this was a fairly common route for Germans leaving Volhynia. 


 
  


> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:51:42 +0200
> From: paul.edward.luther.rakow at desy.de
> To: carolduff at me.com
> CC: ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Liverpool to Canada
> 
> 
> Carol,
> 
> I think the most common route for emigrants travelling via
> Liverpool was train from their home to Hamburg or Bremen; small
> ship across the North Sea (which was then often called the German
> Ocean) to an East coast port such as Grimsby; and then by train
> again across England to Liverpool.
> 
> There were other routes too, for example taking longer trips
> starting from the Baltic ports.
> 
> If your family came via Hamburg you should be able to find
> a record of their trip across the North Sea in the Hamburg Indirect
> passenger lists, which are on microfilm, or online at ancestry.com .
> Be sure to look in the Indirect lists - the Direct lists are for
> people who travelled to America on the same large ship all the way,
> without changing ships in Britain.
> 
> Paul Rakow
> 
> On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, Carol Duff wrote:
> 
> > Paul, I also had family who came that way. Do you have any idea how they got to Liverpool. I have a vague connection that they may have come from Hamburg. If so, how did they get to Hamburg. Would it have been through Stettin or by train over land? Is there a Hamburg to Liverpool on line list? Thanks.
> > On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Paul Rakow wrote:
> >
> >
> >
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