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Larry Standing
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 Posted - 28/03/2004 : 07:20:29
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I'm looking for information on the SS Idaho. My Great Great Grandfather and his family left from Liverpool on this ship on Feb 8,1870 and arrived in NY 2 weeks later. They emigrated from England. Does anyone know how to get a passenger list of this trip? Any photos of the SS Idaho? Thanks for any help. |
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Jo Anne Sadler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 28/03/2004 : 20:30:13
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Per the Agents/Shipping Lines index on this site, the Idaho was operated by the Guion Line, article on Guion Line here also.
From the Ships List:
The "Idaho" was a 3,132 gross ton ship, built in 1869 by Palmer Bros & Co, Jarrow-on-Tyne for the Guion Line of Liverpool. Her details were - length 354.3ft x beam 43.4ft, straight stem, one funnel, two masts (rigged for sail), iron construction, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. Launched on 13th February 1869, she sailed from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to Queenstown (Cobh) and New York on 13th April 1869. She remained on this service until 1st June 1878 when she was wrecked on the coast of Wexford, Ireland with no loss of life. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P. Bonsor, vol.2, p.709].
You can obtain a copy of the passenger list by subscribing to the Ancestry.com database or a less expensive way, rent the microfilm passenger list from a local Family History Center, www.familysearch.org or from the National Archives, www.nara.gov.
The Baltimore Steamship Society does not list the Idaho in their photographic collection index but this does not reflect their entire collection, they will do a search of their collection for a fee.
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tonymathers
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Posted - 20/03/2005 : 12:14:27
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I am trying to find out more info on the SS Idaho.
I know from a genealogy chum in Michigan (not related) that my Great Great Grandparents (Robert & Ann Knox) arrived in New York 13 Jan 1870 from Liverpool - some 8 months after the maiden voyage of the Idaho.
They were emigrating with half of their Welsh family from Ebbw Vale in Monmouthshire. We have traced most of them on the ship's manifest for that crossing but one daughter and a 1 year old grandson are unaccounted for.
I would like to find out if any other shipping records have been retained - for instance, a record of the "next-of-kin" for each passenger.
I write from Much Wenlock, Shropshire, England.
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SS Idaho Feb 8,1870 from Liverpool to NY
