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Thank you very much, Jackie, for your latest message! However, I am having problems finding the passenger list in question! What do I do wrong? Is there a handwritten scan of it?

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Originally posted by loyane

Dear Jackie and other Listers!

Thank you very much, Jackie, for your latest message! However, I am having problems finding the passenger list in question! What do I do wrong? Is there a handwritten scan of it?

Maybe Thomas can also be located in a passenger list giving his destination: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/view/8/pe00000000671899

Thanks again!

Very sincerely yours,

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But how about Thomas and his 1884 emigration?

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But how about Thomas and his 1884 emigration?

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Thomas Johansson
in the Canada, Arriving Passengers Lists, 1865-1935
Name: Thomas Johansson
Gender: Male
Arrival Age: 19
Birth Year: abt 1865
Departure Port: Liverpool, England
Arrival Date: 14 Apr 1884
Arrival Port: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Vessel: Oregon

Passenger following Thomas is Britha Gjertsdatr Foshougen age 35 and her two children. Listed as wife but obviously not the wife of Thomas.

https://ibb.co/MPxxpzm

Oregon

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Originally posted by loyane

Dear Jackie, lundal40 and other Listers!

Thank you very much for several interesting messages in regard to Thomas Johnson!

That «candidate» from Mille Lacs Co., MN looks very exciting. His birthmonth is not quite a «match», but we all know that birth information may often be off...

I have been looking for the family in the 1895 state census for MN, but they are NOT in Mille Lacs Co., MN at that time, and I notice that at least one of the children was born in WI (Ida Sep. 1896), and ancestry suggests this be Ida Emelia born in Jackson Co., WI Sep. 3, 1896 to Tollef and Ellen Johnson: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60722/images/41742_314966-00385?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.259746058.1621079734.1618435785-390650824.1612707015&pId=783720

And in Martin Co., MN I find this marriage:
MARTIN Book C, Page 394 05/31/1894 JOHNSON, TOLLEF KNUDSEN, ELEN

So I fear this is probably not the Thomas that we are looking for...

HOWEVER, according to the passenger record from 1884 showing Thomas Johannessen as an emigrant, you, Jackie, say he intended to go to Portland! I cannot see that note anywhere in the passenger record, and I wonder: Could it be Portland, ND (where MANY Sognings lived at that time) or even Portland, OR?

The 1885 territorial census for ND shows several Thomas Johnsons who may «match»; in particular my eye catches the one in Steele Co., ND just west of Portland a little ways...: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/1078/?name=thomas_Johnson&birth=1864_norway_5173&birth_x=2-0-0_1-0&count=50&name_x=ps_ps&residence=1885&residence_x=0-0-0

I would also like to make another note: I have seen several Dyres from Luster Co., Norway who become David in America. Could «our» Dyre have become David Johnson?

How about this guy in Milwaukee, WI: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRW5-ZQ7

Name David Johnson
Sex Male
Age 52
Death or Burial Date Nov 1909
Death or Burial Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Death or Burial Place (Original) Milw. Med. College
Death Date 26 Nov 1909
Death Place Wauwatosa, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Birth Date 5 Jun 1857
Birthplace Norway
Marital Status Single
Occupation Night Watch
Race White

NB: Birth date is just one day off!

Here is the same guy in 1900, single and emigrated 1882: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-6619-NNQ?i=11&cc=1325221&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMMVV-BMH

There was another David Johnson in Milwaukee, WI at the same time, married to a Sarah, but he (born Dec. 1859) apparenty moved to Aurora, IL

Maybe an obituary or a death notice can be found for David Johnson who died in 1909?

Thanks again for your great efforts trying to locate these brothers!

Very sincerely yours,

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