My wife's relatives are believed to have traveled to Quebec on the Bolivar that docked on 8/15/1852. I have found two male passenges listed, Jakob Pedersen Kjeldalen and Ole Jakobsen Kjeldalen that are believed to be the relatives. Base on family history, they travelled with 10 other family members. I am attempting to confirm whether that is true or not. Does anyone have information on the passengers of the SS Bolivar for the above date, that gives more information on the passengers such as wives and children traveling with the above males. Would greatly apreciate any information that maybe available.
The source for the listing of the Bolivar passengers of 1852 is a notice in the Newspaper Correspondenten of September 15, 1852. No passenger list for this voyage have survived in any archives. The notice only lists the names of the head of some of the families on the ship. You should check the moving lists in the church registers to see who left the parish for America together with Jakob Pedersen Kjeldalen and Ole Jakobsen Kjeldalen. The moving lists (or out-migrants) are filmed, and can be accessed through the LDS or ordered from the "Riksarkivet" in Norway. You have to figure out where in Norway they lived so that you can order the right parish films.
Ship Boliver passenger information Requested
Posted - 28/03/2003 : 19:15:22
