Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Brig Annah

PORT OF BOSTON

There was no captain's sworn statement with this list.

COPY of Report and List of the Passengers taken on board the Brig Annah of Salisbury, M?, whereof C. B. Fowler is Master, burthen 170 tons and 67/95ths of a ton, bound from the Port of Westport, Ire., for Boston.

Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, trade or profession, country to which they severally belong, country of which they intend to become inhabitants. All the passengers were from Ireland and all intended to reside in the United States, so those columns have been eliminated.

    
   
  1 Eliza Wilson         22    female              Ireland    United States
  2 Mary Ann Deveroux    20    female
  3 Peter Valley         52    male    miller
  4 Stephen Valley       24    male    miller
  5 Mary Valley          56    female
  6 James Valley         22    male    miller
  7 Ann Valley            8    female
  8 Peter Valley          7    male
  9 Catherine Valley      5    female
 10 John Tool            25    male    farmer
 11 Thomas Tool          18    male    farmer
 12 Michael Tool         19    male    farmer
 13 Teddy Tool           36    male    farmer
 14 John Mugan           25    male    drayman
 15 Mary Mugan           24    female  
 16 Patt Mavin           22    male    farmer
 17 Mary Valeley         20    female
 18 Patt Carr            23    male    farmer
 19 Patt McDonald        26    male    farmer
 20 Thomas Tool          24    male    farmer
 21 William Walsh        26    male    farmer
 22 Lawrence Murphy      23    male    farmer
 23 Patt Murphy          21    male    farmer
 24 James Flanery        26    male    farmer
 25 Moses Flanery        22    male    farmer
 26 Patt Flanery          3    male  
 27 Lawrence Flanery    9mo    male
 28 Patt McCall          26    male    farmer
 29 Michael Tool         14    male 
 30 Catherine McCall     26    female
 31 Ellen McCall        9mo    female
 32 Daniel Kielly        22    male    farmer
 33 Anthony Colman       45    male    stone mason
 34 Thomas Connelly      20    male    servant     
  
Transcriber's Notes:
This ship, though written Annah on the manifest, is possibly 
the Hannah (the tonnage is right for it to be the same, though 
there were several ships named Hannah) which in 1849 struck an 
iceberg in the Atlantic, on a later voyage from 
Newry, Ulster, Ireland to Quebec. 

If this Annah was the Hannah, she was one of the smallest of 
the ships carrying Irish famine emigrants, only about 175 tons, 
and 59 feet long.  On the April 1849 voyage, after hitting the 
iceberg, the cowardly captain (Shaw on that voyage), and the 
first and second mates, abandoned ship in the lifeboat, 
leaving the passengers to fend for themselves.  

In only their nightclothes, and aided by the remaining crew who 
valiantly helped them onto the ice from the Hannah, the stunned 
passengers managed to get off just before the ship went down.  
The passengers and remaining crew were forced to shiver on the 
iceberg for 15 hours, until being rescued by the courageous 
efforts of Captain Marshall and the crew of the Nicaragua, 
which happened to come upon the wreck. 
 
Amazingly, 129 of the almost 200 passengers, of the Hannah of 1849, 
managed to survive, some with serious frostbite, and made their 
way to Canada.  Apparently Captain Shaw and his first and second 
mates who were picked up 4 days after the wreck, escaped without 
much punishment.  

More can be read of the account of the Hannah of 1849 in 
"The Famine Ships--The Irish Exodus to America", by Edward Laxton, 
pub. 1996, pp. 126-129, where all information for this note was found.

Correspondence 3/17/2004 passengers #24-27 Flannery/Flanery
#24 - 27  I have found my great grandfather, #26-Pat Flannery 
on the emigrant list of the Brig Annah that arrived 27
May 1847 into the Port of Boston from Westport,
Ireland. His name was either Patrick Timothy or
Timothy Patrick and he was born in 1843. He was shown
as having arrived with James Flannery (26), Moses
Flannery (22), Lawrence Flannery (9mo.)

Timothy was married to my great grandmother, Margaret
Mary (or Mary Margaret) Hyde who arrived 25 May 1847
into Boston from Cork, Ireland on Brig Victoria with
mother Ellen Hyde (b.1807), John Hyde (26), Mary Hyde (26), 
and William Hyde (12).

I have the family history for Timothy Patrick (or is
it Patrick Timothy?) from then until now. If anyone
recognizes any of these names please contact 
Suzi Gordon to share info.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M277, Reel 22.

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