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../../images/bb011.gif  Stories of California Azorean Immigrants: An Anthology of Personal Life Sketches
  1. Submitted Stories
    1. Stories from County Histories
    2. The Autobiography of Charles Peters

                 

../../images/bb011.gif The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
  • Balch Institute's Steerage Experience tour!
    1. In the Steerage of City of New York - Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia, c. 1865

  • Thru the Looking Glass: mayflower.com
    1. A Voyage To India: On The Voyage From Boston To Bombay by Rev. Henry J. Bruce, missionary to India, 1862.

  • Lou Alfano's, Castle Garden
    1. Experiences of an English Emigrant on board the Scotland, arriving in New
      York c.1860, taken from The New York Times Marine Intelligence Column.



    • ../../images/bb011.gif Some Interesting Snippets about the Fortitude Immigrants
    Going to Australia under the immigration scheme of Dr John Dunmore Lang.
  • Read more about the difficulties they faced in the following articles:
    1. Dr John Dunmore Lang and the Fortitude Immigrants
    2. Voyage to Australia - a diary kept by James Roper.
    3. Something About the Immigrants.
    4. Letter written by Captain John Wickham, Police Magistrate in Brisbane to
    5. Francis Merewether, Immigration Agent:
    6. No 1 'Enclosure' in the letter of the Police Magistrate at Moreton Bay, of the 6th February 1849 to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary.
    7. No 2 'Enclosure' in the letter of the Police Magistrate at Moreton Bay, of the 6th February 1849 to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary
    8. No 3 'Enclosure' in letter of the Police Magistrate at Moreton Bay., of the 6th February 1849 to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary
    9. No 4 'Enclosure' in letter of the Police Magistrate at Moreton Bay., of the 6th February 1849 to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary.
    10. Summary of Proceedings of the Executive Council on the 13th March 1849 relative to Earl Grey's Dispatch respecting the Immigrants by Fortitude dispatched by Dr. Lang to Moreton Bay.
    11. The Surveyor General to the Colonial Secretary respecting land for Immigrants by the Fortitude
    12. The Police Magistrate at Moreton Bay to the Colonial Secretary respecting the Emigrants by the Ship "Fortitude" being permitted to erect slab huts etc. on Crown Lands, pending the arrangements with regard to land which they have paid for in England.
    13. Fortitude, Chaseley, Lima 150th Anniversary of Arrival, Reunion in Brisbane (An Invitation)




    • ../../images/bb011.gif  Robert Whyte The Diary of a Cabin Passenger



    ../../images/bb011.gif  Gerald Keegan's Summer of Sorrow, 1847
    Published 1895



    ../../images/bb011.gif  The Mary Anne Sadlier Archive



    ../../images/bb011.gifDescription of the Journey of Bible Christians from Cornwall To Quebec
    CANADA WEST:-- Arrival of Missionaries.
    "MISSIONARY CHRONICLES"
    OCTOBER, 1846.



    ../../images/bb011.gif Diary of the History of the Ruth Family
    David Ruth and Katharine Strohm Diary This diary was written by David Ruth and his wife Katharine Strohm. It was a part of document called "History of the Ruth Family" and was translated from the German by David and Katharine's son Jacob Ernest Ruth. The Diary begins in 1819 with their experiences living at one of the Hofs at the Eichstock. It continues through their emigration to Iowa and then to Illinois where they joined the Summerfield Mennonite congregation. The description of the voyage across the Atlantic and the subsequent journey to Iowa includes the story of the death from Cholera of my great-great grandfather Johannes Lehmann while on the lake boat traveling from Buffalo, New York, to Toledo, Ohio. The diary ends in 1865 when the David Ruth family moved to Illinois. David Ruth died two years later in 1867. He is buried in the cemetery south of Summerfield, Illinois. I annotated the diary for my own benefit, but the notes may be of help to others who read the diary.

    ../../images/bb011.gifHerman Melville Describes the Emigrant Passage
    Donated Memoir of the Ship Highlander on its voyage to the U.S.
    Donated by Bill Kerchof

    ../../images/bb011.gifEugene Kozlay's Diary of Hungarian Emigrant Passage
    Donated Diary of Hungarian soldier Eugene Kozlay's voyage to the U.S.
    Donated by Janet Kozlay


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