Start Looking

Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Bark Lark


Guayaquil, Ecuador and Coquimbo and Valparaiso, Chile to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
11 September 1838

Printed and sold by John C. Clark, 60 Dock Street, Philadelphia
No.8
REPORT OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Bark Lark whereof A. Christopher is Master from Guayaquil, Coquimbo & Valparaiso, burthen 286 724/95 tons, and owned by John M^cCrea of Philadelphia and bound to Philadelphia.
Columns represent: Passenger number*, name, age, sex, occupation, country they belong to*, country they intend to reside*.
    
  1   John M.    Casanova     40   male    physician 
  2   John M.    Casanova      4   male    son of Dr Casanova
  3   Constance  --           55   male    servant
  4   John D.    Sword        48   male    super cargo
  5   M^rs       Sword        22   female 
  6   --         Sword       infant        child of M^r & M^rs Sword 
  7   Mary       --           30   female  nurse
  8   Randolph   Franklin     25   male    seaman


Transcriber's Notes:

*  an asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber, 
   or is used to call your attention to additional information in the transcriber's notes.
?  Indicates a letter or number which could not be determined due to the condition of the 
   manifest or handwriting of the original recorder.
^  A ^ followed by a letter indicates that the letter was superscripted.


*  Passenger numbers assigned by transcriber to aid search.
*  All passengers were from the United States and intended to reside in the United States so
   these columns are not shown 

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M425, Reel 53.
Transcribed by Harry Green a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
25 May 2009



If you find an ancestor on a ship on ISTG and would like to link to your email address or home page,
please submit a short paragraph about the passenger, where settled, children, etc.,
with the name of the ship and date of arrival, and send to the transcriber at the bottom of the manifest or
to the ISTG Production Coordinator.

Start Looking

We strive to make your search productive. If you don't find the passenger list you are looking for on our site, please consider a subscription to Ancestry.com. There, you can locate your ancestors ship, passenger list, view and save a copy of the original list. You can also access census data and death records to help you in your search. Census records, and in particular the 1930 census, is one of the most easily used tools for beginners and seasoned genealogists alike. Ancestry.com is the only place where all census years are easily searchable.



If you find an ancestor on a ship on ISTG and would like to link to your email address or home page, please submit a short paragraph about the passenger, where settled, children, etc., with the name of the ship and date of arrival, and send to the transcriber at the bottom of the manifest or to the ISTG Production Coordinator.


Website search technology courtesy of FreeFind.com

The new ISTG logo was created by Patty MacFarlane, 2007.
The old Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild logo, which is still used in part on this site, was designed and contributed by Pat Walker and Sheila Tate.
Copyrights, Trade Marks, & Registered Trade Marks within this web site are protected under international copyright law.All rights reserved by the respective holders of any ™ © ® included within this site. 1998-2012