Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

Ship Sweden

I, John W. Shaw, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear, that the within Report and List, subscribed by my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the District of New Orleans, contains to the best of my knowledge and belief, the names, age, sex, and occupation of all the passengers, together with the name of the country to which they severally belong, and that of which they intend to become inhabitants, which were on board the Ship Sweden, whereof I am at present Master, at the time of her sailing from the Port of Liverpool, or which have at any time since been taken on board said vessel. And I do likewise swear, that all matters whatsoever in said Report and List expressed, are, to the best of my knowledge and belief, just and true. So help me God. Sworn to before me, this 29th day of September 1846, John W. Shaw

Report and List of the Passengers taken on board the Ship Sweden of Boston whereof John W. Shaw is Master, burthen 646 tons and 7ths of a ton, bound from the Port of Liverpool for New Orleans.

Columns represent Names, Age, Sex, Occupation, Trade, or Profession; Country to which they severally belong; Country of which they intend to become inhabitants; Remarks relative to any that may have died, or otherwise left the vessel during the voyage.

 1 Marion King        30  Female                United States United States
 2 John Healey        46  Male   Accountant     Ireland       United States
 3 Ann Laughlin       50  Female                Ireland       United States
 4 Biddy Laughlin     25  Female                Ireland       United States
 5 John Laughlin      23  Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
 6 Patrick Laughlin   10  Male                  Ireland       United States
 7 Biddy Ro?n         38  Female                Ireland       United States
 8 Margaret Dillon    25  Female                Ireland       United States
 9 John Wood          43  Male   Labourer       England       United States
10 Thomas Wood        37  Male   Labourer       England       United States
11 Lupton Wood         2  Male                  England       United States
12 Elizabeth Wood     35  Female                England       United States
13 Mary Wood          24  Female                England       United States
14 Bridget Wood        4  Female                England       United States
15 Mary Wood           1  Female                England       United States
16 Edward Lyons       38  Male   Labourer       United States United States
17 Mary Curtain       19  Female                Ireland       United States
18 Michael Curtain    18  Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
19 Mary O'Brien       28  Female                Ireland       United States
20 Mark Henessey      21  Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
21 Jeremiah Shea      34  Male   Miller         Ireland       United States
22 Ellen Shea          11 Female                Ireland       United States
23 Patrick Smith       22 Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
24 Ellen B. Harris     20 Female                England       United States
25 Harriet B. Harris   18 Female                England       United States
26 Margaret G. Harris  15 Female                England       United States
27 John Comm??         30 Male   Shoe Maker     Ireland       United States
28 Catherine Comm??    26 Female                Ireland       United States
29 Johanna Comm??       5 Female                Ireland       United States
30 Margaret Comm??      3 Female                Ireland       United States
31 Dinah Slattery      14 Female                Ireland       United States
32 Abraham Morris      40 Male   Merchant       England       United States
33 Rosetta Morris      35 Female                England       United States
34 Francis Morris       7 Female                England       United States
35 Mary Ann Morris      4 Female                England       United States
36 Leah Morris          2 Female                England       United States
37 David Morris         9 Male                  England       United States
38 John Tulley         42 Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
39 James Tulley         4 Male                  Ireland       United States
40 Catherine Tulley     7 Female                Ireland       United States
41 Thomas Buchett      54 Male   Carpenter      England       United States
42 Thomas Buchett      20 Male   Carpenter      England       United States
43 Samuel Brouillard   49 Male   Cotton Spinner England       United States
44 John Highton        27 Male   Labourer       England       United States
45 Ann Coogan          20 Female                Ireland       United States
46 Catherine Coogan  1y6m Female                Ireland       United States
47 John Leigh          56 Male   Farmer         United States United States
48 James Smith         25 Male   Coach Maker    England       United States
49 Mary McCruche?      20 Female                England       United States
50 Matthew McCruche?    8 Male                  England       United States
51 Thomas Wilson       70 Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
52 Wilson Hutton       15 Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
53 Philip McKee*       22 Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
54 John Cannon         22 Male   Labourer       Ireland       United States
55 William Lin???y     32 Male   Labourer       United States United States
56 Andrew Newland      28 Male   Butcher        England       United States
    

Transcriber's Notes;

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not 
  the transcriber.  In other cases it may indicate that a diacriticaal mark 
  is on a word, which will be shown below according to the passenger number. 
  The ? indicates letters or words that cannot be read due to the quality 
  of the original document, and will also be elaborated upon below according 
  to the passenger number.
* Since no one died on the voyage, that column has been eliminated.
* The original list was not numbered. I added the numbers myself, in 
  accordance with ISTG guidelines. In the notes below, the numbers 
  correspond to the number of those entries which contain question marks
  or asterisks.
* 7  The third letter of the surname could be u or a: Roun, Roan
* 27-30: Not sure if there are two or three letters following the two m's:
  could be Commin or Commein
* 49-50: Last letter of surname could be n or r: McCrucher, McCruchen


* 53: The way the first name is written on this list, frankly, would never 
  have been read as "Phillip" by this transcriber if I had not expected 
  him to be on this ship (he had stated on his intention to be naturalized 
  certificate that he had "landed in New Orleans sometime in the month of 
  September 1846". The last name, McKee, is quite clear, and the age 
  corresponds to his. No other ship that landed in New Orleans in September 
  1846 had any McKee on it. Phillip McKee is the transcriber's great 
  granduncle, from the area around Newtownhamilton, Co. Armagh, Ireland.  
  By 1850, he had arrived in Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky, where he 
  was working as an attendant in the Lexington "Lunatic" Asylum.  Though 
  at some point he did marry, his wife apparently died around 1855. 
  Phillip's brothers and cousins followed him to Kentucky and some of them 
  also worked for a while in the Lunatic Asylum. As far as I know, he was 
  the first of his Catholic McKee family from that part of Ireland to 
  emigrate. By 1870 he had retired, and died several years later, childless, 
  with a fairly good estate. I will be happy to correspond with anyone who 
  knows more or wants to know more about this McKee family from Co. Armagh.
  Julie Hu 
* 55 Surname could be Linclay, Linday, Linclog, or Linclag

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