Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Mexico


Vera Cruz, Tuspan, Tampico, Mexico to New Orleans
Between 6 July 1874 and 2 November 1874 (about 3rd Quarter 1874)

Report and List of the Passengers taken on board the Am SS City of Mexico whereof W. B. Sherwood is Master, burden 1026 93/100 tons, bound from the Ports of Vera Cruz, Tuspan, Tampico for New Orleans.
Columns represent: Names, Age, Sex, Occupation, Country to which they severally belong, Country of which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on voyage, Part of vessel occupied during the voyage. No Passengers died on the voyage and all occupied the Cabin of the vessel so those columns were eliminated.
  1  J.    Iselin      67  m  planter   France          France
  2  T.    Nicholls    43  m  miner     England         United States
  3  M.    Nicholls    32  f  lady 
  4  T.    Nicholls    23  m  miner
  5  S.    Nicholls    20  f  lady
  6  J.    Nicholls     8  m  child
  7  K.    Nicholls     8  f  child
  8  L.    Nicholls     5  f  child
  9  A.    Nicholls     2  m  child
 10  J.    Carpenter   35  m  miner
 11  J.    Haskins     40  m  miner
 12  J.    Osborne     40  m  miner
 13  W.    Dunstan     38  m  miner
 14  R.    Trezona     55  m  miner
 15  E.    Delbridge   48  m  miner
 16  A.    Repsilber   39  m  seaman    Germany         Germany
 17  C.    Burrow      33  m  seaman 
 18  C.    Hansen      25  m  seaman
 19  N.    Syart       56  m  seaman
 20  W.    Slingerland 30  m  seaman
 21  M.    Hall        40  f  lady      United States   United States
 22  M.    Hall        19  f  lady 
 23  T.    Hall        13  m  child
 24  R.    Hall        11  m  child
 25  D.    Hall        10  m  child
 26  M.    Soubuta     25  f  lady      Mexico          France
 27  J. E. Sanchez     48  m  merchant  France          Mexico
 28  L.    Meeser      17  m  clerk     United States   United States
 29  M.    Zapian      38  m  merchant  Mexico          Mexico
 30  A.    Ricken      42  m  farmer    United States   United States
 31  E.    Chaveroz    30  m  clerk     Mexico          Mexico
 32  M.    Chaveroz    24  f  lady 
 33  J.    Chaveroz     4  m  child
 34  M.    Maldonado   30  f  servant
 35  D.    Varela      50  f  servant
 36  J.    Cranston    43  m  planter   United States
 37  F.    Gispert     47  m  merchant                  United States
 38  J. A. Kurzein     50  m  merchant
 39  A.    Kurzein     24  f  lady
 40  A.    Perez       19  m  clerk     Mexico          Mexico
 41  F.    Chav        28  m  druggist  Mexico          United States
 42  J.    Watkins     33  f  lady      United States
 43  J.    Zerra       35  m  soldier   Mexico          Mexico


Transcriber's Notes:

Do not know the date of arrival but it was between 6
July 1874 and 2 November 1874.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M272, Reel 17.
Transcribed by Robert W. Grose a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
9 August 2002



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