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Ship Wm F. Storer

I, Charles Cim??? Master of the Ship Wm F. Storer do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me, and now delivered by Me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of New York,is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said ship at Liverpool from which port said ship has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.

So help me God.
(Signed) Charles Comey ?

Sworn to this 4 Oct 1859
Before me (Signed) JWhite DC

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Ship Wm F. Storer whereof Comey is Master, from Liverpool burthen ??? tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country to which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the Voyage, and Part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage. The destination for all passengers was United States, no deaths were recorded on this voyage, and the Space Occupied for all passengers was "between decks"; these columns have been omitted from this transcription.

  1  Charlotte Colley    28  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain       
  2  Wm Reed             30  Male      Farmer        Gr. Britain       
  3  Sarah Reed          25  Female    Wife          Gr. Britain       
  4  Margt Reed           4  Female    Child         Gr. Britain 
  5  John Reed            2  Male      Child         Gr. Britain       
  6  David Reed           7  Male      Child         Gr. Britain 
  7  Thomas Jones        26  Male      Laborer       Gr. Britain      
  8  David Edwards       20  Male      Laborer       Gr. Britain  
  9  Mary Lewis          40  Female    House Keeper  Gr. Britain       
 10  Janet Lewis         19  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain      
 11  Louisa Lewis        17  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain  
 12  Rachel Lewis        17  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain  
 13  Mary Lewis          14  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain  
 14  Elizabeth Lewis      8  Female    Child         Gr. Britain       
 15  Matilda Lewis        2  Female    Child         Gr. Britain       
 16  Sarah Hopkins       28  Female    House Keeper  Gr. Britain        
 17  John Hopkins         5  Male      Child         Gr. Britain  
 18  David Lewis         30  Male      Miner         Gr. Britain  
 19  Mary Lewis          26  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain  
 20  Mary Thomas         43  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain       
 21  Henry Parkins       25  Male      Miner         Gr. Britain       
 22  Richard Jones       35  Male      Miner         Gr. Britain        
 23  David Bowan         32  Male      Miner         Gr. Britain       
 24  Hannah Williams     30  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain        
 25  William Reece       23  Male      Miner         Gr. Britain        
 26* ??? Walke           24  Female    Spinster      Gr. Britain        
 27  James Doherty       22  Male      Laborer       Gr. Britain  
 28  John Whitham        18  Male      Laborer       Gr. Britain       
 

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 below.

?  The use of a ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due to 
   quality of the original document.

The transcription preserves the original spelling.

All ditto marks on the original manifest have been replaced with the actual words 
indicated.

#26 first name could be MISS or MI?? the second and third letters appear to be TF or FT
    they are on top of one another.


Correspondence 06/16/2005 passengers #9-15 and #24 Lewis, Williams
I thought you might be interested in hearing a story about some of our family who 
were passengers on the William F. Storer.  My husband's G.G.Grandmother, her 6 
daughters and her sister were on that ship from Liverpool to New York which arrived 
in NY on Oct 4, 1859.
She had been widowed a few months before and left with 9 children.  They lived in 
Aberdare, S. Wales. Since she had family that had already come to America, she decided 
to join them with help from a brother who was already here. He lived in a small 
community in northern PA called Neath.  The passenger list shows:  Mary Lewis, 
age 40 traveling with her sister, Hannah Williams, age 30 and 6 daughters-----Janet
( aka Jenette) age 19, Louisa (Lucy) and Rachael, 17 year old twins, Mary, age 14, 
Elizabeth, age 8, and Matilda, age 2.
 
They were "put up" in a log cabin and the older girls were hired out as housekeepers, 
etc.  One day, the neighbors realized that there had been no smoke coming from the 
cabin chimney, and they fround the mother dead and the youngest girl all alone.  
That girl was my husband's G.Grandmother. That part of PA looks a great deal like 
much of Wales and is still very Welsh.  My husband's grandfather came there from 
northern Wales and was a minister in Neath in the late 1800s.
 
Some of us have tried to find out exactly when this family came to America and on 
which ship, so I was elated to find them on the passenger list.  Another family 
mystery solved. Audra J. Squires (Mrs. Paul).

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 196, List 994.