ann shiels arriving in NYC

[Rebecca Reid]

The castlegarden.org site allows one to review ship manifest indexes for free. I found

 

SHIELS ANN 22 F 28 Aug 1871 Further detail reveals she is a “gentleman’s servant” coming from England on the City of Paris

 

I cannot find a similar name on the ship manifest I can view on ancestry. There is one transcribed as Ann Shultz but she is only listed as a servant. I may be missing something there.

 

Am not finding a Margaret Simon with one child between 1875 and 1884. There is the one I sent months ago that was Mrs Symons and infant in 1876, but she is listed as a lady, which our ancestor was not.

 

Rebecca

[Frank Sorenson]

On 05/12/2011 05:20 PM, Rebecca Reid wrote:

The castlegarden.org site allows one to review ship manifest indexes for free. I found

 

SHIELS ANN 22 F 28 Aug 1871 Further detail reveals she is a “gentleman’s servant” coming from England on the City of Paris

 

I cannot find a similar name on the ship manifest I can view on ancestry. There is one transcribed as Ann Shultz but she is only listed as a servant. I may be missing something there. 

I've looked through the Castle Garden records as well, and haven't really found much, although there are definitely some names which have been transcribed differently.

I believe the "gentleman's servant" bit comes from the fact that during transcription, all the occupations are consolidated into fewer unique entries and indexed (so both "servant" and "gentleman's servant" might be "occupation 15"...  only "15" needs to be kept, not the full text).  You do lose some detail that way, but it's better than having 1000 different occupations.

"Shulz" doesn't look quite correct.  Looking at the manifest (relevant portion attached), I can see how it might have gotten transcribed that way.  It's really difficult to read, and wasn't all that carefully written.  She's listed as being from England, and "Shulz" would be a rather uncommon English name (you'd expect someone from a more Germanic area).  The final letter does appear to be a "z", but the two bumps in the last name don't quite look like a "u" to me.  I think perhaps it may be "Shielz" or something.  I can imagine the pronunciation getting spelled that way.  The occupation looks like "Servt".

Am not finding a Margaret Simon with one child between 1875 and 1884. There is the one I sent months ago that was Mrs Symons and infant in 1876, but she is listed as a lady, which our ancestor was not.

Yeah, we're not really finding enough information to draw any real conclusions, are we...

Frank

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