Using information from the freshly minted addition to the known family (who I shall call Cousin J.), I found an image of the ship that Bartholomew Comben Pearce sailed on to the new world. The SS Nestorian left Liverpool on May 11, 1871, stopped at Londonderry May 12th, and arrived in Quebec City on May 22nd, 1871. This photograph was taken in 1867, the web site says, which was the year of Confederation. Canada was less than 4 years old when Bartholomew Pearce arrived in Quebec.
And I went to the Library and Archives of Canada website for immigrant ships' passenger lists and found an image of the original listing of Bartholomew's name on the Nestorian's passenger list. His is the fourth from the bottom. He is 31 years old, a "Lab", meaning laborer (we know from Cousin J. that he was a stone mason in Cleveland, and from Portland censuses that he was a quarryman), and the tick mark in the illegible column sub-categorizes him as English and something else I cannot decipher.
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image credits: http://www.theshipslist.com/pictures/nestorian1867.shtml, http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/022-908-e.html
My Great-Great Grandfather came over on the same ship in 1868 from Liverpool to Quebec. How cool! Thanks for posting the photo of the ship. :)
ReplyDeleteCool indeed Amy. I think this is the most visited posting on my blog - there must be a LOT of people doing family research out there who had someone on this ship.
ReplyDeleteThis ship is listed as the one my great grandmother and her family traveled on while heading to Canada. They show up in the Canadian census by 1867.
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