Re: Irish Sinclairs

[Toni Sinclair <asflwr@cujo2.icom.ca>]

Hi Karen,  wanna bet that the 2 little kids, Nancy and James, were
the siblings of Ann,
and Hugh, and children of Margaret?  If you add 10 years to their
ages, they would fit
right in.  They might have gone with other relatives, or sent
away because of disease or
illness at home.  Perhaps the father had died.  Who knows? 
The possibilities are endless
but its very unusual to send two small children away, when there is
a "possible family"
in the district.  Wouldn't this make an interesting PBS mini series?

Toni

kjmath@swbell.net wrote:

 Thought I'd pass on the following from Brian Mitchell, Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871: Lists of Passengers Sailing from Londonderry to America on Ships of the J. & J. Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1988).

• Nancy Sinclair, age 9 from Coleraine District, County Derry, and James Sinclair, age 7, sailed on the “Venice” to Philadelphia in 1847.
• Ellen Ann Sinclair, no age or place of residence given, sailed on the “Lord Maidstone” to St. John in 1848.
• Mary Jane Sinclair, no age given, from Ballymoney, County Antrim, and John Sinclair, age 1, sailed on the “Envoy” to Quebec in 1853.
• Margaret Sinclair, age 45, from Coleraine, County Derry; Ann Sinclair, age 19, and Hugh Sinclair age 14, sailed on the “Elizabeth” to Philadelphia in 1857.

These were all on the J. & J. Cooke Line.