So I briefly searched New York Passenger lists via
Ancestry.com and the Castle Garden website– for 12 May 1859 – for any James
Scanlan born about 1838 and came up with two possibilities, neither of which
were for 12 May 1859:
Name
|
Birth
|
Departure
|
Ship
|
Arrival
|
James
Scanlon [1]
|
Abt.
1836
|
Galway,
IRE
|
Circassian
|
2 May
1859
|
Jas
[James] Scanlon [2]
|
Abt.
1840
|
Liverpool,
England and Queenstown, Ireland
|
Manhattan
|
13 May
1859
|
Now it’s more likely that James would have made his way to
Queenstown (Cobh) in County Cork to board ship rather than a port farther from
County Waterford, and 13 May 1859 is very very close to 12 May 1859 (See previous post).
The difference was only
one day, and may have had something to do with the time it took immigrants to
be processed.
But the James traveling from Queenstown (above) wasn’t
listed near any other Scanlons or Higginses or Carrigans or Murphys. I’ve yet to sit down and look at all the
passengers, but so far no new clues have presented themselves.
I DID find some new information yesterday while
searching Boston city directories for other Scanlans/Scanlons who lived at 92
Dove or 92 Dresser Streets.
I actually found one William Scanlon and one John Scanlon at
15 Maiden Lane in 1883 and 1885 (where John Higgins lived from about 1879 to
before 1887). Both William and John were
listed as laborers [3].
I also found a Patrick Scanlan in 1890 at 22 Chadwick (where the same John Higgins lived from about 1887 to about 1896). Patrick was listed as a teamster [4].
John Higgins was a teamster as well [5].
Three new Scanlons. Who were they?
I don’t know yet. And while I do need to
remember this is only circumstantial evidence, I have a hunch it may lead some place I need to
go.
Notes:
[1] “New
York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957,” Ancestry.com
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 March 2014).
[2] CastleGarden.org (http://www.castlegarden.org : accessed
14 March 2014). Note: Indexed as “James
Scanlon” on CastleGarden.org and “Las
Scarlon” on Ancestry.com.
[3] See “U.
S. City Directories, 1821-1989,” for Boston, Massachusetts, 1883 and 1885, database,
Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 March
2014), entries for John Scanlon and William Scanlon.
[4] “U. S.
City Directories, 1821-1989,” Boston, Massachusetts, 1890, database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 March
2014), entry for Patrick Scanlan.
[5] John
Higgins is listed as a teamster as early as 1880. See 1880 U. S. census, Suffolk County,
Massachusetts, population schedule, Boston, enumeration district 740, p. 2,
dwelling unreadable, line 48, John Higgins household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14
March 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication T9, roll 559.
