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Saint John, N.B. Customs
House Passenger Lists 1815, 1832, 1833-1834 & 1837-1838
1815 - 1832 - 1833
- 1834 - 1837 - 1838
The Lieutenant Governor, Council and Assembly of New Brunswick
enacted a provincial statute in 1832, entitled "An Act to Regulate
Vessels Arriving from the United Kingdom with Passengers and Emigrants"
(2 William IV Chapter 36). The statute imposed a duty of five shillings
for each passenger landed which was to be paid by the Master of the ship.
The funds collected by the Treasury, were to be directed toward the caring
for ill and destitute immigrants. It is in this manner, that all cargo
manifests, including the passenger lists, became part of the Customs House
records retained by the province. In 1835, the provincial Secretary was
given responsibilty for all Customs House returns (5 William IV Chapter
49).
On June 29th 1877 the "Great Fire
of Saint John" engulfed the business district, destroying more
than twenty-five public buildings, including the Customs House. A new
Customs Building was built in the same location, and the lists below were
discovered in an old vault in that building. These lists appear to be
the only surviving passenger records for the port of Saint John for this
period, and contain the names of more than 10,500 passengers and crew
(some men worked their passage).
(The records for the "Famine" period might have been in the
possession of Moses H. Perley, the Emigration Agent at Saint John 1845-1850,
and whose personal papers were lost in a subsequent fire. Saint John
passenger
lists from 1900 onwards, are microfilmed, and are available from The
Library and Archives, Canada.)
Every effort has been made to correctly transcribe the names represented
on the passenger lists below, but be aware of possible errors or omissions.
The lists are not uniform in the amount of information they may contain
and there are many spelling variatons even for some quite common names.
There was no way to interpret whether the abbreviation Jno. was being
used to represent John or Jonathan, so "John" has been used
in each instance.
Note: #1. As it was not required to pay passage or landing
tax for infants (under 1 year), they do not appear to have been included
on most of the lists. In some lists where no name for infants is mentioned,
they are indicated as (unnamed infant). #2.
The ships sailing from Belfast appear to contain several "English"
passengers, although they are not identified as such. #3.
On the lists on which two arrival dates are shown, the earlier date indicates
the ship arrival at the quarantine station at Partridge Island; the second
date is when the list was received at the Customs House at St. John after
being cleared by the Health Officer at quarantine. All ship arrivals below
are arranged chronologically in order of the ships' arrival at St. John.
- 1815
- ship Favourite
sailed from Glasgow October 22nd 1815
- 1832
- 1833
- brig Symmetry
sailed from Londonderry September 8th 1832 / arr. January 29th 1833
- Caledonia
sailed from Liverpool February 23rd 1833 / arr. April 10th 1833
(4 pass.)
- brig Luna from Dublin / arr. April 12th 1833, William Horner
Fotherington, Master (1 unnamed adult)
- ship/bark Independence
sailed from Kinsale March 18th 1833 / arr. April 17th 1833 (&
crew)
- bark Alchymist
sailed from Falmouth March 21st 1833 / arr. April 25th 1833
- bark Charlotte
Lungan sailed from Liverpool March 22nd 1833 / arr. April 29th
1833 (7 pass.)
- ship Wolfes Cove from Glasgow / arr. May 13th 1833, Peter
Hamilton, Master (1 adt. & 3 ch.,unnamed)
- ship Ward sailing
from Limerick March 26th & Tarbut Station April 4th 1833 / arr.
May 1833
- bark Lady Campbell
sailed from Greenock March 29th 1833 / arr. May 1833 (& crew)
- brig Trafalgar
sailed from Kilrush (Limerick) April 3rd 1833 / arr. May 1833 (5
pass., & crew)
- Amynta
sailed from Plymouth April 3rd 1833 / arr. May 1833 (16 pass.)
- Perceval
sailed from Plymouth April 6th 1833 / arr. May 1833 (11 pass.)
- ship Lord Goderich
sailed from London April 6th 1833 / arr. May 29th 1833
- brig Neptune
sailed from Warrenpoint April 9th 1833 / arr. late May 1833 (&
crew)
- brig Madawaska
sailed from Londonderry April 18th 1833 / arr. late May 1833
- brigantine Jane from Lenvick ? / arr. May 31st 1833, James
Hose??n, Master (1 adt. cabin pass. unnamed)
- ship Wakefield from Liverpool / arr. May 31st 1833, Amos
Armstrong, Master (13 unnamed pass.)
- ship John from Liverpool / arr. June 1st 1833, Thomas Russell,
Master (1 adt./3 ch.,unnamed)
- bark Pallas
of Cork, sailed from Cork ? 1833 / arr. June 1833 (& crew)
- brig Billow
sailed from Londonderry April 13th 1833 / arr. June 1833 (&
crew)
- brig Zephyr
sailed from Sligo (Ballyshannon) April 11th 1833 / arr. June 1933
(& crew)
- brig Zephyr
from Donegal, undated, referred to as "List 2" filmed
with Oct. 1833
- brig Dorcas
Savage sailed from Belfast April 4th 1833 / arr. June 1833 (&
crew)
- brig Thomas
Hanford sailed from Cork April 6th 1833 / arr. June 5th 1833
(& crew)
- brig Ann(e)
from Penzance / arr. June 7th 1833
- John & Mary
sailed from Belfast April 24th 1833 / arr. June 7th 1833 (&
crew)
- Hibernia
of Kinsale, sailed from ? / arr. June 1833 (& crew)
- brig Sea Horse
sailed from Dublin April 17th 1833 / arr. June 12th 1833
- brig Trial sailed
from Londonderry April 20th 1833 / arr. June 1833 (& crew)
- ship Active from Londonderry / arr. June 13th 1833, Jasper
Robson, Master (no list - 233 adults, 15 children under 14 years
and 25 children under 7 years)
- ship Ellergill sailed from Londonderry May 6th 1833 / arr.
June 15th 1833, William (Han), Master (no list - 217 adults, 36
children under 14 years, 63 children under 7 years & 5 infants
under 1 year)
- brig Bartley
sailed from Londonderry April 12th 1833 / arr. June 1833 (&
crew)
- brig Maria sailed
from Belfast April 19th & Irvine May 2nd / arr. June 17th 1833
(& crew)
- ship Branches
sailed from London May 2nd 1833 / arr. June 18th 1833
- brig Salus sailed
from Londonderry April 26th 1833 / arr. June 1833 (& crew)
- Legatus
sailed from London April 1833 / arr. June 1833
- Britannia
sailed from Sligo May 1st 1833 / arrived June 24th 1833 (& crew)
- Margaret
sailed from London April 15th 1833 / arr. June 1833
- Elizabeth
sailed from Galway April 20th 1833 / arr. June 24th 1833
- Reward of Youghall
sailed from Cork May 1st 1833 / arr. July 1st 1833 (& crew)
- Jane Vilet arr. July 1833 (no list - 255 pass.; no further
details)
- brig Charity
sailed from Kinsale, Cork May 21st 1833 / arr. July 5th 1833 (&
crew)
- Augusta
sailed from Liverpool May 24th 1833 / arr. July 1833
- schooner Susan
Jane sailed from Sligo (Ballyshannon) May 16th 1833 / arr. July
16th 1833 (& crew)
- ship Pacific
sailed from Liverpool (May/June?) 1833 / arr. July 1833
- brig Leslie
Gault sailed from Londonderry (May/June?) 1833 / arr. July 1833
(& crew)
- bark Edward
Reid sailed from Londonderry June (11th) 14th 1833 / arr. July
1833 (& crew)
- ship Caledonia
sailed from Liverpool July 1st 1833 / arr. August 1833
- ship Forth sailed
from Londonderry June 24th 1833 / arr. August 1833 (& crew)
- bark Eweretta
sailed from Londonderry June 22nd 1833 / arr. August 1833 (&
crew)
- bark Greenhow from Liverpool / arr. August 14th 1833, Andrew
Aiken, Master. (only 1 pass., Mary Kay)
- William (of
St. John) from Kinsale ? 1833 / arr. August 1833 (& crew)
- brig William
(of Fishguard) sailed from Cork May 31st 1833 / arr. August 17th
1833
- brig Retrench
sailed from London July 2nd 1833 / arr. August 1833
- brig Ugoni sailed
from Belfast May 23rd 1833 / arr. August 21st 1833 (& crew)
- (ship) Providence
sailed from Cork July 22nd 1833 / arr. August 1833 (& crew)
- brig Silestria
sailed from Belfast July 6th 1833 / arr. August 27th 1833 (&
crew)
- bark Alchymist
sailed from Falmouth July 24th 1833 / arr. September ? 1833
- brig Ann &
Mary of Cork, sailed from Cork ? 1833 / arr. September ? 1833
(& crew)
- brig Mary
Ann sailed from Belfast July 20th 1833 / arr. September 1833
(& crew)
- ship Quintin Leitch
sailed from Newry August 7th 1833 / arr. September 1833 (& crew)
- bark Sarah
sailed from Bristol August 14th 1833 / arr. September 1833
- brig Billow
sailed from Londonderry August ? 1833 / arr.September 28th 1833
(& crew)
- brig Thomas
Hanford sailed from Cork August ? 1833 / arr. September 28th
1833
- ship John
sailed from Liverpool August 17th 1833 / arr. October 2nd 1833
- brig Zephyr
sailed from Sligo (Ballyshannon) August 19th 1833 / arr. October
1933 (& crew) see also List
2
- ship Wakefield from Liverpool 1833 / arr. October 25th
1833, Amos Armstrong, Master (2 unnamed pass.)
- ship Bolivar
sailed from Plymouth September 5th 1833 / arr. October ? 1833
- ship Triton
sailed from Warrenpoint August 30th 1833 / arr. October ? 1833 (&
crew)
- ship Aurora
sailed from London September 12th 1833 / arr. November 6th 1833
- bark Lady Campbell from Greenock / arr. November 8th 1833,
James Whyte, Master (1 unnamed pass.)
- bark? Peggy
sailed from Plymouth September 14th 1833 / arr. November 1833
- brig Margaret
sailed from Greenock August 26th 1833 / arr. November 9th 1833 (&
crew and cargo manifest)
- schooner Sarah
sailed from Belfast September 21st 1833 / arr. November 26th 1833
(& crew)
- bark Beverley from Liverpool 1833 / arr. November 27th
1833, J.S. Lawson, Master (only 1 pass., William McCameron age
29)
- brig George Gordon Liverpool 1833 / arr. December 7th 1833,
Thomas King, Master (1 unnamed pass.)
- 1834
- brig Thomas Hanford from Cork ? / arr. early ? 1834 (3
unnamed adults; no further details)
- brig Matilda
sailed from Cork March 19th 1834 / arr. April/May ? 1834 (&
crew)
- bark New
Brunswick sailed from Liverpool April 7th 1834 / arr. May 1834
- brig Joseph
Anderson sailed from London March 18th 1834 / arr. May 10th
1834
- bark Beverley from Liverpool / arr. May 12th 1834, J.S.
Lawson, Master (1 adult & 2 children under 7 years, unnamed)
- ship/bark Independence
sailed from Kinsale (Cork) March 22nd 1834 & Castletown Bearhaven,
April 5th 1834 / arr. May 12th 1834
- ship Quebec
sailed from Glasgow April 1st 1834 / arr. May 10th/12th 1834
- brig William
sailed from Londonderry April 2nd 1834 / arr. May 10th/13th 1834
(& crew)
- brig Fenwick
Keating sailed from Liverpool April 8th 1834 / arr. May 17th
1834
- ship Pons Ælii sailed from Cork April 7th 1834 / arr. May
19th 1834 (no list, 246 pass. see statement)
- brig Breakwater
sailed from Plymouth April 12th 1834 / arr. May 19th 1834
- bark Lady Campbell
sailed from Greenock March 22nd 1834 / arr. May 1834 (& crew)
- brig Charity
sailed from Kinsale (Cork) March 21st 1834 / arr. May 17th 1834
- Edwin sailed
from Dublin April 5th 1834 / arr. May 21st 1834
- brig Latona
sailed from Exeter April 11th 1834 / arr. May 24th 1834
- brig Neptune
sailed from Newry April 7th & Warrenpoint April 9th 1834 / arr.
May 24th 1834 (& crew)
- Hannah arr. May 1834 (no further information)
- brig Cupid sailed
from Newry April 9th 1834 / arr. May 26th 1834 (& crew)
- brig William
& Robert sailed from Liverpool April 16th 1834 / arr. May
28th 1834
- brig Breeze
sailed from Dublin April 12th 1834 / arr. June 2nd 1834 (20?
pass. ashore at Dipper Harbour)
- brig Maria sailed
from Cork April 21st 1834 / arr. June 2nd/4th 1834 (& crew)
- William Ewing arr. early June 1834 (no passenger names
listed; no further information)
- brig Ambassador
sailed from Londonderry April 26th 1834 / arr. June 4th/5th 1834
(& crew)
- brig Leslie
Gault sailed from Londonderry April 15th 1834 / arr. June 4th
1834 (& crew)
- bark Perseus
sailed from Londonderry April 22nd 1834 / arr. June 4th/6th 1834
(& crew)
- bark Protector
sailed from Londonderry April 19th 1834 / arr. June 2nd/5th 1834
(& crew)
- brig Trafalgar
sailed from Galway April 30th 1834 / arr. June 9th/10th 1834
- brig Mercator
sailed from Sunderland April 18th 1834 / arr. June 11th 1834
- brig Ann &
Mary sailed from Cork April 27th 1834 / arr. June 13th 1834
(& crew)
- brig Sea Horse
sailed from Galway April 29th 1834 / arr. June 1834
- brig Highlander
sailed from Londonderry May 11th 1834 / arr. June 12th 1834 (&
crew)
- brig Dorothy sailed from Sligo April 28th / arr. June 13/14th
1834, Thomas Lamb. Master (no list, 179 pass)
- bark Ceres arr. June 1834 (no pass. names, 24 adults &
7 children; no further information)
- schooner Nancy
sailed from Londonderry May 2nd 1834 / arr. June 1834 (& crew)
- brig Betsy
Heron sailed from Belfast May 6th 1834 / arr. June 16th/18th
1834 (& crew)
- brig Daniel
O'Connell sailed from Londonderry May ? 1834 / arr. June ? 1834
(& crew)
- brig Susanna sailed from Dublin May 10th 1834 / arr. June
26/27th 1834, George Conway, Master (no list, 78 adults, 14 children
under 14 years, 13 under 7 years, 6 infants; two children died in
passage)
- brig Eleanor
sailed from Londonderry May 7th 1834 / arr. late June 1834 (&
crew)
- brig Charlotte
sailed from Cork May ? 1834 / arr. June 30th 1834 (& crew)
- brig Nicholson sailed from Sligo May 12th 1834 / arr. June
30th/July 3rd 1834, Daniel Bowen, Master (no list, 152 adults, 14
children under 14 years, 16 children under 7 years, (12 infants)
and 9 crew members)
- brig Lady
Douglas sailed from New Ross April 29th 1834 / arr. St. John's,
Nfld. June 17th 1834 & St. John, N.B. early July 1834
- schooner Jane
sailed from Galway May ? 1834 / arr. July 1834
- brig Levant
Star sailed from Cork May 9th 1834 / arr. July 9th 1834 (&
crew)
- brig Dorcas
Savage sailed from Belfast May 12th 1834 / arr. July 11th
1834 (& crew)
- bark Cassandra from Liverpool 1834 / arr. July 11th 1834,
James Greig, Master (no list, 20 pass.)
- schooner Sarah
sailed from Belfast May 24th 1834 / arr. July 1834 (& crew)
- brig Robert
Burns sailed from Londonderry June 6th 1834 / arr. July 1834
(& crew)
- brig Admiral Lake from London / arr. July 30th 1834, John
Rodd, Master (no list, 15 pass.)
- brig Zephyr
sailed from Ballyshannon June 7th 1834 / arr. July 29th/August 1st
1834 (& crew)
- brig Britannia
sailed from Sligo June ? 1834 / arrived late July or early August
1834 (& crew)
- brig Thomas
Hanford sailed from Cork June ? 1834 / arr. August 2nd 1834
- brig Eleanor
Gordon sailed from Londonderry June ? 1834 / arr. August 1834
(& crew)
- ship Sir Robert H. Dick from Liverpool / arr. August 6th
1834, Alexander Elder, Master (no list, 16 pass.)
- bark Adelaide from Liverpool / arr. August 6th 1834, Robert
G. Moran, Master (no list, 10 pass.)
- schooner Ranger
sailed from Londonderry June 17th 1834 / arr. August 1834 (&
crew)
- brig Preston
sailed from Sligo June 28th 1834 / arr. August 13th 1834 (&
crew)
- bark Liverpool from Liverpool / arr. August 22nd 1834,
Nicholas Johnston, Master (no list, 6 pass.)
- ship Samuel
sailed from Liverpool July 22nd 1834 / arr. September 1834
- brig William from Londonderry / arr. September 16th 1834,
William Lawton, Master (no list, 21 pass.)
- bark Frederick
sailed from Liverpool August 16th 1834 / arr. September 28th 1834
- bark Beverley from Liverpool ? 1834 / arr. late September
1834 (6 pass. no further information)
- brig Leslie
Gault sailed from Londonderry August 8th 1834 / arr. late Sept.
or early Oct. 1834 (& crew)
- ship Orient
sailed from Belfast September 3rd 1834 / arr. October 13th 1834
- ship Canton
from Glasgow / arr. October 14th 1834 (cargo manifest only; 3 unnnamed
pass.)
- Cupid arr. October 1834 (no further information)
- Independence arr. October 1834 (no further information)
- bark John Bently 484 tons / arr. October 1834 (no further
information)
- brig William
& Robert sailed from Liverpool August 19th 1834 / arr. October
21st 1834
- bark Ceres
from Sligo / arr. October 21st 1834
- bark Lady Campbell from Greenock ? 1834 / arr. October
1834 (no further information)
- bark Protector
sailed from Londonderry September 6th 1834 / arr. October 1834 (&
crew)
- Katherine arr. October 1834 (2 pass. no further information)
- James Lemon
sailed from Londonderry September 20th 1834 / arr. Nov. 4th/5th
1834 (& crew)
- brig Comet from London / arr. Nov. 6th 1834, George C.
Hunt, Master (1 pass. Caroline Ferguson)
- ship Jennet from Bristol / arr. Nov. 14th 1834, David Laidley,
Master (1 pass. William Howell)
- brig Thomas
Hanford sailed from Baltimore, Ireland October 11th 1834 / arr.
November 26th 1834
- ship Sir
Robert H. Dick sailed from Liverpool November 10th 1834 / arr.
December ? 1834
- 1837
- (brig) Thetis of
Troon, sailed from Cork Ireland April 12th 1837 / arr. Bathurst,
N.B. [May / June] 1837 (&
crew)
- bark Robert
Watt sailed from Cork May 30th 1837 / arr. St. Andrews, N.B.
July 24th 1837
- 1838
- bark Pallas
sailed from Cork April 17th 1838 / arr. St. Andrews, N.B. May 16th
1838 (& crew)
- brig Industry
sailed from Cork ? 1838 / arr. St. Andrews, N.B. July 17th 1838
- ship Mary sailed
from Newry ? 1838 / arr. St. John. N.B. ? 1838 (all remaining
ships to St. John, N.B.)
- brig Harmony
sailed from Strangford April 29th 1838 / arr. June 7th 1838
- brig Susan
Maria Brooke sailed from Ballyshannon April 28th 1838 / arr.
? 1838 (& crew)
- brig/schooner? Susan
Jane sailed from Ballyshannon May 12th 1838 / arr. June 22nd/23rd
1838 (& crew)
- bark Susan sailed
from Londonderry May 12th 1838 / arr. June 22nd/23rd 1838
- bark Rebecca
sailed from Liverpool ? 1838 / arr. July 4th 1838
- ship Prudence
sailed from Londonderry May 23rd 1838 / arr. July 11th/14th 1838
(& crew)
- brig Britannia
sailed from Ballyshannon (Sligo) June 27th 1838 / arr. August 14th
1838 (& crew)
- schooner/brig? Condor
sailed from Londonderry July 4th 1838 / arr. August 25th 1838 (&
crew)
- brig Susan
Maria Brooke sailed from Donegal ? 1838 / arr. October 15th
1838
- bark Caronge
sailed from Londonderry ? 1838 / arr. October 27th/29th 1838
Source: Provincial Archives of New Brunswick - RS23E Customs House
Records 1816-1838 [sic 1815] - Microfilm numbers:- F9798 1816-1834
& F9799 1837-1838
1815 - 1832 - 1833
- 1834 - 1837 - 1838
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