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Topic: Passenger Look Up Please 1884. (Read 136 times)
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mrs griff
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Could some kind Roots person do a look up please ,
I found this on Castle Garden it could be my G-Grandfather story is he went to work in the Gold Mines in Pennsylvania .
John Roberts arrived 1 April 1884 Occ Miner age 36
Ship Servia . would like more info, he went alone left his family back in Wales this entry could fit .
Kind Regards Mrs Griff
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shellyesq
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You can see the 1900 Census for free here: http://labs.familysearch.org/ It looks like there may be more than one John Roberts of that age in Pennsylvania at that time.
I may be wrong, but I've never heard of gold mines in Pennsylvania. However, there were a ton of coal mines there.
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mrs griff
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Thanks for the reply ,but the family info is that he was killed in a accident at work not to long after he arrived. so where do i look now ?
Regards Mrs Griff
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merjones
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I read the ship's manifest as:
John Roberts 36
Theo or Thomas Roberts 21
Ewan or Evan Roberts 24
All Traveling together on the Servia
Arriving in New York
April 1, 1884
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merjones
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This could be the Thomas Roberts traveling with John:
1900 United States Federal Census
Name: Thomas Roberts
Home in 1900: Nanticoke, Luzerne, Pennsylvania
Age: 39
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1861
Birthplace: Wales
Relationship to head-of-house: Boarder
Race: White
Occupation: Miner
Immigration Year:1884
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mrs griff
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Thanks Mer, the people with him don't ring any bells , but i will check with family,
the family info is conflicking, one lot says he went to South Africa & another says Pennsylvania,the only agreed fact is that he died in an accident at work not long after he arrived,
Tryed S A and have hit brick walls .
Kind Regards Mrs Griff
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johnnyboy
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Census information Crown Copyright
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While growing up in Pennsylvania, I never heard a word about gold mining there. However, this little bit comes from Wikipedia's Gold Mining in the United States article: "About 37 thousand troy ounces (1.2 tonnes) of gold was produced from the Cornwall iron mine five miles south of Lebanon, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Although the deposit produced iron since 1742, no gold was reported from the mine until 1908."
That is about fifty miles south of the anthracite mining region in Pennsylvania and about 150 miles east of the bituminous mining region. Plus it would have been 24 years after you John Roberts came to the U.S. Not impossible, but more likely he was a coal miner.
Unfortunately for your search, many of the coal miners in Pennsylvania in the 1880s and 1890s were Welsh, meaning that there were many named Roberts, Jones, etc. It is difficult to distinguish among them without more information.
Regards,
John 
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England, YKS: SLATER of Ovenden and Halifax; DRURY of Darton, Mapplewell, Sheffield and Halifax; DOBSON of Thornton (near Bradford); NEVILL(E) of Wigan, Lancs and Darton; MEGSON of Dewsbury; GARSIDE of Woolley and West Bretton.
Scotland: HENDRY of Who-knows-where-shire and Massachusetts, USA; HOUSTON of Lesmahagow and Glasgow and Massachusetts, USA; DEMPSTER of Lesmahagow; MEIKLE of Ayrshire, Hamilton, and Glasgow; COCHRAN of Hamilton.
Paradise: EVE and ADAM, also in exile
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mrs griff
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Thanks John for the info , my info is scant due to conflicking family stories, and no positive date of departure , only that is last child was born in 1882 and his wife remarrying in1889. but his was killed in an accident not long after arriving, while his wife and children were waiting to join him. i big search on my hands .
Regards Mrs Griff
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