Ireland to Canada - Brinston

[prairieflower]

Thomas Brinston (b. 1838 in Fermanah IRE) emigrated to Canada around 1850 with his parents, John and Jane.  I don't know if there were any other family members that also made the trip.   

Thomas Brinston married Catherine Burton, also from Fermanagh, in 1859 at Garden Island N Lake Michigan.  Looking for any information on my Irish ancestors.  Not sure how to go about finding information about ships passenger lists.

[DeniseA]

Hi prairieflower,

Welcome to rootschat

Unfortunately passenger lists are always a bit of a problem depending on the time frame travelled. We have a list of resources that you could search..........some are ongoing projects so you may want to keep checking back.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,130108.0.html

There is also this from Collections Canada explaining the available ships/immigration lists prior to 1865
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-908.002-e.html

Have you checked the 1851 Canadian Census to see if you can find the 3 mentioned and possibly others that may have moved here at the same time?

For help with Irish Ancestors you could try posting in the Ireland - Fermanagh boards, they will know what resources are available to help you
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/board,61.0.html

Happy Hunting
~Denise

[J.J.]

Sorry if this is coincidence...but

22 Jan 1884, Brockville  http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maryc/leeds84.htm
Says that Albert Brinston...son of Thomas Brinston & Catherine BARTON, married Ella Merkley ...
Could this be your ancestors?...as this is likely Albert on the 1881
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp
with a father Thomas born in 1828 in Ireland
Thomas Brinston   b.1828 Farmer 
 Cathrin Brinston  b 1831     
 Albert Brinston    b.1856 Hotel Keeper 
 John Brinston   b. 1860 also works on farm
 Mary Ann Brinston    b. 1862
all say born in Ireland, though....
A witness was a Mrs. George. Burnfield so perhaps mary anne?

There is also a Thomas Wm. Brinston age 5 in the same area, down as a
death in the 1871 census
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/02010803_e.html

[J.J.]

I was looking for the history of the Brinston township in Ontario, as there
were only 2 sets of Brinstons, one from Ireland and one from Iceland....found this

You may already have seen this, but this person says that they have:
" ...Bible filled with family records and newspaper clippings of weddings, births, and deaths"
about a fifth of the way down the page under
Searching:  MERKLEY, BRINSTON, DONALDSON
http://members.tripod.com/~Dundas_gen/dq2.htm

[J.J.]

If this is another born after 1881, and it's likely as it is in Matilda, Dundas,
perhaps living relatives know more about the Ireland connection
Thomas Alex  Brinston born 1885
http://slumberland.org/tng/placesearch.php?tree=&psearch=Ontario&PHPSESSID=4658425395628d087773f528a8eadfd0

Actually, I just went into the ancestry and it looks as though you may be able to fill THEM in if he's on your tree...? Perhaps Albert or John...but can't see him on 1901?

and here is John's resting place
http://www.empey.ca/lynne/Matilda/Cemeteries/sprucehaven.htm

[J.J.]

Was hoping to find something on Brinstons corners, or Brinston, Matilda, Dundas
but nothing available...usually there is a listing of some kind. Sorry. Never know if the town might have some info if there was a way to contact them... J.J.

[J.J.]

Thomas Brinston - lot record, just out of interest
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/CountyAtlas/showrecord.php?PersonID=35343

[eillo]

Thomas Brinston (b. 1838 in Fermanah IRE) emigrated to Canada around 1850 with his parents, John and Jane.  I don't know if there were any other family members that also made the trip.    Not sure how to go about finding information about ships passenger lists.

There are no comprehensive lists of immigrants arriving in Canada prior to 1865. Until that year, shipping companies were not required by the government to keep their passenger manifests.

You might find an ancestor in correspondence of theSecretary of State on immigration for 1817-1857.  There are
lists of immigrants, mainly Irish, and entry books re immigration, and assisted emigration to British North
America.

These must be ordered offline . Details are given at
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/articles/immcanpre1865.shtml

On TheShipsList website they are including Quebec ship
arrivals extracted from contemporary newspapers.

See

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/Arrivals/index.htm


You can also try inGeneas, the online searchable database of early immigration to Canada. Some records are free, others must be paid for, but the search and it's results are free. A search engine for InGeneas is at

http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/search_shipscanada.shtml


There are also some passenger lists which were kept by shipping agents in the originating country. For example, the Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents gives sailings from Londonderry to Philadelphia PA, Quebec, and St. John New Brunswick from 1847 to 1871.

 For an index of clickable links to those JJ Cooke passenger lists online to date, see
http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/jjcooke.shtml

The Hawke Papers, letterbooks of Chief Emigrant Agent Anthony B. Hawke  are also available. They cover the years 1831 to 1892.

See the searchable database at 
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/db/hawke.htm