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Research in Other Countries => Immigrants & Emigrants - General => Topic started by: Carole in Dallas on Thursday 10 May 12 20:54 BST (UK)
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I am a bit confused as to what the ship manifest is telling me...
If one of you could look at the manifes to help me figure out departure date and city...and arrival date and city...
Is Florence going from India to England to New York...or is she going from England to NY...or India to NY...by way of England
Sooo confusing when I actually looked at the ship manifest and tried to read it...
Thanks for your help
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Hi
I think she was born in India by the looks of the original form.. and then there is this on familysearch.org
Baptism Register
Simla Bengal India
29th Sept 1861
KEER Florence Alice daughter of Jonathon KEER and Caroline Helen KNYVETT. Born 11th July 1861.
Could well be that Shipping Log shows her going from England to the USA as she marries in Boston ...
Massachusetts Marriages
31st June 1885
Thomas A KENNEDY Resident of England aged 34 Physician Born Ireland Father = Edward KENNEDY Mother = Catharine
Florence M A KEER Resident of Boston aged 23 Born India Father = Jonathan KEER Mother = Caroline
Cheers
Karenlee
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Not sure if you already have this information, apologies if so...
1891 Census England Devonshire East Budleigh
RG12/1674/28/9
Ash Villa
PEARCE
Harriet Head Unmarr 44 Lodging House Keeper Gloucestershire St George
Jonathan KEER Lodger Marr 64 Major General H. M. Bengal Staff Retired ( Army ) Suffolk Raydon Orford
Eliza Lodger's Wife Marr 42 Scotland Glasgow
Honoria S Lodger's Dau Unmarr 7 Canada Toronto
Looks like they moved around a bit and that Florence's father remarried to Eliza at some stage.
India Marriages
Calcutta Bengal India
6th Nov 1878
Jonathan KEER aged 51 Widowed Father = Francis KEER
Eliza SOMERVILLE aged 29 Single Father = Alexander Neil SOMERVILLE
Schedule of Births
County of York
Toronto Canada
December 26th 1883
Honoria Somerville KEER
Female
Father = Jonathan KEER Retired Major General H.M. Bengal Staff
Mother = Eliza SOMERVILLE
Birth registered by J. KEER 219 Gerard St. Toronto on January 8th 1884
Karenlee
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Other children baptised to Jonathan and Caroline Helen in India...
Calcutta Bengal
Mary Anne KEER born 18th Aug 1854 Baptised 10th Dec 1854
Kussowlie Bengal
Caroline Helen born 11th Dec 1857 Baptised 7th Jan 1858
There might also have been a Jonathan born about 1856 as well
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Looking on the British newspaper archive Mrs Major General Keer, as she is styled, appears to be a prominent evalangalist, possible Salvationist, and is described in one piece as daughter of the late Dr Somerville who filled the moderator's chair of the free Church (this snippet from an Aberdeen paper)
More about Dr Somerville here
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Somerville,_Alexander_Neil_%28DNB00%29
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there's a Charles as well as a Jonathan
1871 in Jersey
Caroline K Keer 36 b India
Mary Keer 16 b Calcutta
Jonathan Keer 15 b ?? Morllan
Chas Keer 11 b Gwalior
Florence Keer 9 b India
Elise Pacock [?] 34 visitor b Bristol
Elizth Buller 22 servant
Emily Daube 22 servant
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Honoria Somerville Keer
Look at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia for her and for Caroline Keer
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Thanks all for all of your hard research...I had not quite gotten there yet. Been trying to find the Jonathan Keer Family which included Florence in 1881....when I saw her in this ship manifest I could not make out if she was traveling from India to England and then to NY or if the family was IN India and she was heading to Canada where her father had remarried and the new wife had Honoria in 1883 in Toronto which was called York.
Can one of you look at this manifest and let me know which way she is going. Thanks a bunch!
Am excited to read the additional info all of you have gotten!!!
Hugs sent yoru way!
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Can I suggest you visit the FIBIS (Families in British India Society) website, and do a search, this will return a number of useful snippits relating to the Keer family.
Johnathan must have had an interesting time, serving with the 60th Native Infantry Regiment during the Indian Mutiny. Following the mutiny this regiment was disbanded.
Martin