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Hello everybody

Just to bring you all up to date, the book is out now so the website has been updated to reflect that.
Thanks to all rootschat members who helped with this, given that we had very little or no information to start with; this has now grown into one of the most detailed passenger and crew list of any wooden mid 19th century sailing ship. Well done everybody but let’s try and make it better.
 Some information had been held back till publication for obvious reasons. Just so nobody can accuse me of flogging the book I am putting the direct links on this post. If you could all have a look at it again as all the crew details are there now and every scrap of information about the casualties and the survivors. If you know someone older who does not bother with the internet then take the list to them. The majority on the Annie Jane were Irish followed by Scottish then English. The lists are now alphabetical except the families have been kept in the same order as in the original list; they seem to run from the oldest (head of the family) to the youngest.

Steerage survivors
http://www.anniejane.net/steerage-survivors/ All but nine of the survivor’s origins have been found.

http://www.anniejane.net/steerage-passengers-drowned/ Thanks to a discovery be a rootschat member in Canada we were able to break the passengers up into family groups or if anyone was on a single ticket. The list now reflects that. Makes a lot more sense now.

http://www.anniejane.net/cabin-passengers-drowned/  We now know who every one of the first class passengers were.

http://www.anniejane.net/cabin-passenger-survivors/ Everyone found but the mysterious John Morgan, lots of hits on any search, surname very common. Was in Liverpool for the inquiry so may have been from there.

http://www.anniejane.net/crew-drowned/  We have all the crew who drowned now except for one; an unnamed apprentice. Name, age, location, register number, profession for all deceased crew members. No list ever existed as the names of the dead crew were not given or requested by the press at the time.

http://www.anniejane.net/crew-survivors/ Same again. we now have:  name, age, location, register number, profession for all crew members except one.

Just a brief synopsis for anyone who is unfamiliar with the story. The Annie Jane was a newly built emigrant ship that sailed from Liverpool to Quebec in late 1853 with about 450 people on board. She turned back once to Liverpool after being dismasted, about 80 passengers left although they could not get their money back. She sailed again and was wrecked in the Outer Hebrides on the tiny island of Vatersay on the 28th of September 1853. Up to 350 drowned and there were 102 survivors. The dead were buried in two mass graves “like herrings in a barrel”. The survivors descended on the only house in the island looking for food and shelter, some of them being stuck there for two weeks.
Sadly, the location of the graves has been lost. Vatersay is suffering from coastal erosion and an explosion of rabbits. I am hoping with the raised profile from the publication of the book to do something about that with the help of the local population.
Main site is http://www.anniejane.net/ There is a contact page to get in touch with me with any new information.

Thanks for your patience and a special thanks to all rootschat members for their help. Without you none of this would have been possible. Many of you working selflessly off site to find new information. The acknowledgement page in the book reflects that.
Allan

Hello everybody

Hoping this will be helpful and of interest to someone who might be doing research into their family tree.
I am researching an emigrant ship that came to grief in 1853, http://www.anniejane.net/ she made an aborted first voyage and returned to Liverpool. A petition was presented to the Lord Mayor of Liverpool on the 5th of September, from the passengers demanding compensation and their money back; just recently managed to locate a copy but only a partial list of the signatories. So these are the names of some of the passengers who left the ship, without receiving compensation or their passage fare refunded.
We know about thirty of them went on the steamship Sarah Sands on the 15th of September, the rest of them may have taken the cheaper option of a sailing ship or decided to wait for spring; but they did have jobs waiting for them on the Quebec railway infrastructure.
It looks like they were mainly Scottish and English tradesman. I have removed from the list all the signatories who went on the second voyage, many of them perishing in the shipwreck.
Surnames seemed to have been more fluid at that time, some of them seem suspect.
I am not really looking for any feedback from this post, just hoping it may be of some use. After all the wonderful help I have received from roots chat Canadians with this project; I feel its the least I can do

Best regards Allan

Jane Tenlin
Charles Tenlin
Michael Tenlin
James Tenlin
David Thomas
Daniel Thomas
Henry Thomas
William Thomas
Thomas Thomas
George King
John Stobie
Edward Chainhen
Dennis Disrael
Jeramiah Porter
David Divisers
Edward Mockluyer
William Owen
William Davies
David Davies
Thomas Hodges
Thomas Hawkins
Alexander Kerr
John Curr
Thomas Gourlie
Dennis Driscon
Michael Lane
James Driver
Thomas Campbell
Lawrence Campbell
David Gunn
John Storry
David Jones
Rees Williams
Samuel Elliot
Shem Richards
Benjamin Powhes
Andrew Anderson
Thomas Young
John Scott Chalmers
John Treadwell
Fredrick Treadwell
Thomas Johns
William Gallatly
John Taylor
George Taylor
Henry Bayly
John Stranger
William Brown

Hello everybody

I had a mission impossible up to now, trying to find a Julia Macarthy from Ireland no age no location.
She was a mother of twins; four months old, boys I think, and she lost one in the shipwreck, the other survived, Described as on the way to join her husband in America, that was all we had to go on.
Would love to give the lost child the dignity of a name and the survivor of course.
Now we have discovered she was from Crookhaven, its described as her place of nativity in a newspaper article in 1853.
So looking for someone local who can help and access baptism records for the time period April to July of 1853 for the area around Crookhaven.
Its beginning to look like a lot of the Annie Jane survivors never tried again and who could blame them, so she may have gone home after the shipwreck , never to leave.

Website is http://www.anniejane.net/

There were another 4 McCarthy's aboard the ship  who were lost in the tragedy: Timothy, Katherine and two Margaret's, a high possibility now that some might come from the same area, I would say that it is highly unlikely she would have been traveling alone with such young children.

Any help greatly appreciated
Thanks for reading, Allan

Hello everybody

Just been given the names of five seamen who were lost on the Annie Jane in 1853 from their names you would deduce they were French speaking Canadians.

Audel Drapean
Samuel Langlas
Napolean Mercar
Amable Moan
Joseph Tallat

It would be good if I could get their origins ages etc.

Also another two who's names I had previously Uhalt Gagnon and Edward Durant both carpenters.

Is their a French language genealogy site in Canada? I am afraid I am handicapped in this field as my French is limited, non existent. But if you could point me in the right direction I will get some one to put a post on it.

Any help greatly appreciated as always.

Regards Allan  http://www.anniejane.net/