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William Ballard: crossing from Drogheda

The family of my 3x great grandfather(William Ballard) arrived in Liverpool between 1834 and 1841. They are on the 1841 Liverpool census. William was elsewhere but is in Liverpool with his wife Jane Ballard (born Isle of Jersey) for the birth of their son. Their son William Francis Ballard born in Liverpool in 1849. The parents of my 3x great grandfather (William Ballard and Anne McBride) were born in Dublin. William’s younger brother (Robert) was born in Drogheda in 1828. I assume they took the Drogheda steam packet boat to Liverpool.

My question is, would there have been passenger lists for the crossing from Drogheda? Or as Ireland at the time was part of the UK, there were no passenger lists created as they were British citizens?

William remained in Liverpool but apart from his dad, the rest of the family went on to the USA… Philadelphia, New Orleans, Boston and eventually Cape Elizabeth in Portland, Maine.

Many thanks!

David

Adesso

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No passenger lists have ever been kept for travel between Ireland and Britain. As you say it was then just a short domestic journey and  did not require passenger lists.  There are no passenger lists for most European travel, not just between Britain and Ireland.  eg Ireland to France or Norway to England don’t normally have any passenger lists either.

In general, passenger lists only exist for long distance travel eg Ireland to America, England to Australia.

 

Elwyn, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Thanks once again!

Regards

David

Adesso

Many thanks for that!

Regards

Adesso

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