Dear Mr. Gregory,
I have searched your very extensive and delightful website, and also other internet sources, and have not located any information regarding the following ship:
BORNHOLM
sailed from Liverpool to New Orleans arrived on Apr 27, 1843
398 Ton
Captain: Daniel Nason, JN.
My ancestors arrived in America on this ship and I would like to learn more about it. Do you have any information that might be helpful?
If not, can you recommend a source for obtaining more information?
Thank you for any assistence you might be able to give me.
Vynette Sage
Pine, Arizona, USA
Vynette,
Thank you for your message and your kind comments about Ahoy. Mac's Web Log is a composite work, my friend in Atlanta, Georgia, Terry Kearns looks after the site, and puts up all I write about and research. We do get a lot of visitors from across the world, many with queries, for which we try to get a definitive answer, I do not always solve these queries, but we do have lots of successes.
I have yet to track your Bornholm down, in the interim, a page is attached with a number of links that you might want to pursue. There are two books that if you can find a copy in your local library may prove fruitful in your search, these are:
Ships of Our Ancestors, Anuta, Michael. J. Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore. Md. 1993.
North Atlantic Seaway, Bonsor, N.R.P. David and Charles, Newton Abbott, England, 1975.
I will be in touch again,
Regards,
Mac. Gregory.
Vynette,
This quite amazing site has 6 volumes of ships names, the port of arrival such as New Orleans, but nothing in 1843 about the arrival of Bornholm.
http://www.immigrantships.net/
Where did you find your original information about this ship? Her name, Captain, tonnage, arrival date in New Orleans etc It is a mystery with such a wealth of detail about immigrant ship arrivals in the US in general and at New Orleans in particular, not a shred of evidence about our ship.
The search and challenge continues.
Mac.
Vynette,
Here is another source of information. ??
Dear Mac,
Thank you for all the helpful links and information regarding the Bornholm! I will beging searching the links this afternoon. My information, regarding the ship, came from the Irish Emigration Research Project
http://www.goireland.com/genealogy/irish_famine.htm
Additionally, while searching for information on the Bornholm on the Internet I located another individual who had posted a query seeking a picture of some sort of that vessel--with the exact date and year of arrival in New Orleans.
I have looked for information regarding the Captain of the ship, Daniel Nason Jr. There was a Captain Daniel Nason who shipped from Maine around 1820 or so......
I hope this additional bit of information will narrow the search for information for the Bornholm. I really can't believe the difficulty trying to find any information on this ship with the wealth of shipping data available.
Thank you so much for considering my problem and assisting me with this endevor.
Vynette Sage
Hello Mac,
I have located a little more information about the passenger (?) ship BORNHOLM. The ship was painted in 1844 by Frederick Roux (who has several paintings of other vessels---but not the Bornholm---in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. The Bornholm painting was supposedly a gift to Miss Margaret Thompson......there is a photo of the painting available and an individual will send a copy of it to me via postal mail.
Another individual emailed me a copy of the passenger list taken from Ancestry.com Immigration Collection. There were 80 passengers listed, 4 from Rotterdam and the rest starting from Liverpool--the passengers were English & Irish predominently with Scotland and Germany also listed as country of origin for a few......
I continue to search for additional information on this ship and will keep in contact with you. If I am able to find any additional information I will certainly notify you.
Thank you for your interest, and research, into this vessel---which was not commonly known.
Thank you.
Vynette Sage
Arizona, USA
I have just received a small bit of additional information about the above ship. No source for the information was available, however.
Bornholm
built 1841 Kennebunk, Maine
Does that narrow down the places to look for information regarding this vessel?
Thanks for helping me and for your interest.
Vynette Sage
Thank you so very much for all the help finding information on the vessel, BORNHOLM. I truly appreciate you!
Vynette Sage
Hello again Mac,
I have sent for an interlibrary loan on the book you recommended of ships built by Captain Nathaniel Lord Thompson in Kennebunk, Me. I have the following information on the vessel BORNHOLM---with an unknown source:
- Bornholm, of Kennebunk, Me. Registered at Boston October 18, 1845-temporary.
- Built at Kennebunk, Me. in 1841. 398. 83/95 tons; length 123 8 1/2ft., breadth 26 6/12ft., depth 13 3/12 ft.
- Master: James Nason Jr., Owners: William Lord Jr., Daniel Nason Jrl, James Nason Jr., Noah Nason, Kennebunk; Daniel Dason, Kennebunkport, Me.
- Two decks, three masts, square stern, no galleries, a billethead.
- Previously registered #2 at Kennebunk, Oct 19, 1841. Now cancelled, property changed
in part. Vol 45- pp 275.
The above is for your records.....but could you possibly guess where the information might have come from (Vol 45 - pp275)?
Many thanks for all the assistance you have already given me.
Vynette Sage
Pine, Arizona, USA
Vynette,
Thanks for this new detail, I am glad you could track down the book, which I believe should carry an entry about our mystery ship. It is still very strange we are unable to find her
sailing details to New Orleans.
Every now and then I am totally frustrated about not finding some detail that is out there some where.
In 1859 an English sailing ship Royal Charter, with a load of gold, and many passengers on board sailed from Melbourne, Australia for Liverpool, it came to grief on rocks off Moelfre Wales, only 39 survived, but a passenger list of this ship eludes me.
So it goes, I have learned with age to never give up, sheer persistence, in the end will usually prevail.
Keep going, and I believe you will finally be rewarded, meantime If I find anything of interest, rest assured it will wing its way to you Vynette.
Keep smiling!!
Mac.
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