Originally Posted by
PhilipG
But there is a site that gives the names of all those that passed through Ellis Island (and I think it's free).
I suppose a Google would find it.
Ellis Island was very late in the immigration game. South Port on the Lower East side of Manhattan was a major point before Ellis.
The US does have more info than Liverpool. The archives of shipping lines, where they still exist, will give some indication of the people and their origin. Around the Waterloo/Trafalgar/Victoria/Clarence/Princes Docks was primarily the berths of the American packet ships. The packet ship offices were mainly along the Dock Rd at Waterloo Dock. Although departures were all over the docks, including Birkenhead, and the Pier Head too.
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Scandinavians were leaving Liverpool, in full national dress, well into the 1920s. My mother lived in Peel Street and all around there were small hotels where families would stay before getting a ship to America - which could take weeks. My mother said the first women she ever saw wearing near knee length leather boots were Scandinavians.
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