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And I also have this:
Date Ship From To Passenger Comments
1774 Snow Lovely Nelly Galloway, Scotland Prince Edward Island Robert Douglas Shipped at Whitehaven
May 1775 Lovely Nelly Dumfries, Galloway, Scotland PEI (St John's Island) James Douglas 57 Labourer Male
Newabby, Galloway
Countryman
To mend himself
May 1775 Lovely Nelly Dumfries, Galloway, Scotland PEI (St John's Island) Jannet Neish 53 Wife Female Newabby, Galloway
Countryman
Wife of James Douglas
May 1775 Lovely Nelly Dumfries, Galloway, Scotland PEI (St John's Island) James Douglas 8 Child Male New Abbey, Galloway
Countryman
Son of James Douglas and Jannet Neish
May 1775
Lovely Nelly Dumfries, Galloway, Scotland PEI (St John's Island) Robert Douglas Male Shipped at Whitehaven Run away
(The 1774 Robert and the 1775 Robert are probably the same person mis-recorded. He could not have been on both the 'Snow' and the 'Lovely Nelly')
Welcome to the Douglas Archives community forum, George.
I have the following:
Douglas, John 25, Labourer, Kirkbean, Galloway. From Dumfries to Prince Edward Island, May 1775 on the "Lovely Nelly." Related to William, below?
Douglas, William, aged 21. B. 1754. Labourer. Kirkbean. Galloway. From Dumfries to Prince Edward Island, May 1775 on the "Lovely Nelly". W. Sheridan. Related to John, above?
Yours aye,
William