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"Passport to Paradise" Look up

"Passport to Paradise" Look up

Posted: 24 Jul 2009 3:22AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gregersen
Would anyone be able to look up two names for me in Shauna Anderson's "Passport to Paradise, The Copenhagen Mormon Passenger Lists, Volume One 1872-1887." West Jordan, UT: Genealogical Services, 2000?

I am looking for the passenger list information pertaining to:
Name: Soren Gregersen, Emig.Year: 1883, Page 475
and for his wife:
Name: Karen Gregersen, Emig. Year: 1883, Page 458

I would very much like to learn the name of the ship and sailing dates so I can search for published accounts about the voyage. Their daughter Margarethe left Denmark 4 years earlier and I was able to find a transcript of her journey, how the weather was, and so on.

Thanks!

Re: "Passport to Paradise" Look up

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 12:58AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gregersen
Today I was at the FHL and they have the book Passport to Paradise. On page 475, Soren Gregersen is passenger #281, a laborer, age 55, male, single, from the Aalborg, Aalborg Conference, Denmark. If you turn back the pages to page 461, the ship is Bravo, sailing on 24 Aug 1883 from Copenhagen, Denmark to Hull, England. Other information is as follows: "Another company of emigrating Scandinavian Saints (284 in number), the 64th company of emigrants from the Scandinavian Mission, left Copenhagen Aug 24th, 1883, on the Steamer "Bravo."
The following returning missionaries accompanied the emigrants: Hans A Hansen, Hans Andersen, AndersL Andersen, Jens C Frost, Henrik C Jensen, Frederik Peterson and John N Olson. In the morning of Aug 27th the company arrived in Hull, England, and proceeded thence by rail to Liverpool. On the 29th the company, having embarked on the steamer "Nevada" left the dock and anchored in the River Mersey. Here the company was organized for the voyage with Elder Peter F Goss as president. The company was now composed of 264 British, 284 Scandinavian and 106 Swiss and German Saints and 28 returning missionaries. There were also 120 other passengers on board. The steamer brought its passengers safely to New York, Sep 7th 1883 and the Saints were then transported west by rail to Ogden and Salt Lake City, arriving there Monday, Sep 17, 1883, all well." (History of the Scandinavian Mission, Andrew Jenson,Deseret News Press, 1927) You can find the History by Jenson online.

Re: "Passport to Paradise" Look up

Posted: 23 Oct 2014 1:09AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Gregersen
From Passport to Paradise, page 458, # 491 Karen Gregersen, 55, female, widow, Hjorring, Hjorring Conference, Denmark.
From page 434, the ships were, "Milo" & "Pacific" 15 Jun 1883, Copenhagen, Denmark to Hull, England. "A large company of the season's emigrating Saints from Scandinavia, 503 in number, together with 18 returning missionaries sailed from Copenhagen June 15th 1883 on the steamers "Pacific" and "Milo" (I'm skipping the missionaries names) The steamers "Pacific" and "Milo", after a rough voyage across the North Sea, arrived at Hull, England, on the 18th, whence they company went by train to Liverpool. Here it was joined by 171 British Saints and four returning missionaries and sailed on the 20th of Jun on the steamer "Nevada" which arrived in New York July 1st. The company proceeded westward by train the same day, and a part of the company arrived in Ogden July 7th, while the remainder arrived there next morning. Those who desired to go farther south than Ogden arrived in Salt Lake City at noon July8th. A little child of English parentage died in Omaha, and an of Swedish brother, Ola Rasmusson of Slimminge, Skane, died soon after the arrival of the train in Salt Lake City. History of the Scandinavian Mission, Andrew Jenson.
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