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Transmigration via British Ports

Many emigrants did not depart directly from their homelands to the Americas or Australasia. Instead, they would first take a smaller steamer, referred to as a "Feeder ship" to a British port, then by train to larger emigration ports such as Liverpool, Glasgow or London, to embark on a transatlantic steamship. The emigrants who travelled by this "indirect" route were referred to as Transmigrants. There was also transmigration via Hamburg, however this page is devoted to Britain.
see also, newspaper item about the through-ticketing process

To learn more about transmigration, visit these off-site webpages. The articles have a great deal of information regarding the emigration trends of transmigrants, their departure ports per nationality, and time-frames involved.
note: any off-site links provided will open a new browser window.
Trains and Shelters and Ships (a paper presented by Aubrey Newman at a seminar under the auspices of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, April 2000)
Indirect passage from Europe, Transmigration via the UK, 1836-1914
(by Dr. Nicholas J. Evans of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, formerly of The AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.)
Migration from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1914
(includes wonderful pictures of Hull) (by Dr. Nicholas J. Evans of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull, formerly of The AHRB Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.)
Latter-day Saint Scandinavian Migration through Hull, England 1852-1894
(co-authored by Fred E. Woods, Associate Professor of Church History and Doctrine at Brigham Young University and Dr. Nicholas J. Evans of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation, University of Hull)
The Great Central Railway (Migration from Europe to North America by Chis Tolley)

Here is an example of such a feeder service from Christiania, Norway to Hull in England on Wilson Line ships , to board ships of the Inman Line. This advertisement appeared in the Newspaper, Hamar Stiftstidende on April 9th 1869.

Inman Line advertisement for Norway

To America in 14 days
Inmans Royal English Post-Steamships.
Emigrants, who buy a ticket at the undersigned, will be conveyed (transported) from Liverpool with
Post-Steamships.

Departure from Christiania			Arrival Hull	Departure Liverpool	Arrival New York
Steamship	Date	Time	Date	Steamship & Date	Date
Oder	19^th March	3pm	Mon. 22^nd Mar.	City of London 24^th March	Sat. 3^rd April
Argo	26^th March	3pm	Mon. 29^th Mar.	City of Brooklyn 31^st March	Sat. 10^th April
Oder	2^nd April	5pm	Mon. 5^th April	City of Baltimore 7^th April	Sat. 17^th April
Argo	9^th April	5pm	Mon. 12^th April	City of Paris 14^th April	Sat. 24^th April
Oder	16^th April	5pm	Mon. 19^th April	City of Antwerp 21^st April	Sat. 1^st May
Argo	23^rd April	5pm	Mon. 26^th April	City of London 28^th April	Sat. 8^th May
Oder	30^th April	5pm	Mon. 3^rd. May	City of Brooklyn 5^th May	Sat. 15^th May
Argo	7^th May	5pm	Mon. 10^th May	City of Baltimore 12^th May	Sat. 22^nd May

and so on from Christiania every Friday the rest of the year.

The prices are the same as at any other respectable company right now. To New-York 33 Spesidaler and 90 Skilling.

Norwegian service and free food the whole way to New-York. The arrival fee is not included. No extra fee for luggage.

[Railroad] Tickets are being issued to Chicago and all other destinations in the Western States in America.
[dated] Christiania in March 1869 [signed] H. Heitmann, General-Agent for Norway. _____________________________________________________________________________

translated by Trond Austheim - transcribed by Sue Swiggum 1999

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