Got Mormon Pioneers?
Looks like more research is in my future — a tough job made easier by this new “Saints by Sea” collaboration.
Want to look at ship passenger names and first-hand accounts such as autobiographies, journals, diaries, reminiscences, images and letters? If so, check out the “Saints by Sea” interactive database, currently boasting 90k entries. https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu
It’s a collaboration between BYU Library, BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy, BYU-Idaho, FamilySearch and the Church History Library.
I searched for STETSON, the ship that departed Liverpool, England 26 April 1855, arriving at New York 27 May 1955 carrying our 2nd great-grandparents Thomas and Mary (Coucom) Wasden and 291 others. We knew of the departure date from recollections penned by their daughter Ellen (Wasden) Christensen, that I’d previously found at the Church History department back in the 1990s.
What I found is using the Saints by Sea website is totally new to me. an entry for Thomas Wasden, a grocer, his wife Mary and presumtive children Alice, John B, Fredericko, Ellen, Orson, William, and Sarah A.
The posting at Saints by Sea indicates there were two babies born during that month-long voyage. Now I wonder if my ancestor Mary (Coucom) Wasden assisted with the deliveries. In a ship that small, she certainly would have known about them
Looks like more research is in my future — a tough job made easier by this new Saints by Sea collaboration. https://saintsbysea.lib.byu.edu
