Subject: Immigration/arrival records
From: Jslevey@...
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:44:56 EDT
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Does anybody know exactly where to seek/find immigration records to the
UK

from the 1870s? Specifically, I have 3 grt grt and 2 grtgrtgrt

grandparents
who migrated to the UK in the 1870s. One migrated >from Russian Poland
(specifically >from Konin) and shows up on the 1871 census in London.
Another came from
Poland, probably also in the 1870s and was here by 1878. The rest came
from
what was probably Prussia between 1873 and 1878 and migrated to
Birmingham.

I confess to having a hard time figuring out how to construct a proper
query
on the National Archives site, so sources could be there that I have
trouble
finding.

See National Archives Research Guides Immigrants - Domestic Records
Information 50

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/rdleaflet.asp?sLeafletURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Enationalarchives%2Egov%2Euk%2Fcatalogue%2Fleaflets%2Fri2157%2Ehtm&lBack=-1

or http://tinyurl.com/boduf

These are all sources that relate to immigrants eg Naturalisation Papers and
Shipping Lists. I don't believe that there are any immigration records as
per Ellis Island.

Also http://www.familyrecords.gov.uk/topics/immigration_print.htm

Nick Landau
London, UK

COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near
Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WEITZMAN (Cracow), WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany),
THALHEIMER (Mainbernheim, Germany), KOHN/WEISSKOPF (Wallerstein and
Kleinerdlingen,Germany), LANDAU (only adopted
on leaving Russia/Belarus or later)/FREDKIN (?)
(Gomel, Mogilev, Chernigov, Russia/Belarus)