Over 25 million Italians have emigrated between 1861 and 1960 with a migration boom between 1871 and 1915 when over 13,5 million emigrants left the country for European and overseas destinations.
Is there a way to find out how much our ancestors paid for their trips to/from America? My paternal grandparents went back and forth numerous times. Just wondering what the cost was.
Any ideas?
Roberta
The manifests often indicated who paid for the ticket, and how much cash the person had on them, but not how much the ticket cost, I think. I do have somewhere in my house a ticket from my GGF's 2nd wife's trip to America in the 1930s that indicated the cost (in Lira, of course). I'll try to find it.
roobyred wrote:Is there a way to find out how much our ancestors paid for their trips to/from America? My paternal grandparents went back and forth numerous times. Just wondering what the cost was.
Any ideas?
Roberta
The second site is a reprint of an article in The Nation dated June 1904, telling how steamship steerage passage rates from several English and Scottish ports to New York, were being reduced to $10, from $25.
Just to follow up my previous post, I did locate the card that I was thinking of. It's a red, postcard-size paper with the ship name, departure date, passenger's name, company that issued the ticket, and class (3rd class). No price is indicated on it. It seems that another paper was attached to it, since the staple remained. Maybe that had the price on it.
Thanks for that post, that piece is a great find. Some of my family sailed on the SS Cretic to Boston (from Naples) in 1915.....but in cabin class.
If a steerage ticket was $30, I wonder how much a 2nd class ticket cost?
TerraLavoro wrote:Thanks for that post, that piece is a great find. Some of my family sailed on the SS Cretic to Boston (from Naples) in 1915.....but in cabin class.
If a steerage ticket was $30, I wonder how much a 2nd class ticket cost?
I've read it cost the equivalent of $20 more for a 2nd class ticket.
Here's the ticket. The scan may be a little hard to read, but the ship was the Conte Di Savoia. The departure was 24 Jan 1940. After the departure date it says, "Anno XVIII"; I'm not sure what "Year 18" meant. The 3rd class ticket was issued by the Palermo branch of the Societa' Anonima di Navigazione. She had completed the necessary "health care operations." Does anyone have any idea what they were?
Here you can find digitized copies of Italy's La Stampa newspaper, 1867 - 2005. With some effort it should be possible to find advertisements for steamship travel to the US. http://www.archiviolastampa.it/componen ... /Itemid,3/
"Anno XVIII" is meant as the 18th year of "fascist age".
During the fascist period most (if not all) official documents had both dates.
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