Need help locating New Orleans ship manifest

[Saladin]

If anyone willing to access New Orleans passenger manifests I would appreciate a search for a copy of a page that should contain two persons I believe travelled together.

Antonio Degregorio and Leonardo Corso
Ss Manilla
Departed Palermo
Arrived New Orleans, October 21, 1902

I found each on index cards but can not locate the actual manifest.

Thank you in advance.

[rlw254]

Passenger cards just to help others:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... A4WZM-JY6Z

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... A4WCL-P2W2

[Saladin]

Yes those are the index cards. I’m looking to get my hands on the actual passenger manifest, if still exists.

[Tessa78]

Could this be your Leonardo Corso on a later trip?

Sailing from Palermo, arriving port of New Orleans, on SS Vincenzo Florio on 14 May 1906.
Line 3
He is age 19, single, countryman, from Caccamo, destination New Orleans, going to his brothers Giuseppe and Salvatore.
https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/co ... pId=952840

T.

[Saladin]

No. I don’t have access to ancestry right now so cannot view the document but he’s not from caccamo. The index cards show they arrived in SS Manilla October 21, 1902. They are from Montevago. The one I am searching for includes both Antonio Degregorio and Leonardo Corso. I’m looking for their intended address in Louisiana which does not appear on index cards.

[Tessa78]

Try this link for Antonino DeGregorio, SS Manilla arriving New Orleans in October 1903. Last residence Montevago.
You do not need an ancestry subscription to open.
Line 9
https://mediasvc.ancestry.com/v2/image/ ... veContrast

T.

[Saladin]

No. He is too young. However I have seen this one before and I think they are related. As you know, the names are used over and over so it gets confusing but I think these may be related. Do you see on this manifest you sent he’s traveling with Rosa De Vita and Paolo and Paola Degregorio? in column 16 shows they are destined for Domenico Degregorio and gives an address, can you read the first part? “M*******? Foster P.O. La. plantation” can anyone make out the first name/word?

[bbivona]

No. He is too young. However I have seen this one before and I think they are related. As you know, the names are used over and over so it gets confusing but I think these may be related. Do you see on this manifest you sent he’s traveling with Rosa De Vita and Paolo and Paola Degregorio? in column 16 shows they are destined for Domenico Degregorio and gives an address, can you read the first part? “M*******? Foster P.O. La. plantation” can anyone make out the first name/word?

I'm not sure of the word. You can see several people on the page that were going to North Bend Plantation, Foster P.O. North Bend was a large sugar plantation at Foster. This look like an M for the first letter. Midway Plantation was also at Foster P.O., although I'm not sure it says Midway. These are in St. Mary's Parish, and there were quite a few sugar plantations there. Foster was not an incorporated area, and I suspect was the post office near the Foster family's land there. Foster was also known as Bayou Salé, and is near Centerville. It was common for the Italian immigrants to New Orleans to get their first work in the sugar cane plantations. My great grandfather, a blacksmith in Sicily, did the same. It was really hard work and really low pay, so most moved on to better work once they had saved a little.

[BobNY]

Yes those are the index cards. I’m looking to get my hands on the actual passenger manifest, if still exists.

This is a very curious case. The Manilla definitely arrived in New Orleanson 20 Oct and was cleared by 22 Oct. There are various newspaper accounts including the Times-Democrat from 22 Oct.

Now, for the curious part. There is a NARA film series M259: Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1820-1902 containing 93 rolls of film. Roll 93 is supposed to contain passenger lists from 1 Oct 1902 through 31 Jan 1903. This is where one would expect to find your manifest. Not!!!
I just went through the 1902 portion of the roll. It starts with list #208, SS Cuban and ends with list #316, SS John W(?)lson on 30 Dec 1902.
For the period in question around the arrival of the Manilla, there are no skipped list numbers.
List 219 SS European 20 Oct
List 220 SS Catalina 20 Oct
List 221 SS Anselm 20 Oct
List 222 SS Excelsior 21 Oct
List 223 SS Esther 21 Oct
List 224 SS Jamaican 24 Oct
List 225 SS Nicaragua 25 Oct

How the cards were created or where the manifest went is a mystery for which I have no clues.

[Saladin]

Thank you for validating my frustration. I went through the same films on familysearch but couldn’t find the Manilla in October 1902 timeframe but thought I’d give a try that someone else might have another source. Anyway, thanks for everyone’s input.

[abcam74]

Any luck finding the passenger for the Manila ship from Palermo to New Orleans during October 1902?