30.000 names

In 1898 Professor I. Daniel Rupp published A collection of upwards
Thirty-thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other Immigrants in Pennsylvania From 1727 � 1776 with Leary, Stuart & Co, Philadelphia. 

These immigrants, often chased by religious intolerance, risked their lives on simple wooden ships under English and Scots captains. They mostly sailed from Rotterdam � Holland via the British port of Cowes to America.

Rupp gives an account of each journey, mentions the ship�s name and type, it�s captain, port of departure, date of arrival in Pennsylvania, the passengers� origin and, finally, their names, not in alphabetical order however. Sometimes he adds details. 

The data concerns totally 319 journeys; the book does not provide with an index. In 2000 I voluntarily took the job of entering all 30.000 names in a Microsoft Access database. A print was for long of perfect use in the reading-room of the Rotterdam City Archive. Lately Ronald Grootveld, manager of the archives-section, encouraged me to publish the database on the Internet.

Because I encountered severe technical problems in uploading the complete database in one page I cut it in 152 parts of more or less equal length. These parts are linked by name-segments. You will find these pages after clicking a page containing six major segments.

As soon as you have found the name of your interest you are kindly invited to write down the page-number given next to the name of the passenger. In the ships� database every ship is proceeded by a page-number. You will easily find the remaining necessary data. Your attention is requested for pages containing two ships. In this case the a) point at the first ship; the b) at the second.

ATTENTION !!: On the ships' page you will find a column called NOTES. If you encounter a note behind the ship of your choice, write down the number and visit the NOTE-page by clicking this link.

You are now invited to visit  NEXT PAGE and click the link of your choice.