Immigration/Naturalization/Passenger List
Records
of Interest to Yancey Researchers
For an excellent listing of National Archives Passenger List Microfilm collections (from which much o fthis information was extracted) refer to the following publication: "Immigration & Passenger Arrivals - A select Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications" 1983.
Date: 1768
Source of Information: "A List of Emigrant Ministers to America" by Fothergill
Immigrant: The Rev. Robert Yancey
Various sources including the one cited above make reference to a Robert Yancey emigrating to America in 1768. This was the Reverend Robert Yancey of Louisa County Virginia who had gone to England to be ordained and returned to Virginia to work in the parishes of Tillotson and Trinity. He is, therefore, not a true immigrant.
Date: 13 August 1825
Place: Port of New York
Name of Ship:
Source of Information: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M261 Roll 103
Immigrants:
John Yancey*, age 41
Salinda Yancey, age 33
Lucy Yancey, age 11
Mary Yancey, age 8
James John Yancey, age 6
James H. Yancey, age 5
William Yancey, age 3
Eliza Yancey, age 1
* This family appear to be US citizens, returning to the US - But I have never seen any other records, census or otherwise, that record this Yancey family - I have no other record to identify who this family was and how they may have been related to other Yanceys.
Date: 28 August 1834
Place: Port of New York
Name of Ship: Ontario
Source of Information: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M261 Roll 103
Immigrants:
Mary Yanley*, age 28, born in England
Mary Yanley*, age 3, died on voyage 17 August 1834
Rich Yanley*, age 2, died on voyage 12 August 1834
*This information came from the Index to the Passenger Lists and the actual passenger list has not yet been checked
Date: June 1840
Place: Port of New York
Name of Ship: New York
Source of Information: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M261 Roll 103
Immigrant: T. Yancee*, age 20, born in Great Britain
*This information came only from the Index to the Passenger Lists and the actual passenger list has not yet been checked
Date: 15 March 1842
Place: Port of New York
Name of Ship: Independence
Source of Information: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M261 Roll 103
Immigrants:
Robert Yonsey*, age 46, born in Great Britain
Sarah Yonsey*, age 32, born in Great Britain
*This information came from the Index to the Passenger Lists and the actual passenger list has not yet been checked
Date: 22 September 1845
Place: Port of New York
Name of Ship: Tennessee (Coming from Great Britain)
Source of Information: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M261 Roll 103
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M237 Roll 59
Immigrants:
Thomas Yancy*, age 40, born in Ireland
John Yancy*, Age 11, born in Ireland
M[ichael?] Yancy*, age 5, born in Ireland
William Yancy*, age [7?], born in Ireland
*The name is clearly written as YANCY on the Index to the National Archive Passenger List Records, but when the actual passenger list was checked it would seem that the name may not actually have been YANCY. The spelling is not clear, and although the name certainly begins and ends with a "Y", it would seem that the name may be something like "Yearney" instead of "Yancy".
Date: 12 July 1846
Place: Port of New York
Name of Ship: New York (from Liverpool)
Source of Information: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M261 Roll 103
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York M237 Roll 63
Immigrants: James Yancey* , age 28, laborer, born in Great Britain
*The name is clearly written as YANCEY on the Index to the National Archive Pasenger List Records, and at first glance of the original document - that appears to be correct. But upon taking a close look at the way the surname was written, noting that the first letter of the surname does NOT go below the line (as a Y or J usually would), it would seem that the first letter in the surname could very well have been either a 'T' or an 'L' - the name possibly being TANCEY/TANSEY or LANCEY - both valid names of Great Britain.
Date: 6 April 1847
Place: Port of New York
Name of Ship: Zenobia (From Liverpool)
Source of Information: "Famine Immigrants"
Immigrants: James Yansy*, age 15, laborer
*Although recorded as "YANSY" in the "Famine Immigrants" - the name does NOT appear to be recorded on the National Archives Index as YANCY or YANSY. I have yet to check the orginal document.
Date: 1850
Place: Port of New Orleans
Source of Information:
Immigrants: J. Yancey* from Ireland, age 24
*This information came from an Index to the Passenger Lists and the actual passenger list has not yet been checked
Date: April 1850
Place: Port of Boston
Name of Ship: Townsend
Source of Information: Index to Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston M265 Roll 281
Immigrants: Dennis Yancey, age 24, of Ireland, Servant
Date: 16th October 1868
Place: Port of Baltimore, Maryland
Immigrants: D.H. Yancey*, age 24 (nationality U.S.), Occupation: Lawyer
* This is Dalton Huger Yancey, son of the famous William Lowndes Yancey, seccesionist and orator of the South. He was obviously not a true immigrant, but possibly traveled out of the country and back in 1868.