Thread: Passenger Lists

Please could anyone help with incomming passenger lists to the UK, specifically for Lewis Paylet, returned possible result on A******y.co.uk. are there any free databases that would have this info for people entering after 1878.

3silly dogs,
I have already looked on A******* incoming list ; been through them all and cannot find him but will look again. Hope others will look too and hopefully find him...

Found three possibles on the all uk incomming passenger lists 1878 to 1960, three on top with the name Lewis but incorrect surname, and one with just Paylet, Southampton, was curious about the Paylet's info.

The Paylet one came in from New York on 1st dec 1909 and there is no further info on him/her. Slizzy had already looked at that one.
There is simply none that might be yours that I can find.
There is a Mrs L. Pallet who came in from Valparaiso Chile to Liverpool on 28 Dec 1896 on the Orepesa. Her occupation is listed as "none". If that was his wife then she was too late! Lewis was dead and buried by then.
I have searched the censuses from 1851 through to 1891 but cannot find a Lewis paylet/Pallett/Pallatt that might be yours but he may have changed his name or come in from France or from USA. There were lots of Pallatt/Pallett from Russia in USa.
Yes he was a boarder on 1891 Wales and he died before the 1901 census. Abraham, his son, marries and remains in Wales but David disappears. I have looked for a marriage for him and for him on 1901 but so far have not found him.

These family members are more elusive than the Scarlet Pimpernel!!! Seeing as he died in 1896, I don't think he was there for very long, but the puzzling thing is that they give their spoken language as English on the 1891 census!!! They must have spent some time somewhere learning the language, I don't think it was a language widely spoken in the Eastern part of Europe at the time. I am sure that the many permutations of the spelling is also posing a problem.

Thanks for your efforts.

Been through the lists again to no avail.... but can't see one that could be him
Found a Louis Pallett age 30 on 1881 census in London with "not known as birthplace" but sadly not yours. This one was a valet in the earl of Dudley's household.
Marriage for a David Pallett in Monaghan Ireland in 1906 to either a Mary Rainey or Margaret Clark. It's the only one around that time.

If he was born around 1876, there may be something in it. That would have made him in his 30's, but I think somehow by that time he was already here in SA. It is just so frustrating trying to do research as the local databases are not as up to date or as accurate as yours. In 1928 he would have been in his 50's when his nephews came to stay.........

And if they all spoke English then they must have been in an English speaking country before the 1891 when they were definitely in Wales.
Could they have come in from USA to Ireland? And then across to Liverpool perhaps?
Just have to keep looking and keep an open mind .

That thought occured to me last night when it hit me that I had seen English as the language. I have spent the day trying to search incomming from the US, but have had no success!!!!!!
It is also strange that he lists himself as married but there is no wife in sight just two sons at about 46years old. Were these perhaps the two youngest?
The questions just keep on comming