Hans Jorgensen, emigrated 8 Jun 1883
fursts	Hello, My other great-great-grandfather emigrated from Norway on June 8, 1883 (family story info - no official documents). I can see (if the dates are correct) that he probably left on the Rollo for Hull. The family was Hans Jorgensen Hjelmstad - 28 years, his wife, Beate Thoresdatter Hvalstad - 34 years, their children - Jorgen Hans. - 6, Ingeborg - 4, Christine - 3, Anton - 1. Can anyone help me to find out which ship they took to America? Thanks so much! Pam
Hopkins	Leaving from port of Oslo/Kristiania - http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgi-win/webcens.exe?slag=visbase&filnamn=emikra1&gardpostnr=71132&sokefelt=skjul Check North American arrival lists to determine the ship for the final leg of the trip.
ninakarls	From Oslo 09.06.1883 Beate Hjelmstad g k 30 Ringsaker St Tomas Peterson (Am) Kristiania Fare Kr. 270.00 Kristine Hjelmstad B. k 3 Hans J. Hjelmstad g Arb m 27 Jørgen Hjelmstad B. m 5 . Ingeborg Hjelmstad B. k 4 Anton Hjelmstad B. m 11m Some family members' tickets were prepaid. <by> T. Sess.
fursts	I still cannot find the ship from England to America. I have a full paid subscription to Ancestry.com and I tried every possible way to find them on a passenger list - no luck. Is there a different site?
Jo Anne Sadler	You need to do some research on this site: From the Oslo departure list link that Hopkins provided, it indicates the line as Peterson (Am), this is really Nils Petersen, the agent in Oslo. Go into departures for 1883 and Peterson is listed as the agent in Oslo for the Holland America Line. Clicking on Holland America, it indicates that their route in 1883 was from Oslo to Amsterdam and then New York. They did not go to Hull.[:p]
Jo Anne Sadler	They arrived at the Port of New York on June 30, 1883 from Rotterdam, Netherlands on the steamship WA Scholten. Their name is very clearly indicated as - Helmstad. They would have been processed for immigration at Castle Garden at the tip of Battery Park. From a posting on the web: The steamship W. A. SCHOLTEN was built by Robert Napier & Sons, Glasgow, for Nederlandsche-Amerikaansche Stoomvaart Maatschappij (Holland America Line) and launched on 16 February 1874. 2,529 tons; 106,98 x 11,64 meters/351 x 38.2 feet (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 10 knots; accommodation for 50 1st-class passengers, and 600 in steerage. 16 May 1874, maiden voyage, Rotterdam-Plymouth-New York. 18 November 1887, sailed from Rotterdam; 19 November 1887, sunk in collision with the British steamship ROSA MARY in the English Channel, with the loss of 132 lives [Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, _North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New_ (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 3 (1979), p. 909 (pictured on p. 886).
fursts	Thank you so very much! You are AWESOME!