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WatchPassport Applications, 1795-1905
These are letters and form applications for US passports. An application may include supporting letters and affidavits from friends and relatives concerning the applicant's citizenship, residence, and character. It also may contain information regarding the applicant's immediate family, date and place of birth, occupation, physical characteristics, and (if foreign) of naturalization. Images are ordered by the surname initial, then by application date, yet not alphabetically beyond the surname initial. Continue…
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The closest match on Passenger Lists (NY port) states: ""H. Galioth (sic), arrived on S.S. City of New York at port of NY on 20 May 1882. Henry is 20 years old, and a shoemaker from Sweden. (sic)." This passport appl. gives name as Henry Gailliot which is correct.
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Page 1 same-person Tombstone: Gailliot Charles1847-1895 & Mary (Junod)
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Birth date on Passport appl. (1849) differs significantly from that on tombstone (1847). Since the first wife of Charles' father (Anton) died in Aug 1848, this means that Charles was borne of his father's SECOND wife, Helen Schlebusch.
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Millard Fillmore passport application 1865
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Hannah Lee Bird, 1880 same-person Page 1
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This photo of Hannah Lee Bird was taken approximately one year before she traveled to Europe on this passport.
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Passport Applications, 1795-1905. Original data from: The National Archives
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