Margaret Scahill - Brigantine Caroline - Record Of Detained Alien

This is an extract from the Ancestry magazine archive.

...To many twentieth-century Immigration Passenger Lists, a "Record of Aliens Held for Special Inquiry" and a "Record of Detained Aliens" would be appended after the ship had docked and the passengers had been inspected by U.S. officials. These supplemental lists were microfilmed with the original ship passenger lists to which they were appended.

Record of Aliens Held for Special Inquiry. A "Record of Aliens Held for Special Inquiry" names the passengers who were detained at the immigrant receiving station pending a hearing by a Board of Special Inquiry. It records the reason for the detention, the action taken by the Board, and whether the passenger was admitted or deported. If, for instance, a passenger arrived with measles and had to spend time in quarantine, the Cause of Detention column might show DCD for "detected contagious disease," or LCD for "likely contagious disease," followed by the date the passenger was admitted...

This document is a list of alien passengers bonded from 1 January 1847 to 1 January 1851

Name: Margaret Scahill

Sex: Female

Age: 37

Where Born: Irish

Cause Of Detention: Not Given

Disposition: Not Given

Ship: Brigantine Caroline

Date of Arrival: 7 August 1850

Port of Arrival: Not Given

Allan Scahill