Click to enlargePhiladelphia Passenger Lists, 1800-1945
Name: Aurelia Alaria
Arrival Date: 27 Jun 1888
Age: 25 Years
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1863
Gender: Female
Port of Departure: Antwerp, Belgium
Ship Name: Nederland
Port of Arrival: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Last Residence: Belgium ?
Birthplace: France
Microfilm Roll Number: T840_11
The Philadelphia Passenger Lists of 1800-1945 establishes that Aurelia Alaria arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 27, 1888, just two days after there was a huge fire in the city that started in a kindling factory and spread to a near-by coal yard and school house. She was twenty-five years old and her husband, Pietro Alaria, had come to America the year before. Her birthplace is listed as 'France' and Belgium is named as her last place of residence---but with a question mark.
Milk Woman 1890
Antwerp, Belguim
Also in the index for the Philadelphia Passengers Lists of 1800-1945 was another Alaria: Josef Alaria is listed on the line below Aurelia as a male two year old child. I strongly suspect that the 'Josef' is probably Josephine Alaria and the 'male' was a clerical error. We know from the U.S. Census records that Josephine immigrated the same year as her mother when Josie was very young. J.E. Riva © 2008
Philadelphia, 1800s
1888 Philadelphia (click to enlarge)
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