Earlier administrative listing
Oceanic
- Passage paid by
- A sister
- Money recorded
- $20
A possible prior booking—not a second completed crossing. The reason for the different entries remains unknown.
The McPadden ProjectStoriesCatherine of Warren Court
07 / A sister’s address · October 1904
An ocean between.
A sister ahead.
Catherine’s life was already here.
Now he named her as his contact.
Four years after the census at Warren Court, James McPadden’s completed arrival record named his sister in Bridgeport as the relative he was joining.
Look closer at the wordsRead the connection
A few words.
A whole family behind them.
Her own name was Catherine.
The completed Teutonic manifest identifies James McPadden’s sister through her married name. Behind “Mrs James Kelly” is Catherine McPadden Kelly: Mary and Michael’s daughter, with an established family life in Bridgeport.
James Kelly was her husband. James McPadden was her younger brother.
Two lists · one completed voyage
The details differ.
The difference matters.
The earlier listing and the completed arrival must not be blended into one convenient account.
Completed arrival
Teutonic
- Passage paid by
- James himself
- Money recorded
- $10
This is the completed passenger record naming his sister at 11 Warren Court. It does not establish that Catherine bought the final passage.
The preserved source
Not an imagined reunion.
A recorded connection.
The contact field gives us a name, a relationship and a place. That is enough to connect these two stories without inventing what happened at the dock or after James reached Bridgeport.
See the arrival from James’s side