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The professor Jerome Nicholas Vlieland and wife came from Boulogne to Dover in 1847 although he lived in England his origine is Dutch.
Maybe he went for a family visit in Holland because he was a Dutchman or maybe he had been to Paris.We can read what there was to see at that time .
On this list is the passportnumber of Jerome Nicholas the younger.
We still looking for the ship "magician "on which they sailed.
“The Times” in June 1847 noted that with the opening of the Boulogne and Amiens Railway to Abbeville, it was now possible to reach Paris from London in 14 hours, the Folkestone – Boulogne crossing taking 1 hour 45 minutes.
The railway finally reached Boulogne in 1848 although in those days the steamers operated from the Quai des Paquebots, on the other side of the harbour from the berths used today, and some distance from the station. Even so, the London to Paris through time was reduced to 12 hours 30 minutes and was further cut by another ninety minutes in time for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
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