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There may be no passenger lists but there is plenty of information about the ships that carried livestock, passengers and imported or exported goods between Britain and Ireland. In the mid 1800s they may have travelled on one of these paddle steamers - Banshee, Caradoc, Llewelyn and St Columba - which were on the Holyhead route. Many would have travelled on the Irish Mail train which left Euston Station in London. http://tinyurl.com/3sfq3l
The main sea routes to Britain during the nineteenth century were ...
1. Ulster and North Connaught via Londonderry and Belfast to Glasgow
2. South Leinster and Munster via Cork to Bristol
3. Connaught and Leinster via Dublin to Parkgate, Liverpool or Holyhead
www.madinpursuit.com/Family/Barrett/FlanaganMoses01.htm
Donaghadee to Portpatrick is shortest sea passage between Ireland and Scotland ... the distance is only twenty one miles. The journey took as little as two hours under sail in 1793, but when the steam packet boat was introduced to the route in the 1840s the time could be as much as three hours. http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leighann/county/travel.html
The website of the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company & the London and North Western Railway Company - their Rail & Shipping History in Holyhead, Anglesey shows pictures of the S.S. Cambria which was built in 1848 and well as the ports of Holyhead
and Kingstown (now known as Dun Laoghaire). http://tinyurl.com/4b86w3
There's a great webpage, devoted to postcards and photographs, for the City of Dublin SP Co. which was the dominant company serving the Dublin-Liverpool and Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire routes until 1919 www.simplonpc.co.uk/CityofDublin.html#anchor1362208
The City of Dublin SP Co. was founded in 1822 by Charles Wye Williams who was born in Dublin in 1779. He was the younger son of Thomas Williams, Secretary of the Bank of Ireland. His business was originally called "Charles Wye Williams and Co." www.rmsleinster.com/sinking/sinking5.htm
Your ancestors didn't have to use the Dublin - Holyhead route ... they may have travelled from Cork. If they left Ireland for England in the early 1800s they may have been on one of the vessels belonging to the War Office Steam Packet Co. ... it was given that name due to a large number of Government contracts but by 1836 the company was known as the Bristol General Steam Navigation Co http://tinyurl.com/6jsokv
There's more information on the Sealink ~ Holyhead website which is the definitive guide to the ships, officers, crews and ports of the "sealink" between Holyhead on Anglesey, Dublin Bay and Belfast. www.sealink-holyhead.com/index.html This site contains some great pictures of past masters and officers.
"You Asked Sherry: Irish Migration to Britain", by Sherry Irvine, CG, FSA Scot on the Family History Circle website discusses the challenge of attempting to find the origins
of ancestors who crossed the Irish Sea. http://blogs.ancestry.com/circle/?p=2153
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