Emigrants from North Devon to Canada

[Christopher]

Arthur Dark's article "North Devon Exodus" on the Genuki site mentions the "North Devon Exodus Database of Surnames" and   Westcountrymen in Prince Edward's Isle by Basil Greenhill and Ann Giffard. These two authors examined records of departure between 1830 and 1841 and estimated that about 2,250 people emigrated to North America from North Devon in that period and another 3000 between 1842 and 1855. Arthur Dark suggests looking toward Canada and North America if your North Devon Ag. Lab. ancestors have disappeared between one census and the next in the 1800s.

[J.J.]

Hello Christopher.
Here is a link to the surname listing of of those known to have emigrated to North America from North Devon in the nineteenth century. Perhaps rootschatters may want to add their known ancestors to it.
http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonMisc/NDevonExodusListing.html

[charlotteCH]

 I've read that there was also a bunch of Somerset families from roud Frome/Nunney who went to Ontario in 1830.
 Is this documented anywhere please?  preferably online!
  Thanks,

charlotte

[J.J.]

Please everyone, no surname queries on here, just general discussion, or else we end up duplicating resources...

Hi, charlotte!  this site says :
"From around 1830, there was significant emigration from Frome, as a result of the collapse of the cloth industry..."

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~jlsymo/wsdsurn/sdnames4.htm

[J.J.]

More in this wonderful publication: Canadian Migration Patterns from Britain and North America
...Nunney not mentioned directly but Frome is...keep reading form the page I link to....
( discussing clothing industry ) then look to the right & search for other pages on Frome.

http://tinyurl.com/2kkqhz

Just noted there is a viewing limit to the book so stick to the theme first....

J.J.

[charlotteCH]

 JJ, Thank you for those urls.  What is there on those sites about the exodus from Frome in 1830 fits with what I had read elsewhere and the reason given as the deteriorating cloth trade fits also.  My lot weren't into the cloth trade but ran a pub, but they would have been affected as the artisans and ag labs would have had less to spend on grog.
I wonder how much the fare was to Canada then as my lot would not have been paupersso presumably had to pay their own way.

Thanks again,
charlotte

[Christopher]

More than 38,000 Irish men, women and children landed on the shores of Toronto in 1847. Over 1,100 did not survive and died upon their arrival. When the Ireland Park Project began there were only thirty names available. The Project team are pleased to have uncovered a total of 675 to date. Their names will be forever engraved in the limestone at Ireland Park and have been returned to the citizens of Ireland in a commemorative book presented to H.E. President of Ireland, Mary McAleese on the occasion of the opening of Ireland Park, June 21, 2007. www.irelandparkfoundation.com/index.php?p=1_17