MIGRATION- Immigration & Emigration

[MonicaL]

New site launched today in conjuction with the National Archives at www.ancestorsonboard.com. By 2008, it will provide details of passenger lists from 35 British ports, including those in Ireland prior to partition in 1921, to a large number of destinations between 1890-1960 (currently 1890 - 1899).

Database is available through findmypast.com (new name for 1837online). Searches are free, need to pay (through units purchase) to view manifest details.

Monica   

[Christopher]

The National Archives of Ireland holds a wide range of records relating to the transportation of convicts from Ireland to Australia covering the period 1788 to 1868. In some cases these include records of members of convicts' families transported as free settlers.

Click here to use the online Ireland-Australia transportation database. You can search the name of the convict or search for a place name ... to give you an idea ... there are 224 matches for 'Belfast' and 6088 matches for 'Dublin'

The information on the record should show ....
Last name: 
First name: 
Alias: 
Sex: 
Age: 
Sound name: 
Trial place: 
Trial date: 
Crime desc: 
Sentence: 
Document ref1: 
Comment1: 

[Christopher]

I've checked the database to see how many matches there are per county. You can also check per town but there are so many towns I'll just list the counties ... I've included cities and a few towns where people were imprisoned or where the trial took place.

Antrim 1482
Armagh 653
Armagh City 3
Belfast 224
Belfast City 1
Carlow 450
Carrickfergus 101
Cavan 784
Cavan town 2
Clare 1377
Cork 5589
Cork City 799
Derry 36
Londonderry 550
Donegal 339
Down 819
Downpatrick 75
Dublin 6088
Dublin City 2089
Enniskillen 73
Fermanagh 633
Galway 1732
Galway City 160
Kerry 1266
Kildare 871
Kilkenny 1043
Laois 0 Queens Co. 29
Leitrim 420
Limerick 2686
Limerick City 639
Longford 607
Louth 416
Mayo 1000
Meath 804
Monaghan 543
Offaly 16 Kings Co. 48
Roscommon 688
Sligo 353
Tipperary 2595
Tyrone 962
Waterford 1684
Westmeath 746
Wexford 668
Wicklow 726

The transportation of interest held by the National Archives of Ireland include ...

Transportation Registers, 1836-1857
Prisoners' Petitions and Cases, 1788-1836
State Prisoners' Petitions, 1798-179
Convict Reference Files, 1836-1856: 1865-1868 www.nationalarchives.ie/topics/transportation/transp8.html
Free Settlers' Papers, 1828-1852.
These  contain information relating to the relatives of transported convicts who were emigrated to join their convict relative at the expense of government.
Male Convict Register, 1842-1847
Register of Convicts on Convict Ships, 1851-1853
Transportation records database

[Christopher]

The Society for Irish Latin American Studies was founded on 1st July 2003 to promote the study of relations between Ireland and Latin American countries. The Society's range of interests includes the settlement, lives, and achievements of Irish emigrants to Latin America and their descendents, as well as the contemporary presence of Ireland in the life and culture of Latin America and the presence of Latin Americans in Ireland. The Society's site contains a database of Irish Passengers to Argentina (1822-1929).

[Christopher]

The article by Dr. Eileen A Sullivan, Director, the Irish Educational Association, Inc., Gainesville, FL titled "Irish mercenaries in 19th century Brazil" may be worth reading if you're researching ancestors from Ireland who settled in South America. 

 

[Christopher]

Click here to read an article about the events which led to the adoption of State Aided Emigration Schemes from the Crown Estates of Ballykileline in Co. Roscommon; Irvilloughter and Boughhill in Co. Galway; Kilconcouse, Offaly; Kingwilliamstown in Cork; and Castlemaine in Co. Kerry.

The article is from a book, "Emigrants from Ireland, 1847-1852: State-Aided Emigration Schemes, c. 1850", by Eilish Ellis, and includes a link to a listing of affected families who emigrated from the Ballykilcline Estate.

The PRONI (Public Records Office Northern Ireland) website has a page titled "Helping Hands. The Irish Poor Law." The article on the page refers to one hundred and eighty landlords, and philanthropists, who offered some form of assistance to more than 80,000 emigrants.  The item mentions that it was cheaper to pay for passages to Canada or America than to support the paupers at home. A large amount of assisted emigration was conducted by ten major landlords who, between them, sent out some 30,000 people. The 'top ten' were landlords in Counties Clare, Kerry, Kilkenny, Limerick, Monaghan, Queens, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary and Wicklow.


Grant issued in 2007 to assist with archives...
Co. Kilkenny: The Castlecomer Demesne Company Ltd "The Wandesforde Estate Archive."

The Harney family was part of a "network" assisting the Irish during the Great Potato Famine in the mid-1840s.   In addition to sending food and clothing to Ireland, they helped transport Irish, wishing to emigrate, out of the country.  American families saved what money they could, and sent for relations back in the 'Old Country' to bring them to America. See One Name Interests H to M board Harney http://tinyurl.com/4uek6f

[Christopher]

Records, held in Dublin Castle, of the Chief Secretary’s Office, the Convict Department, are of primary importance for research in Irish-Australian historical connections. Although the address, parish or town of the convicted person is absent the records do show christian names and surnames of each male and female convict, with details in each case of age, crime committed, sentence, when and before whom the trial took place and, in a final column, remarks such as the date and name of the hulk in which the convicted person was confined prior to embarkation and, sometimes, the name of the transportation vessel.

[Christopher]

The Scottish Culture website has a query and a reply about a Scottish family that was
associated with the Jacobites having to leave Scotland. They didn't go too far ... over the sea to Co. Antrim. People being exiled was quite common ... several Presbyterian ministers were exiled and went over the sea to Scotland from the north of Ireland. It's all somewhat confusing ... in 1556  the government in Dublin (who were mainly English) legislated that all Scots in Ireland were to be treated as outlaws. 

The situation changed within fifty years when many Scots families started settling in Counties Antrim and Down. "By 1640 it is estimated that as many as 100,000 Scots had settled in Ulster compared with some 20,000 migrants from England."   

[Berlin-Bob]

In this topic:Topic: Passenger Arrival Records Available Online
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,290100.0.html
on the USA Resources board, Ohio Susan has given a link to a new resource.

One of the list which she didn't mention in her topic, but which will be of interest to all "Irish rellies" searchers is this one:

Records for Passengers Who Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine, [...]
documenting the period 1/12/1846 - 12/31/185

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at http://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=GP44

this includes 604,596 records from the  "Famine Irish Passenger Record Data File"
and 3,226 records from "Records List of Ships that Arrived at the Port of New York During the Irish Famine, 1/12/1846 - 12/31/1851"

Bob