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From: Dennis Ahern <>
Subject: Re: Emigration Question
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:52:47 +0000 (UTC)
References: <GFEMIDCOOMPDPPFMBOKBIEHLGLAA.delamary@rogers.com>


"Mary Wilkinson" <> wrote:

: Ireland. For instance could they have walked from Killaloe to Cobh Harbour
: in County Cork, or were they likely to have used the canal system to sail
: from Dublin, or were there any other closer ports deep enough for
: ocean-going vessels? (such as Limerick or Galway).

In 1847, before the advent of frequent steamships which stopped at
Queenstown (Cobh), most emigrants would have gone by boat to Liverpool to
get a ship to North America. There were, of course, many smaller vessels
leaving from a variety of Irish ports and there were timber vessels from
Canada that offloaded in West Cork ports and took passengers on the return
voyage as a sort of movable ballast at a very cheap rate. Unfortunately,
records of passengers arriving from the UK are sparse. There was no need,
after all, to record arrivals from another part of the British Empire.

See:http://www.archives.ca/
The National Archives of Canada

http://www.inGeneas.com/free/main.html
Canadian Immigration Index

http://www.genealogie.gc.ca/06/0602_e.html
Immigrants at Grosse-Île

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~holdenclan/albans.htm
Canadian Border Crossings - St. Alban's Lists

http://www.theshipslist.com/Research/canadarecords.htm
Research Guide to Canadian Passenger Records

http://www.kawartha.net/~jleonard/robinson.htm
Peter Robinson Assisted Emigrants to Canada

http://www.statcan.ca/english/Subjects/Standard/sgc/1996/1996-sgc-index.htm
Geographic Locations in Canada

These, and other useful links, can be reached from the TIARA web site.
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