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Subject: [LIMERICK] Re: IRL-LIMERICK-D Digest V02 #8
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 07:21:24 EST
In a message dated 1/9/2002 6:06:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
> My g.g.grandfather, Robert F. McCutchin, with his wife
> > and their seven children then born to them, emigrated
> > from Ireland in 1843 and settled in Canada West
Dick:
To further follow up on Padraig's comments on this type of migration, I would
note the path of my own Keays family. They left Limerick city in April 1842,
on the ship Primrose, according to journal entries by my gg grandfather, who
was a young man of 18 or so at the time of emigration. The ship was one of
Spaights, and did indeed wind up in Quebec city, where my family then went on
to Montreal for a few years, before moving on to Iowa. Why they actually
left Ireland is a mystery, even to this day, though I have my own opinions on
it. One thing I did was actually look through the papers in Limerick for
that time period, specifically targeting advertisements for ships sailing, in
an effort to find something out about that particular ship. I've also found
other sailings for the ship they travelled on, as well as other passengers on
the particular voyage they chose, but beyond that, not much.
Cindy
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