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From: Pádraig Mór Ó Gealagáin<>
Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] John Crimmins
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:09:11 -0500
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" >Do a search of this list's messages and you will find that the Irish
were brought over
> by the boat load to work on the canals in the USA, as in the case of the
> Connecticut canals.> "

My compliments to you on being helpful with Links to search. But from the
inference of the wording of the above sentence, it prompts me to have a
point clarified:

Did subsidised immigration campaigns exist in those times sponsored by a
State or Federal government of the USA to bring Irish workers in to work on
the canal systems? I had never heard of such a plan.


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Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:37 PM
Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] John Crimmins


> Duane,
>
> I can't help you with Ireland, but a couple of flags popped up when I
> read your post Lockport and 1830's.
>
> If he was living in "Lockport" (a common name for a canal community),
> that could have been an Illinois canal site. If he had a son born in NY
> 1834-36, John could have been working on a NY canal then. Do a search of
> this list's messages and you will find that the Irish were brought over
> by the boat load to work on the canals in the USA, as in the case of the
> Connecticut canals.
>
> Here are some places to start, I'm sure others will have more.
> Castle Garden: Ships Passenger Lists to New York 1 Aug. 1855 - 18 Apr.
> 1890 <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eote/ships/castle-garden.htm>;
> (Castle Garden's records supposedly date back to 1820)
>
> NARA - Genealogists/Family Historians - Immigration Records
> <http://www.archives.gov/genealogy/immigration/>;
>
> One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse <http://www.stevemorse.org/>;
>
> Duane Crimin wrote:
>> I found my g-g-grandfather, John Crimmins, aged 40, living in Lockport,
>> Will County, Illionis, in the 1850 census, with wife, Ellen, children:
>> Hannah, Francis Timothy, Ellen, David, & Mary.Two eldest born in New York
>> in 1834-36. John & Ellen listed as born in Ireland; need to trace them
>> back to Ireland.
>>


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