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From: Diana <>
Subject: Crown Estate Emigration Schemes
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 20:23:06 -0600

I have just completed the transcribing of Ballykilcline estate, situated
in the parish of Kilglass in the barony of Ballintubber, County
Roscommon. Maybe, because Roscommon is the home of my Feeney family and
I was curious to do them first! Still have Irvilloughter and Boughill
(near Ahascragh and Taghboy in county Galway) and Kingwilliamstown
(parish of Nohaval Daly, near Cork-Kerry border, in County Cork) and
Castlemaine (parish of Kiltallagh, Co Kerry) Kilconcouse (parish of
Kinnity, King's county).

Anyway, the listing won't be posted till after tomorrow. I need to
contact the publisher for permission.

However, what I've noticed (and this estate is VERY wierd!) is that it
wasn't just the tenants who got the shaft! This particular estate,
tenanted by Lord Hartland, (according to the book) was overtilled and
worn out. He lost the lease and was offered terms to sell in the spring
of 1834. He refused! He had 74 tenants and the were all given a year to
vacate. 56 holdings were surrended, but 18 refused. It wasn't until the
spring of 1842 that the balliffs attacked when serving eviction notices.
They even established a police barracks on the estate, the resistance
was so fierce! The resisters even hired an attorney to stop the
evictions. The Crown won and the tenants applied for leases directly
from the crown. They lost! An army of 60 police, 25 calvary, 30 infant
and a magistrate escorted the sheriff and on 27 May 1847 14 houses were
occupied, 2 were bured, and the doors and windows were taken out of
others. They again pleaded to the Crown to reoccupy, but were refused.
The Commissioners of Woods gave their approval for assisting the evicted
parties to emigrate, at first suggesting Quebec, and agreeing to pay a
small to each emigrant on arrival. On 12 Aug 1847 the first group left
to Dublin, then Liverpool for New York. A total of 367 people, from this
one parish, left for America. I wonder how many were killed in the
process?

From the records, it appears that the voyage took typically five weeks.
Long enough to take ill and die if you were poorly to start with. For
instance, some left of 13 Mar 1848 and arrived 17 Apr 1848 on the
Channing in New York.

It would appear that the Lord left too, as he showed up in New York at a
later date. Perhaps the movie "Far and Away" was not too far off?

Just thought it might be interesting to some.
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Diana Hanson :)
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