The Famine Immigrants Lists Of Irish Immigrants Arriving At The Port Of New York 1846 1851 Volume Vii April 1851 December 1851 In Two Parts Part

Author : Ira A. Glazier
Publisher : Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 896 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Famine Immigrants: January 1846-June 1847 written by Ira A. Glazier and published by Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blight that struck the Irish potato crop in the winter of 1845-46 brought ruin to tens of thousands of tenant farmers and laborers, reducing almost all of Ireland to poverty and, as a result, people had the choice of leaving Ireland or perishing. So, between 1846 and 1851, more than a million men, women and children emigrated to the United States and Canada, mostly through the port of New York. The information on these people exists in an invaluable series of port arrival records, the Customs Passenger Lists. Unpublished and only partially indexed, these records have been studied and the result is The Famine Immigrants series of which this is the first volume. From January 1846 to June 1847, 85,000 Irish men, women, and children arrived at the port of New York. The passenger lists are arranged by ship and date of arrival in New York, and each person is identified with respect to age, sex, occupation, and family relationships where such was indicated in the original manifests. The extensive index contains all of the passenger names in the text.