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Emigration To U.S.A.

  1. Subject Index
  2. Place Names Card Index
  3. Passenger Lists
    1. List of passengers from Warrenpoint and Newry, Ireland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York, 1791-2
    2. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1800-82
    3. Baltimore, 1890-92
    4. Boston, Massachusetts 1871-91
    5. New York, 1826-27, 1840-2 and 1850-2
    6. Passengers from various origins arriving mainly in New York, 1802-14
    7. Passenger Lists from Belfast, Cork, Limerick, Londonderry, Newry, Sligo, Warrenpoint, Ireland to USA, 1803-06
    8. Passenger Lists from Ireland to America, 1804-06
    9. Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents. Sailings from Londonderry, Ireland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Quebec, St. John's, New Brunswick, Canada 1847-71
    10. Passenger Books of J & J Cooke, Shipping Agents. Sailings from Londonderry to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Quebec, St. John's, New Brunswick, Canada 1847-71
  4. The Famine Immigrants: Lists of Irish Immigrants Arriving at the Port of New York 1846-1851 (seven volumes, published in 1983) which contains data from the original ship manifest schedules, deposited in the National Immigration Archives in the Balch Institute in Philadelphia.
  5. Irish Passenger Lists 1847-1871, contains lists of passengers sailing from Londonderry to America on ships of the J & J Cooke Line and the McCorkell Line.
  6. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston 1820-1891
  7. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New York 1820-1821
  8. Immigrants to New England 1700-1775, contains an alphabetical list compiled by Ethel Stanwood Bolton.
  9. Lists of Emigrants to America 1635-1776, contains lists of passengers, including Irish emigrants, who departed from English ports.

Emigration To Canada

  1. By far the largest collection of Canadian material in Northern Ireland can be found in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI).
  2. These records cover a vast range of topics and illustrate the close relationship between Ulster and Canada for more than two centuries.
  3. There is a vast body of emigration material, which includes shipping lists.
  4. Northern Ireland & Canada: A Guide to Northern Ireland Sources for the

Study of Canadian History, c.1705-1992.

  1. Passenger lists, February 1847-1849, February 1850-August 1857, March 1858-July 1867. The Canadian destinations are Quebec, and St John, Newfoundland, with details also being given for Philadelphia and New Orleans.
  2. Typed transcripts, compiled in 1984, of notices which appeared in Canadian local newspapers, mostly the New Brunswick Courier, 1830-46, and the Toronto Irish Canadian, 1869. The notices include queries as to the
    whereabouts of various persons who had emigrated from Ulster to Canada
    and the United States.
  3. Typed transcripts, compiled 1984-5, of notices inserted in Canadian local newspapers by passengers arriving from Ireland. The newspapers were the New Brunswick Courier and the Saint John Morning News, covering the period 1828-58.
  4. List, 1833-34, of emigrants from Coleraine parish, Co. Londonderry, giving information on the names, ages, religion, townlands of residence and date of departure of those involved. The destinations are also given and include St John and Quebec.
  5. Passenger list, 11 May 1847, issued by A.C. Buchanan, Chief Agent for Emigration at Quebec, giving the date of sailing, the names of the ships involved, their point of departure and the number of passengers carried.

Emigration To Australia

  1. Indexes to male convicts transported to New South Wales, 1830-1842.
  2. Indexes to male convicts transported to Western Australia, 1850-1868.
  3. Passenger List, 1840, Victoria, Australia
  4. Register of Girls' Friendly Society - sponsored emigrants from various counties in Ireland, 1890-1921.
  5. Indexes to births, deaths and marriages in New South Wales, Australia, 1787-1899.
  6. For details of assisted emigration from the workhouses see the records of the Boards of Guardians.





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