Irish Emigration Records

Title: Irish Emigration Records

Dates: 1773-1939

Description:

Source(s): This database brings together a number of sources, including:

• Derrynoose Emigrants - County Armagh, 1840-50 (Derrynoose Church of Ireland Records)
• Emigrants from Coleraine Workhouse to Canada, 1849
• Emigrants from Counties Antrim and Londonderry, 1830s (Ordnance Survey Memoirs)
• Emigrants from Killeshandra Parish - 1831-1841 (Directory of Irish Family History Research - Number 17 1994)
• Emigrants from the Parish of Maghera, 1834-5 (Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild Newsletter)
• Passenger List - Athenia 1939
• Passenger List, Dorcas Savage Portaferry to New Brunswick, 1819 (Directory of Irish Family History Research - Number 19 1996)
• Passenger Lists, 1803 - Newry, County Down to USA (Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild Newsletter 2, 1979)
• Passengers of The Brig Jessie, 1830
• Passengers to America - 1773, 1789-93, 1796 (Delaware Gazette, Gordon's Newry Chronicle and R.J. Dickson, Ulster Emigration to Colonial America)
• Perished on Board the Athenia, 1939 (Northern Whig 5th Sept., 1939)
• State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland c. 1850 (Eilish Ellis, Analecta Hibernica, No. 22 (1960), pp. 328, 331-394)

Dates: 1773-1939

Description: Details of names of heads of families who have wholly or in part emigrated from the parish of Derrynoose to America, Scotland and elsewhere since August 1840, the greater number in the last 2 or 3 years. Drawn up 31 August 1850.

Source(s): Derrynoose Church of Ireland Records

Compiled by: Dr Brian Trainor

Dates: 1849

Description:

This is a list of 'residents' of the Coleraine Workhouse who benefited from assisted emigration to Canada in 1849.

The list provides a full name, an age (from which an approximate date of birth can be ascertained), the electoral division in which the inmate was last ordinarily resident, and the estimated cost of their emigration.

Compiled by: UHF Volunteers

Dates: 1830s

Description:

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs were compiled in the 1830s and provide a great deal of information on the character and habits of the people who lived in Ireland during the early part of the nineteenth century. For counties Antrim and Londonderry there are detailed lists of emigrants.

This index lists names of emigrants by parish.

The original memoirs include in many cases the townland and also the religion of each emigrant.

Source(s): Ordnance Survey Memoirs

Compiled by: UHF Volunteers

Dates: 1831-1841

Description: The 1841 Census enumerators for Killeshandra parish in County Cavan, recorded details of those people who had emigrated since the date of the last census in 1831. A considerable amount of genealogical information has been preserved, including parents names and occupations, the full name of the emigrant and their ultimate destination.

Source(s): Directory of Irish Family History Research - Number 17 1994

Compiled by: UHF Volunteers

Dates: 1834-5

Description: This database contains a surprising amount of information about individual emigrants from Maghera Parish between 1834 and 1835 as this sample for the Anderson family shows the emigrant and their ultimate destination.

Source(s): Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild - Newsletter

Compiled by: UHF Volunteers

Dates: 1939

Description: Passenger list of those aboard the ship Athenia, showing cabin class, place of residence, and address in Ireland.

Compiled by: UHF Volunteers

Dates: 1819

Description: This list details all the passengers on board the Dorcas Savage which sailed from Portaferry to St Andrews, New Brunswick, in August 1819. The list gives name, age, occupation and place of residence.

Source(s): Directory of Irish Family History Research - Number 19 1996.

Compiled by: Jim Blaney

Dates: 1803

Description:

This is a list of passengers who sailed from the port of Newry to the USA in 1803 on board the following ships.

• Magnet - 300 tons - Master: Thomas Marsh
• Neptune - 200 tons - Master: Seth Stephens
• Active - 138 tons - Master: Robert Mckown [sic]
• Dianah - 300 tons - Master: Henry Hunter
• Hopewell - 120 tons - Master: James Corish

The information ordinarily listed is name, age and occupation. Some family relationships are also listed.

Source(s): Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild Newsletter 2, 1979

Compiled by: UHF Volunteers

Dates: 1830

Description:

"We the undersigned passengers on board the brig Jessie Captain George Wilford master from Belfast to Quebec deem it our duty to return him sincere thanks for his braveness steadiness and attention during a very severe passage should any of our friends think of visiting this part of the country we would recommend the brig Jessie Captain Wilford in preference to any other that that crosses the Atlantic." - Dated 1st of June 1830

To sail 10 Sept 1830 to Charleston.

The first class copper fastened and coppered brig Jessie of Belfast. The Jessie is well known to be one of the fastest ships out of this port and commanded by a most experienced navigator. Her accommodation for passengers is very superior. For freight or passage apply to David Grainger 15 Donegall Quay.

Compiled by: UHF Volunteers

Dates: 1773, 1789-93, 1796

Description:

Source(s): Delaware Gazette, Gordon's Newry Chronicle and R.J. Dickson, Ulster Emigration to Colonial America

Compiled by: Dr Brian Trainor

Date: 1939

Description: This database not only provides personal details about the deceased (full name, age and occupation) but also a place of birth and last known address where available.

Source: Northern Whig 5th Sept 1939

Compiled by: William Hull

Date: c.1850

Description: Emigration schemes on the Crown Estates were carried out in the mid-1800s under the direction of the Commissioners of Woods, Forests and Land Revenues of the Crown. Material relating to the emigration schemes is available for the following estates: Ballyckilcline, County Roscommon; Boughill, County Galway; Kilconcouse, County Offaly; Kingwilliamstown, County Cork and Castlemaine, County Kerry. For the individual migrants the data comprises name, age, family relationships, dates of departure and arrival, and personal details, such as ‘very poor’.

Source: Eilish Ellis, Analecta Hibernica, No. 22 (1960), pp. 328, 331-394

Compiled by: UHF volunteers