Diploma in Family History The Irish Abroad

WHY? Why should someone researching in Ireland care?

Outline North American immigration records North American sources sampled UK sources Australia, New Zealand

WHEN? 17 th century, post-Cromwellian 18 th century, Ulster-Scots 1820s, 1830s, controlled migration (chain) Famine: desperate exodus Post-famine: chain: peaks and troughs

NORTH AMERICA: : ROUGHLY

NORTH AMERICA: : ROUGHLY

NORTH AMERICA: FAMINE NUMBERS

PASSENGER RECORDS - NORTH AMERICA Very few departure records; most arrival, but some exceptions Passenger lists uninformative until Immigration Passenger lists system

‘Superior’, arriving Philadelphia May 13, 1856, from Clogholl, County Londonderry

passengerlists/

RECORDS - NORTH AMERICA Ellis Island arrivals Castle Garden (New York arrivals, ) ‘Missing Friends’ – Famine Immigrants

ELLIS ISLAND, 1912

US SOURCES: FAMILYSEARCH

STEVEMORSE.ORG

ANCESTRY.COM

IRISH ANCESTRY, 1990

SCOTS-IRISH ANCESTRY, 1990

FAVOURED DESTINATIONS Blaskets => Springfield, Mass. Nth Monaghan => Prince Edward Island Achill => Cleveland Tourmakeady => Chicago Tralee => New Zealand Abbeydorney => Westbury N.Y. Tipperary => Janesville, Ill.???

Janesville, 1929

PUBLISHED WORKS Chain migration Often best guide to Irish origin

UK SOURCES? Migration? Censuses GRO records Church? Property?.....

Censuses: 1841, Luton 1801, then every10 years Family names from 1841

Censuses:1851, Hertford

Censuses: 1861, Liverpool (1)

Censuses: 1861, Liverpool (2)

Censuses: 1871, Crew’s list

Censuses: 1881, Sunderland

Censuses: 1891, Douglas

Censuses 1901: Swansea

Censuses: 1911, Yorkshire

Censuses £ ancestry.co.uk (inc. Scotland) England & Wales Not all imaged £ FindMyPast.co.uk (inc. Scotland) England & Wales Not all imaged £ The Genealogist.co.uk (England & Wales) (partial for 1911). Not all imaged

Censuses £ Scotlandspeople.gov.uk: Not record images for all FamilySearch.org: (England & Wales, partial, indexes) Freecen.org.uk Free volunteer transcripts National Archives, Kew Time-limited

Census substitutes National register

General Register Office England and Wales: 1 July 1837 Scotland: 1 January 1855

GRO Registration system District Registry => Central Copy & Index Four Quarters each year England & Wales: Indexes online Certificates from GRO with index information Scotland Scotlandspeople.gov.uk

English & Welsh birth

English & Welsh marriage

English & Welsh death

Scottish birth

Scottish marriage

Scottish death

GRO Index

GRO Indexes England and Wales freebmd.org.uk (to 1950s) ancestry/ findmypast / thegenealogist... Scotlandspeople

FREEBMD SPOUSE SEARCH

Freebmd spouse search

GRO certificates England and Wales (£9.95) Scotland scotlandspeople.gov.uk (£7, but... ) “ 30 page credits which are valid for 1 full year. Viewing a page of index results costs 1 credit and each page will contain up to 25 search results. Viewing an image costs 5 credits (equivalent to 1.17GBP). Your session begins when payment has been authorised and additional credits may be purchased in 7GBP increments. The session will restart with each new credit purchase.”....

http s ://geni.nidirect.gov.uk GRONI

Church records Non-conformist: £ (NA records) Church of England: Phillimore Atlas and Index of Parish Registers Cecil R. Humphery-Smith Transcripts.... LDS... familysearch

Property records Domesday book (1086): domesdaybook.co.uk Medievalgenealogy.org Enclosures Estates Hearth taxes Poor Law records: documentsonline....

Migration records Outward passenger records

Migration records

Incoming passenger lists : ancestry.co.uk (NA) Bounty immigrants (Australia) : familysearch.org New Zealand Immigration Convicts: Migration records

Wills Pre-1858: Local or Canterbury Post-1858: Probate Service Calendars : ancestry

Other records Occupational Directories Newspapers Schools....

Guidance Genuki.org.uk

Guidance discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

Guidance

AUSTRALIA/ NEW ZEALAND Much better shipping records Excellent BMD (most now online) Convicts (40,000) Assisted New Zealand – later, voluntary, Ulster

convicts.htm

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA NSW: Immigration and ShippingNSW: Immigration and Shipping - New South Wales Assisted Immigrants arriving in Sydney and Newcastle , Sydney , Moreton Bay, , Port Phillip NSW: Unassisted Immigrants Unassisted Passenger and Crew Arrivals Unassisted Passenger and Crew Arrivals indexes primarily New South Wales unassisted arrivals including coastal shipping to Sydney (incomplete) Ships Musters Ships Musters passengers and crew departing from Sydney National Archives of AustraliaNational Archives of Australia - post 1923 immigration records Queensland assisted immigrationQueensland assisted immigration South Australian passenger listsSouth Australian passenger lists - from precolonisation to (incomplete) Victoria: Index to registers of assisted British immigrantsVictoria: Index to registers of assisted British immigrants -indexes assisted immigrants from Britain to Victoria, Australia between 1839 and 1871 Victoria: Index to unassisted immigration to VictoriaVictoria: Index to unassisted immigration to Victoria - lists of unassisted passengers to Victoria, Australia from overseas ports (including New Zealand) between 1852 and 1923 Victoria: Outward passengers to interstate, UK, NZ and foreign portsVictoria: Outward passengers to interstate, UK, NZ and foreign ports Irish famine memorialIrish famine memorial - lists, by ship, Irish Orphans girls brought to Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in the 1840s & 1850s (incomplete)

AUSTRALIAN STATES: BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND DEATHS New South WalesVictoria QueenslandSouth Australia (offline) Western AustraliaTasmania (offline) Northern Territory (offline)

NEW ZEALAND BDM bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz

MOST USEFUL Australian death records Scottish death records (Some) US marriage records Try a broad sweep on FamilySearch