EMIGRANT SHIPS FROM CORK(Cork city, Cove/Queenstown or Passage West)TO NORTH AMERICA1844 - 1850
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See also
Ships from Baltimore Bantry Berehaven Kinsale
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The following is a list of some, but not all, emigrant ships that sailed, or were advertised to sail, from Cork to various North American ports 1844 - 1846 taken from the following sources:-
(1) - ‘Irish Emigration to New England Through the Port of Saint John New Brunswick 1841- 49' by Daniel F. Johnson, 1996
(2) - As advertised in the Cork Constitution or the Cork Examiner.
(3) - Vessels Arriving at Quebec and New Brunswick 1848, from - http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/ships/ships1848.html
(4) - From - http://www.theshipslist.com
(5) - Irish to America 1846 - 1865, CD 357, Family Tree Maker
(6) - See Cork - Canada deaths 1847
(7) - Online Passenger List
(8) - 'Grosse Ile; Gateway to Canada' by Marianna O Gallagher, 1984
From 1846 onwards, emigrant ships sailing from Liverpool and London to North America were also advertised in the Cork newspapers but these are not included here. It is hoped to add to these lists over time.
SHIPPING AGENTS IN CORK - Included here are the names of the shipping agents who advertised the emigrant ships for passage. I have not been able to locate the records of these shipping agents at this present time.
Initials Name Years Initials Name Years AB A. Bremner, Lapps Island, Cork 1847-48 F E.S. Flynn 1850 AS Alexander Slorach, Merchants Quay, Cork 1844-47 GN George N. Harvey, Andersons Quay, Cork 1847 DB Denis Brennan, Merchants Quay, Cork 1847-50 GON Gregory O Neill, Merchants Quay, Cork 1845-50 DF Daly & Foley, Merchants Quay, Cork 1847 JMA John McAuliffe, Merchants Quay, Cork 1844-47 DK D. Kennelly, Maylor St., Cork 1846-49 SON Stephen O Neill, Merchants Quay, Cork 1844 TM Thomas Murray, Merchants Quay, Cork 1845-46 _________________________________________________________________
LISTED BY YEAR & DESTINATION
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1844 - CANADA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1844 Albion Thompson Quebec 1 May JMA 2 1844 British Queen Muir Quebec 18 Apr JMA 2 1844 Urania Clark Quebec 12 Apr AS 2 1844 Clio Kelly St. John, New Brunswick 1 May 9 Jun JMA 2 1844 Coxon Morgan St. John, New Brunswick 26 May 1 1844 Isadore _____ St. John, New Brunswick 22 Jun 1 1844 John Francis Deaves St. John, New Brunswick 26 Apr 30 May JMA 2 1844 Kitty Rex St. John, New Brunswick 20 Jul 1 1844 Martha Lynch St. John, New Brunswick 18 Apr 30 May JMA 2 1844 Pallas Hall St. John, New Brunswick 26 May 1 1844 Thomas Hanford Herbert St. John, New Brunswick 31 May 1 1844 - USA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1844 Liverpool Swinford New York 11 Apr SON 2 1844 Oxford _____ New York 16 Apr SON 2 1844 Roscoe Rickers New York 8 Apr SON 2 _________________________________________________________________
1845 - CANADA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1845 British Queen _____ Miramichi, New Brunswick 5 Apr JMA 2 1845 Northumberland Bai Prince Edward….. GON 2 1845 ….. Idea Askew Quebec 15 Apr TM 2 1845 Albion _____ Quebec 1 Apr TM 2 1845 Dominica Wemyss Quebec 15 Apr AS 2 1845 Ganges _____ Quebec 10 Apr JMA 2 1845 John Bentley _____ Quebec 10 May TM 2 1845 Lucy Ann Askew Quebec 25 May TM 2 1845 Margaret Miller Quebec _____ GON 2 1845 New Ship _____ Quebec 10 Apr TM 2 1845 Try Again _____ Quebec 5 Apr JMA 2 1845 Urania Clark Quebec 12 Apr GON 2 1845 Bache M’Evers _____ St. Andrews, New Brunswick 1 Apr TM 2 1845 Albion Tardiff St. John, New Brunswick 1 Apr 29 May 1/2 1845 Atlas _____ St. John, New Brunswick 1 1845 British Queen _____ St. John, New Brunswick 8 Apr JMA 2 1845 Brothers Rowell St. John, New Brunswick 21 Jun 1 1845 Champlain Peneten St. John, New Brunswick 30 Jun 1 1845 Coxon Morgan St. John, New Brunswick 10 Apr 27 May JMA 1/2 1845 Dominica _____ St. John, New Brunswick 4 Jun 1 1845 Eliza Ann Clarke St. John, New Brunswick 5 Apr 21 May 1/2 1845 Ellen & Margaret _____ St. John, New Brunswick 1 1845 Governor Douglas _____ St. John, New Brunswick 1 Apr TM 2 1845 Henry Patterson Keohan St. John, New Brunswick 15 Jun 1 1845 Huron Ackerman St. John, New Brunswick _____ GON 2 1845 Isabella _____ St. John, New Brunswick 12 Apr GON 2 1845 Isadore Welsh/Dunbar St. John, New Brunswick _____ 21 May GON 1/2 1845 Jane Casey/Brown St. John, New Brunswick 15 May 2 Jul TM 1/2 1845 John Wesley Davis St. John, New Brunswick 23 May 1 1845 Lady (Mary) Fox Dalton St. John, New Brunswick 25 Mar 3 June JMA 1/2 1845 Martha Mackay St. John, New Brunswick 3 Jun 1 1845 Mary Dunbar St. John, New Brunswick 3 Jul 1 1845 Ocean Power St. John, New Brunswick 1 Apr 22 May JMA 1/2 1845 Pallas Hall St. John, New Brunswick 19 Mar JMA 1/2 1845 Pons Aelli Mock St. John, New Brunswick 30 May 1 1845 Sarah Fletcher St. John, New Brunswick 23 Jun 1 1845 St. Laurence _____ St. John, New Brunswick 25 Mar 21 May TM 1/2 1845 Time Driscoll St. John, New Brunswick 3 Jul 1 1845 Woodland Castle Williams St. John, New Brunswick 7 Aug 1 1845 - USA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1845 Hiram Jones Boston 25 Mar AS 2 1845 Ocean _____ Boston 25 Mar JMA 2 1845 Winipac Mitchell Boston _____ GON 2 1845 Wakona Dockendorf Charleston, South Carolina 5 Apr AS 2 1845 Kilby _____ New Orleans 21 Dec GON 2 1845 Sir Colin Campbell _____ New Orleans _____ GON 2 1845 Elizabeth Dennison _____ New York 1 Apr TM 2 1845 England _____ New York 15 Apr TM 2 1845 Hebe _____ New York 20 Apr TM 2 1845 Liverpool _____ New York 10 Apr TM 2 1845 Susan E. Howell _____ New York 5 Apr TM 2 1845 Virginia _____ New York 20 Dec GON 2 1845 Zanoni _____ New York 20 Mar TM 2 _________________________________________________________________
(CC 2/4/1846) – EMIGRATION TO AMERICA – The tide of emigration has set in this year earlier and stronger than any previous Spring. Already one vessel, the Adirondeck, has sailed with a full complement of passengers, and twenty-three others are filling fast. In fact the applicants for transport are more numerous than the berths. Our quays are crowded to inconvenience with them and their luggage. Numbers of those disappointed in getting shipped at Cork proceed to Liverpool by steamer. The following is a list of the vessels lying at our quays and in Passage preparing for sea, besides the vessel already put out, with the number of passengers they will take :-
ST. JOHN’S No. QUEBEC No. NEW YORK No. BOSTON No. ST. ANDREWS No. MIRAMICHI No. Pallas 170 Dominica 200 Adirondeck 200 Albion 130 Bache M’Evers 120 Betsy Dryden 28 Alarm 100 Marion 180 Liberty 280 Ohio 160 Conservative 120 Brilliant 140 Trident 140 Caxon 170 Try Again 150 Pandora 215 John Francis 200 Maria 180 Princess Royal 150 Urania 140 Albion 140 Martha 150 Woodland Castle 29 Total 1,229 Total 990 Total 480 Total 645 Total 120 Total 28 TOTAL 8,292 In addition to these, vessels are taking in emigrants at the Shannon, Bantry, Skibbereen, Kinsale, Youghal, Dungarvan, Waterford, and at all the large ports round the coast. The large mass of emigrants are parties having the appearance of respectable farmers, all of whom are taking with them sums of money from £500 to £10 each. The Gardener arrived with Indian Corn on Tuesday, and when discharged will be fitted out for passengers. Other passenger vessels for America are daily expected at our quays, amongst which are the Blenheim, 700 tons, Racer, 500 tons, George William, 800 tons, Rebecca, 1,000 tons, Ellen and Margaret, and Highland Mary.
(CC 20/6/1846) – EMIGRATION FROM CORK, 1846
NEW BRUNSWICK No. CANADA No. UNITED STATES Alarm 119 Marion 244 Adirondack 207 Pallas 174 Urania 173 Liberty 275 Albion 160 Try Again 176 Alert 139 Princess 303 Brilliant 166 Pandora 210 Mary 117 Dominica 218 Ohio 148 Caxon 193 Champlain 174 Trident 123 Ocean 224 Effingham 454 Edinburgh 113 Ellen & Margaret 95 Isadore 101 Albion 108 Bache M’Evers 137 John 69 Thomas Handford 151 Ocean 80 Martha 153 Isabella 61 Woodland Castle 117 Kingston 12 Lord Gleneig 233 John Francis 213 Jane 68 Princess Royal 113 Pero 141 Aerial 178 Richard N. Parker 111 Anlaby 76 Harry King 84 Elizabeth 33 Total to New Brunswick 3,192 Total to Canada 1,928 Total to United States 1,324 Grand Total 6,444 Total 1845 4,853 Total 1846 6,444 Increase 1,591 The following is the latest official intelligence respecting these vessels received by Lieut. Friend, RN, Emigration Officer at this port:- ‘St. John’s, 30th May, 1846. – The Alarm landed her passengers on the 14th inst., in good health. The Princess landed hers on the 16th, one person with fever being first landed at the quarantine station; the rest were well. The Caxon arrived on the 19th – one passenger was landed at quarantine with fever. The Albion arrived on the 20th. Seven passengers with malignant infectious fever were landed at quarantine from this vessel, two of whom, Denis Carty, aged 25, and George Thomas, aged 55, have since died. The Mary also arrived on the 20th. The Pallas arrived on the 22d, and landed two passengers with fever at quarantine; the rest in good health. The Martha and Thomas Handford arrived at the quarantine ground, but I have no report from them yet. All the passengers at the Quarantine Hospital with fever are convalescing rapidly.
(Excerpt - CC 4/7/1846) – Even in America Paddy preys on Paddy. The New York Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing from that city on the 15th ult., says:- ‘Eight thousand emigrants, from Europe, arrived in New York during the week before last. From whatever country they come they fall immediately a prey to their own country people, and by false tickets for steamers and railroads, false titles to land and business, and every other possible imposition, they are stripped of whatever money they bring. This is almost inevitably the emigrant’s first impression of America, and though a month or two suffices to put them into ways of profitable industry, this entrance upon the ‘land of promise’ is bitter enough. Charitable societies for the furnishing of correct information to emigrants, at the embarking ports of Germany, France, and Great Britain, would perhaps send them over the water better armed against these sharpers.’
The hint might be worth taking. The following items of intelligence are from the same quarter:- ‘Among the volunteers for Mexico, are the ‘Press Guards’ of Philadelphia, a company of sixty journeymen printers, under the command of a correspondent of one of the leading papers. The second son of Daniel Webster is enrolling a company of volunteers in Boston. Robert Tyler, the son of the late President of the United States, has formed a company of ‘Irish repealers’ for the same service….
(CE 6/7/1846) - "EMIGRATION TO AMERICA - TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK EXAMINER [Extract], - New Orleans, June 6th, 1846. - SIR - The writer, who has known you from youth, and in maturer years, admires the ability, patriotism, and ardour that you have brought into action in support of the absorbing question of Repeal, and every measure calculated to ameliorate the condition of our devoted country, the writer, when occasion happens, takes much pride in reading your ably-conducted journal.
At a time when a vast emigration is taking place from your country and other sea ports, to these United States, a country, the immense resources of which they know little of, and when they arrive there, less of what course they should adopt, I deem it my duty to offer a few suggestions to them through your journal, having some experience in this regard.
I read from a Cork paper that " The large mass of the Emigrants are parties having the appearance of respectable farmers, all of whom are taking with them sums from £10 to £500"; therefore I wish to direct the brief remarks I will make to these especially. In the first place, the greatest evils befall Irish Emigrants from the rural districts, from settling in the large sea ports of this union, under the impression that they can accumulate money, when they find that they can get from one dollar to two dollars per day wages, which contrasted with 4d. or 5d. in Ireland, does look at first blush very reasonable to be expected; but alas! 99 out of 100 find themselves, at the end of years, miserably mistaken. No sooner are this manner of people settled down than they necessarily associate themselves with their fellows of old standing who gradually initiate them into the habit of visiting the grog houses, and, finding themselves removed from the moral control and influence of an exemplary Clergy and that of their relations and neighbours, they very soon expose themselves to the many temptations and contaminating influences by which they are surrounded in every large sea port of the United States. A course so imprudent as this ensures to them not comforts nor Independence, but the greatest hardships, disease, and early decay, leaving themselves eligible only to such pursuits as canalling, railroading, ditching, steam-boating, longshoring, and delving of every kind. In a word, and in sorrow do I say it, "they become the hewers of wood and drawers of water" of this country. On the other hand having been reared to agricultural pursuits, they understand them better, land is cheap, and on long credit in every State of the union; it is fertile, it repays labour tenfold; it is the road to a thousand comforts and certain independence; it is conducive to health and longevity, and it is very honourable. The old settlers afford the new settlers every necessary assistance and every useful instruction. There is no jealousy on the adjoining farm. This is the course that the staid Germans adopt and they become contentedly happy and rich. No sooner are they landed at our Wharfs than they shift their ponderous luggage to a steam-boat hard by, and they are borne swiftly on the bosom of the great Mississippi to the far west, and are soon found clearing and fencing, and cultivating the generous soil. For those agriculturists who have a small capital this is the only correct course, there is no uncertainty in it; and for those who have none, they can get plenty of employment in the agricultural districts, at least 10 dollars per month; and in one or two years can commence the cultivation of a small farm on their own account, but these get blinded by high wages in large cities which at last becomes too little to spend in destroying their health and enervating their physical strength. I hope, sincerely hope, that the Irish agricultural emigrants who are leaving your region of country, will see the absolute necessity of settling on land at once, and fleeing the contaminating atmosphere of the large sea-ports, and of shunning the debasing and degrading pursuits of steam-boating and long-shoring. The farmers are always accumulating an inheritance for their children, generations yet unborn. It is very good policy when a number of farmers come together to depute one of the most experienced amongst them to seek out a desirable location, whose travelling expenses should be paid by all, who must take into consideration the salubrity of the climate, (for that is very varied) the soil, navigation, market, &c., and when he has found such a location, to take great precaution that the title is good, to prevent expensive litigation. The Irish Emigration Office at New York will give useful information on this head.
Iowa and Illinois and Missouri offer great advantages; I think that they are filling up fast. The Mormon City of Nanvoo, three miles up the Mississippi by six rere, and adjoining County, are much recommended. The Mormons have set out for Oregon, leaving an agent behind to dispose of their lands. The Catholic Bishop of Chicago is said to be in treaty for the purchase of the great temple, in which case it could become a large Catholic district.....[Letter signed by 'K']"
(CE 7/10/1846) - INVESTIGATION AT PASSAGE - SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST THE CAPTAIN OF AN EMIGRANT VESSEL - An investigation into serious charges, made by the passengers of the Metoka, an emigrant vessel, against Captain M'Learn, her commander, was commenced in the Sessions House of Passage on Monday.
The following magistrates were on the Bench - His Worship the Mayor, Captain Irvine, St. Leger Aldworth Esq., and Henry O Donovan Esq.
His Worship, who presided, said that some of the passengers on board the Metoka, which had put into Passage in consequence of some damage which she had sustained at sea, had waited on him and handed him a letter purporting to be signed by three hundred of the passengers, in which it was stated that the Captain had acted in a very inhumane manner towards them. The document alleged that 1lb of bread and three quarts of water were the daily allowance for emigrants while on their passage; but that the passengers in the Metoka had received only 3lb of bread, 3lb of flour, and a small quantity of water during the twenty-four days that they were out. The letter further stated, that the signers did not think that their lives would be safe with Captain M'Learn; that two men and a child had died in the ship for want of the proper necessities of life, and that there was no medical attendant on board. He felt, of course, bound to assist in elucidating the truth or falsity of these statements, and he and the other magistrates has assembled there for that purpose. He received the following note from Lieut. Friend, Her Majesty's Emigration Agent for Cork, on the previous day:
"Lieut. Friend presents his compliments to the Mayor of Cork and begs to inform him that he has arranged for the local Magistrates to meet his Worship at Passage, at half-past twelve, to enquire into the deaths of the two passengers on board the Metoka, to-morrow, Monday the 5th inst. - Cove, 4th Oct., 1846"
The Magistrates then sent to the ship for Captain M'Learn, and such of the passengers as had any complaint to make, or evidence to tender. The Captain and a number of the passengers appeared in the court after the lapse of a few moments; as did also Lieutenant Friend.
His Worship read the letter he had received from the emigrants to Mr. M'Learn; and informed him that he was at liberty to make any statement he thought proper to the bench.
Captain M'Learn said that when the passengers sent for medicine he gave it to them. The letter read by his Worship stated that he (Captain M'Learn) had only ordered some salts and castor oil. Now these were the medicines generally required by persons. He was no physician; and there were women and two clergymen on board who ought to know more about sick persons than he did. He had a leaky ship to attend to. He had heard no complaint from the passengers until they came into Passage and got drunk.
Captain Irvine asked the policeman present had they seen any of the passengers drunk.
The Constables replied in the negative.
The Rev. Mr. England had been on board the previous evening, and he did not see any of them drunk.
Capt. M'Learn said the cabin passengers could prove that the emigrants had got drunk.
The Mayor said they would have an opportunity of learning all the facts when examining the witnesses.
The first witness was then called.
Michael Duffy examined - I, from Castlereagh, in the County Roscommon, slept next Michael Sweeny who died on board the Metoka on the 27th ult.; deceased died at 3 o clock and was thrown over board at 7; this was after the gale of wind; some of the berths had been thrown down by the carpenters; deceased complained of a bowel complaint; witness went to the Captain, stated his complaint and asked him for medicine; the Captain said he would give witness any medicine he would ask for but witness replied that he would not take on him to prescribe for deceased; to best of witness's opinion, Sweeny was ill previous to the storm; had heard deceased crying out for water; when the deceased was dying in witness's arms, the first mate refused witness water, saying, damn the drop he would give him or words to that effect; did not see any of the ship's officers visit Sweeny while he was sick; does not know any person who had got medicine, but there was a boy then present who had got some.
Captain Irvine wished to know from Captain M'Learn what the regulations concerning bread were.
Captain M'Learn said that emigrant vessels were required to be provided with 70lbs of bread for each passenger in case the emigrant might want food; but they found themselves. If they required some of the ship's store they would get it.
The witness, in continuation, said that the passengers had not received their quantity of water, heard that some of them were refused water; the Captain's servant stole a grain of rice for Sweeny, the deceased, because they heard it would be good for him; deceased lived three days after witness had asked the Captain for medicine.
Captain M'Learn denied that the passengers had been refused water. He said that if the men were employed doing anything which was necessary for the safety of the ship they accomplished it before they gave the water. He also stated that three days had not elapsed between witness asking him for the medicine and the death of Sweeny.
Captain Irvine was of opinion, from what had already transpired, that they should adjourn the investigation, to enable them to secure attendance of the Clergymen and other witnesses on this very serious charge. The log-book would be, also, of much use to them; but it seemed the mate, who had the care of it, was not then in the ship.
The other Magistrates concurred in the gallant Captain's opinion.
Lieutenant Friend the non-issue of food was a distinct charge. From the day named on the ticket for sailing, the Captain of an emigrant vessel was bound to issue 1lb of bread and three quarts of water a day. Government provided that there should be seventy days' - the full time for the voyage - provisions.
Captain M'Learn - But you would not call it economy to give out those provisions until they be required? It is in the interest of the people themselves to take care of them until they want them.
Lieutenant Friend - I know you are bound to issue them. I will read the order for you. The Lieutenant then read an extract from the orders of Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners, which directed that emigrant vessels should not only be provided with the specified quantity of food, but also that it be served out not less than twice a week.
Mr. O Donovan - If this were not the case, the law would fall to the ground.
Lieutenant Friend - This vessel is 775 tons. A ...........measurement, which is equal to upwards of 900 tons, English. Such a vessel ought to have a crew of 45 men; but the Metoka has only got 22. This crew is certainly inadequate.
In reply to Captain Irvine, Mr. M'Learn said that the Metoka was chartered by Byrne and Co., of Liverpool.
Lieutenant Friend asked had any of the passengers a ship ticket?
One of the emigrants handed one to the bench. He said those which the other passengers had received had been taken up on board.
On reading the ticket, Lieutenant Friend said the emigrants had been entitled to bread from the 6th of September. That was the day named on the ticket for sailing, although she had not sailed until the 10th ultimo. He also found that the document he held in his hand (the ticket) stated that the Metoka was 1,300 tons register. Now the law provided a fine for that statement.
The Rev. Mr. England said that the ticket was a contract in itself between the charterers and the emigrants; and on it the specific quantities of food were set forth.
Lieutenant Friend said that this was the case. He thought their Worships might proceed to hear evidence on the point of non-issue of provisions.
Captain M'Learn requested that the bench would not then proceed with the investigation as he would wish to have the assistance of the American Consul.
Their Worships complied with the Captain's request; and adjourned the investigation 'till Wednesday (this day). They however directed Mr. M'Learn to issue the regular allowance of food until that day.
Some of the emigrants expressed their intention of leaving Passage on the following day but Lieutenant Friend strongly recommended them to remain with the Metoka.
The investigation was then adjourned.
1846 - CANADA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1846 Betsy Dryden Miramichi 1 Jun 2 1846 Brilliant _____ Quebec 8 Apr JMA 2/4 1846 Champlain Prosser Quebec 20 Apr GON 2/4 1846 Dominica Slorach Quebec 10 Apr 3 Jun AS 2/4 1846 Effingham Hughes Quebec 15 Apr GON 2/4 1846 Ganges Turpie Quebec 25 May 4 1846 Isadore Walsh Quebec 1 May GON 2 1846 Maria _____ Quebec 2 1846 Marion Quebec 2/4 1846 Try Again _____ Quebec 10 Apr JMA 2/4 1846 Urania Clarke Quebec 10 Apr 21 May GON 2/4 1846 Bache M’Evers St. Andrews 2 1846 Alanby _____ St. John, New Brunswick ___ 1 1846 Alarm Leonard St. John, New Brunswick 1 Apr 12 May GON 1/2 1846 Albion Tardiff St. John, New Brunswick 21 May 1/2 1846 Aulaby Driscoll St. John, New Brunswick 30 Jun 1 1846 Blenheim _____ St. John, New Brunswick 15 Apr JMA 2 1846 Conservative St. John, New Brunswick 2 1846 Coxon/Caxon Morgan St. John, New Brunswick 7 Apr 20 May JMA 1/2 1846 Elizabeth Young St. John, New Brunswick Jul 1 1846 Ellen & Margaret Jones St. John, New Brunswick 10 Apr 1 Jun GON 1/2 1846 George William _____ St. John, New Brunswick 25 Apr JMA 2 1846 Harry King Sargant St. John, New Brunswick 25 May Jul AS 1/2 1846 Jane Casey St. John, New Brunswick 24 Apr GON 2 1846 John Francis Deaves St. John, New Brunswick 20 Apr 1 Jun JMA 1/2 1846 Lord Glenelg Martin St. John, New Brunswick 20 Apr 3 Jun TM 1/2 1846 Martha Lynn St. John, New Brunswick 12 Apr 3 Jun JMA 1/2 1846 Mary Dunbar St. John, New Brunswick 20 May 1 1846 Ocean Lysaght St. John, New Brunswick 1 May 6 Jun GON 1/2 1846 Pallas Hall St. John, New Brunswick .. Apr 21 May JMA 1/2 1846 Princess Vaughan St. John, New Brunswick 12 May 1 1846 Princess Royal Callaghan St. John, New Brunswick 25 Apr 5 Jun GON 1/2 1846 Racer _____ St. John, New Brunswick 15 Apr JMA 2 1846 Rebecca _____ St. John, New Brunswick .. Apr JMA 2 1846 Richard N. Parker Guest St. John, New Brunswick 29 Jun 1 1846 Thomas Hanford Herbert St. John, New Brunswick 15 Apr 30 May GON 1/2 1846 Woodland Castle Williams St. John, New Brunswick 20 Apr 3 Jun GON 1/2 1846 - USA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1846 ……… Ellis Boston 10 Apr. ? 2 1846 Albion _____ Boston 20 Apr JMA 2 1846 Albion Wallace Boston 15 May GON 2 1846 Albion Boston 29 Jun 5 1846 Columbiana _____ Boston 20 May DK 2 1846 Edinburgh Boston 2 Jun 5 1846 Ohio _____ Boston 12 Apr 23 May JMA 2/5 1846 Pandora Boston 11 May 2/5 1846 Trident Boston 29 May 2/5 1846 Allioth Barrell New Orleans 1 Sep GON 2 1846 Java Jansein New Orleans 8 Sep GON 2 1846 Ocean Queen _____ New Orleans 22 Dec GON 2 1846 Palmyra Barstow New Orleans 24 Aug GON 2 1846 Abbeyfeale _____ New York 22 Dec GON 2 1846 Adirondack New York 11 Apr 2/5 1846 Alert _____ New York 20 Apr 3 Jun JMA 2/5 1846 Ashburton _____ New York 21 May DK 2 1846 Fairfield Loveland New York 1 Sep GON 2 1846 Highland Mary _____ New York 24 Dec GON 2 1846 Liberty _____ New York 13 Apr 21 May JMA 2/5 1846 Niagara Russell New York 24 Aug GON 2 (CC 4/6/1846) – SHIP NEWS - COVE OF CORK - JULY 3 – WIND SW
Arrived - Lord Sandon, Feneron, St. John, timber; Uniano, Ferrara, Vlana, grain; Xarifa, Barrett, Barbados, sugar; Shaver, Buchanan, Prince Edward’s Island, deals; H.M. ships St. Vincent, Queen, Canopus, Rodney, Vanguard, Superb, Brilliant and Raleigh. Kestral yacht.
FOREIGN
Quebec – Arrived from Cork, June 3 – Dominica. Cleared for Cork, June 2 – Oregon. 3 – Johnson, Moodkie.
Halifax – Arrived from Cork, June 3 – Arabian.
St. John’s – Arrived from Cork, June 1 – Thomas Hanford. 3 – John Francis. 4 – Martha, Lord Gleneig, Jane, Princess Royal. 6 – Ocean.
Miramichi – Arrived from Cork, June 1 – Bessy Dryden.
(CC 1/8/1846) SHIP NEWS – COVE OF CORK - JULY 28 – WIND SW
Arrived – Diligence, store ship, Daphne, Syolin, St. John’s, Bahia, sugars.
JULY 29 – WIND W
Arrived – Rose & Ocean Steamers – HM Steamer Cyclops.
Sailed – Pandora, White, Quebec, ballast; Urania, Clarke, do., do.; G. Ramsey, do., do.; John & Richard, Clarke, Miramachi, do; Antoinetta, Paswitch, Bristol, ballast; Caperius, Napoli, do., do.; Lusitania, Foreste, Oporto, do.; HM Steamer Polyphemus; Ships Hibernia, Trafalgar, St. Vincent, Queen, Superb, Rodney, Canopus, Vanguard.
JULY 30 – WIND NE
Arrived – Cupid Steamer, from Dublin for Limerick; Nimrod Steamer; Xeres, Williams, Port Talbot, coals; Hervine, Mary & Margaret, Eliza & Sarah, Ann, Girl I Love, Alexandrina Victoria, Sir P. Maitland, Smith, Kitty, William, Jessie, Temperance, Non Pareil; George, Newport, coals; Jack o’-Lantern, Richwell, Kilrush, ballast; HM Steamer Rhadamanthus.
Sailed – Marchioness of Breadalbane, Reid, Cardiff, ballast; Aeneas, Cashman, Newport, do.; Caroline Alice, Brynan, Newry, maize; Harm, Leonard, St. John’s ballast; Ocean & Ajax Steamers; Anunciato, Tropina, Limerick, maize; HM Steamer Alban; Caroline Alice, Rynon, Sligo, maize.
JULY 31 – WIND ENE
Arrived – Robert Low, William, Mary Bee, Speed Well, Caledonia, Brisk, Three Sisters, Orleans, Eliza, Eliza Ann, Nancy Dawson, James, Venus, Hope, coals – Cork Screw Steamer – a schooner, particulars not yet known.
Sailed – Rose Steamer
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1847
(CE 17/2/1847) – WANTED – FROM FIFTEEN to TWENTY MASONS, to proceed to ST. JOHN’S NEWFOUNDLAND, in a Vessel now in Port, and to leave about the 15th next Month. For Terms and Particulars, apply to Messrs. BURKE BROTHERS, Patrick’s Quay. – Cork, Feb. 15th, 1847
(CC 6/4/1847) TO EMIGRANTS - THE BRITISH AMERICAN LAND COMPANY beg to draw the attention of Emigrants to their Land, situated in the Eastern Townships of Canada, in proximity to Montreal and Quebec. FARMS with, and without, partial improvement, can be had at Moderate Prices, and on easy Terms of payment. - The ST. LAWRENCE and ATLANTIC RAILROAD will pass from Montreal through the heart of the Eastern Townships to Portland, on the Atlantic coast. Of this Railway 45 miles are now in progress of construction in Canada, and the remainder will speedily be undertaken. Emigrants will readily perceive the great advantages to be derived from a settlement on Lands which are thus being brought into immediate and rapid connexion with markets. - Further information can be had at the Company’s Offices, 35 ½ New Broad Street, London; or on arrival at Quebec, from Mr. S. M. TAYLOR, Government Emigrant Office; and at Sherbrooke, Easter Townships, from A. T. GALT, Esq., the Company’s Commissioner in Canada.
(CC 4/5/1847) TO THE SMALL FARMERS AND LABOURERS OF THE COUNTY OF CORK - FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN – A sincere sympathy in the present affliction of my native land, and a desire to alleviate it, induces me to address you a few lines for your information and guidance in case you should think of emigrating to this country. If the small farmer in Ireland should feel himself obliged to settle in Canada, and that he could land in this country with a few pounds, say fifty, in his pocket, he may by industry and hard work be able to make himself comfortable, and comparatively rich in a very few years. - If he is not able to buy land, he can get a farm from the Canada Company on a credit of 10 years, payable in the shape of a rent every year. The first year he will have to pay about 8d. per acre, the second about 12d. per acre, and so on till the last year, when the rent then will about 8s. per acre; this is the last payment, at the end of which time the land will be his own, the entire cost being about 10s. per acre. The tenant can, if he is able, pay for his land at any time he pleases, and whenever he pays he becomes the sole owner of the land. The time he has to pay will be quite long enough for him; and if he has the least wish to exert himself and to work hard, he will be able to pay for the land long before the time is out. If he does not like this way of getting land, he can buy land from the Government, and he will get the making of a farm from them at from to six dollars, or from 8s. to 24s. per acre, payable in five years with interest. Recollect this is all wild land I am talking about, and do not forget that you must work very hard to get on; but when you see that every year you are getting better, clearing more land and raising more crops, you may feel quite satisfied in working hard when you see that you have a prospect of being comfortable at the end of a few years. - To the labourers I would say, that for you this is such a country as you ought to come to. The man who in Ireland is getting from a respectable farmer about £4 a-year, with such board as is generally given in a farmer’s house, would in this country get about £20 a-year for the first year, with board as good as can be had, and at the end of the first or second year, when he gets acquainted with the work of the place, he would get about £25 a-year. Clothing, and all matters that he may require being very low, he is enabled to lay by a great part of his wages for the purpose of buying a farm, or perhaps he sends it to Ireland to assist in bringing the other members of his family to this place. Now what object has the labourer in remaining at home, where there are more men than work, when he can so easily better his condition by coming to Canada? Depend upon it, that in a very short time you will be pleased at the change, and in all probability the members of your family who remained at home will before long be glad to meet you on this side of the water. If you can manage to come, I would advise you by all means to do so as quickly as you can. If four or five club together, a berth in a good ship can be had a little cheaper than if each man went singly; and by arranging your provisions for the voyage between yourselves a saving may be made, which in these days of scarcity is an object. Girls, too, are much wanted. They get better wages in proportion to their work than men. A girl would receive but 10s. or 15s. a quarter in Ireland, in this place gets generally 16s. sterling a month. Just look at this! Indeed my surprise is very great at not seeing more of my country girls coming to this place. Besides, a good, smart, tidy girl is sure of being well married and settled on a farm, because women being scarce, a young farmer, living on a new place which he has just bought, feels quite uncomfortable without a wife to manage his household. There are a great many more matters that I should like to speak to you about, but as I have to send this to your country through the post-office, I cannot say more. I have said as much as will enable you to see all that is right, and it is for yourselves to say whether you ought to come or not. The distance from Ireland is not great, and the letters and papers coming twice a month, we have constant opportunities of hearing from home. I now take my leave by stating that I am a native of your county, but for the last ten years. - AN INHABITANT OF THE GORE DISTRICT IN UPPER CANADA
(CE 19/5/1847) - SUFFERINGS OF EMIGRANTS IN NEW YORK - The paupers who have recently arrived from Europe give a most melancholy account of their sufferings. Upwards of eighty individuals, almost dead with the ship fever, were landed from one ship alone, while twenty-seven of the cargo died on the passage, and were thrown into the sea. They were one hundred days tossing to and fro upon the ocean, and for the last twenty days their only food consisted of a few ounces of meal per day, and their only water was obtained from the clouds. - The miseries which these people suffer are brought upon themselves, for they have no business to leave their country without at least a sufficient quantity of food to feed them while making the passage. - New York Sun
(CC 1/6/1847) EMIGRATION, &c. - Crowds of emigrants are pouring into the town every day in increasing numbers from all parts of the County, Cork and many parts of Kerry. It is very melancholy to see such numbers of comfortable and healthy-looking peasantry leaving the soil, and what makes the case worse is the fact that numbers are running off with one and two years’ rent from their landlords. Many of the Kerry emigrants appear to have plenty of ready money; indeed some of them were to be seen on Saturday displaying forty, seventy, and in some cases 100 sovereigns, and, with characteristic duplicity and cunning, openly boasting of their success and skill in baffling and robbing their landlords. How the latter are to meet the heavy taxes and other demands which will be made upon them, when thus openly robbed of their means, is a problem more easy to propose than to solve. Amidst the general stagnation of trade, the difficulty of accommodation on credit, and the real distress of families which have been hitherto in affluence and comfort, it is an additional ingredient of gloom and depression to see such a large and continued drain of ready money going from the country, and likely to continue for many months, whilst the masses of utterly destitute are left at home to be a burthen upon the energies of the industrious portion of the community.
(CE 18/6/1847) - Extract of a private letter from New York: - JUNE 1ST , 1847 - 'Ship fever is now very prevalent here. It is, properly speaking, a most malignant kind of yellow fever. In almost every vessel that arrives several persons are afflicted with it, in consequence of which all the hospitals are full. The Board of Health are fitting up temporary places for the reception of patients. From the numbers that have been attacked, it is feared, that the fever will spread through the City as soon as the warm weather sets in. - At present it is confined to the neighbourhood of emigrant boarding houses. Dr. Van Buren, who has been stationed at the quarantine ground, has died of it, and several of the doctros that have been attending the Marine hospitals are ill with it. 567 have died on the passages from Great Britain to New York, since the 1st of January.
(CE 19/7/1847) – EMIGRATION – DEATHS - (From the American Papers) - IMMIGRANTS, &c. - There arrived at Quarantine, on Saturday, the schooner Boston, with 31 immigrant passengers; brig Russia, from Galway, with 80 (several sick); bark Abbot, Lord, from Liverpool, with 179; on Sunday, the brig C. Rogers, from Cork, with 59; and Monday morning, the brig Wasega, from Kilrush, Ireland, with 80, total 420. Up to Monday there were 237 inmates of the hospitals at Deer Island, which number will probably be increased by the vessels just arrived. - Since the 20th of May there have been 312 in the hospital there, 55 of whom have been discharged, as well, and 20 have died. At the Almshouse there have been no attacks of ship fever for the last five days; and those sick are mostly convalescent. We are sorry to learn that a young son of the late superintendent is very low of this disorder, and fears are entertained of a fatal result.
QUEBEC, JUNE 15. - Extract from a letter dated Chathat, Mirimichi, June 3 - 'Captain Thain, of the ship Loosthank, 636 Tons, from Liverpool to Quebec, out 7 weeks, had, when she left Liverpool, 348 passengers on board of which 117 have died, and out of the ship's crew only five are able to work. Ship's sails are much split and the jib and fore sails are carried away. Within the last three days, 35 of the passengers have died, and out of the whole number on board only 20 have escaped sickness. The captain requires immediate assistance to bring the ship up the river. One hundred of the passengers are sick and the crew unable to work. The captain says that he and his crew will be compelled to leave the ship, unless assistance is sent, as they consider their lives in danger.
Extract from another letter: - CANSO, MAY 26. - News reached here to-day, by a schooner, that a vessel bound to Quebec, with 400 passengers, on board, was totally wrecked on the Scatarie Islands during the easterly storm last week; and, shocking to relate, only six persons out of the whole were saved.
A pilot who came up from below to-day states that he saw a vessel ashore on Red Island Reef - sternport out and full of passengers.
The bark Lady Constable, from Liverpool, arrived at Charlottetown, P.E. Island, on the 14th ultimo., with 419 immigrants on board. On being visited by the health officer it was found that 25 persons had died on the passage.
MORE IMMIGRANTS. - The arrivals on Tuesday at Quarantine, amounted to 309 - 200 in the Coquimbo from Limerick; 74 in the Almira from Cork; and 35 in the Emily from Waterford. They are represented as being in a more healthy condition than most of the previous arrivals. No death has occurred, except in one instance where the individual jumped overboard. - Whig.
The arrivals at quarantine on Wednesday amounted to 364 - in the Mary Ann from Liverpool, 185; Bevis from Dublin, 40; Louisiana from Cork, 102; Lucy Ann, Liverpool, 37. There was no sickness or deaths aboard the first and none reported in the others.
The Montreal Pilot thus feelingly alludes to the doomed people of Ireland: - Here, in Canada, they hoped to find a grave for all their troubles; nor was the hope illusory, for thousands of them have found graves on the banks of the St. Lawrence, - far, far, from the friends of their childhood, and from those early associates which, even in the dying hour, bring consolation to the sufferer. Alas! no mother's hand closed the pallid lip of the dying; - neither brothers nor sisters heard the agonising struggle of the spirit, eager to free herself from her loathsome prison, and wing her flight to the kingdom of her Creator.
(CE 1/9/1847) – EMIGRANT DISASTERS - The last American mail brings further distressing accounts of the sufferings of the emigrants arriving in Canada. After the first embarrassment, caused by the sudden outburst of a fierce plague, some amendment occurred in the reception given to the sufferers at Montreal, but the prospect was still darkening, and matters becoming worse there. Thirteen ships arrived in one week at Grosse Island, all, to a greater or less extent, afflicted with fever.
The greatest disaster from disease upon the deep, as yet recorded, befel the 'Virginus, ' which left this port (Cork.) This vessel lost 156 out of 496 passengers, with all but two of the crew, and forty of the survivors died soon after reaching the shore. She was a long time at sea, and was short of provisions.
The health of New York continued good, owing in a great measure to the activity with which the emigrants were pushed on from the towns on the sea, and prevented from generating pestilence by stopping there; but they carried it inwards, and at Albany upon the river Hudson, the chief mortality arose from the disease thus introduced.
The difference between the healthiness of the emigrants to the United States and those to British America is accounted for by the inferiority of the ships sailing to the latter country, which made them more eagerly sought for by the humblest class on account of the lower fare. From the nature of the trade in which they are engaged, the transport of timber, the risk of their failing in open sea is diminished one-half, by the whole voyage to Europe, as with such a cargo they weather it out while a plank sticks together. This circumstance causes less attention to be paid to their sea-worthiness, since they are laden half the way with what can't sink, and the other with a freight, which is thought no loss if it do.
Apart from the crowded state of these wretched ships, and their insecurity for life, the constant wet on board of them, and their other defective qualities have contributed to render the unhappy passengers still more certainly a prey to infectious distemper.
(CE 4/8/1847) – FOR BOSTON - THE 'GOVERNOR DAVIS, ' SAILING from LIVERPOOL for BOSTON, on TUESDAY 10th August. Passengers should leave Cork on Saturday, 7th August, at 12 o'Clock Noon. For Passage apply to Messrs. HARNDEN, & Co., or D. KENNELLY & Co., Maylor Street, Cork. To be succeeded by the 'Train Line ' Packet, 'OCEAN MONARCH, ' 1900 Tons, on the 20th of August. STEERAGE FARE - £4 15s. from CORK.
(CE 29/12/1847) - DISTRESSED EMIGRANTS - THE late severe weather has compelled several packets and other vessels to put into Cove for refuge, some of them bound for North America with emigrants, whose stores, never abundant, have been so far used as not to be sufficient to carry them to the end of their voyage. It is stated that there are now in the port few short of a thousand of these unhappy people, suffering all the present and with the prospect of the greater, misery, that may be supposed in their totally friendless and destitute state. - An appeal has been set on foot to aid them to their destination; and certainly no claim calls more strongly upon the feelings of compassion. The assistance is of a kind that will not be asked again, as it was entirely unforseen that it would be required by the sufferers. When it is remembered that so many of their class have already died from want of the means to bear up against the hardships of their journey, the question, in the present case, is not so much of their degree of comfort, as of their existence; and depends on their being relieved now, when only they can receive relief.
1847 - CANADA - ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source Note 1847 Abeona Attridge St. John, New Brunswick 6 Jul 1 1847 Adeline Neil St. John, New Brunswick 1 Aug 1 1847 Aeneas _____ St. John, New Brunswick 26 Jun 1 1847 Bach(e) McEver(s) Betty St. John, New Brunswick 4 Jul 1/6 * 1847 British Merchant Anderson St. John, New Brunswick 4 Aug 1/6 * 1847 Caledonia _____ St. John, New Brunswick 13 Jul 1/6 * 1847 Edward _____ St. John, New Brunswick 10 May JMA 2 1847 Ella Small St. John, New Brunswick 21 Jun 1 1847 Garland _____ St. John, New Brunswick 24 Jun 1 1847 Glory _____ St. John, New Brunswick 12 Aug 1 1847 Gowrie Perkins St. John, New Brunswick 30 Jul 1 1847 Henry _____ St. John, New Brunswick 8 May JMA 2/6 1847 Inconstant _____ St. John, New Brunswick 22 May 1/6 * 1847 James _____ St. John, New Brunswick ___ 1 1847 Kingston Mason St. John, New Brunswick 22 Jul 1/6 * 1847 Malvinia Chantley St. John, New Brunswick 1 ?From Baltimore 1847 Mary Dunbar St. John, New Brunswick 25 May 1 1847 Mary _____ St. John, New Brunswick 31 May 1 1847 Mary Sutton St. John, New Brunswick 17 Jun 1 1847 Mary (Brig) via Boston _____ St. John, New Brunswick 6 * 1847 Mary (Schooner) _____ St. John, New Brunswick 6 * 1847 Mary Dunbar _____ St. John, New Brunswick 29 Jun 1 1847 Mary Murray _____ St. John, New Brunswick 12 Jun 1 1847 Mozambique _____ St. John, New Brunswick 5 May JMA 2/6 1847 Ocean _____ St. John, New Brunswick 6 * 1847 Pallas Hall St. John, New Brunswick 22 May 1/6 * 1847 Pero Meredith St. John, New Brunswick 10 Sep 1 1847 Perseverance Callaghan St. John, New Brunswick 24 Jun 1/6 * 1847 Prince Royal _____ St. John, New Brunswick 13 Jul 1 1847 Rose _____ St. John, New Brunswick 24 Jun 1 1847 Sally Tooling St. John, New Brunswick 5 Jul 1/6 * 1847 Seraph Mather St. John, New Brunswick 6 Jul 1/6 1847 St. Lawrence _____ St. John, New Brunswick ___ 1 1847 Trafalgar Younghusband St. John, New Brunswick 15 Jul 1/6 * 1847 Ward Chipman Bilton St. John, New Brunswick 22 Jul 1 * * see Cork - Canada deaths 1847
(CE 18/8/1847) – THE IRISH EMIGRANTS IN CANADA - SURELY the Government will not allow the feeling for the disasters attending the poor Irish in a foreign land to pass away with the miserable deaths of the victims? Will there be no enquiry into the causes, mediate or remote, which produced all this loss of human life? - into the modes of transport - the state of emigrant vessels - the abominations of emigrant agents, and all the etceteras which have become, and are, accessory to the deaths of the Irish poor? Out of 2,235 who embarked for Canada in those wretched hulks, called emigrant vessels, not more than five hundred will live to settle in America. - 'From information recently given to us, ' says the Quebec Gazette, 'the quarantine at Liverpool is not only worse than useless as regards this country, but absolutely murders the emigrants intending to embark hitherward. We are told that from 15 to 16 hulks are stationed off the port for the reception of the refugees from Ireland, who, when sick or doubtful looking, are transferred to them from the Irish steamers and from whence, after a short probation, shipped on board vessels destined for Canada; and that, too, as may be naturally conceived, in a worse state than if allowed to proceed on their voyage at once. The passengers in the Triton were of this class, among whom disease appeared the day they left the docks. Her deaths before reaching Grosse Isle numbered 83, including all the officers of the ship and several of the crew; the master, also, being very sick. ' - It can hardly be believed that affairs in Liverpool are conducted, as to the shipment of emigrants, as represented. The imputation is boldly made, and if untrue, an immediate contradiction is necessary. - The report from the office of her Majesty's chief superintendent of emigration to Canada, dated Quebec, 24th July, states the numbers of emigrants who had arrived this year there, were 56,855. In the same period of last year, 24,576 settlers reached the port, showing an increase this year of no less than 32,279.
‘(CC 24/8/1847) EMIGRANTS - Lieut. Friend [Government Emigration Agent in Cork] has obliged us with the following letter; but we find it not so easy as we supposed to obtain the information which our Correspondent wished for. The unhappy habits of our peasantry – the propensity to fraud – the custom of making their escape with the landlord’s rent in their pockets, induce many of them to seek safety in disguise, and to enter themselves on the Passengers’ Lists by assumed names. In those cases it is impossible to trace their families or to remit to them any money that may be found on the deceased. The loss is one of the penalties paid for the lack of moral principle among our people.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE CORK CONSTITUTION - SIR – Observing your Bandon Correspondent’s letter with Editorial remarks, in your last publication, and being fully aware of the anxiety which exists relative to the casualties which have so disastrously occurred on board Emigrant Vessels from this port, I beg to inform you that no list of the deaths on board ships has yet reached me, but the New Brunswick Courier of 10th of July gives the names of such as died in hospital at Partridge Island, from 7th May to 2d. July, which I herewith send, but from the evident incorrectness of that list, when compared with the names on the Passengers’ Lists, at my office, I did not think it right to publish it. Unfortunately the practice of giving assumed names and residences to the brokers, and inserted in their lists, renders it difficult to identify many of the parties. - With one exception, no money has been remitted me for the friends of those who have died, but I do not doubt but the Authorities in New Brunswick and Quebec will do all that can be done in securing what property they may be possessed of at their death to their surviving relatives. - I have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, CHARLES FRIEND, L. R. N. - Government Emigration Office, Cove, August 21st, 1847
We wish we could furnish more correct and satisfactory information on a subject that naturally excites so much anxiety, but we are sorry to say it is not in our power.’
1847 - CANADA - QUEBEC
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source Note 1847 Agnes _____ Quebec 10 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Albion _____ Quebec 29 Sep 4/6 * 1847 Asia _____ Quebec 27 Jul 4/6 * 1847 Avon Johnston Quebec 26 Jul 4/6/8 * 1847 Bee _____ Quebec 12 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Blenheim _____ Quebec 29 Jul 4/6 * 1847 Brutus _____ Quebec 6 * 1847 Covenater Patterson Quebec 15 Jun 09 Aug AB 2/4/6 * 1847 Dominica _____ Quebec 14 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Edward _____ Quebec 8 May JMA 2/6 1847 Emily Coombs Quebec 7 May 06 Jul GH 2/4/6 * 1847 Free Briton _____ Quebec 10 Jul 4/6 * 1847 Ganges _____ Quebec 26 May 4/6 * 1847 Gilmour _____ Quebec 18 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Henrietta Mary _____ Quebec 29 Sep 4 1847 Highland Mary _____ Quebec 09 Sep 4 1847 Jessie Oliver/O Brien Quebec 1 Jun 24 Jul AB 2/4/6/8 * 1847 John Francis _____ Quebec 10 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Lady Flora Hastings _____ Quebec 26 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Lively _____ Quebec 14 Jul 4/6 1847 Lord Sandon _____ Quebec 26 Jun 4 ?from Kinsale 1847 _____ Quebec 19 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Maria Somes _____ Quebec 10 Sep 4/6 * 1847 Mary _____ Quebec 6 * 1847 Medusa _____ Quebec 16 Jul 4 1847 Ocean Queen M’Bride Quebec 03 Aug 2/4/6 1847 Orelia _____ Quebec 6 * 1847 Pacha/Pasha _____ Quebec 1 May 14 Jun JMA 2/4/6 * 1847 Redwing _____ Quebec 6 * 1847 Rega _____ Quebec 26 Jul 4 1847 Rodeng/Roding Ashton Quebec 12 May 07 Jul DF 2/4 1847 Roseanna Wilkinson Quebec 20 May 18 Jul AB 2/4/6 * 1847 Saguenay _____ Quebec 22 Aug 4/6 * 1847 Scotland Thompson Quebec 10 Apr 08 Jun AB 2/4/6 * 1847 Sir Henry Pottinger Crowel Quebec 07 Aug 4/6/8 * 1847 Try Again _____ Quebec 07 Jun 4/6 * 1847 Urania _____ Quebec 10 Jun 4 * 1847 Wakefield Quebec 2/4 * * see Cork - Canada deaths 1847
(CC 18/9/1847) EMIGRATION - ARRIVALS AT QUEBEC FROM CORK:-
Ship Deaths Left in Quarantine July 28 ASIA 16 49 Aug 3 OCEAN QUEEN 5 3 Aug 8 SIR HENRY POTTINGER 106 41 Aug 9 COVENANTER 59 43 Aug 23 SAGUENAY 120 89 (CE 17/9/1847) THE FEVER IN CANADA - The following is an extract from the letter of an emigrant, addressed to one of his friends in this city, and received by the last mail from Boston. It contains a vivid and painful picture of the emigrant catastrophe in Canada. The letter is dated from the barque Bridgetown; lying off Grosse island, in front of Quebec, which, it appears, was converted into a vast burial place:-
We arrived here on the 22nd from Liverpool; I regret to tell you that fever broke out; and that seventy passengers and one sailor were committed to the deep on the voyage. There are several more ill. We buried six yesterday on shore. The carpenter and joiner are occupied making coffins. There are six more dead after the night. I cannot say when we can get to Quebec, as we cannot land the remainder of the sick at present, there being no room in the hospitals for them, though the front of the island is literally covered with beds and tents. The accounts from the shore are awful, and our condition on board you can have no idea of – helpless children without parents or relatives – parents without children. It would fill sheets of paper to go into particulars. Amongst the passengers is a fine little boy two years old, without parents or relatives, the father buried in the deep last week, and the mother the week before – their six children under similar unfortunate circumstances, and so on. I trust God will carry me through this trying ordeal – I was a few days sick, but am now recovered. Captain Wilson was complaining for a few days. It is an awful change from the joyous hopes with which most of us left our unfortunate country, expecting to be able to earn that livelihood denied us at home – all – all changed in many cases to deep despair.
1847 - USA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1847 Albion Boston 15 May 5 1847 General Greene Boston 29 May 5/7 1847 Globe Boston 23 Apr 5/7 1847 Jane Boston 4 Jun 5/7 1847 Martha _____ Boston 28 Apr JMA 2 1847 Mary (Brig) Boston 21 May 5/7 1847 Messenger Boston 18 Sep 5 1847 Ovanda Boston 5 May 5/7 1847 Robert & William _____ Boston 5 May JMA 2 1847 Victoria Boston 24 May 5/7 1847 Adelbaran New York 10 Aug 5 1847 Agile New York 18 May 5 1847 Bache Mcevers New York 13 Dec 5 1847 Calypso _____ New York 25 Apr 15 Jun JMA 2/5 1847 Claudine Norris New York 27 Mar GH 2 1847 Coxon _____ New York 28 Apr 8 Jun JMA 2/5 1847 D.B. New York 24 May 5 1847 Fanny Quinn New York 5 Apr AS 2 1847 Free Trader _____ New York 1 May 25 Jun JMA 2/7 1847 Gasper New York 8 Jun 5 1847 H. Patterson New York 15 May 5 1847 Henry Hobbs New York 25 Jun 5 1847 Isabella New York 10 May 5 1847 John Bolton Sampson New York 10 Apr AB 2 1847 Martha New York 3 Jul 5 1847 Mary Anne Lock New York 3 Apr GH 2 1847 Mary T. Runlet New York 5 Apr 5 1847 Morgiana New York 15 Jun 5 1847 Prince Radli New York 24 Jun 5 1847 Swan New York 13 Dec 5 1847 William & Mary _____ New York 10 May JMA 2 1847 Wm. T. Duggan New York 30 Jul 5 _______________________________________________________________________________________________
1848
(CC 6/5/1848) - EMIGRATION - The following is a statement of emigrants who have left this port during the month of April:-
EMIGRATION FOR THE LAST MONTH, ENDING 30TH APRIL - Pero, 224 tons, 92 passengers; R.N. Parker, 170 tons, 75 passengers; Wakefield, 776 tons, 245 passengers; Helena, 265 tons, 106 passengers; Coronet, 870 tons, 298 passengers; Ailan, 184 tons, 88 passengers; Atlantic, 334 tons, 128 passengers; Martha, 256 tons, 89 passengers; Brazil Packet, 228 tons, 103 passengers; Louisa, 1,033 tons, 339 passengers; Laurel, 779 tons, 289 passengers; Alarm, 186 tons, 76 passengers; Argyle, 634 tons, 244 passengers; Mary T. Rundlett, 247 tons, 115 passengers. Total, 2,287 passengers to United States.
Charles, 170 tons, 90 passengers from Youghal; Lord Sandon, 407 tons, 167 passengers from Kinsale; John Francis, 362 tons, 176 passengers from Cork; M'Donnell, 554 tons, 220 passengers. Total 653 passengers, to St. John's, N.B.
Cremona, 506 tons, 202 passengers; Dominica, 380 tons, 193 passengers; Coxon, 305 tons, 146 passengers; Tottenham, 33 tons, 101 passengers from Youghal. Total, 642 passengers to Quebec.
The number from the 1st of January to the 31st of April stand thus:-
Total during the present year: - 3,791 passengers to United States; 1,053 passengers to St. John's, N.B.; 642 passengers to Canada. Grand total, 5,486 passengers this year.
It is satisfactory to add, that they are the healthiest batch that probably ever left an Irish port. There was not a single invalid among them; but in consequence of the injudicious regulations of the Colonial Legislatures the vast majority, as the figures testify, have gone to the United States.
1848 - CANADA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1848 Coxon Quebec 2 1848 Cremona Dunn Quebec 1 Apr ? 2 1848 Dominica Quebec 2 1848 Lockwoods Errington Quebec 15 Jun GON 2 1848 Cambria Quebec/New Brunswick Sep 3 1848 Florentia Quebec/New Brunswick 11 Sep 3 1848 Lord Sandon Quebec/New Brunswick 10 Sep 3 1848 Mary Quebec/New Brunswick 25 Jul 3 1848 Mozambique Quebec/New Brunswick Jul 3 1848 Bach Evers _____ St. John, New Brunswick 9 May 1 1848 Brazil Packet _____ St. John, New Brunswick Mar AB 2 1848 John Francis Deaves St. John, New Brunswick 28 May 1 1848 Lady Caroline Norton St. John, New Brunswick 20 Mar GON 2 1848 Lockwoods Errington St. John, New Brunswick 17 Mar 22 Apr GON 1/2 1848 McDonnell McDonnell St. John, New Brunswick 20 Apr 30 May GON 1/2 1848 Princess Royal Driscoll St. John, New Brunswick 1 May 3 Jul GON 1/2 1848 - USA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1848 Acadia Gallilee Boston 1 May 19 Jun GON 2/5 1848 Ailso Boston 17 May 5 1848 Alarm Casey Boston 20 Apr GON 2 1848 Albion Boston 15 May 5 1848 Argyle Boston 1 Dec 5 1848 Atlantic Leonard Boston 15 Apr 1 Jun GON 2/5 1848 Bee Muir Boston 13 Jun 20 Jul GON 2/5 1848 Boston Boston 9 Dec 5 1848 Brazil Packet _____ Boston 1 Apr 29 May GON 2/5 1848 Brothers Boston 7 Jul 5 1848 Challenge(r) Watson Boston 7 Mar 25 Apr GON 2/5 1848 Coronet Boston 17 May 5 1848 Elizabeth Boultenhouse Boston 1 Mar 8 Apr GON 2/5 1848 Lady Caroline Boston 28 Apr 5 1848 Laurel Boston 2 Jun 5 1848 M.D. Chase Boston 9 Oct 5 1848 Niagara Boston 5 Dec 5 1848 Sageurnay Boston 15 Sep 5 1848 Sophia M'Kenzie Boston 17 Mar GON 2 1848 Sophia McKenzie Boston 6 May 5 1848 St. Lawrence Boston 2 May 5 1848 Thalia Boston 14 Apr 5 1848 Thos. Hanford Boston 10 Jul 5 1848 William Boston 22 Apr 5 1848 Ambassadress New York 10 Apr 5 1848 Chieftain Shaw New York 25 Apr 20 Jun GON 2/5 1848 Christianna Shaw New York 10 Jun 1 Aug GON 2/5 1848 Effingham New York 25 Feb 5 1848 Gov. Hinckley New York 28 Jun 5 1848 Helena New York 25 Apr 5 1848 Industry New York 8 Jul 5 1848 Jane Anderson New York 3 Jul 5 1848 Java New York 4 Dec 5 1848 Kingston New York 8 Dec 5 1848 Louisa Carpenter New York 15 Apr GON 2 1848 Lucy Ann New York 5 May 5 1848 Martha New York 29 May 5 1848 Mary T. Rundlett New York 9 Jun 5 1848 Mcevers New York 19 Sep 5 1848 Sir James Mcdonnell New York 14 Dec 5 1848 Susan New York 18 Nov 5 1848 Swan Bison New York 7 Mar GON 2 1848 Swan New York 29 Aug 5 1848 Wakefield New York 24 May 5 _________________________________________________________________
1849
(CE 10/1/1849) - HOW THE EMIGRATION PROGRESSES - It has been remarked by several Catholic clergymen, in dioceses of this County, that when attending 'stations,' they only perceive old men and women chiefly. All the younger portion of the community, 'boys and girls,' who heretofore did the rural and agricultural business of their several parishes, have left the country. The ablebodied men are fast disappearing, and, in another year, the fact will be, without any exaggeration, that there will not be sufficient hands to till the land.
The Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle (Monday) says: - 'For some weeks past, the sums of money drawn out of the Bank of Ireland, by farmers emigrating to America, have been very considerable in amount. However strange it may appear, there have also been sales of Government stock by those farmers in small amounts, but it is in the aggregate to a large sum. In the cash offices of the Bank of Ireland, any day, you can see those frieze-coated emigrants drawing out their savings, preparatory to a winter voyage across the Atlantic.'
'Ill fares the land fast hastening to decay.
Where riches accumulate and men decay.'
1849 - CANADA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1849 Favourite Midleton Quebec 10 Apr DB 2 1849 Lucey Ann Askey Quebec 5 Jun GON 2 1849 Lumley Brennan Quebec 20 Jun DB 2 1849 Mary Carroll Quebec 10 May GON 2 1849 Recovery Burke Quebec 20 May 2 1849 Try Again Clarke Quebec 12 Apr GON 2 1849 Susan Hughes St. Andrews, New Brunswick 3 Apr GON 2 1849 Albion Daly St. John, New Brunswick 7 Apr 30 May GON 1/2 1849 Alexander Stuart Williams St. John, New Brunswick 25 May GON 1/2 1849 Pallas Harvey St. John, New Brunswick 4 May 1 1849 Pallas Hargrave St. John, New Brunswick 12 Mar GON 2 1849 Pallas Hargrave St. John, New Brunswick 3 Apr GON 2 1849 - USA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1849 Mississippi Bryan Baltimore, Maryland 13 Mar DB 2 1849 Adeline Cann _____ Boston 19 Oct GON 2 1849 Albion _____ Boston 27 Sep 12 Nov GON 2/5 1849 Argyle Boston 1 Jun 5 1849 Avernon Boston 14 Feb 5 1849 Clement Boston 28 Apr 5 1849 Competitor/ Competition Coudey Boston 14 Jun 31 Jul DB 2/5 1849 Dahlia Brown Boston 10 Mar DB 2 1849 Dominica Murphy Boston 22 Mar 2 May DB 2/5 1849 Element MacNair Boston 1 Apr DB 2 1849 Garland Boston 3 May 5 1849 Greenock Walker Boston 25 May 2 Jul DB 2/5 1849 Hanford Boston 12 May 5 1849 Isabella Gibbon Boston 26 May GON 2 1849 Jasco Boston 22 Sep 5 1849 John Wesley Boston 7 Jun 5 1849 Lockwoods Errington Boston 5 Nov DB 2 1849 Lucy Ann Askey Boston 20 Jun 11 Aug GON 2/5 1849 Marion Meyler Boston 25 Mar 4 May GON 2/5 1849 Norma Smith Boston 25 Jun DB 2 1849 Pero Wheeler Boston 15 Feb 9 Apr DB 2/5 1849 Princess Royal Driscoll Boston 15 Mar 4 May DB 2/5 1849 Regalus Boston 15 Jun 5 1849 Sandwich Boston 30 Jun 5 1849 St. Petersburg Boston 20 Aug 5 1849 Stella Littlefield Boston 20 May 30 Jun DB 2/5 1849 Thomas Hanford Ronayne Boston 26 Mar GON 2 1849 Three Brothers Boston 22 Jun 5 1849 Urania Cole Boston 5 Apr GON 2 1849 Urianias Boston 6 May 5 1849 Vixen Boston 29 May 5 1849 Wakefield Forbes Boston 5 Jun 19 Jul GON 2/5 1849 Avernon Edgartown, Massachussetts 5 Feb 7 1849 Bridgetown Mills New Orleans 28 Oct DB 2 1849 Letitia Heyn Pyrie New Orleans 14 Feb DB 2 1849 Orion Pray New Orleans 10 Jan DB 2 1849 Alarm Casey New York 12 Mar GON 2 1849 America Beckwith New York 15 Apr 3 May DB 2/5 1849 Asia New York 5 Jul 5 1849 B. M'Ever Hughes New York 20 May DB 2 1849 Birkinhead O Brien Phelan New York 1 Jun 23 Jul GON 2/5 1849 Cambridge New York 13 Mar 5 1849 Canton Packard New York 25 Feb 2 Apr DB 2/5 1849 Effingham Hughes New York 10 Apr 30 May DB 2/5 1849 Emerald M'Carthy New York 20 May 24 Jul GON 2/5 1849 Industry New York 12 Apr 5 1849 Jane New York 5 Jun 5 1849 Lockwood New York 21 Feb 5 1849 Maria Millenger New York 9 Apr 14 Jun GON 2/5 1849 Mary Mitchell Anthony New York 20 Mar 14 May DB 2/5 1849 Orion Driscoll New York 23 May 4 Aug GON 2/5 1849 Richard N. Parker Herbert New York 12 Apr 30 May DB 2/5 1849 St. Laurence Stewart New York 15 Jan DB 2 1849 St. Lawrence New York 7 Apr 5 1849 Swan New York 4 Sep 7 1849 Swan Hogg New York 15 Mar DB 2 1849 Swan Hogg New York 1 Jun DB 2 1849 Swan Hogg New York 20 Jun DB 2 1849 Swan New York 5 Sep 5 1849 Two Sisters New York 13 Jun 5 1849 Victoria Watlington New York 12 Jun DB 2 1849 Wm. Miles Miles New York 1 Apr 3 May GON 2/5 1849 Swan Hogg San Francisco DB 2 1849 Menapia Rossiter Savannah, Georgia GON 2 _________________________________________________________________
1850 - CANADA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1850 Pero Wheeler St. John, New Brunswick 12 Aug GON 2 1850 - USA
Year Ship Master To To Sail On Arrived Agent Source 1850 Alarm Boston 8 Jun 5 1850 Dominica Murphy Boston 1 Mar 23 Apr DB 2/5 1850 Eliza _____ Boston 16 Jun GON 2 1850 John Francis Boston 16 May 5 1850 Leviathan Boston 5 Jan 5 1850 Lucy Anne Carroll Boston 10 Feb DB 2 1850 Pallas Boston 20 May 5 1850 Pandora Boston 16 May 5 1850 Queenstown Martin Boston 6 Feb GON 2 1850 Swift Boston 21 May 5 1850 Thomas Hanford Boston 25 Sep 5 1850 Alfred New York 9 Jul 5 1850 Amalia New York 16 Aug 5 1850 Amelia New York 8 Jul 5 1850 Ashland Rice New York Feb 20 Apr F 2/5 1850 Baron Vey New York 12 Jul 5 1850 British Queen New York 27 May 5 1850 Edward New York 1 May 5 1850 Garland New York 22 Oct 5 1850 Hope New York 6 Aug 5 1850 Julie New York 6 Sep 5 1850 Marion New York 8 Jun 5 1850 Nancy Power New York 15 Sep 27 Nov DB 2/5 1850 Nisida Stewart Fales New York 1 Mar 8 Apr DB 2/5 1850 Queen New York 30 May 5 1850 Republic Marshall New York 12 Sep F 2 1850 Tuscany Prince New York 7 Sep 16 Oct DB 2/5 1850 Wattrow New York 17 May 5 1850 William New York 30 May 5 1850 Wm. Miles New York 26 Jun 5 NEXT - 1851depopulation.htm
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