Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

1822 A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage Emigrants Source

FIDELITY

W Lilburn

13 Apr

Quebec 31 May 1822

190 settlers

2 8

UNION

Robert Patterson William Stewart

New York 2 Jun 1822

26 emigrants

4 8

SIR JAMES KEMPT

15 Apr

Quebec 12 Jun 1822 Quebec 6 Jul 1822 Quebec 8 Jul 1822 New York 16 Aug 1822 Quebec 21 Aug Quebec 10 Sep New York 21 Sept 1822 Quebec 28 Aug Quebec 12 Oct 1822

255 settlers 104 settlers

2 8

EARL TALBOT W Batters

17 May

2 8

GEORGE & ELIZABETH

L Rennison

23 May

82 settlers 2 8

GRAND TURK John O’Hara

1 emigrant 4 8

TRUE BLUE MARGARET

Hodgson

26 Jun

63 settlers 2 8 25 settlers 2 8 38 settlers 4 8

J. Fox

47d

JOHN & ADAM EFFORT

J. R. Tabor

W. Farrant

27 Jul 20 Aug

7 settlers 3 settlers

2 8 2 8

SIR JAMES KEMPT

William Stewart

B-LIST Brig Stanton

– (port unknown) arrived at Quebec from Cork 31 May (35 d) with 55 settlers.

RELATED NEWS and EVENTS * Famine in Ireland and the RIC

The Irish famine of 1822 was caused by a partial potato crop failure in Connacht and southwest Munster, leading to an increase in agrarian agitation: the Whiteboys and Ribbonmen. The British government’s reaction came in the form of public works projects, the Insurrection Act of February 1822, and the Irish Constabulary Act of August 1822, forming a national police force – the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Overpopulation and lack of job opportunities stimulated further conversation about assisted Irish emigration and resettlement plans which would include Peter Robinson settling an Irish contingent from Cork in Upper Canada in 1823. This argument was put forward for assisted emigration: …for example, if a redundant population be one cause and a principal one of the disorders in Ireland, it would be a great benefit to the state to discharge that surplus; but it is essential to the nature of a redundant population that it is and ever will be unable to discharge itself. Besides, it would be better in every way to expend money in sending out and settling on unoccupied land, a great redundant population, than to expend nearly as much in maintaining a military force, and supporting extraordinary judicial proceedings, to reduce the number by the sword or the gibbet ( Montreal Herald 22 Jun 1822-The Ships List ).