Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

* BNA Settler Arrivals The number recorded for 1822 in the Canadian sessional papers, for all British North American Colonies, was 16,013 ; an increase of about 3,000 over 1821. The Montreal Gazette reports in excess of 10,000 for the port of Quebec in 1822. Emigration from Irish ports to Quebec comprised by far the largest number, approximately 7,670. The above Canadian sessional papers site is provided by The Ships List and offers the reader useful UK emigration totals for BNA, the US, and Australia from 1815 to 1860 for perusal (the same list can be found in the 1860 US Census Report). 1823 A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage

Emigrants

Source

CERES

J Walker

11 Apr

Quebec 22 May 1823 Quebec 25 May 1823 PEI 12 Jun Quebec 3 Jul New York 26 Apr 1823 Quebec 31 Aug 1823 Quebec 5 Sep Quebec 27 Sep 1823 Quebec 4 Oct

67 settlers

1 2 8

SIR JAMES KEMPT GENERAL ELLIOT HOWARD

William Stewart J Frank

24 Apr

118 settlers

2 8

3 May

30 settlers/113 passengers

2 8 15

Wm Stocking

emigrants

4 8

HEBE

W Hare

8 Jul

51 d

287 settlers + Dr J Dickson 134 settlers

2 8

ALCHYMIST J Stevens

57 d

2 8 2 8

SIR JAMES KEMPT

William Stewart

13 Aug

13 settlers

ST CHARLES J Leslie

30 Aug

10 settlers

2 8

B-LIST Ship William

– of Liverpool arrived at New York from Cork 26 Apr with emigrants. – of London arrived at Quebec 2 Sept from Cork with 291 settlers and Mr. P Robinson.

Stakesby

RELATED NEWS and EVENTS * Peter Robinson’s First Supervised Emigration Group

Peter Robinson, a member of Upper Canada’s legislative assembly, supervised the emigration of over 2,500 Irish emigrants to Quebec in the years 1823 and 1825. In 1823, Dr Dickson accompanied settlers on the Hebe , and they proceeded from Quebec to Montreal on the steamboat Lady Sherbrooke . Peter Robinson and Dr Hamilton (RN) accompanied the settlers on Stakesby , and they proceeded from Quebec to Montreal on the steamboat New Swiftsure . Most of the emigrants were chosen from the area north of the Blackwater River in Cork from the estates of a few landlords, though a number of the Kinsella family, presumably from the southeast of Ireland, also went. Eight landowners chose 239 families with 37 other landowners picking the remaining 68 families. Emigrants were required to be peasants, and Roman Catholic, although several Protestant families were chosen. No person over the age of