Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

RELATED NEWS and EVENTS * Cove Shipping News John Howard departed Cove 8 Aug 1825 in ballast. However, she arrived with 29 settlers. * Crown Colony of Newfoundland and Labrador acknowledged Newfoundland was the first British overseas colony, claimed for the Crown in 1583. In 1809 Britain broke Labrador off from the Province of Lower Canada and joined it to the colony of Newfoundland, which officially became the Crown Colony of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1825. The Colony would not join Canada as a Province until 1949. 30,000- 35,000 Irish migrants settled in Newfoundland in the first three decades of the nineteenth century, of whom 90% came from southeast Ireland. The vast majority of Irish came from Waterford and its hinterland, up to 30 miles from the port. They came specifically from southwest Wexford, south Carlow, south Kilkenny, southeast Tipperary, southeast Cork, and county Waterford. The only notable pocket of migration outside the southeast was around Dingle, in distant Kerry. https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/irish-newfoundland.php * Peter Robinson’s Second Supervised Emigration Group List of Peter Robinson’s Supervised Sailings of nine emigrant ships for Upper Canada from Cork in 1825. Fortitude, departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 10 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. See Passenger-list Resolution , departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 10 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. See passenger-list Albion , departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 11 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. Brunswick departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 11 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. Amity departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 16 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. Regulus departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 16 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. Star , departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 13 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. Elizabeth departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 18 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June. John Barry , departed from Cork Harbor, Cork, Ireland 25 May and arrived in Quebec City, Canada, at the end of June (many details from The Ships List ). Peter Robinson opened and settled much of the Ottawa Valley and was, I believe, very well intentioned when in 1825, according to author Bill LaBranche, he once again, as Superintendent: ‘…hustled his Settlers onto the nine ships that awaited them. A total of 2,024 people were crowded onto those nine ships causing ship fever which resulted in several deaths during the voyage’. The outcomes: ● 1,859 Irish people settled in the Newcastle district of Ontario

● 67 settled in the Bathurst district ● 30 remained with friends at Kingston ● 5 were absent at Cobourg ● 145 died at sea and in Canada.