Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

Edwin of St John’s Newfoundland sailed for St John New Brunswick 24 Jul with emigrants. Water Witch (schooner, port unknown) arrived at Halifax from St John’s Newfoundland 28 Jul with 9 (Irish) passengers (The Novascotian 1836). * Emigration to Quebec from Cork ‘By 1836 , 20% of Irish emigrants bound for Quebec sailed from Cork, making the southern port the biggest Irish dispatcher of such emigrants’ (McCarthy 2019, 204). * Republic of Texas Declared In 1821 Mexico won its independence from Spain and Mexican Texas was part of the new federalist nation. Texas, being sparsely populated, was so vulnerable to Indian attack and plunder that Mexico encouraged colonization from the US, which eventually produced an American majority. In 1835 the Mexican military was activated to subject all Texas to the centralist government in Mexico City, precipitating the Texas Revolution of 1835 , won by American Texan forces who declared the Independent Republic of Texas in 1836 . 1837 A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage Emigrants

Source

TRY AGAIN

R Heacock

13 Mar

New York 24 Apr 1837 St Andrews NB New York 16 May 1837

emigrants

1 4 8

ELIZA ANN DOMINICA CLIFTON ORLEANS

William Hyde 7 Apr

emigrants emigrants emigrants emigrants emigrants emigrants emigrants emigrants

1 8 4 8

H Bowman

John Dunn

16 Apr

Quebec

1 8

Tom Meredith 23 Apr

St John NB

1 8 9

SWAN HENRY

W Errington John Elliot

23 Apr 24 Apr 3 May 3 May

Quebec

1 8

St John NB

KANGAROO BOB LOGIC

W Garde

Quebec

1 8 1 8 1 8

Hull

St John NB

CHAMPLAIN John Mills

3 Jul

Quebec

B-LIST Ship Baltimore Brig Thetus

– of Plymouth sailed for Boston from Greenock via Cork 6 Apr with emigrants. Arrived 17 May. – of Troon, Hamilton, sailed for Bathurst NB from Cork 12 Apr with passengers. 41 labourers, 17 women, 11 children – of Aberdeen sailed for Quebec from Cork 17 Apr with emigrants. --(port unknown) sailed for St John NB from Cork 17 Apr with emigrants. – of Hull sailed for St John NB from Cork 23 Apr with emigrants. – (port unknown) sailed for St John NB from Cork 24 Apr with emigrants. – (port unknown) sailed for Quebec from Cork 2 May with emigrants. – ( port unknown) sailed for Quebec from Cork 3 May with emigrants. – (port unknown) sailed for St John NB from Cork 19 May with emigrants.

Amity

James Seyre

Campion

Idea Ann

Canada

Sarah Nancy