Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

* UK Emigration Returns Total UK emigration in 1842 was 128,344. Distribution: BNA: 42%, US: 50%, Australia: 7%.

The Cork Calendar of Ships for 1848, and the above letter from the St John Emigration Office demonstrate, yet again, the preference of Cork emigrants for BNA and St John NB particularly during 1842. (See St John in Parts ll and lll) 1843 A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage Emigrants Source

TRY AGAIN Richard Heacock

13 Apr

Quebec

emigrants 1 8

URANIA LOUISA URANIA

Thomas Clarke 22 Apr

Quebec

emigrants 1 8 emigrants 1 10 12 emigrants 1 8

Henry Deaves Thomas Cooper Clarke

Apr

St John 19 May

27 Jul

Quebec

B-LIST Coxon

– of Newcastle sailed for Quebec from Cork 13 May with emigrants. Thomas Nailor – of Liverpool sailed for Quebec from Cork 17 May with emigrants. Arrived at St John NB 4 Jul (possible discrepancy noted) Martha – of Seaton arrived at St John NB 7 Jul with emigrants. --(port unknown) sailed for Quebec from Cork 23 May with emigrants.

Lawrence Forreston Joseph Everard Henry Bless

– (port unknown) sailed for New York from Cork 12 Oct with emigrants.

– (port unknown) sailed for New York from Cork 25 Oct with emigrants.

RELATED NEWS and EVENTS * Shipping News No direct emigrant ship arrivals at New York from Cork among the 889 ships documented in M237 Records (author). Bad weather and many shipwrecks in 1843, including 120 British wrecks on just one day, 13 Jan (Shipwrecks: Wiki). * Emigration downturn (1843) Emigration from UK at 57,212 was down more than 50% to BNA and the US. The cause was not clear. The decline is reflected in the above Cork A-List and B-List Calendar of Ships for 1843. 614 emigrants voyaged from Cork to Canada in 1843 , and none to the US (McCarthy 2019, 270). * The Oregon Trail Marcus Whitman, a physician, missionary and experienced western wagon traveler, led one thousand pioneers successfully across the plains and firmly established the Oregon Trail. ‘The exodus across the plains in the fifteen years before the Civil War (1861-65), when more than 400,000 pioneers made the (2,000 mile) trek from the western frontier at the