Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

Fig. 8: Steamships Nimrod and Athlone Leaving Cork for Liverpool with Emigrants. The Nimrod , built in Liverpool, operated between Liverpool and Cork until wrecked in an 1860 storm travelling to Cork with loss of all twenty-five crew and twenty passengers. * Famine and Increased Emigration Total UK emigrants in 1846 was I29,831 ; distribution: BNA: 33.5%, US: 63%. The Irish component in the UK passenger mix is discussed in Part ll and was approximately 60% on BNA-bound ships and 70% of British and Irish citizens on US-bound ships. Emigrants from Cork in 1846: BNA – 5,683 , USA – 1,383 (McCarthy 2019, 270). Again consistent with this Cork Calendar of Ships for 1846 * The Oregon Treaty (1846) This treaty was signed 15 Jun 1846 between Great Britain and the USA, finally settling the Oregon Territory border dispute along the 49th parallel , with Vancouver Island going to the British and the San Juan Islands in Puget Sound ultimately going to the US. Timing was optimal for the British, since the Americans had been intent on a larger land grab but were quite occupied by the Mexican War of 1846-48. 1847 A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage

Emigrants

Sourc e

HENRY PATTERSON ST LAWRENCE

John Keohane 21 Mar

New York

78 emigrants

1 8

J Bullen

24 Mar

New York New York

101 emigrants 47 emigrants 120 emigrants 7 dd Part. Isle. Emigrants: 15 died Part. Isle. Emigrants: 1dd 26 dd Part. Isle.

1 8 1 8

ISABELLA

John Gibbons 25 Mar

MARY

J Dunbar

30 Mar

St John NB 23 May 1847 St John NB May 1847

1 2 8 12 2 8 12

GOVERNOR DOUGLAS

*William Hyde

Apr

PALLAS

*Robert Hall

2 Apr

St John NB 22 May 1847

50 d

1 2 8 12