Fig. 75. William Sutton - Particulars of Service. Fig. 76. Charles Pennington - Particulars of Service. Fig. 77. Joseph Young - Particulars of Service. Fig. 78. Francis Wemyss - Particulars of Service. Fig. 79. Thomas Meredith - Particulars of Service. Fig. 80. John Mills - Particulars of Service. Fig. 81. James Guest - Particulars of Service. Fig. 82. George Stewart - Particulars of Service. Fig. 83. John Twohig - Particulars of Service. Fig. 84. William Martin - Particulars of Service. Fig. 85. James Hughes Tunbridge - Particulars of Service. Fig. 86. Mathew Murphy - Particulars of Service. Fig. 87. Thomas Cooper Clarke - Particulars of Service.
Fig. 88. The Port of Quebec. Fig. 89. Queenstown Sunset.
PREFACE After the Napoleonic Wars, Irish migration to North America was minor until the late 1820s when, well before the Great Famine, Irish transatlantic migration gradually increased until the early 1840s witnessed the more rapid growth that prevailed until 1854. In this work I have sought to document the voyages made by Cork-based, and non-Cork- based, sailing ships that carried emigrants from the Port of Cork to North America (British North America and the United States) between 1815 and 1860. This period was familiar to me from previous Cork merchant sailing ship research. This was a period when transatlantic travel was significantly more unpredictable and dangerous than during the subsequent era of the steamship. The relative scale of emigration during this period can best be appreciated by United States data, which documents 35 million immigrants 1815-1914, yet just 5 million (14.29%) prior to 1860, the author’s approximate period of investigation. Two million of these five million were Irish (38.66%) (Cohn 2009, 24-31). During the Famine-inflated migration years of 1845-55, 2 million Irish emigrated: 1.5 million went to the United States, 300,000 to Canada
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