Westward Cork Migration by Sail 1815-1860 by John Sutton

PART I CALENDAR OF CORK EMIGRANT SHIP SAILINGS 1815-60

* Cholera in St John NB and New York A major cholera epidemic hit St John NB in 1854 with the loss of at least 1,000 of the city’s 30,000 residents. Sanitation standards there during “the year of the cholera” were dreadful. 2,000 died in New York City (Part ll).

1855 A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage Emigrants Source

GARLAND

Reardon

10 Jun

St John NB

emigrants 1 8

B-LIST Breadalbane

–of Pictou sailed for New York from Cork 2 Apr with emigrants. Arrived 22 May 1855 –port unknown) sailed for Baltimore from Cork 2 May with emigrants. – of Limerick sailed for Quebec from Cork 28 May with emigrants. Two vessels of this name were documented to have sailed with emigrants at this time: Captains Ryan and Moriarty. –

Adelphine

Hope

RELATED NEWS and EVENTS * Shipping News Boston Passenger Arrival Lists 1855-56 missing. New Orleans Passenger Ship Arrival Records: 1854: 449 ships. But in 1856 only 171. ships. * Panama Railway between Atlantic and Pacific Completed The Panama Railway Company linked the ports of Aspinwall (Atlantic coast) and Panama City (Pacific coast) across the Panama isthmus, greatly facilitating travel between the east and west coasts of America before the US Transcontinental Railway. This two-stage ship route reduced the voyage from New York to San Francisco by 7,872 miles. When Captain Ulysses Grant made the journey with his regiment in 1852 the 47-mile rail-line was only half- completed, cholera broke out, and he lost one-tenth of his troops. Prior to rail it was a perilous jungle short-cut due to disease and bandits.

1856

A-LIST

Ship

Captain

Cork Dep

Arrival

Voyage Emigrants

Source

PALLAS

Spillane

27 Apr

Wrecked en route to Quebec in 1856 New York April

emigrants

1 8

CANADA

Herbert

emigrants

9 13

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