Description
Book SynopsisApproximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840''s with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising prices and unemployment and a massive outflow of Irish population to the U.S. In the post-Famine period, England''s industrial revolution progressed and emigration continued to grow between the prosperous 1850''s and the mid-1890''s. This series on Emigration from the United Kingdom to America concentrates on U.K. emigration in the period 1870-1897, listing migrants from the U.K. who arrived in New York. The original passenger lists transcribed by shipping agents and ship''s officers and filed by all vessels entering U.S ports have been used in the preparation of Emigration from the United Kingdom to America. Presented in chronological order by each ship''s date of arrival, these passenger
Trade ReviewThis volume, along with volumes 1 and 2, is recommended for reference collections serving family historians. * American Reference Books Annual, March 2008 *
This third volume in the series consists of a list of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish immigrants who arrived at the port of New York from January to June 1871. Arranged chronologically by date of arrival, the passenger lists contain information on age, sex, occupation, nationality, residence, and planned destination, in addition to names, which are in alphabetical order for each manifest. Other information records deaths during the trip, ship names, ports of embarkation, and dates of arrival in New York City. The information comes from the original US ship manifest collection in the National Archives. An introduction provides information on migration theory and background on the emigration. * Reference and Research Book News, November 2007 *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Part 2 List of Codes Part 3 Passenger Lists Part 4 Index
