1851 emigration routes to America

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1851 emigration routes to America

Post by smcarberry » Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:03 pm

19 April 1851 [London] Daily News
The Cork Constitution says:
On Saturday last the two steamers from Liverpool were freighted with about 1,000 emigrants notwithstanding that the fare had been raised to 7 s. 6 d., to take shipping in that port for America. The day previous the Lord Broughan and Vaux left Queenstown with emigrants for New York. Thirteen other vessels, at least, are preparing to follow with emigrants from this port. Now that the rival steamers have been withdrawn, and that the fares to Liverpool have been considerably advanced, a much larger number of emigrants will leave this port in the future, direct for America, rather than pay steam fare to Liverpool. So far the withdrawal of the Dublin Company's steamers will be of considerable interest to the shipping interest of this port. The west of this county will be almost depopulated by emigration. Vessels are in all the ports around the coast about to sail with passengers for American."

It is not entirely clear (at least for me) what the reference to the Dublin Company's steamers means. Perhaps the route from Dublin to Liverpool was the one impacted by that "withdrawal" action. Nonetheless, on 1 Aug 1851 the Great Western
Railway was completed so that a train journey was possible from Galway to Dublin. Prior to that, resort to the waterways
of the Shannon north to the Grand Canal was needed to make a journey to Dublin.

Sharon Carberry USA

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