The number of Clare names on the website of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild ( http://immigrantships.net/index.html ) has increased enormously of late. The site is well worth a browse/search.
Whilst few, if any, of the ships' lists contain very detailed information on the passengers (e.g. "Mary Ryan, Seamstress, County Clare, townland of Shanballywhatever, born 12.08.1826....") the information they do contain can be indirectly very useful. Thus a simple name and a date (e.g. "Mary Ryan, Co.Clare, ship Good Hope to Moreton Bay, October 1851") may confirm/augment information you already have or things you may have suspected from your previous research and, by telling you where the ship went to, may point you to archives in the destination country. Also, on browsing the ships' registers one occasionally comes across lists of people from a specific locality/townland in the County who emigrated on the same same ship, thus possibly allowing conclusions as to family relationships (and, by the way, providing historical information about an important event in that locality, i.e. a mass exodus on a given date).
Others on this forum might profit from these registers in other ways. I'd be interested to hear examples.
Paddy
ISTG - lots of names of Clare emigrés
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Re: ISTG - lots of names of Clare emigrés
Thank you for this alert, Paddy. We've added a link to the Clare names on the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild website on our Genealogy Links page (under Emigration Records). See http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/links/genealogy.htm. As you say, there is a substantial set of names on this website of Clare interest. Regards,
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Re: ISTG - lots of names of Clare emigrés
Thanks for posting that on the Library site, Admin.
There we go ! The first ship on this list (the ship Charles, Limerick, Ireland to Baltimore, Maryland, 1 February 1849) gives an excellent example of family and locality groups of passengers which allow interesting genealogical and sociological conclusions. It seems, for example, that a large part of the town of Askeaton upped sticks and left in one go in1849, and the Mangan family of Rathkeale pops up there as a cluster which is surely identifiable to a Mangan family historian. There are numerous other examples in that list. In fact, just that one ship's list is a goldmine of information in itself.
Paddy
There we go ! The first ship on this list (the ship Charles, Limerick, Ireland to Baltimore, Maryland, 1 February 1849) gives an excellent example of family and locality groups of passengers which allow interesting genealogical and sociological conclusions. It seems, for example, that a large part of the town of Askeaton upped sticks and left in one go in1849, and the Mangan family of Rathkeale pops up there as a cluster which is surely identifiable to a Mangan family historian. There are numerous other examples in that list. In fact, just that one ship's list is a goldmine of information in itself.
Paddy