Emigration and Immigration

Anonymous 1830 Image from The Art of European Migration

Highland Clearances

For those interested in the Highland Clearances, information is available using the following example as a guide.

If you google "Metagama" you will get some ship passenger lists from 1920's. This is a small example - 404 names on this list mostly from Scotland. Departed Glasgow, Scotland on Friday, June 22, 1923 Departed Belfast, Ireland on Saturday, June 23, 1923

Trans-Atlantic Sailing to Quebec and Montreal, Canada, July 5, 1923

THIS was a C.P.R. liner, come to Lewis to take on those whom Manny Shinwell later described in Parliament as "the best of Scottish manhood". The Metagama sailed on Saturday the 21st of April, 1923. From all over Lewis, they crowded into Stornoway on the Friday. Cromwell Street echoed with the banter and excited anticipation of those about to leave, mingling with the sadness of those who had come to say goodbye. (This is From West Side historical Society on Google - out of the 300 who sailed that day only 20 were NOT young men, the average age was 22.) It decimated the Island Communities and to this day they have not recovered.

Shipping and Passenger Lists

• Sources for transcribed passenger records and indexes

• The Ships List

• Unassisted Immigration to Victoria

• Assisted British Immigration

• Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852-1876

• Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters

• Convictions Australian Shipping

• Gateway page to Online AUSNZ Passenger Lists

• NSW Assisted Immigrants 1839-96

• Passenger lists on the internet

• Queensland Indexes - Immigration 1848-1884

• Child emigration from Great Britain to Canada between 1869 and the early 1930s

• Highlands and Islands to Australia

• Searchable database of Emigrants from the Netherlands to Australia between 1946 and 1991

• Dutch passenger lists pre-1736

• Dutch passenger lists after 1736

Links

• Ulster ancestry has a lot of information on its free pages, both passenger lists and some lists of emigrants...

• A Scottish emigration database

• Ellis Island

• Nottinghamshire Colonists to South Africa 1820

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