In November 1817, officials from the British Colonial Office began to organize for hundreds of families to emigrate from Counties Carlow and Wexford to British North America. The families were to travel to Quebec in Spring 1818. Two lists were compiled, one Roman Catholics and the other Protestant, and they provide the head of household names and the number of family members for 710 Protestant and 281 Catholic families.
First page of Roman Catholic list[1]
First page of Protestant list[2]
The lists survive in the papers
of the Colonial Department and Colonial Office, CO 384 at the National Archives
in England. These papers have been digitized and are available to view in the
database Canada, Immigration and Settlement Correspondence and Lists, 1817-1896 on Ancestry. They have been
indexed, but they are part of thousands of other folios that comprise the
collection. The relevant papers can be browsed by selecting Canada, Immigration and Settlement
Correspondence and Lists, 1817-1896 → Year Range 1871-1851 → (Volume 001)
North America Settlers, 1817 → image
182 (Protestant list) / image 192 (Roman Catholic list).
Transcriptions of these lists are
available to view elsewhere online. The Ship List has transcribed them
and also provide a small amount of analysis to help researchers.
It is important to remember that
these lists provide information about families that intended to emigrate. They
may never have actually emigrated or other families could have also travelled.
[1]
United Kingdom, War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office, Emigration
Original Correspondence 1817–1857 and 1872–1896, CO 384/1, p. 188, A Release of
Roman Catholic families preparing to emigrate from the counties of Carlow and
Wexford in the insuing Spring [New] Ross 29th November 1817; digital image,
"Canada, Immigration and Settlement
Correspondence and Lists, 1817-1896," (http://www.ancestry.com),
Ancestry, accessed 18 June 2016.
[2] United
Kingdom, War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office, Emigration Original
Correspondence 1817–1857 and 1872–1896, CO 384/1, p. 178, A Release of Protestant
families preparing to emigrate from the counties of Carlow and Wexford in the
insuing Spring [New] Ross 29th November 1817; digital image, "Canada, Immigration and Settlement
Correspondence and Lists, 1817-1896," (http://www.ancestry.com),
Ancestry, accessed 18 June 2016.
Jos, Thank you very much for posting this! I'm pretty sure my great great grandfather, Jonathan Love, is on this list. :)
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