The first place that I profiled for the Census Series posts was Scranton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. In this series, I highlight examples from censuses where the Irish county or place of origin was noted for those that were enumerated. Tables have been compiled showing the number of Irish county examples for all other places in the United States that I have written about, except Scranton. This has now been rectified.
Almost 600 people from Ireland had their counties of birth record by William Carling as he traveled around the 12th Ward of Scranton in his job as a census enumerator for 1860. Scranton is know for its large Irish-American population of Mayo origin and this is reflected in this ward. Carling did not record the county of origin for every Irish person that he met, but we can see that more than half of those that he did were from the western county.
County
|
Approx. no of entries
|
Mayo
|
348
|
Sligo (incl. Slago)
|
89
|
Tipperary
|
31
|
Cork
|
23
|
Kerry
|
17
|
Down
|
9
|
Waterford
|
9
|
Kilkenny (incl. Killshiney, Killiney, Kilenny, Klinny)
|
7
|
Limerick
|
7
|
Cavan
|
5
|
Laois (Queens)
|
5
|
Leitrim (incl. Lutraim)
|
5
|
Dublin
|
4
|
Offaly (Kings)
|
4
|
Galway
|
3
|
Roscommon
|
3
|
Antrim (incl. Belfast)
|
2
|
Armagh
|
2
|
Tyrone
|
2
|
Donegal
|
1
|
Longford (incl. Longfort)
|
1
|
Meath
|
1
|
Unknown (Fairfield)
|
4
|
TOTAL
|
582
|
Wow you have done some great research here finding the consensus records. I did not know so many people in Pennsylvania were of Irish origin.
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