Irish Immigration In 1840s
. Clevelands Irish population like that in many other cities did not reach a significant number until the potato famine immigrations in the late 1840s. The two shipss manifests below provide a picture of the background of typical immigrants arriving in New York as a result of the potato famine.
For Boston Baltimore New Orleans and Philadelphia the database covers only the famine years between 1846 and 1851. It records Irish English Scottish and Welsh immigrants arriving at the main US ports. In the 1840s immigration had dropped off in Australia and was a lull period in assisted immigrants.
It was high in the late 1720s and low in the 1730s before rising in the 1740s and continuing to grow until the 1760s when some 20000 departed from Ulster ports alone.
Interestingly pre-famine immigrants from Ireland were predominately male while in the famine. If youre seeing this message it means were having trouble loading external resources on our website. The immigrants who arrived in the United States in the late 1840s and 1850s were not a cross section of the Irish population. In the 1840s the Irish potato sent waves of migrants who could afford passage fleeing starvation in the countryside.
