Irish Immigration To Australia 1850
. But in the following year they again rose to 214425. 13 there is notice of funds provided to the British Emigration Commissioners by colonial revenues for assisted passage by New South Wales Victoria and South Australiaalso stated for the moment is that funds were also available for Western Australia and Van Diemens Land but no funds were available for.
As a result between 1849 to 1851 4000 Irish Famine orphan girls were brought to Australia from workhouses across Ireland with 1700 arriving. Starvation and diseased claimed around a million lives during 1845-1850 which lead to almost twice that number to emigrate to other countries including a majority into the United States. A guide Guide to immigration records held at the Public Record Office of Victoria.
Shipping arrivals and departures Victorian ports Three volume set covering the years 1798-1860.
Owing to a slight lessening of the potato blight and a consequent improvement in the harvest of 1847 there was an arrest of the exodus in the beginning of 1848 when the numbers who emigrated only amounted to 178159. In the 1850s there were 230000 assisted migrants representing about 50 per cent of all migrants. But in the following year they again rose to 214425. Passages to Australia 1853.
