Irish Immigration To Australia 1870s
. The Great Famine in the 1840s - a result of the potato. Find the correct fiche number of your passenger list by consulting the information booklet Assisted immigration to Victoria.
It records Irish English Scottish and Welsh immigrants arriving at the main US ports. For Boston Baltimore New Orleans and Philadelphia the database covers only the famine years between 1846 and 1851. 100 Irish Catholic immigrants who made up about 75 of the total Irish population 96 were largely responsible for the establishment of a separate Catholic school system.
Find the correct fiche number of your passenger list by consulting the information booklet Assisted immigration to Victoria.
The vast majority of those that had arrived previously had been Protestants or Presbyterians and had quickly assimilated not least because English was their first language and most but certainly not all had skills and perhaps some small savings on which to start to build a new life. The National Archives of Australia has a collection of finding aids at recordsearchnaagovau. For many emigration to either the Americas or Australia was the answer. Access to the database is free through this website.
