Irish Migration To Australia 1900s
. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger as an assisted migrant a member of a ships crew in military or naval service or as a convict. As yet there are few takers.
They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger as an assisted migrant a member of a ships crew in military or naval service or as a convict. Highlights good national county and local sources across the decades. As yet there are few takers.
In the 1900 census there were still hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants living in poverty mostly in urban slums.
These settlers formed the basis of early Australian society. The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since the Early Middle Ages but it can be quantified only from around 1700. Total Irish 16892 The Irish exodus to Australia of this period is something that warrants much closer study. Most of them were from the British Isles but some were from Europe and Asia.
