Emigration From The United Kingdom To America, Vol. 4

Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840's with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising prices and unemployment and a massive outflow of Irish population to the U.S. In the post-Famine period, England's industrial revolution progressed and emigration continued to grow between the prosperous 1850's and the mid-1890's. This series on Emigration from the United Kingdom to America concentrates on U.K. emigration in the period 1870-1897, listing migrants from the U.K. who arrived in New York. The original passenger lists transcribed by shipping agents and ship's officers and filed by all vessels entering U.S ports have been used in the preparation of Emigration from the United Kingdom to America. Presented in chronological order by each ship's date of arrival, these passenger lists provide the names of ships, ports of departure, and arrival and debarkation dates. The researcher can also locate data regarding a person's age, sex, and occupation, as well as village of origin and destination when reported. An important feature of Emigration from the United Kingdom to America is the extensive surname index of ships' passengers included in each volume. These indexes, containing approximately 3 million names for the period 1870-1897, will greatly facilitate the task of finding an ancestor's family name, especially when the exact date or port of arrival in the United States is unknown. In addition to the passenger lists and name indexes, Emigration from the United Kingdom to America includes an introduction to the history of the U.K. migratory movement to the U.S. This series is an invaluable reference work for anyone interested in studying family history or in genealogical research.

Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports, Volume 4: July 1871-April 1872, the fourth in Scarecrow Press's United Kingdom to America series, provides both historians and genealogists with a database of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish immigrants who arrived at the port of New York in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. As in the earlier series-Germans to America and Italians to America-passenger lists are arranged chronologically by passenger date of arrival from Great Britain and Ireland.

These lists make possible a detailed reconstruction of the movement of population from the United Kingdom to the United States. They include information such as the first and last name of each passenger and their age, sex, occupation, nationality, residence, and planned destination. The database was created from the original U.S. ship manifest collection in the National Archives. Ship manifests were filed by all vessels that entered a U.S. port in accordance with the Congressional Act of 1819. Analysis of this information enables researchers to identify aliens returning to the United States, citizens returning to their native, country, persons transiting the United States en route to other destinations, and immigrants. The manifests record deaths during the voyage and indicate the name of the ship, the port of embarkation, and the date of arrival in New York City from July 1871 through April 1872.

Ira Glazier is the former Director of The Center for Migration Research at The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies and Immigration. He is currently the director of castlegarden.org for The Battery Conservancy in New York.