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Assisted Passage - Schemes - from Ireland

Hello,

Well I am not talking about Convicts in this instance but people set up various schemes to move people from Ireland to possibly "better" opportunities abroad. Either to provide true opportunity or to get rid of a problem.....

In the Irish emigrants video on Ireland XO the Peter Robinson Scheme (North Cork) and the James Tuke Scheme (Galway?) were mentioned and I have heard of others. Hoever these do not seem to be recorded in any one central place and so discovery of them is haphazard?

It occurs to me that we could make a list of these as members find them for others to use, from this site? We need every record to help people make the, often difficult or impossible, connection back into Ireland?

Please post any known schemes here?

Seamus

Seamus Crowe, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

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Thanks for the comment and listing

These were in the Ireland XO website video, I hope these notes ar correct?

Peter Robinson Scheme in North Cork in the early 1820s   www.olivetree genealogy.com

Talbot Emigration Scheme 1818 - 1880

James Tuke Emigration Scheme Galway     mentioned on a blog - ionaddeirbhile  ?

 

Seamus Crowe, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

My GTGT grandmother Mary Crowe came from the Limerick workhouse in 1852 and travelled to Western Australia on the ship "Travancore".  Her father was William Crowe and it is possible that she was baptised at Parteen in Co Clare. She married Henry Flynn in Australind W.A. and raised a family of five in Dardanup and Ferguson W.A.  She died at Dardanup in 1884.  Norm Flynn (normflyn@bigpond.net.au) 19.11.2020

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Hi Flynn,

Thanks for the message but this is not about individual travel but established schemes set up by individuals or groups?

If she came from the Workhouse,

  • was there a scheme under which she travelled?
  • Or was her Workhouse experience temporary as it was supposed to be (it was also a medical centre of sorts for temporary treatment) and she made her own way to Australia later

It would be good to know who paid for her transport?

Regards

Shay

Seamus Crowe, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Hi Shay,  She came with 30 other young women from the Limerick Workhouse under a scheme funded by the Colonial Land and Emigration Commission. On their ship the "Travancore" there were  also 30 women from Tipperary and 26 from Co Kerry. They arrived in Western Australia in January 1853.  In that same year three other ships - "The Palestine", the "Sabrina" and the "Clara" also arrived (the Brideships) bringing a total of approx. 400 women. The respective workhouses had to provide each young woman with a trunk containing a basic wardrobe and a small amount of cash.  Apart from easing overcrowding in the workhouses the women were brought to W.A.in response to a colonial government request to provide labour as servants and to counter the imbalance of the sexes created by the large influx of male convicts to the colony. The publication 'Teampall Ban - Aspects of the Famine in north Kerry 1845-1852', by John D. Pierse provides much information on the women from Kerry. A publication entitled 'The Brideships' by West Australian author Rica Erickson gives a full treatment to the immigration of the women in W.A.  Regards,  Norm Flynn

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Hello,

Thanks Flynn

Excellent explanation, I assumed from your posts you had more to say but this was really informative.

People have so much of this information but rarely get a chance to put it in a place where it could be found and inspire others, especially here.

I am as guilty as anyone about reading these references but not collecting them. Until IrelandXO made their post. This type of resource is especially useful for working back to the mother country and especially relevant here. It will encourage others to look for these schemes.7

Thanks again for the extra information.

Shay

Seamus Crowe, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

Another from IrelandXO ?

Between 1848-1850, Earl Grey's Famine Orphan Scheme saw a total of 4,114 young Irish women resettled in the Australian colonies. The first orphan girls arrived from Ireland aboard the Lady Kennaway on September 11th, 1848.

These young women, aged 14 to 20, had been orphaned by the famine and were recruited from workhouses across the 32 counties of Ireland. The scheme was devised by Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to relieve overcrowding in the Irish workhouses and to meet the demand for domestic labourers and single young women in the colonies.

Due to growing anti-Irish, anti-Catholic sentiment in the colony, the scheme was short-lived. The last group arrived in Sydney on Tippoo Saib in July 1850.

 

Seamus Crowe, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘IrelandXO Volunteer

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