EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND

LIMERICK: — CLOSE OF THE SPRING SEASON

[ The Irish Distress, Interior of a Cabin, 1880, Unknown, D.B. Weldon Library, University of Western Ontario AP5.C13 ]Return of vessells and passengers that sailed from the port of Limerick for North America, from the beginning to the close of the spring season, ending 1st June inst., vis:-

For Quebec -- Jane Black, 422; China, 293; Boreno, 286; Primrose, 258; Ninian, 226; Thetis, 203; Governor, 199; Energy, 193; Bryan Abbs, 193; Sapphier, 186; Anne Moore, 179; Hope, 131; Nerio 131; Marys, 118; John White, 118; Boadicea, 110. For New York -- Shelmalier, 93. For Miramichi -- Ariel, 68. For St. John's New Brunswick--Jessie (Fittock,) 103; Jessie (Ducan,) 93 passengers.

Total vessels, 23. Total passengers, 4084.

This is the largest spring fleet that ever left the Shannon in any year, to cross the Atlantic for America, and conveying, too, the greatest number of passengers. [...]

Source: Unknown, "Emigration from Ireland," The Nenagh Gazette, June 18, 1842. Notes: J.J. Talman Regional Collection, University of Western Ontario Archives, Reaney Papers, Box 26 (B1312), File 53A.

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