Author: Jim Rees
Title: Surplus People: The Fitwilliam Clearances 1847-1856
Binding: Paper
Book Condition: New
Publisher: Cork The Collins Press 2000
ISBN Number: 1-898256-93-4
Our Product Number: IRE048
156 pp., illus., index. The Irish Famine was a catastrophe of immense proportions. In the east of Ireland, County Wicklow declined by 27,000 people. Landlords, eager to dispose of "surplus" tenantry, engaged in "assisted passages," whreby tenants were given incentives to emigrate. The most important of these passages is explored by historian Jim Rees (A Farewell to Famine). Lord Fitzwilliam's 80,000-acre estate was the largest in Wicklow. From 1847 to 1856, he removed 6,000 men, women, and children and arranged their passage to Canada. Most were destitute on arrival with little more than what they wore on their backs. For many, their hope of working for a railway company never happened. Rees focuses on the infamous Grosse Ile Quarantine Station near Quebec, where thousands died from typhus, and on the fate of some families in St. Andrews, New Brunswick.
Keywords: Genealogy British Isles Ireland
Price = 16.95 USD
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