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Emigrant Ships from ...

Updated 22 December 2017.    Update kindly supplied by Helen O’Carroll, Curator/Manager, Kerry County Museum.    (Also  Blennerville; Gateway to Tralee’s Past) View in PDF Name of Ship Destination No. on Board Date of Departure Union St. Johns N.B 87 17 May 1828 Marie British America Unknown 1 Aug 1828 Union St. John, New B. […]

Killarney to Van Die...

This is an unusual blog.  Together with an  Australian PhD candidate, Margaret Coffey, I am trying to identify all or some of the Killarney families who were FREE emigrants to Van Diemens Land [Tasmania] in 1837.   These families were not transported there; a number of the men were tradesmen and they obviously left Kerry in […]

Kerry Emigrants to N...

We are delighted this week to promote an important database of Kerry emigrants to New Zealand between 1860 and 1875.   I have always been intrigued by the number of Kerry people who emigrated there in the first half of the twentieth century, a great number of them from the Ballymacelligott area.   Why New Zealand?   Who […]