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. […]
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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 […]
Cost of Ship Fares f...
Cost of Fares from the Port of Tralee (Blennerville) 1828-1877 See also a list of the Emigrant Ships from the Port of Tralee