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 New Zealand
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 from Kerry 1828-1877
Cost of Fares from the Port of Tralee (Blennerville) 1828-1877 See also a list of the Emigrant Ships from the Port of Tralee