Cost of Fares from the Port of Tralee (Blennerville) 1828-1877
See also a list of the Emigrant Ships from the Port of Tralee
Cost of Fares from the Port of Tralee (Blennerville) 1828-1877
See also a list of the Emigrant Ships from the Port of Tralee
Many thanks for all your very imformative bulletins, Kay,
Mike..
Mike, glad you find them informative. I mean to do a lot more but sometimes life catches up with me & I dont get time. Kay
Your doing an excellent job , Kay, so I hope you can keep it up. Mind yourself. I haven’t progressed any further on my own family tree.
Mike
Terrific data Kay, thanks for this.
Ken
Ken, glad you find it useful. Hope you are keeping well in these depressing times. Kay
Hi Kay,
I always look forward to receiving the information you gather, so thank you.
I was wondering if there was some way of determining what these amounts would translate to in todays money?
Best,
Chris
Mary Christina, I would recommend the Bank of England Sterling Inflation Calculator. I have used this myself in calculating monetary figures from the 1750s to 2019 in my forthcoming book The Fall of the Fitzmaurices: The Demise of Kerry’s First Family.
I’m so looking forward to reading your book, do you have any idea when it will be published?
chris
you can also do on google. just put in the year and irish pound and ask what is worth today or http://www.measuringworth.com will do a $ and pounds.; for any two sets of years. 1858 1 pound sterling is about 100 pounds in 2018
I look forward to your bulletins – great information.
Just wondering if Picton NS should be Pictou?
Barbara I have no idea whether it should be ‘Picton’ or ‘Pictou’. I picked up ‘Picton’ from an old transcription. Can you tell me more about Pictou? Thank you, Kay
https://www.townofpictou.ca
This is a link to Pictou I do not think there is a Picton in Nova Scotia. Pictou is considered the birthplace of New Scotland.
The link should give you a map which shows that it is a port town.
Today it is a lovely tourist region complete with Scottish bagpipe parades and rustic lodge hotels.
Barbara, I am sure now that you are correct about Pictou. In a lot of cases just ‘Nova Scotia’ is mentioned so it looks like an incorrect old transcription. I will change it now to Pictou. Thank you for this information. Kay
Hi Kay,
Thank you for this information. Will there be anything else published re departures from Tralee… in the 1860’s and 1880’s?
Best and Happy Easter,
Greg Burns
Great work Kay. Thanks for your very interesting articles which I look forward to reading. Keep safe.
Thanks Maurice. Hoping you are keeping well yourself in these difficult times. Arthur and myself are ‘ag clutharú’ (I won’t use that awful word ‘cocooning’) here and to-day it looks like it will go on for another while. Oh for a trip to Ballybunion and the fresh air there. Kay
Very interesting, corresponds to family lore that a Castleisland, Kerry ancestor left with 10 shillings in his pocket in 1876, bound initially for England to then catch a ship for New Zealand. His fare to NZ was then paid by the provincial government, having to then commit to staying for a specified time in the new country. Few went back.
Russell, yes most of those who emigrated to Australia and New Zealand had their passages paid by the imperial government. It was one way of getting to a better life.
Kay,
This is fascinating. There are many researchers like me who appreciate information like this and never write to thank the author/researcher, so thank you! This was a nice bright spot in my otherwise fruitless research of my elusive Kerry and Cork ancestors who immigrated to Savannah, Chatham, Georgia, USA.
Stay safe,