In a message dated 10/11/2007 18:29:36 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Can anyone answer a query regarding Seaham Harbour and it's multitude of Irish Immigrants during the mid 1800s? __________________________________________________________ Hi Rob, There were not that many! I get these figures from just entering 'Seaham' in the Ancestry Censuses ; (NB These are different from the figures given on http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com/literature/dawdon.php) In 1851 there were only 2 people born in Ireland out of a total of 412 In 1861 there were only 68 people born in Ireland out of a total of 2,253 In 1871 there were only 54 people born in Ireland out of a total of 2,802 In 1881 there were only 62 people born in Ireland out of a total of 3,099 In 1891 there were only 94 people born in Ireland out of a total of 4,694 In 1901 there were only 297 people born in Ireland out of a total of 15,449 Apart from 1851 this is just 2% of the population for each census. The Irish famine was 1845-9, and in the 1851 census the number of people in Count Durham born in Ireland was just 5% of the total The farming land they owned in Ireland was in County Down, not County Derry. He did not own factories in Seaham, he owned coal mines as well as the Harbour at Seaham. Stan