On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Mary Simpson wrote: > Has anyone done any research on the likely routes from Kerry / Cork to London > after the famine? I know that a lot is known on the trans-Atlantic routes > to Canada and the USA, with names of passengers and ships etc. etc., but is > there any Info on Ireland - England routes? > > All or any advice gratefully received, Based on my reading of shipping news in the mid-19th century Cork Examiner, those wishing to go from Cork or Kerry to England would most likely take one of the vessels from Cork or Queenstown to Liverpool. As it wasn't until the late 1850s or early 1860s that larger steam powered vessels began to call regularly at Queenstown to pick up additional passengers for North America, this was the customary route for emigrants leaving Munster. There were of course, small vessels that occasionally took passengers from lesser ports bound for England and Wales. Colliers, for example, rather than return to Welsh ports empty, would take on passengers at very low fares in accomodations that were scarcely adequate to human comfort. Keep in mind, however, that it is unlikely you will find any records anywhere of the names of passengers travelling from one part of the United Kingdom to another. The exception to this is if the vessel was lost and a list of casualties and/or survivors was published in a newspaper. See http://immigrantships.net/newsarticles/newsarticles.html for examples. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, Irish Maritime News Acton, Mass. | http://immigrantships.net/newsarticles/newsarticles.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -