I read somewhere that they paid a 'head tax' (the landlord) and that you are correct. It was cheaper to ship them out to anywhere rather than pay the tax. I understand this also happened in Scotland. Cynthia Kay Stanton <kay-stanton@cfl.rr.com> wrote: FROM THINGS THAT I'VE READ, IT SEEMS THAT WHEN THE ENGLISH LANDLORD "HELPED" THE TENANT WITH PASSAGE (AT LEAST DURING THE FAMINE), - IT WAS PROBABLY BECAUSE HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT TENANT AND IT WAS CHEAPER TO SEND HIM TO AMERICA! CAN ANYONE CONFIRM THAT? AL? CAN YOU CONFIRM? INCIDENTALLY, HAVEN'T TALKED TO YOU IN A LONG TIME. HOPE YOU'RE DOING WELL. KAY STANTON DAYTONA BEACH, FL ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 10:28 AM Subject: Re: [NEW-ENGLAND-IRISH] pre-1835 Irish migration > Thank you for sharing the reasons your family left Ireland and the other > information like a landowner "helping" a tenant with passage. It adds > more depth to the story for me. > > Sandy > > -------------- Original message from AlRose509@aol.com: -------------- > > >> In a message dated 23-Apr-2007 12:57:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, >> Cothulio@cs.com writes: >> >> My questions: what wuld prompt an Irish family come to the US prior to >> 1835? >> ============== >> My Irish Catholic MARTIN family (a grandfather along with his adult >> married >> children and their families) came from southern County Monaghan to Boston >> MA in >> 1823. The explanation is that they had put up with oppressive ethnic >> extermination long enough. Some with the means to do so left for better >> opprtunities. >> Also, there were incentives for some landlords to pay partial passage for >> tenants to leave. >> >> Anyone with MARTIN, McMAHON, McCLEY, FERRIN, LYONS, McDERRMOTT, LONG, or >> McCULPHER/McCULLOUGH from southern County Monaghan or parish of Killanny >> in >> County >> Monaghan or Louth should take a look at my worldconnect file. >> >> _http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~butchrose_ >> (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/~butchrose) >> >> Al Rose >> Fayettville, NC >> >> >> >> >> ************************************** See what's free at >> http://www.aol.com. >> ====New England Irish Mailing List==== >> Check out the NE-Irish website: >> http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NEIrish/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NEW-ENGLAND-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ====New England Irish Mailing List==== > Check out the NE-Irish website: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NEIrish/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NEW-ENGLAND-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ====New England Irish Mailing List==== Check out the NE-Irish website: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NEIrish/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEW-ENGLAND-IRISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos.