Hi folks, The current issue of the New England Ancestors (winter 2006) has a letter from George L. Trigg regarding a previous article on the "mill Irish" identifying another group of Irish... besides 'shanty' and 'lace curtain' -- which he doesn't mention but 'famine', that he does. That's 'dissenting Irish', as he calls them. His source is a book I believe I scanned and learned a lot from too. It's "Irish Migrants in the Canadas" by Bruce S. Elliott, now in its second edition (2004) from McGill-Queens University Press. This book describes a migration of people from Ireland from 1820 to perhaps 1855 (he says) when (he says) authorities were making efforts to reduce the number of dissenters in Ireland, ie people neither Catholic or Church of Ireland -- by offering them free land in Canada. This brought a large number of Methodists from all over Ireland to Canada. Elliott's book, alas, focuses on migrants from North Tipperary. The world awaits a broader study. I did some work for a client whose ancestor was probably one of these Irish Methodists whose descendents came to the USA. The book is expensive to buy so try Interlibrary Loan. I don't recall if it's in the lending library of NEHS.... Linda Merle ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net