Irish Migrants in New Zealand, 1840-1937 : The Desired by Angela McCarthy PDF

By Angela McCarthy

ISBN-10: 1843831430

ISBN-13: 9781843831433

ISBN-10: 1846154049

ISBN-13: 9781846154041

'I have ultimately reached the specified haven', exclaimed Belfast-born Bessie Macready in 1878, the yr of her arrival at Lyttelton, whilst writing domestic to cousins in County Down. using attention-grabbing own correspondence exchanged among eire and New Zealand, this publication explores person responses to migration through the interval of the good eu emigrations internationally. It addresses a few primary questions in migration heritage comparable to the situations of departure. both why did a few connections decide to remain? and the way did migrant letter writers depict their voyage out, the surroundings, paintings, family members and neighbours, politics, and religion? How frequent was once go back and repeat migration? In answering those questions the ebook offers major awareness to the social networks constraining and allowing migrants. The e-book represents an leading edge and unique contribution to the heritage of ecu migration among the mid-nineteenth century and the interwar years. It addresses broader debates within the heritage of ecu migration when it comes to using own testimony to chart the reviews of emigrants and the doubtful methods of version, incorporation, and adjustment that migrants underwent in new and infrequently surprising environments. The ebook additionally provides to the ever-increasing historiography of the Irish in a foreign country.

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The sequence indicates strong affection between the cousins at home and abroad and conveys the satisfaction of the Strongs who remained in Ireland. , D/965/1. It is incorrectly indexed as being to his brotherin-law William McCance. 138 Otago Witness, 19 July 1916, p. 27. , D239/166. , D/963/3. , D/965/2. 142 Joyce Elaine Strong (compiler), History of the Stronge family (1972), privately circulated. 143 Photocopies of the Strong letters were kindly provided by Ginny Dow, Nelson. 47 IRISH MIGRANTS IN NEW ZEALAND, 1840–1937 In November 1902, almost two decades after Daniel’s departure in 1883, he married 31-year-old Mary Mulkere at the Catholic church in Onehunga, Auckland.

Only six children were then living. Winifred McClennan (née Furlong) Winifred McClennan was born on 17 August 1864 at Kilflyn, County Kerry, the eldest child of Martin Furlong and Ellen Behan. An officer in the Royal Irish Constabulary, Martin Furlong resigned in June 1865 and the following month departed for New Zealand with his wife, leaving Winifred in the care of her aunt, Mary Shanahan. Fifteen years later, on 7 July 1880, 17-year-old Winifred emigrated on the Wanganui bound for Auckland. In 1885 she married Australian-born publican James McClennan.

She was pregnant at the time and delivered a son just weeks after her arrival in Auckland. Her condition was allegedly the spur for her departure, though her reason for selecting New Zealand is unknown. Agnes became a live-in housekeeper for Kilkenny-born Michael Augustus Lambert, his wife, and their children. In October 1862, following the death of Michael’s wife, he and Agnes married. Together they raised his seven children, Agnes’s son, and their own six children, before Michael’s death in 1881.

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