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Points of Departure: Remittance Emigration from South-West Ulster to New South Wales in the Later Nineteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2005

Lindsay Proudfoot  and
Dianne Hall
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Abstract

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This paper considers aspects of the local geographies of Australian emigration created in south-west Ulster by the New South Wales government-sponsored remittance emigration scheme between 1858 and 1884. The scheme mobilized the financial resources of settlers in New South Wales to part-fund the passage of friends and relatives from Britain and Ireland. The paper utilizes the comprehensive socio-economic and demographic archive generated by the scheme, to explore the response of rural communities in thirteen civil parishes in Counties Cavan and Fermanagh to this opportunity to emigrate. It concludes that although the emigrant sample's demographic profile accorded with conventional models of Irish assisted emigration, it was also marked by pronounced over-representation of Protestants and under-representation of Catholics. Possible explanations for this are considered in terms of the positionality and human capital of the three major denominations and the efficiency of their social networks in negotiating the bureaucratic process in Australia.

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RESEARCH NOTE
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International Review of Social History , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , August 2005 , pp. 241 - 277
Copyright
2005 Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis

Footnotes

The authors wish to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Leverhulme Trust for the research on which this paper is based. They also acknowledge the National Library of Australia and the State Records Authority of New South Wales for permission to use material held in their care.