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Colonial Powers and Emigration

SPAIN

• Sevilla
• Palos de la Frontera
• Cadiz
• Sanlúcar de Barrameda

PORTUGAL

• Lagos
• Lisboa

NETHERLANDS

The maritime power of Holland was concentrated around the Zuiderzee (an inland sea). The early exploration ships left from these Zuiderzee ports: Amsterdam, Enkuizen, Hoorn... However, because of the low depth of the Zuiderzee seabed, large vessels had to sail by North Sea harbours such as Middelburg, Vlissingen and the 'rede' of Texel.

Emigration from Holland happened mainly through:

• Amsterdam
• Texel
• Middelburg
• Rotterdam (from early-18th century onwards)

DENMARK

• Copenhagen

GERMANY

• Hamburg
• Bremen

IRELAND

• Irish Ports
• Queenstown Cork, Departures
• Moville co. Donegal to New York
• Belfast to New Orleans, New York and Charleston
• Sligo to New York
• Londonderry to New York
• Cork to Baltimore
• Westport to Boston

NORWAY

• Bergen
• Trondheim
• Oslo (Christiania)

SWEDEN

• Göteborg

FRANCE

• Honfleur
• Dieppe
• La Rochelle. Over half of emigration through France to the Americas happened though the port of La Rochelle.

BRITAIN - UNITED KINGDOM

• Plymouth
• London
• Ipswich
• Southampton
• Bristol
• Liverpool (from early-18th century onwards)

Modern Times

• (Placeholder section. An excellent information source for European emigration between 1880-1952 are the Gjenvick-Gjønvik Archives. Jump to their passenger lists here.)