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From 1848 to 1950 over six million adults and children experienced emigration from Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. Over 2.5 million Irish departed from Cobh, making it the single most important port of emigration.
This exodus from Ireland was largely a result of poverty, crop failures, the land system, and a lack of opportunity. Irish emigration from Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland reached unprecedented proportions during the famine, as people fled from hunger and disease.
The port of Queenstown was named for Queen Victoria. It was in 1849 that the Queen first visited the small seaport known as Cobh (Irish for Cove) on the Southern Coast of Ireland. After the Irish independence of 1922, the town was renamed Cobh and became Ireland's most strategic point of emigration, witnessing Ireland's sorrowful release of its treasured sons and daughters to brighter and better things in the New World.
Aim of this project==
The aim of this project is to create genealogical profiles of all people who sailed from Queenstown Co.Cork Ireland to the United States.
Sailed from Queenstown ,Cork==
- 1860 Asia from Queenstown to New York
- 1861 Asia from Queenstown to New York
- 1861 Arabia from Queenstown to New York
- 1863 Australia from Queenstown to New York
- 1868 Alippo from Queenstown to New York
- 1870 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1871 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1874 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1876 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1872, Abyssinia from Queenstown to New York
- 1872, Abyssinia from Queenstown to New York
- 1873 Atlantic from Queenstown to New York
- 1879 Adriatic from Queenstown to New York
- 1876 Adriatic from Queenstown to New York
- 1881 Adriatic from Queenstown to New York
- 1907 Adriatic from Queenstown to New York
- 1930 Adriatic from Queenstown to New York
- 1877 Alsatia from Queenstown to New York
- 1877 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1877 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1878 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1878 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1879 Algeria from Queenstown to New York
- 1880 Arizona from Queenstown to New York
- 1880 Arizona from Queenstown to New York
- 1880 Arizona from Queenstown to New York
- 1881 Alaska from Queenstown to New York
- 1884 Alaska from Queenstown to New York
- 1887 Alaska from Queenstown to New York
- 1888 Alaska from Queenstown to New York
- 1891 Alaska from Queenstown to New York
- 1892 Alaska from Queenstown to New York
- 1887 Aurania from Queenstown to New York
- 1889 Aurania from Queenstown to New York
Other Irish ports:
- 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