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Irish Workhouse Orphan Emigration to Australia 1848-1850

出版	Unlock the Past, 2021
ISBN	19257818609781925781861
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qYv1zgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋One of the now best-known stories of Irish emigration to Australia is that of the Irish 'orphan girls'. Sent between 1848 and 1850 from union workhouses all over Ireland at the height of the 'Great Famine', their plight has captured the imagination of family historian. To have an Irish orphan in the lineage has become as absorbing as finding a convict once was. How can an individual orphan's story be unravelled? Only by careful research using what, until recent times, were volumes of Irish workhouse Boards of Guardians minutes, and other related material, literally mouldering away in the cupboards and outhouses of Irish county institutions. Now mostly saved in proper repositories, the informtion in them about the scheme - the so-called Earl Grey orphan scheme - that brought girls to Adelaide, Port Phillip and Sydney can be linked with British Colonial Office records, Australian immigrant shipping lists, and other arrival material in state archives. Such research reveals fascinating glimpses of the circumstances and the journey that took and Irish orphan from the poverty of an Irish workhouse to the possibilities of a better life in the colonies. This publication describes the most important of those records and the sort of individual and contextual information that can be extracted from them.