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Field name | Value |
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Title | At a Meeting of the Dublin Emigration Committee |
Date | 20 Jun 1834 |
Document Type | Printed Extract |
Publisher Information | Mac Donnell, Son, and Co. Printers, 16 Anglesea Street, Dublin |
Reference | CO 384/36 |
Library / Archive | The National Archives |
Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence |
Description | Copy of a letter from Major Forster, Chief Magistrate of Police in Hobart Town, dated 20 December 1833 to Thomas Wright, Sq. Honorary Secretary to the Dublin Emigration Society. Copy of a letter from Sarah Ward (one of the pauper emigrants sent from the Dublin Mendicity Institution) to Charles D. Logan, Esq. Agent to the Australian Emigration Society. |
Series Description | This series contains correspondence relating to British settlement in North America and Australasia, and to Indian indentured labour in the West Indies. Until 1857 it consists of domestic letters alone. The series then ceases and is not resumed until 1872. |
Biographical Note / History | A Colonial Land and Emigration Commission was created in 1840 to undertake the duties of two earlier and overlapping authorities under the supervision of the secretary of state: the Colonisation Commissioners for South Australia and the Agent General for Emigration. In 1855 it became the Emigration Commission. The commission's powers were gradually given up to the larger colonies as they obtained self-government, and after 1873 it was responsible only for controlling the importation of Indian labour into sugar-producing colonies. It was abolished in 1878 and an Emigration Department was then set up in the Colonial Office. This department was merged with the General Department in 1894, and abolished altogether in 1896. |
Theme(s) | Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations; Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences |
Country (from) | Ireland |
Country (to) | Australia |
Places | Dublin, Ireland |
Nationality | Irish |
Keywords | emigration, travel, shipping, government, health and sickness, employment, women, unmarried, journey conditions |
Additional Information | This document is part of CO 384/36 from The National Archives, UK. |
Language | English |
Original Volume |
Emigration. North America and Australia. Volume 2. Public Offices and A to Z |
Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |