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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Emigration. North America and Australia, 1830 and 1831. Volume 2. Miscellaneous Individuals |
| Date | 22 Jun 1829; 5 Mar 1830 - 31 Dec 1831 |
| Document Type | Correspondence; Manuscript |
| Reference | CO 384/28 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Original Correspondence. |
| Description | Letters of application from prospective settlers and reports on the cost of emigration. Includes a letter suggesting a scheme for convicts to build refuge settlements around Australia due to shipwrecks. |
| 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) | Motives for Emigration |
| Country (from) | Great Britain; Ireland |
| Country (to) | Canada; Australia; Mauritius; Madagascar; Indonesia |
| Places | Belfast, Northern Ireland; Bath, Liverpool, London, England; Illinois, United States; Guernsey; Tasmania, Sydney, New South Wales, South Australia, Australia; Passage West, Dublin, Ireland; Quebec, New Brunswick, Canada; Calcutta, India; Java, Sumatra, Indonesia; Isle of Man |
| Ports | New York, United States |
| Nationality | English; Irish; Scottish |
| Ships | Euphrosyne; General Hewitt; Acadia |
| People | Viscount Goderich (Robinson, Frederick John); Murray, Sir George; Earl Grey (Grey, Charles) |
| Keywords | Royal Navy, children, emigration, assisted emigration, government, colony, land grant, soldier, sailor, agriculture, family, poverty, labourer, pensions, farming, petition, women, trade, shipping, Catholicism, tax, alcohol, food, exploitation, pirate, press, transportation, convict, finance, shipwreck |
| Additional Information | This volume includes searchable printed documents. |
| Language | English; French |
| Document(s) linked to |
Emigration. North America and Australia, 1830 and 1831. Volume 1. Commissioners and Public Offices |
| Printed Documents in this Volume |
Letter Addressed to Colonel A'Court by A. C. Buchanan, His Majesty's Resident Agent for the Superintendence of Settlers and Emigrants in the Canada's Proposal for a Society to be Formed to Deal With Female Emigration to the Convict Colonies Questions Submitted to A. C. Buchanan, Esq. His Majesty's Resident Agent for Settlers in the Canadas, at Quebec, on Behalf of Certain Large Landed Proprietors in Ireland, Respecting the Removal to These Provinces of a Portion of Their Poor Tenantry, with the Answers Following Emigration "City of the Falls" Account of Texas Articles of Agreement Society For the Permanent Support of Orphan and Destitute Children, by Means of Apprenticeship in the Colonies New Colony. South Australian Land Company Prospectus Petitions of William Parker Prospectus of the Rio Tinto Commercial and Agricultural Company |
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