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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Private Letter Book of J. Denham Pinnock on Emigration Business [Volume 2] |
| Author | Pinnock, James Denham |
| Date | 14 Mar-26 Nov 1836 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Reference | CO 385/10 |
| Library / Archive | The National Archives |
| Collection Name | War and Colonial Department and Colonial Office: Emigration Entry Books |
| Description | Private letter book (volume 2) of J. Denham Pinnock, His Majesty's agent for Emigration. Letters here relate to financial and logistical organisation of emigrants migrating to the British colonies of Canada and Australia. Most letters are relative to British emigration to Quebec with many referring to sums paid for passage, various ships used to transport emigrants and shipping contracts. There is also information noted here relative to the systems of assigning bounties to particular classes of emigrants. At the end there is an index of the letters, noting to whom they were written, the date of their composition and a summary of their contents. |
| Series Description | This series contains entry books of correspondence on emigration. |
| Theme(s) | Ships and Shipping Lines; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Arrivals: Ports and Early Experiences |
| Country (from) | Great Britain |
| Country (to) | Australia; Canada |
| Places | Monk Sherborne, Basingstoke, Breamore, Portsmouth, Downton, Suffolk, England; New York, United States; Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Toronto, Canada |
| Ports | Bristol, Plymouth, Yarmouth, England |
| Nationality | English; European; Australian; Canadian |
| Ships | Caroline; King William; Lavinia; Bromley; James and Ann; Louisa; Mayflower; New Brunswick; Newham; James Pattison; Louisa; SS Hartly; Andromache; Amelia; Duchess of Northumberland |
| People | Smith, Reverend W; Buchanan, William; Holloway, R; Knight, Edward; Lynch, Lieutenant; Low, Lieutenant Robert; Osborne, George; Scott, Samuel; Walker, James; Arthur, Colonel George |
| Keywords | colonisation, colony, passenger, assisted emigration, finance, family, children, women, unmarried, administration, female emigration, newspaper, passage money, regulations, administration, government, agent, bounty emigration, social class, accounts, surveying, pension, army, poor laws, legislation, Corn Laws, law, Chelsea Hospital |
| Language | English |
| Document(s) linked to |
Private Letter Book of J. Denham Pinnock on Emigration Business. Commencing in February 1835 [Volume 1] |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
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