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Famine / Westport coffin ships
« on: Sunday 12 October 25 00:47 BST (UK) »
I am trying to gather information in effort to identify neighbor of my great great grandfather who left out of Westport and left for Boston, probably in Spring of 1847 at height of famine.  The townland is Woodfield, Aghamore, near Kilkelly.   Are there any records I can search that lists those who left out of Westport at this time of famine?  Or any details relating to Westport at time of famine ? 
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book project "Finding Kate and Willie" underway. Trying to learn all about their lives and those of their parents and grandparents in County Mayo, townlands of Woodfield and Derrynaned ( Cahir ) from approx 1870 to 1920.  Kate and Willie left for USA in 1911 and settled in the Bronx NY. I am their grandson.

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Re: Famine / Westport coffin ships
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 12 October 25 00:55 BST (UK) »
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: Famine / Westport coffin ships
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 12 October 25 11:35 BST (UK) »
If you are looking for general background, you might find the attached letter helpful. Written in 1847 and describing the general circumstances of some emigrants from the west of Ireland then. This is a typed transcript. The handwritten original is in PRONI in Belfast (ref: D3000/104/12).
Elwyn

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Re: Famine / Westport coffin ships
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 04 November 25 15:53 GMT (UK) »
thanks for this !
book project "Finding Kate and Willie" underway. Trying to learn all about their lives and those of their parents and grandparents in County Mayo, townlands of Woodfield and Derrynaned ( Cahir ) from approx 1870 to 1920.  Kate and Willie left for USA in 1911 and settled in the Bronx NY. I am their grandson.
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