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EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS. 25
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This Is Not To Be A Paper On Emigration....
m We any start ; the with subj the recognised t is too wide fact , and that forei by . gn government to the matter assistance in liand and .
b children y private annuall enterprise leave , hundreds these shores and , thousands to seek a new of men home , women in one , , of
the various dependencies y belonging to the British crown . Emigration commencing , we say , is . as a recognised early as 1815 fact , bodies and we of all our know countrymen that for
small many indeed years , at first and insignificant by , comparison , yet counting , by Irish thousands exodus even that from overflow the earliest which commenced date , have mi with grated the . The famine great of
followin 1847 , and g * years con , tinued , must with be fresh an increasing in the memory rapidi of ty most throug of our the readers seven .
But that the few remarks we wish to make may be better understood , we give the government report of the last ten years' emigration from the United Kingdom .
vY _™™ ears ' _JSTorth can Colonies Ameri . - \ Viaited T 1- ., A States cn . _^ j . * Colonies Australian , & c . | All Places other . TotaL m _^^ _i
1849 41 , 367 219 , 450 32 , 191 6 , 490 299 , 498
1851 1850 42 32 , 605 961 267 223 , 078 357 21 16 , 037 4 8 , 472 773 335 280 , 849 1852 32 , 873 244 , 261 87 , 881 3 , 749 368 , 746
1854 1853 43 34 , , , 522 761 230 193 , , , 885 83 61 , , , 401 237 3 , , , 129 323 329 , , , 937
1856 1855 16 17 , 378 966 111 103 , 414 837 44 52 , 309 584 3 3 , 755 118 176 176 , 807 1857 21 , 001 126 , 905 61 , 248 3 , 721 212 , 875
1858 9 , , 704 59 , , 716 39 , , 295 5 , , 257 113 , , to Having show the given numb the er of grand wom totals en who for the ve mi last gra ten ted years during , we one proceed given
year ; the proportion of sexes may easily be obtained by subtracting the following figures from those already given .
Destination . 1858 . Women . United States . . . . . . 26 , 356
Central and South America . . . . 105 Canada . ...... 3 , 840
New Brunswick . . . . . . 138 Nova Scotia . . . . . . 36
Newfoundland ... . . . . 48 Prince Edward's Island . . . . . 147
West Indies ...... 3 British Guiana . . . . . . 21
Trinidad . ..... 3 Other Islands ...... 4
East Indies . . . . . . 31 41
Western Africa . . . . , Cape of Good Hope . . . . . 944
Natal . . . . . , . 140
Emigrant-Ship Matrons. 25
EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS . 25
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/25/
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