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EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS. 31
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This Is Not To Be A Paper On Emigration....
long eagerl some y entered tea . rs were into dried for forming , rebellious classes comp for laints instruction hushed , . and There plans
were matron between and thirty no teacher and forty . All sing that le young the visitor women could on board do , 'was , with to no
engage the services of those those who emigrants ould not who could and read th , and were write all ,
and workto instruct c ; as ey return unprovided to , the with shi materials the next for day emp with loyment a supp , the ly of visitor knitting undert -needles ook to , p
cottonworstedand thimbles , together with Bibles and prayer-, , being books This 1 . " carried was * a specimen on . Every of the week manner large in shi which ps were emi sailing gration , on was board then
which necessa the ril same ensue sad d from scenes a four were months occurring ' voyage . The passed consequences in idleness that and
inorance y were fearful to contemplate , and far too disgraceful to be ladies described g resident . , The in work Plymouth then b , egun and before soon excited the lad the y to interest whom of of we a have few
already alluded left that port , she had the satisfaction seeing an interest degrees efficient nagged the agency labors ; at and work of those in the for so month visiting engaged of the February have depot increased , and 1849 the , , nor the shi has attention ps . their By
for the of similar s providing then everal existing meeting influential and evils sending held ladies of in emi out and the gration matrons gentlemen following , and for emi a month in committe grant London at shi e the was ps was . called Friends And formed to at '
with Meeting a This Plymou societ House th has , , and Lombard , from the * its ' British Street commencement Ladies , an ' Emi l proposed gamati grant Soci on to ety was itself " formed effected four .
y , where obj 1 ects . To they . establish may be homes instructed for and the prepared reception , prior of female to leaving emigrants their ,
native country . formed 2 . To into provide industrial visitation classes at and the ports lied , where with means the emi for grants their are insupp
struction and employment during , the voyage , through the agency of the 3 . visiting To secure committees the appointment . of judicious and efficient matrons the
for the superintendence of the young women during voyage . tection of The 4 having . To first and form assistance object home corresp has in of on never which ding the been female the societies matrons accomp immi in lished grants the should c , olonies thoug on be their h received for the arrival the ben for pro . efits a -
certain duties of time their a previous office , and to their the character departure , of and some familiarised whom they with would the been
be called upon to govern during the voyage , have always recognised The funds . of the societhavehowevernever allowed the
experiment to be commenced even y on , a small scale , , as at the lowest
eom-* From Friends for the Friendless . "
Emigrant-Ship Matrons. 31
EMIGRANT-SHIP MATRONS . 31
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/31/
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