There are some stray lists of people going abroad from Britain for particular reasons, e.g. as apprentices, ministers, convicts, but apart from these, most extant records are of arrivals. Those relating to people going from the British Isles to America have mostly been printed, and the books containing these lists are given in detail in "Passenger & Immigration Lists Bibliography 1538-1900" (guide to published lists of arrivals in the US and Canada), by P.W. Philby, 1988. He was also the co-author of books listing the names "Passenger & Immigration Lists index: a Guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the US and Canada in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries" (3 vols 1981 and annual supplements). Try major public and genealogical libraries.

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