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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Re: Immigration to USA
In Response To: Immigration to USA ()

There were a whole host of reasons...

1821: riots about Wheat
1825: riots about imposition of tithes on potatoes
1827-28: general emigration to the US, especially around Cleveland, Ohio. Letters back home no doubt encouraged others to follow.
1832: Cholera epidemic
1844: Cholera epidemic
1847-48: a second period of mass emigration, following failure of potato crop and discoveries of gold in Australia and the US.
1853: Another cholera epidemic...