British and Irish Emigrants to the U.S.A. in 1841
Tiratsoo, N. & Erickson, C. J.
(1987).
British and Irish Emigrants to the U.S.A. in 1841.
[Dataset]. UK Data Service.
https://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-2179-1
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. To provide quantitative estimates of the principal demographic and social characteristics of emigrants to the USA from the UK, and to test the usefulness of the passenger lists of American ports for this purpose. Main Topics: Variables Age, sex, occupation, nationality, type and size of migrating household; type of vessel, class of accommodation, data and port of arrival and departure, destination and place of last residence (where available). Please note: this study does not include information on named individuals and would therefore not be useful for personal family history research.
| Item Type | Dataset |
|---|---|
| Publisher | UK Data Service |
| DOI | 10.5255/UKDA-SN-2179-1 |
| Date made available | 12 March 1987 |
| Keywords | migration, minorities, international politics and organisations, history, transport and travel, censuses, age, demographic statistics, emigrants, emigration, families, gender, heads of household, households, life cycle, nationality, occupations, place of birth, ships |
| Temporal coverage | 1984 |
| Geographic coverage | Ireland, United Kingdom, United States |
| Resource language | Other |
| Departments | LSE |