In the nine years from 1847 to 1856, Lord Fitzwilliam removed almost 6,000 men, women and children from his Coolatin Estate in County Wicklow and arranged their passage to Canada. Most of these emigrants were destitute and arrived in Quebec and New Brunswick with little more than the clothes that they wore.
Jim Rees compiled a scholarly publication which enabled me to finally locate my Great, and Great Great Grandfathers and trace their paths first to Canada, then subsequently to the United States.
Thanks to this publication I was able to able to identify John and Elizabeth Summers (var. Sommers, Somers) and family from Urelands, Newry, Moyacomb. The family left on April 21st 1848 from New Ross on the ship Star. They arrived in St. Andrew, New Brunswick, Canada on May 28th of the same year.
Emigrants left from the Coolattin Estate, Fitzwilliams Tenants on the Ship Star to Canada, April 21st, 1848;
See the Coolatin Estate Emigration books here
COMPILED BY
JIM REES
DEE-JAY PUBLICATIONS
3 Meadows Lane
Arklow
County Wicklow
Ireland
© Jim Rees 1998
