Erin's Sons Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853 Volume 2 Genealogy Book

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Erin's Sons:  Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853
Volume II
Terrence M. Punch
Volume  totaling
191
pages. Book is in  new condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
Volume II of
Erin’s  Sons
covers the same time period as its predecessor and the same geographic  area–the provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New  Brunswick, and Nova Scotia–and it lists an additional 7,000 Irish arrivals in  Atlantic Canada before 1853.
What is remarkable about this second volume is the rich variety  of information derived from hard-to-find sources such as church records of  marriages and burials, cemetery records, headstone inscriptions, military  description books, newspapers, poor house records, and passenger lists. The  resulting body of documents is replete with human drama: shipwrecked immigrants,  families in search of members, people taken ill while en route to a distant  location, old soldiers fallen on hard times, tenants uprooted from their farms  and shipped to Canada, and so on.
There are also lists of runaways and deserters, transported  convicts, and indentured servants, which offer a vivid if sometimes bleak  picture of Irish immigration to Canada.
Also included in the book are maps showing Irish ports of  embarkation, an index of surnames, and an index of ships.
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