New York and the Green Yacht from Derry
When: Tuesday, 5 September, 2023Over one hundred million Americans can trace an ancestor who arrived, from 1892, in the United States at Ellis Island.
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Over one hundred million Americans can trace an ancestor who arrived, from 1892, in the United States at Ellis Island.
DerryBy 1830 Ulster was in crisis. In the preceding 50 years she had experienced an unparalleled period of population growth which was reflected in chronic under-employment in agriculture, which was by far her largest employer.
DerryFrom the late 1600s, in the age of the sailing ships, to the onset of the Second World War in 1939, when the last transatlantic steamer sailed from the port, Derry was one of the principal emigration ports in Irel
DerryCounty Derry, also known as Londonderry or Doire in Irish and is one of the six counties in Northern Ireland. Derry is famous for its old intact city walls which surround the city and for the pretty Sperrin Mountains and Lough Neagh.
DerryJohn Steinbeck, Nobel prize-winning author visited County Derry, Northern Ireland, in August 1952, in search of his roots. He wrote from Derry city, on 17 August 1952, to his friend and editor Pat Covici:
DerryThe emigration trade established Londonderry as one of the chief Irish ports for transatlantic trade in the 18th century. Links between the cities of Londonderry and Philadelphia were established through trade.
DerryBetween 1717 and the beginning of the War of American Independence in 1776, 250,000 Scots-Irish, often
DerryThe Conference in 2017 is entitled "Return to The Causeway" and reflects the research interests area covered by The Causeway Coast & Glens (formerly Coleraine) Family History Society, a branch of the North of Ireland Family History Society. Programme of Events
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