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Early Passenger Lists 1700-1800
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Passenger Lists and Immigration 1700 - 1800

Canny, N. (1988) Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World 1560-1800, Baltimore, MD

Dickson, R. J. (1966) Ulster Emigration to Colonial America 1718-1775, London: Routledge

Doyle, David Noel (1981) Ireland, Irishmen and revolutionary America 1769-1820 Dublin (?)

Houston, C. J. and Smyth W. J. and Graham, B. J. et al. (1993) The Irish Diaspora: Emigration to the New World 1720-1920, : in an Historical Geography of Ireland, Academic Press

Lockhart, Audrey (1976) Some Aspects for Emigration from Ireland to the North American Colonies between 1660 and 1775, New York: Arno

McDonnell, Frances (1992) Emigrants from Ireland to America, 1735-1743: Report of Irish of Commons, Baltimore MD: Genealogy Publishing Co.

Silke, J. J. in Moody, Martin and Byrne (eds.) (1976) The Irish Abroad 1534-1691, Oxford: in a History of Ireland Vol III

Stephenson, John (1971) Scotch-Irish migration to South Carolina, 1772 (Rev. Wllm. Martin and five Shiploads of Settlers), Washington: ?

Weaver, Jack W. (1986) Immigrants from Great Britian and Ireland, a guide to archival and manuscript sources in America, Westport CT: Greenwood Press


ONE THING YOU WILL NOTICE FROM THE ABOVE LIST. IT DOES NOT GIVE ANY REPOSITORIES OR CALL NUMBERS.



Hackett, J. Dominick, Charles Montague Early. Passenger Lists From Ireland, Excerpted from JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Vols. 28 and 29, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company , Inc. 1973.
List of Irish Immigrants for 1811 and 1815-1816.
Some forty pages of Irish Immigrants including the names of the Ships.

Tennessee State Library and Archives E184 I6H2 1973
Library of Congress Catalog Card # 652979
International Standard Book # 0-8063-0166-X

Myers, Albert Cook, M.L., Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania 1682- 1750 with their Early History in Ireland, Vol. One and Two. Swarthmore PA.: The Author. 1902

The History of Irish Quakers and their immigration to Pennsylvania. Tennessee State Library and Archives F152 M98 2 Volumes

Revill, Janie. A Compilation of the Original Lists of Protestant Immigrants to South Carolina 1763 - 1773. Baltimore: Reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co. 1968
The Immigrants listed in this volume were Protestant refugees from Ireland and Europe. They came to South Carolina on the encouragement of an Act passed by the General Assembly of the Colony on 25, July, 1761, called the Bounty Act.
They received land as an incentive to settle in the Up Country of South Carolina. The list includes the Ship in which they came, the amount of land they each received and in most instances the location of the land.
Tennessee State Library and Archives F 272 R49 1968 Library of Congress Catalog Card # 68-25937


In searching the Internet I found several lists already available in our area of responsibility:

Sites with Genealogical Source Material Irish Passenger Lists Many searchable sites with 1700 - 1800 Passengers Six pages.

Passenger and Emigrant Lists These are not searchable databases. They give the books were the lists can be found. The Lists covers from 1538 to the 1900's and is four pages in length.

The Olive Tree Genealogy IRISH SHIP LISTS Searchable databases 1716 - 1768

See also More Websites Here!

Submitted by Temp, Swan, Leslie and PoppaJoe

More Offline!

  1. "Passenger and immigration lists index" by P.Wm.Filby and Mary k Meyer , 3 vols.and a yearly suppliment since1982
  2. "The Complete Book of Emigrants in Bondage"by Peter Wilson Coldham
  3. "Emigrants from England 1773-1776"by Gerald Fothergill
  4. "Some Emigrants to Va." By W.G.Standard,
    -lots of 1600s names,not lists,notindexed
  5. "Immigrants to America Appearing in English records" by F.Smith and D.Gardner,
    -indexed
    - I find that most all early settlements were known as "ENGLISH' when in fact
    there were Scots and Irish in most of the groups.Point being ,we can't skip over some thing just because it is titled "English" ,may miss lots of Scots and Irish if we do.
  6. "Passenger Lists Index" by Filby
    - It is truly an index, which referrs you to hundreds,maybe thousands,of. individual sources.You can get the name,age,general destination and year ,from the index.
    - This publication has referenced, by surname, a large number of immigrants to North America (mostly the U.S...but some Canadian immigrations are in there).
    - The publication might give an entry similar to the following example: 
      O'Leary, Bridget  Philadelphia, 1886 [30] p 10

  O'Leary would be the surname, Bridget the first name, Philly, the port, 1886 the
  year of entry, p10 is the page, and [30] is a particular publication.  You
  go to the front of the book and find out what publication [30] is...and then
  scoot over the the ILL (Inter Library Loan) desk and order it (I always assume the library does
  not have the book).  Then, go home, turn on your computer, and go to the
  NARA site and order the forms you need for the ship list.  If your library
  isn't too remote...you should get the book and the form about the same time.
  Check through the book, see if the fellow(s) are yours, then order up the
  manifest through NARA.
The first two can be found in the larger libraries.The rest I found at the FHC,on the shelf
Submitted by Joseph Fowler



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