Island Immigration Our Island ancestors came from many different countries for varying reasons. Some of the first settlers on the islands were voyageurs of Lower Canada . Others came fleeing the Irish famine of 1845. Some later came from England and the USA. If you have information to share please email me! Please (when possible) list name, age, birth place, immigration year, ship, ports (departure and/or arrival) and SOURCE. NEW! Passanger/Ship List Records Howe Island 1901 Census Immigration info Early Wolfe Settlers *** 1824. William (1794/7- ) and Mary (1806/10- ) Gibson. 1824. John Gibson (1791-1879) and Jane McKee (1807-1898). 1838. John Gibson (1801- ) and Hanah (Baird) (1799- ) from Kircubbin. 1860s. Robert (1805-1881) and Mary (1810- ) Gibson. from http://www.dankat.com/brennen/file5a.htm I now have this book-please email me for a lookup to see if your name is there. OFFSITE: Young Immigrants to Canada Children from the Catholic Childrens Protection Society Some children listed placed on Amherst, Howe, or Wolfe Island Young Immigrants to Canada Gordon Boy's Home England to Amherst Island Young Immigrants to Canada Poor Law Unions Amherst Island see 1865 Ships List Kingston Immigration Agent's Records of 1862 includes people with destinations of Wolfe, Amherst and Garden Islands NEW! BOOK (I don't have this one) "Ulster and North America" edited by H. Tyler Blethen and Curtis W. Wood, Jr. There is one chapter written by Catherine Anne Wilson entitled "The Scotch-Irish and Immigrant Culture on Amherst Island, Ontario". BOOK ( I DO have this book! Email me for lookup!) "A New Lease on Life", "Landlords, Tenants and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada" Catherine Anne Wilson, Published by McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN 0-7735-1117-2 - deals with Irish immigration from the United Parishes of St-Andrews, Ards Peninsula, Co.Down and various family groups who came to be Tenant farmers on Amherst Island, Ontario. BOOK(I don't have this one) Inquisiton: County Down / PRONI T856 [FHL 0258596] The history of an emmigration of some 200 Scots-Irish families from the United Parishes of St.Andrews, Ards Peninsula, Co. Down, 1829-1860, to Amherst Island, Ontario, Canada. The book also has full references and includes many maps, landlord and tenant family names, as well as lists of contact people for various surnames. **CORRECTION:2005 from G. Stevenson- "Enquireland (a genealogist from Kirkcubbin, County Down) has advised me that "Co. Down Inquisition � The PRONI reference for this is T.856/1. (The document was called for and it was) found to be a bound volume of Title Deeds dating from the 17th. and 18th. century. It appears that these are transcriptions of the original Deeds as they are all in the same handwriting. Unfortunately, there is no index in this volume, so it would be necessary to examine each entry to note the personal names and place-names to find out if there was any relevance to the enquiry in hand." So it would appear that this is not a book which was published, but instead it is a collection of government records." Anthony B. Hawke Papers "These records, which date from 1831-1892, were mainly compiled by Anthony Bowden Hawke and his successor J. A. Donaldson...While the records originate mainly from the Toronto and Kingston emigrant offices, records of arrivals and destinations pertaining to other locations are also included. Some registers document the arrival of young children, including "Barnardo's Boys", who were among the more than 100,000 British Home Children sent to Canada between 1870 and 1940." For more information see link. The Islands: Immigration Return to The Islands Main Page Copyright (�) 2000-2004 Jennifer Hoeltzel. All rights reserved. Send comments or suggestions regarding this site to the webmaster: Jen Wylie nee Hoeltzel |