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The Northern Parish Exodus (1830s–1840s)
Emigration
1830s–1840s
The departures continued through the 1830s and 1840s, and the press notices accumulated like entries in a parish register of the dying. Seventeen parishioners of Ballaugh in 1835. Several families from Kirk Michael and Ballaugh in 1837, and a week later, some hundred individuals chiefly from Ballaugh. In 1840, five carts laden with emigrants' luggage arrived in Douglas from the north of the Island. In 1842, no fewer than a hundred and ninety emigrants chiefly from Jurby and Ballaugh were about leaving the Island for the United States — a vessel from Liverpool chartered for the express purpose of taking them out. The northern parishes bled the most because they had the least.
Emigration Wave
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- Manx press notices; Moore