Question:
could some kind soul please tell me if there are any records/passenger
lists of immigrants from Ireland to England in the mid 1800's or point me in
the right direction to find them?
I've found countless web sites for emmigration lists from Ireland to America
and Australia, but none for England. Did people just come and go as they
pleased in the 1840's or is there likely to be a record of them somewhere?
Answer:
There are no records since all such movements were within one country, the
United Kingdom. Even now, with Ireland an independent country, there are no
passport controls for movement between the two countries, flights from
England to Ireland being treated as internal (not international) flights.
There was no emigration from Ireland to England in the mid 1800s as they were
part of the same country. You might as well ask for passenger lists for the
Staten Island ferry.
No - they were migrants from one part of UK to another - no listing
required, any more than for taking a ferry over the Mersey.
But major locations where they settled include Liverpool, London, Bi
Nottingham, Derby, Newcastle, London - there are quite a lot of 1851
census indexes, many sepaprated areas, check Barry Rucks FAQ re
censuses.
No government required that such records be kept.
Ireland and England were then part of the "United Kingdom,"
with no internal immigration controls. If you were born Irish
in Ireland you could travel to and work in Cornwall, Nottingham,
Cardiff, Liverpool or Glasgow without neeeding permission
from the police or anyone else. Such moves did not
count as "immigration" any more than a move from (say)
rural Surrey to London.
