Series 1 - Daniel Guiney & Margaret McCarthy letters (Crown Estates manuscripts)

282pp

Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts of the Guiney and McCarthy letters from the versions published in Ellis, Eilish (1960). 'State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland c. 1850',Analecta Hibernica 22, pp. 328, 331-394.

Materials pertaining to four letters written between 1848 and 1850 by Irish people who had emigrated to New York and Vermont as part of the Crown Estate emigration schemes. These schemes were state-aided programs between 1847 and 1852 that helped over 1,100 impoverished tenants leave overpopulated Crown-owned lands in Ireland to resettle in North America.
The series includes:
-biographical notes and land valuation figures pertaining to Margaret McCarthy
-Kerby A. Miller's transcripts of the four letters
-Miller's notes on Eilish Ellis' 1960 article 'State-Aided Emigration Schemes from Crown Estates in Ireland c. 1850', particularly regarding emigration from the Boughill estate in east County Galway, home of letter author Michael Byrne
-Miller's correspondence with fellow academics regarding the letters; correspondence pertaining to the Kingwilliamstown estate in County Cork, home of letter author Denis Duggan; biographical notes on Daniel Guiney who was also a Kingwilliamstown emigrant;
-land valulation figures pertaining to Kingswiliamstown;
-photocopies of published histories of Buffalo, New York and area, where Daniel Guiney and Dennis Duggan had settled after leaving Ireland