IRISH IMMIGRATION HISTORY! COBH HERITAGE CENTRE, IRELAND!
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2022
- We recently visited The Cobh Heritage Centre, in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland. Cobh was the port where the largest percentage of Irish emigrated from. Most of us will journey to Cobh from Cork City, and make the scenic drive around the River Lee, to where it empties into Cork Harbor. Beginning in 1849, Cobh was called Queenstown, after Queen Victoria who made a visit here but when Ireland earned its independence from Great Britain in 1922, the name was changed to Cobh.
The building is the old Victorian era railway station which has some nostalgia itself. Outside is statue of Annie Moore and her two brothers, Anthony, and Philip. Annie has the honor of being the first emigrant to be processed through the brand-new Ellis Island, in New York Harbor, on January 1st, 1892. Annie was a teenager and was in charge of leading herself and two brothers to New York, to meet their parents who had went ahead of the children four years earlier. Annie lived the rest of her life in Manhattan, and her story will be shared in a future video. Another statue of Annie is on display at Ellis Island.
When you first enter inside the Heritage Centre you immediately feel like you have traveled back in time as you look around the historic train station. The flags of the most popular nations that our ancestors went to hang from the rafters and the story of the immigrants begins. You will be greeted by a knowledgeable historian who will give you a run-down of the situation of our ancestors and tell you about the facility. They will present you with a ticket of an actual immigrant and encourage you to learn about them in the exhibits that you will find in the museum.
At the beginning of your self-guided tour, you will see displays with very early history of Irish immigration and indentured servitude beginning in the early 1600s. One display discusses the writings done in 1773 by Richard Ligon in Barbados.
The next thing you will come across is the genealogy table headed up by my friend Christy Keating. Christy is an absolute expert, on not only Irish genealogy but also the immigration history stories.
Another story you can learn here is about a young lady named Anne Bonny, who left as a baby from Cork, to the Carolinas and eventually lived a very exciting life as a pirate with her partner “Calico Jack”. We will save her exciting story for another video. Next you can see the display about the fort built on Spike Island, in Cork harbor, in 1779. Cork was an important hub of supplies for the British military and due to the Revolutionary War, that was going on in the American colonies, the fort needed to have its security beefed up. The site is now called Fort Mitchel, and due to its defenses, and location on an island, it has sometimes been used as a prison.
Soon you enter a large room with an exhibit of a coffin ship and a cutaway showing how the journey was. It’s humbling to see the conditions that the passengers were forced to endure on the journey, which depending on the time period was anywhere from a few weeks, to as much as three months.
The Patrick Cleburne display tells the story of an Irishman born in County Cork in 1828. He served with the British Army on Spike Island before emigrating with his siblings to Arkansas in 1849. He became a successful lawyer and later served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Franklin, outside of Nashville, Tennessee. His last words were “…if we are to die, let us die like men”.
The museum has many displays of ships and their advancements over the years. Other popular exhibits include the sinking of the RMS Lusitania which happened off the coast of Cork Harbor on May 7, 1915 when it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat. Tragically, 1,193 people lost their lives, of which 123 were Americans. The event helped launch the United States into WWI just two years later. One of the most popular exhibits on the museum is that of the Titanic. Cobh was the last port before the unsinkable ship met its disaster and 1,517 people perished.
The last display that we have to discuss is the Irish Potato Famine exhibit. The Great Famine took place between 1845 and 1852. It is estimated that over one million Irish perished during this time period and two million emigrated and never returned. To this day, Ireland’s population has not caught back up with what it was before the famine.
Another interesting fact is that 40,000 Irish left here at Cobh as convicts to Van Diemen’s Land, which is now called Tasmania, and also to Australia. From about 1788-1868, people from all over Great Britain who committed various crimes were taken away from their families forever and sent to work in establishing the settlements in Australia.
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Thanks for this. I'm from Cobh but not living there at the moment. Hope to get back soon someday.
My maternal immigrant ancestors were from Ireland. O’Moore. They came into America by way of Philadelphia. Later, the O was dropped. My immigrant ancestors came to Hall County, Georgia, down the great Wagon Road.
Awesome stuff. I’m curious if they were Irish or Scots-Irish? Many Scots-Irish went that same port and road. Just curious. Awesome that you know about them.
@@familytreenutshistorygenealogy SCOTCH Irish. I have the Ancestry app. Fascinating.
My family came from Ireland and ported in Pennsylvania Darbyshire which changed to Darby which came over with the Goldens/Golden and married
That’s wonderful to know that!
Thanks million ❤❤❤
Thanks for your support!
My ancestors lived in Queenstown for many years and one immigrated to the USA in the 1880s becoming a U.S. Citizen. At least three of that ancestor's siblings came to the USA each at a different time.
Ulster American Folk Park in Northern Ireland is another outstanding museum, although it mainly tells the story of Ulster-Scots out-migration.
Thanks for the tip! We will have to check that one out for sure.
I Love History of Ireland 🇮🇪 ❤❤❤
Check out a plantation called Houmas house in Louisiana. The tour guide informed us that they had about 5000 slaves and about 80% were Irish.
Wow! How about that…
Wow! Where is Cobh exactly? Looks like a belter of a town!
Just outside of Cork City, on the south coast of Ireland.
@@familytreenutshistorygenealogy thanks for the reply! Do you know if you can reach it by train or bus from Cork city?
@@kevocall97 Well you certainly by cab. I’m not sure if buses make regular routes or not.
@@familytreenutshistorygenealogy I see. It might be worth the cab down. Do you know if it has many amenities? I.e pubs, museums, tours, etc?
@@kevocall97 I would think so, if you look closely at some cruise ship itinerary's you can see that the ships that sail around Europe (Especially the British Isles) will often have a port day in Cobh, County Cork, Ireland where you can walk around for a few hours before having to board the ship again. So there is likely plenty to do even if you aren't there as part of a cruise ship port day.
Elder John White Sr was my 9th Great Grandfather Arrived 16 September 1632
Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America
on the ship "Lion"
That’s getting back there buddy!
Im a Harrington lots of my relatives are from there too ❤
I’ve got plenty of Irish,Scots Irish Ancestors who came to America very early before the American Revolution and actually fought against the British. Graham, McGirk, McDow, Turnley. The interesting thing is that at least here in America in those days, people were simply referred to as being “Irish” whether they were from Ireland or Scotland. The “Scots-Irish” thing came into the vocabulary later in order to distinguish them from the Irish that came here during the 1840s and the Famine, who were mostly Catholic whereas many of the early immigrants were Protestant Presbyterian. In any case they shared a dislike for the British Crown
My mothers family has always said we were Irish when what they really meant to say was that they were Scots-Irish but in the mountains they hadn’t heard that term yet. Good input .
Very interesting! I have Farrell, Jarrell, and Callahan in my lineage. I don't have a clue as to when or how they came to America, though.
Well hopefully you will be able to discover that soon!
I descend from Callahans by way of Georgia.
I am 91% Sots-Irish but have English and German and a coiplr others. Surname is Collis which supposedly there was a sheriff by the surname of Collis that was well known. One of the Collis clans died out but his continued. I also hail from the Sutherland Clan from the Higjlands. A Mary Collis came to America on a ship in the 1800 5:05
My earliest known Irish ancestor (I have a matriarchal kingroup) is Johnny Ghalagher O'Drumgulan Lower, Co. Down, Nor Ulster. He was born in the Early Napoleonic Wars and Died in Columbian Amerikay circa 1850s. I cannae say much o'him yet A'm extremely doubtful he was an LOL member Let alone a whitebhoy, ribbonman, defender or croppy frog. Let alone part o' a Green-Orange rum lot like my own neo Jacobite aunt Rose Fitzterald
Well I understand almost all of that. Good reading. 😀
@@familytreenutshistorygenealogy it's mix of Irish gaelic, ulster Scots, mainland scots and Queens English. A'm/I'm, Nor/North, cannae/cannot, 0' a/of a, jacobites/the rebels who followed king James the Coward, and so on.
@@zoologist1992 Absolutely knew those. Good stuff. 😀
All i know is my Irish Grands are clan names of Parks, and their Moms maiden name is Woods lol that's a lot of Cork lol
I would LOVE to find the nuts in my family tree...lol..I only know about my mom's dad's side ...
Well, if you haven’t built your family tree, that’s what we do for folks here at Family Tree Nuts! Our plans are on our website: www.familytreenuts.com , buzz is for questions!
In the 1800s. Not sure where she went from there. Bern trying to find out more.
My last name is Harrington is it english or Irish?
It can be both.
@@familytreenutshistorygenealogy oh interesting didn’t know that my grandfather was a Harrington and he spoke Gaelic and I remember celebrating Irish and Scottish traditions at European festivals in America my moms name is staygle do you know where thats from i think it English but im not sure 😁.