Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments 7 -- Abbreviations 10 -- Preface 11 -- Introduction 22 -- 'I never look at the sea without lamenting our dear children' -- Sickness, health and the voyage in context 43 -- 'The mother will be very unpleasantly situated' -- Life at sea and at home 75 -- 'Poor Little Alfred was the first that died' -- The 1820s and 1830s 81 -- 'Both Doctor and Captain was very kind to me' -- The 1840s 123 -- 'I was never well untill after my confinement' -- The 1850s 166 -- 'Them as are not clean have no dinner till they are' -- The 1850s 196 -- 'He never knew One yet that died from seasickness' -- The 1860s 230 -- 'What a splendid passage we had' -- The closing decades 268 -- 'We put 14,000 miles between us and home and friends' -- 1900-1950 303 -- Endnotes 320 -- Bibliography 330 -- Index 342
Summary
Provides a new insight into the lives of those who migrated from the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century. We hear from the migrants' letters and diaries as they write about everyday life on board and their hopes for the future, as they weep over children buried at sea