Irish emigrants and family history: a new approach -- The context: Irish emigration and Stafford -- Stafford's Irish families: the overall picture -- Pathfinders: labouring families before the Famine -- Refugees from the Famine -- Labouring families in the Famine's aftermath, 1852 onwards -- Lace curtain Irish? The families of craft, clerical and service workers -- Old soldiers and their families -- The Irish in the shoe trade -- The forgotten Irish: entrepreneurs and professionals -- Divergent paths: the conclusions to be drawn
Summary
This book is unique in adopting a family history approach to Irish immigrants in nineteenth century Britain. It shows that the family was central to the migrants' lives and identities. The techniques of family and digital history are used for the first time to reveal the paths followed by a representative body of Irish immigrant families, using the town of Stafford in the West Midlands as a case study. The book contains vital evidence about the lives of ordinary families. In the long term many intermarried with the local population, but others moved away and some simply died out. The book inve
Analysis
Digital history
Ethnicity
Families
Family history
Gender relations
Genealogy
Identity
Irish migration/migrants
Stafford
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 28, 2015)
