British Isles Diaspora

Resources for tracing ancestors who left the British Isles for other countries. As a loose geographical term, in this case British Isles refers to English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish ancestors.

Australia

• Australia Orphans and Orphanages

• Gold rushes: Following the Gold Rushes Class

• Convict Records Database
• Register of assisted British immigrants to Victoria, 1839-1871

Home Children

• Barnardos Children's Homes (also includes Marchmont, the Annie Macpherson Home or the Liverpool Sheltering Home)

• History of Britain's Child Migrants

Irish

• Irish Convicts to Australia

Scottish

• Highland and Island Emigration Records from Scotland

Canada

Home Children

• British Home Children Canada

• Barnardos Children's Homes (also includes Marchmont, the Annie Macpherson Home or the Liverpool Sheltering Home)
• Canada Home Children British Sources - International Institute
• Canada Home Children Immigration Records - International Institute

Caribbean

• Britain, Registers Of Licences To Pass Beyond The Seas 1573-1677 at Findmypast
• The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britian to the American plantations 1600-1700, digital book including those who came to Barbados

• Early Emigration to Barbados, 1678-1680, 1715 at Findmypast

• Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 at Ancestry

• More Emigrants in Bondage, 1614-1775 at Ancestry
• Early Emigration From Britain 1636-1815 at Findmypast
• Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834 at Ancestry
• Emigrant Ministers To The Americas at Findmypast
• Immigrant Ancestors Project (BYU). Includes "a list of invalid soldiers (most born in England) given permission to stay in particular colonies [including the Caribbean islands]. It provides descriptions of the soldier, the amount of pension, birthplace, regiment, and injuries. The original documents also contain information on years of service at each rank, which in some cases has not been extracted. The records vary depending on the year when they were created. 1817-1875 with gaps."
• Lists of emigrants to America 1600-1700 edited by John Camben Hotten. (link is to book at the FSL - there is also an online book version, I just can't tell if it's available to the public. I need to check when I'm at home. -Kori)
  • From 1650-1700, about half of all English emigrants went to the West Indies: 20,000 to Jamaica, 43,000 to Barbados, 30,000 to other Caribbean islands. When the Jacobites lost their fight for the crown in Scotland in 1715 and 1746, many Scots prisoners of war were transported to the Caribbean. Between 1750 and 1799, it's estimated that 80,000 Scots went to the Caribbean. Many of the Irish went to Montserrat. ("British Migration to the West Indies Before 1800" By Dr. David Dobson)
  • Note that from the late 1600s to the early 1700s, South Carolina served as an extension of Barbados for English settlers.

Scottish

• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612-1783 at Ancestry

• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Supplement 1607-1707 at Ancestry

• The Original Scots Colonists of Early America. Caribbean Supplement 1611-1707 at Ancestry
• U.S., Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 at Ancestry

English

• Caribbean, English Settlers in Barbados, 1637-1800 at Ancestry

Irish

• Irish Emigrants in North America, 1775-1825 at Ancestry

India

• British East India Company
• British East India Company at the British Library
• British East India records on FindMyPast
• Families in British India Society

New Zealand

• Immigration Research Guide
• Immigration to New Zealand (Auckland)
• Immigration to Christchurch
• New Zealand Bound
• Papers Past Historic Newspapers
  • Many colonial era newspapers have lists of ships arriving and the passengers they carried.

Immigration Schemes

• New Zealand Company (1839-1858)
  • An immigration scheme that brought 15,500 settlers from Britain to New Zealand.
• Parkhurst Boys (1842-1843)
  • Inmate boys between 12 and 20 years old who were relocated and sent to farms to work.
• Royal New Zealand Fencibles (1847-1852)
  • Retired British and Irish Soldiers who were given land and free passage in exchange for seven years serving as a protection force for British settlements.
    

South Africa

• Early British Settlers to South Africa Geni project

Irish

• Irish in South Africa

• 1820 Settlers

Scottish

• Scottish Immigration to South Africa

South America

Patagonia

• British Presence in South Patagonia
• Welsh of Patagonia

United States of America

• https://orphanfinder.com/
• Immigrants to America appearing in English records

New York

• Irish immigrants in New York City
• Researching Irish ancestors in New York State

• Irish-American Genealogy

Pennsylvania

• Scotch-Irish in Pennsylvania
• Scotch-Irish and the Great Wagon Road
• Great Philadelphia Wagon Road
• Leaving the Emerald Isle: Irish Immigration to Philadelphia
• The Irish in Pennsylvania
• Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, with their early history in Ireland

Boston

• Search for missing friends: Irish immigrants
• Irish Immigration to America
• Irish immigrants to Boston
• The Irish in Boston
• Irish famine immigrants in Boston
• How the Irish immigrants came to New England

Baltimore

• Irish Workers Railroad Museum
• Irish Immigrants in Baltimore
• The First Family of Irish America

Chicago

• Chicago Irish Families, 1875-1925
• Tracing Your Irish Ancestors in Chicago
• Illinois, Chicago, Catholic Church Records, 1833-1925
• Chicago Roman Catholic Church records
• The Irish Republic newspaper in Chicago
• Irish immigration to Chicago
• The Irish of Chicago
• History of Irish Catholic Cemeteries
• Calvary Catholic Cemetery

New Orleans

• The Irish in New Orleans
• Irish in New Orleans
• The Irish in New Orleans, 1800-1860
• 19th Century Irish letters in The Historic New Orleans Collections
• New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries

South Carolina

• Columbia's Irish History
• Irish in South Carolina
• The Royal Colony of South Carolina - The Scots-Irish Settlers
• South Carolina Scots-Irish

Montana

FamilySearch Library (FSL); formerly called, Family History Library (FHL)