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1869 Emigration of Admiralty Dockyard Workers (view source)
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Those entitled to free passage were: artisans ( mainly mechanics), labourers and hired men who had worked at the docks for at least a year and had been discharged from the docks for a maximum of 12 months. Another stipulation was that all married men had to take their wives and children. | Those entitled to free passage were: artisans ( mainly mechanics), labourers and hired men who had worked at the docks for at least a year and had been discharged from the docks for a maximum of 12 months. Another stipulation was that all married men had to take their wives and children. | ||
Approximately 2,000 dockyard workers and their families left for Canada in search of a better life, | Approximately 2,000 dockyard workers and their families left for Canada between 1869 and 1870 in search of a better life - 1,000 from Portsmouth alone (see- http://www.portsmouth.gov.uk/yourcouncil/6408.html). They came from docks throughout Britain: Chatham, Deptford, Devonport, Pembroke, Portsmouth and Woolwich and were spread across five sailings aboard British Troop ships : 1 on HMS Serapis, 1 on HMS Simoon, 1 on HMS Tamar and 2 on HMS Crocodile. | ||
The first to leave was HMS Crocodile on 20th April 1869 on which, 391 people embarked. 175 from Portsmouth, (74 men, 40 women and 61 children) and 216 from Woolwich, (101 men, 52 women and 63 children).<br> | The first to leave was HMS Crocodile on 20th April 1869 on which, 391 people embarked. 175 from Portsmouth, (74 men, 40 women and 61 children) and 216 from Woolwich, (101 men, 52 women and 63 children).<br> | ||