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A History of the County of Essex
… 1841, when the population was swollen on census day by 160 Irish migrant workers. 193 Two firms played a leading part in … Census, 1801 sqq. In 1841 the total of 281 included 160 Irish migrant workers. E.R.O., T/P 50/14; Kelly's Dir. Essex …
A History of the County of Stafford
… a nailer, and two labourers; one of the latter was an Irish immigrant. Most of them were married to Protestants, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… for men and supplies from his Lancashire lands for his Irish campaigns. He may have visited the place in February …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… The churchwardens were concerned with local Scots and Irish poor as early as 1834, 47 and it is probable that the … was drawn largely from the families of immigrant Irish labourers on the brickfields, market-gardens, and …
A History of the County of Essex
… 42 The labour for this was provided mainly by immigrant Irish, of whom there were about 50 in West Ham by 1767. 43 In …
A History of the County of Essex
… cottages at Plaistow were some occupied by the immigrant Irish potato workers, in Pinnocks Place, off North Street, …
A History of the County of Essex
… calico-printer c. 174965, 20 was evidently employing Irish labourers in 1750, when he received an anonymous letter …
A History of the County of Essex
… other new industries, but above all to the influx of poor Irish, who worked elsewhere in the summer, returned to West … throughout the winter. Unlike English vagrants the Irish were not then normally subject to the settlement laws, … dealt with by an Act of 1819, 31 and from that year all Irish who became chargeable were removed from the parish. By …
A History of the County of Essex
… outer London. 2 These high proportions were due mainly to Irish immigration, starting in the 18th century. A previous … calico-printer, Didier Richard. 6 By 1767 an influx of Irish labourers had raised the total to 53, and in 1780 it … congregation was said to consist of over 1,200 labouring Irish. 16 Chevrollais opened a parish school for boys and …