Irish Emigrants Manifest Database

To be summarized:

The “Irish Emigrants Manifest Database” is an Excel file containing the name, age, occupation, birthplace, ship name, and arrival date for 18,000 of the 916,000 Irish immigrants who arrived at the port of New York from 1846 to 1854. It is not a random sample, but was created almost entirely from those manifests which gave detailed information (county, parish, or town) for each immigrant’s place of birth within Ireland.

Unique variables include “name of ship” and “luggage possessed by individual.”

Shared Dataset Variables

Variable Name	Description
AGEPERSON	age of a person (only) in a dataset
DEATHCAUSE	cause of death of a person in a dataset
DEATHYEAR	year of death of a person in a dataset
EMPLOYMENTSTATUS	generally recorded as whether in paid employment or not
FIRSTNAME	first name or initial of person
GENDER	gender of a person in a dataset
LASTNAME	surname (whether married or maiden)
MIGRATIONDATE	date of emigration or immigration or some kind of movement
NATIVITYCOUNTRY	birthplace of individual or of parent(s) of individual
OCCUPATION	occupation of an individual
PLACEADDRESS	an address recorded in a dataset
PLACECITY	the named city that is being measured in a dataset
PLACECOUNTRY	the named country that is being measured in a dataset
PLACESTATEUS	the named state (us) that is being measured in a dataset