The Emigration of Irish Famine Orphan Girls to Australia: The Earl Grey Scheme

Véronique Molinari

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004366398_020

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One of the most marking events in the history of Ireland, the Great famine, began in 1845 with the first appearance of a new and deadly strain of potato blight that was to cause, in the space of six years, the death of at least one million Irish people and the emigration of another 1.5 million from the island. While the solutions proposed by the British government to alleviate the crisis mostly consisted in emergency relief measures such as the import of grain, public works and soup kitchens, from 1847 the British government increasingly turned to assisted emigration as part of the Irish Poor Law Extension Act voted that same year. While most Irish destitutes left for Canada or the United States, one particular group of emigrants was sent to Australia as part of what was known as the “Earl Grey scheme” after its principal architect, the then Secretary of State for the Colonies. This consisted in some 4,000 adolescent female orphans who, between 1848 and 1850, left Irish workhouses for the Australian colonies and settled in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. The idea arose from pragmatic considerations: this young female emigration would simultaneously relieve pressure on the already overflowing Irish workhouses, ease the labour shortage in Australia and help redress the gender imbalance there. Even though it had to wind up after only two years of existence, the scheme gives us interesting insight into several contemporary issues, including the wider question of assisted female emigration, anti-Catholic prejudice and that of the increasingly complex relationships between Britain and its colonies

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International Migrations in the Victorian Era

Reihe: Studies in Global Social History, Band: 33/11 und Studies in Global Migration History, Band: 33/11

ISBN:: 9789004366398

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 12 May 2018

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