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Name
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The 1827 Ohio Emigration
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Description
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In 1827, three ships carried Manx emigrants to Ohio: the Chile, the Curler, and the Ocean. The Cleveland Herald of 3 August 1827 reported about 200 immigrants from the Isle of Man. The northern parishes of Ballaugh, Jurby, Kirk Michael, and Lezayre bled the most — parishes where the herring economy had mattered most, where the collapse of the harbours had been felt most acutely, and where the agricultural land was thinnest. Moore fixed 1824 as the date at which the Manx labourer reached his lowest depth of misery. The 1827 ships sailed three years later. The people who left were not adventurers. They were families — the Corletts and the Cannells and the Sayles and the Kellys — doing what the Keys' petition had described: removing themselves and their families to seek a livelihood, because the island that had sustained their ancestors could no longer sustain them.
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Date
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1827
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Type
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Emigration Event
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Source
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Cleveland Herald, 3 August 1827; Moore, History of the Isle of Man
