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“It is a Better Country for Girls Than Home:” Chain Migration at Work

One of my favourite pieces of family memorabilia is a letter written in August 1877 by my great-grandmother, Mary Hamilton, to her friend, Jeannie Kirkwood, who was still back in Scotland. Mary had recently emigrated to New Zealand with three of her siblings, having sailed from Glasgow on the Marlborough […]

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“It is a Better Country for Girls Than Home:” Chain Migration at Work

  • Jeannie Kirkwood
  • Mary Hamilton
by Marian Press
Published February 14, 2018
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  • Margaret Anne Skottowe Parker and Her Unfortunate Marriage
  • True Love as Revealed in a Will
  • “It is a Better Country for Girls Than Home:” Chain Migration at Work
  • She Ran Away With Her Music Teacher
  • Sarah Catherine Martin

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  • Kinsman Family
  • Martin Family
  • Parker Family
  • Passage West
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  • St. John Maddermarket, Norwich

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