“The Position at Arranmore Island”, Freeman’s Journal, 1881

Newspaper

Date: 1881-06-09
Eras: Irish era
Concepts: migrationirish-arranmoreheritagehistoriography
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

This 1881 Dublin report is contemporaneous Irish-side evidence for one mechanism of the Arranmore-to-Beaver Island migration. It reports that a landlord called Mr. Charley paid the passage of families from part of Aphort on Arranmore to Beaver Island, then took up their land.

What it establishes

The article links a named Arranmore townland, Aphort, with Beaver Island and describes passage paid by “Mr. Charley” for families who then took up land on the island, as reported from Arranmore in 1881. It is a source distinct from later family memory and retrospective local histories.

Evidence and limits

The report does not provide a passenger list, family names, departure dates, ship, number of migrants, or a complete account of land tenure. “Mr. Charley” is retained as the newspaper’s designation; this archive does not promote that mention into a full biographical identification or a quantified migration episode.

Sources

“The Position at Arranmore Island,” *Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser* (Dublin), June 9, 1881, p. 3.
Held reading-zoom screenshot acquired through Library of Michigan licensed Newspapers.com access. The article says that Mr. Charley paid passage for families from part of Aphort, Arranmore, to Beaver Island and then took up their land. The image is a private research and citation copy under the stated British Library Board restriction and is not a publishable media asset.
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Records the licensed retrieval route, issue/page/image identifier, rights restriction, and the passage checked on screen. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, ““The Position at Arranmore Island”, Freeman’s Journal, 1881”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/freemans-journal-arranmore-beaver-island-1881/, accessed [date], citing “The Position at Arranmore Island,” *Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser* (Dublin), June 9, 1881, p. 3. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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