London Emigration and Immigration

England London  Emigration and Immigration

London was the principal port of departure for ships carrying immigrants during the early modern period. Large numbers of indentured servants and convicts boarded ships in London that transported them to the American colonies.

Peter Wilson Coldham has published a variety of books on London emigrants:


 * Child Apprentices in America from Christ's Hospital, London, 1617-1778 at Ancestry ($)

A list of ship's departing from London for the United States in the mid-1800s has been reconstructed using sources stored in the arrival country:


 * The London Compass. Digital versions at Family History Archive: Vol. 2.