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Approximately three fifths of the emigration from the United Kingdom to America arrived in the 19th century. The remainder came through Ellis Island between 1900 and 1924. Arrivals from the U.K. began to increase in the mid-1840's with the Irish Famine that led to very high mortality rates, rising prices and unemployment and a massive outflow of Irish population to the U.S. In the post-Famine period, England's industrial revolution progressed and emigration continued to grow between the prosperous 1850's and the mid-1890's. This series on Emigration from the United Kingdom to America concentrates on U.K. emigration in the period 1870-1897, listing migrants from the U.K. who arrived in New Yo...
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Johannes (John) Kesler (1728-1823) immigrated from Germany or Switzerland to Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and married Eva Dorothea Leman about 1755. They later moved to Botetourt County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Washington, California, Arizona, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, New Mexico, Tennessee, Oklahoma and elswhere.
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Christian C.Z. Zimmerman (ca.1720-1800) emigrated from Switzerland to Pennsylvania, moving later to Anson County, North Carolina, and changed his surname to Carpenter. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and elsewhere.