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BACKGROUND GENEALOGY
HAMBURG TO ENGLAND
The most common indirect route was from Hamburg to Hull,
England. Emigrants would then take a train across England to Liverpool,
London, Southampton, or another port (most went to Liverpool) and continue
they journey to the New World from there. [
http://www.progenealogists.com/germany/articles/hambpl.htm ]
Many emigrants did not depart directly from their homelands
to the Americas or Australasia. Instead, they would first take a smaller
steamer, referred to as a "Feeder ship" to a British port, then by train to
larger emigration ports such as Liverpool, Glasgow or London, to embark on a
transatlantic steamship. The emigrants who travelled by this "indirect"
route were referred to as Transmigrants. There was also transmigration via
Hamburg .. Transmigrants arrived via several British ports: | Dover |
Grimsby | Hartlepool (west) | Harwich | Hull | Leith | London | Newcastle |
Newhaven | Southampton | Tyne | and others. Hull and Grimsby received the
vast majority of transmigrants. [.
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/lines/transmigration.html ]
By 1914 the level of migration via Hull had declined. With the outbreak of the First World War and the passing of immigration acts in South Africa and America, the era of mass transmigration via the UK, and from Europe at large, ended overnight. Although transmigration on a smaller scale did resume after 1918, it would never be of the volume witnessed in the period now known as that of mass migration. Between 1836 and 1914 a revolution in transport occurred in which the steamships became 'trains on water', linking Europe with America or Canada, transporting thousands of would-be migrants in ever shorter periods of time. Without this revolution in transport millions may not have made the decision to venture from their homes in Scandinavia to a new life in the west. [ http://www.norwayheritage.com/articles/templates/voyages.asp?articleid=28&zoneid=6 ]