Diary extracts from James Patrick McCormick who traveled to Australia 103 years ago

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These are extracts from the diary of James Patrick McCormick (20), son of Thomas and Mary (neè Pender) McCormick, on the family’s emigration voyage to Australia in 1914. With them went Tom and Katie Gannon, James’s first cousins and my granduncle and grandaunt. James made a daily entry in his diary throughout the six-week voyage. They left Ireland exactly 103 years ago.



Irish emigrant’s diary from a six week voyage to Australia in 1914