A few new settlers arrived in Plymouth in the 18th century, but immigration didn't really boom until the 1840s.
During the 1840s, both Ireland and Germany suffered crop damage and famines, leading to large scale emigration. By the 1850s, shipping companies had established passenger lines to transport immigrants, generally single people. Those early immigrants fleeing desperate poverty could bring very few material things with them.
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Updated 14 July, 1998
