Farewell to Kent

'Farewell to Kent'

Helen Allinson

Now available, a new book by Helen Allinson, 196 pages, indexed and illustrated. Appendices of emigrants, their parishes and the ships.

· Between 1820-1850, thousands of poor families set out for America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand assisted by their parishes.

· The deprivations of the long voyage.

· Stories of survival in the harshest of conditions

· How the Kent Agricultural Labourers Union helped Kentish farm workers and their families to emigrate to New Zealand during the 1870s.

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