African Americans in Irish slaveholder records 1670-1862
As African American families research their family trees, they have identified Irish names in their families, Irish names among those who enslaved their families and even Irish genetic ancestry when they undergo DNA testing. Equally, Irish people have begun to identify African American cousins through DNA testing. This points to a large unexplored history. Enslavement to citizenship is a public history project which seeks to identify Irish slaveholders and overseers in the U.S.A. but more importantly to find the names of African American families hidden in the records of Irish slaveholders prior to 1862. This project is dedicated to making it easier for African American families to access information about their ancestors, so that families can be reunited.
As of Sept. 2020, this project has identified 163 Irish slaveholders in South Carolina alone. The final number will be far higher. A map of Irish slaveholders by birthplace (where known)has begun here which includes place of residence in the USA.
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Further information will be added periodically so please keep coming back.
Irish-born in South Carolina (by county) 1850
Abbeville 242
Anderson 57
Barnwell 31
Beaufort 38
Charleston 2,577
Chester 215
Chesterfield 12
Colleton 15
Darlington 7
Edgefield 103
Fairfield 262
Georgetown 5
Greenville 65
Hampton 0
Horry 2
Kershaw 15
Lancaster 23
Laurens 47
Lexington 4
Marion 0
Marleboro 2
Newberry 30
Orangeburg 13
Pickens 18
Richland 216
Spartanburg 44
Sumter 40
Union 77
Williamsburg 1
York 143
Source: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Irish-born, South Carolina.
Family Search (2020) (https://bit.ly/31jIkGs) (accessed 23 March 2020).
Table created by Martine Brennan.
Abbeville 242
Anderson 57
Barnwell 31
Beaufort 38
Charleston 2,577
Chester 215
Chesterfield 12
Colleton 15
Darlington 7
Edgefield 103
Fairfield 262
Georgetown 5
Greenville 65
Hampton 0
Horry 2
Kershaw 15
Lancaster 23
Laurens 47
Lexington 4
Marion 0
Marleboro 2
Newberry 30
Orangeburg 13
Pickens 18
Richland 216
Spartanburg 44
Sumter 40
Union 77
Williamsburg 1
York 143
Source: 1850 U.S. Federal Census, Irish-born, South Carolina.
Family Search (2020) (https://bit.ly/31jIkGs) (accessed 23 March 2020).
Table created by Martine Brennan.
Enslavement to citizenship: African Americans in Irish Slaveholder records by Martine Brennan is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.