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Show 55 teredo ,,1 T. B. H. Stenhouse writing to Orson Pratt commented that the N ew York Saints nearly all from Old England, with a sprinkling from Scot Ireland, and, I should suppose, in general better off here than they were in those countries, that is, they mak are land and more which is the sine qua money, non going West.2 for That the Mo r rn o n s drew their converts from the industrial sections of Scotland be can seen from the fact that out of branches established between 1840-1900 in towns where the manufacturing.3 predominant industry The vast majority three western counties of Renfrew, had its largest number of Scottish 588 Scottish Mormon again industrial workers 40.6 per up are 2Letter, op. 3Branch 16, Histories, Topographical Lanark and adherents.4 was Ayr or. textile situated in the where Mormonism For the years examined for predominant.5 hundred The 1850-70, occupations and mining industry made 239 emigrants; textile and related 1856 in Journal History of that date. passim; for information Dictionaryland 4Supra, 20, Table No.2. 5Source for occupational on industries (2 vols., London, structure is see 1846). Liverpool Emigration On the" Cynosure" ( sailing May 30, Records for the years 1850 -70. 1863) out of 65 designated occupations of Scottish emigrants aboard the following percentages once 438. cit., October mining of these towns were cent of the total with lCannon, A emigrants coal one of them ere located forty over was some were indicated: |
