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Title: A Study of the Family Structure of Irish Immigrants in Scotland at the late 19th Century
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Publication Year: 2006
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Abstract: The aim of thisstudy is to understand of the family of the Irish immigrants in Scotland atthe late 19 century from the perspective of comparing the family structure of the Irish immigrants and the native Scotland and particularly using the concept offamily strategy. I have a hypothesis that in Ireland the type of simple family household with the partible inheritance system was dominated in theearly 19th century, but after 1835 the type changed to extended family households and multiple family households with establishing the system of dowry and matchmaking and the impartible inheritance system. In Scotland the Irish immigrants formed the simple family household for adapting the Scottish community and the head of household and their member had their job for the better well-being from the point of their family strategy. I use the data of 1881 Scotland Census Returns for testing of my hypothesis that has AHDS History of University of Essex. Atthe result of above analyzing I had the following conclusions. 1) I found the distribution of the Irish immigrants concentrated on six counties, namely Lanark (52.5%), Renfrew (13.9%), Edinburgh (6.7%), Ayr (6.5%), Forfar (5.7%) and Dumbarton (3.8%) and the total was 83.4%. 2) On the average of size of the household, the Irish immigrants are 4.1 and the native Scottish is 3.6, butthe size of Irish immigrants issmaller than the native Ireland (4.8).3) The type of the Irish immigrants and the native Scotlanddominated the type of simple household, butthe Irish (73.8%) was much than the native Scotland (64.9%). 4) However when I compared the type offamily by using the detailed tabulation of composition of kin groupper 100 households, we found a very difference in the two types between the Irish immigrants (14.1 persons) and the native Scotland (38.3 persons). The family of the Irish immigrants had very simple type but it was included many borders and lodgers, because they had the strong relations of community spirit of Ireland and to do so was the family strategy for the Irish immigrants.
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Authors: Shimizu, Yoshifumi
Periodical (Full): Bulletin of the Research Institute of St.Andrew's University
Issue: 1
Volume: 32
Pages: 29-58
Data Collections: IPUMS International
Topics: Family and Marriage, Migration and Immigration
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