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My great grandfather DANIEL DARRAH (later DARROW) was apparently born in Edinburgh Scotland about November 1824. I have no record of when he came to the USA. There is no record of him in the 1850 US National Census nor in the NE regional census of 1860. I have found no record of him on any of the Boston and New York passenger ship lists I have reviewed.
The first record I have of him is for his marriage in 1863 in Springfield MA when he was 39 to an 18 year old Irish American woman BRIDGET LYONS. If his absence from the 1860 census is correct, he married soon after coming to the USA. From the birth records of his seven sons, I learned that he was illiterate and worked as an unskilled laborer or farmer for all of his later life. He was thus probably poor when he emigrated from Scotland.
One of my contacts has mentioned that it might have been possible that DANIEL had originally immigrated to Canada under the British subsidized emigration scheme of the 19th century. He could have been drawn to the US ( overland ?) by the demand for labor in the northern states that the Civil War caused in the early 1860s.
I would like to know if there are any DARRAHs in the US whose ancestors came through Canada to the US or from anyone who knows more about this assisted immigration program from Scotland to Briish North America.
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