What regions of the UK were more likely to emigrate c.19th century?

Say, that there is a new British colony not far from the mainland, slightly north of it. In a scenario where hundreds of thousands of settlers from Great Britain and Ireland settled in that colony throughout the 19th century, what regions would they be predominantly from?

I've been talking about this with a friend of mine, and our assumption is that Scots and the Irish would make the bulk of them, but I'd like to hear people with more knowledge about British emigration patterns than us get into specific details if they can.
 

Albert.Nik

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Okay. Say there is a good sized island on the North of Scotland with climate similar to Iceland and a bit bigger than that,or there is an another peninsula protruding south after Norway towards the West. And this isn't conquered by any other empire before except UK in the 19th century. The Empire would probably set up new cities and estates and people could acquire it through money and it costs a little less than mainland. So then,it would be acquired and settled by people who can acquire that through a Capitalist system. Most of UK was was developed without much disparity. So difficult to say who emigrates first. UK isn't such a big and diverse country to have disparities that big.
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My understanding is that Irish and the South-West of the England were proportionally the two largest emigration sources in the Victorian era. Scotland, Wales and the North of England were industrialising fast and jobs and opportunities were reasonably plentiful, the South-East has always been the richest part of England and was a internal migration destination but Ireland and the South-West of England were poor and not really going anywhere. If you are talking Georgian era Scotland and East Anglia become emigrant sources.
 
Depends precisely when. For example, a lot of Home Counties farm labourers immigrated to NZ after the 1870s slump, in part because the NZ government literally sent agents around the districts meeting the organised labourers to promote NZ migration.
 
Depends precisely when. For example, a lot of Home Counties farm labourers immigrated to NZ after the 1870s slump, in part because the NZ government literally sent agents around the districts meeting the organised labourers to promote NZ migration.
Oh, sorry. Should of put in a specific date. Immigration started by around 1816.
 
The problem is, any sizeable island that close to the mainland would have been discovered and inhabited long ago, most likely by either early Scottish/Irish groups or the Vikings way before 1815.

If you have that as an accepted part of your timeline, then certainly pre-1815 the majority of settlers, as was true of colonies in America, would have come from England, from the farm belts of the south and the slowly-industrialising regions of the north. Even in the c19th a significant percentage, maybe even a majority, of emigrants from the UK OTL were English (partly just because there were so many more English people).

But my concern would be how would such a northerly island support a population of the size you are talking about? Historically Iceland didn't have more than 100,000 people before the 1910s-1920s. Who populates your colony, and how, and when, all depend on what it is like in terms of resources, military purpose, climate, etc...
 
The only way this place is getting any immigration as opposed to being a source of emigrants (like the Highlands and Ireland) is if it has god-tier amounts of high quality coal and some swift-flowing rivers to get watermills going. Add high-quality iron mines too. Otherwise it'll look like Iceland or the Faroes/Shetland/Orkney and almost no one will be moving there.

You'd also need Ireland-levels of native oppression to have it speak English too, since natively the island will probably speak a Celtic language (probably like Pictish or Brythonic, but maybe a Gaelic language instead), although a Norse language is a potential. If it's Gaelic speaking than that would be interesting given the number of Scottish and Irish speakers who would emigrate there.
 
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