1. Charlotte Erickson, ‘Emigration from the British Isles to the U.S.A. in 1841, Part I’, Population Studies, 43 (1989) p. 349.
2. See also Erickson, Leaving England (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994) where Erickson’s seminal essays have been revised and expanded,
3. and William Van Vugt, ‘Prosperity and industrial emigration from Britain during the early 1850s’, Journal of Social History, 22:2 (1988) 339–354, who argues that ‘Britain’s expanding industry seems to have been absorbing potential emigrants by mid-century’ (p. 349).
4. See, for example, F.K. Crowley, ‘British migration to Australia’, unpublished D. Phil thesis (Oxford: Oxford University, 1951) p. 210; idem, ‘The British contribution to the Australian Population: 1860–1919’, University Studies in History and Economics (July, 1954). Reg Appleyard found that post World War II assisted emigrants to Australia were not under privileged but were enterprising and energetic individuals who were ‘characteristically drawn from the suburban fringes of large cities and provincial towns’. See British Emigration To Australia (Canberra: Australian National University, 1964) pp. 211–212, 144–146, passim; idem (with Alison Ray and Allan Segal), The Ten pound Immigrants (London: Boxtree Press, 1988) pp. 17, 51–54, passim.
5. Charlotte Erickson, ‘Emigration from the British Isles to the U.S.A. in 1831’, Population Studies, 35 (1981), p. 196; idem, ‘Emigration from the British Isles to the U.S.A. in 1841, Part 1 (1989) pp. 349, 367; idem, ‘Emigration from the British Isles to the U.S.A. in 1841, Part II’, Population Studies, 44 (1990) p. 39–40;