Welcome to the website of the Petworth Emigration Project, a collaborative study in the social history and genealogy of nineteenth-century emigration and immigration between England and Canada.   Index of Contributions Worried about missing new information shared about your Petworth ancestor? This new index will keep you up to date with all the new shared family history forms and Facebook postings   Join us on Facebook! We are providing a more informal opportunity to share (or question) your Petworth emigrant family history with our Facebook group 'Petworth Emigrants'. Discussions and contributions include Rapson, Tribe, Penfold, Hopkins, Tilt, Courtnage, Madgwick, Crossin, Hills, Sagemen, Woolgar, Bristow and many more! You are welcome to join the discussions as well as add photographs of your emigrant ancestors. See you there!   Colonel Wyndham’s 1839 Irish Emigrants A listing of emigrants selected from Colonel Wyndham's Irish estates and in Canada or the United States The Petworth Project is an introduction to a case study of six assisted emigrations from Sussex to Upper Canada in the 1830s and to the library and record office accepting new material on Petworth emigrants. More on books about emigration, immigration, and the people of Sussex and Ontario: Assisting Emigration, English Immigrant Voices, and Poor Cottages. Click on the book covers to order. Sharing Petworth Family History is a section for contributors to add to what we know of first generation Petworth emigrants and contact others who share their interests. Please fill in our email form. Indexes offer a list of Petworth emigrant family names followed by indexes available only on this site: new contributions, wives' maiden names, burial places, post 1837 emigrants, and Colonel Wyndham's 1839 Irish emigrants. Read our books for a study of assisted emigration and the background to the Petworth emigrations. If your ancestors were Petworth emigrants, are they on our list in Part 2 of Assisting Emigration? Did we find a letter? Petworth Emigration Project © 2002- Designed by Fidosis Creations