Searching for Liverpool’s Famine Victims

By Carol Davis | Published in History Today Volume: 54 Issue: 5 2004

Carol Davis visits a church in Liverpool that has tragic links with the Irish Famine. The opening of a new study centre there will assist those trying to trace ancestors affected by the disaster.

The elegant egg-shaped burial chambers built in 1833 as part of the Roman Catholic church of St Anthony’s in Liverpool bear witness to a grim tale. Stacked five high and seven deep, they and the recently unearthed paupers’ mass grave behind the church were filled to bursting point in the black days of 1847.

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