Do thréimhse an Ghorta, baineann Belchem úsáid as staitisticí ón Ghiúistís áitiúil i Rushton a bhí luaite i leabhar le Frank Neal, *Black ’47*: “According to his figures, 296,331 persons landed at Liverpool from Ireland between 13 January and 13 December 1847, of whom 116,000 were ‘half naked and starving’.