My McHughs came here for a better life, to get away from English oppression but most importantly, to have their own LAND! They too worked hard but were able to achieve what they never would in Ireland. After just a few years of work, they bought their parcels of land across the road from a cemetery and so became part time grave diggers as well as owner-farmers. Nobody had any intention of ever going back. This must have seemed like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for them. And one first generation Australian became a barman -- never too far from the Guinness! Eilish On 15/06/2015 7:44 PM, Dee Byster-Graham via wrote: > I agree. > And it is likely that a percentage of those who left to win their fortune in > Oz and elsewhere did so with the firm intention of going 'home' when they > earned enough money or found that mythical gold boulder- it was perhaps > never their intention to stay as long as they did, and never dreamt they > would one day need a pension to get by on. > Others, as my ancestors, came here determined to start a new life and family > in a new land - they surely had to work hard, but freedom and equity seemed > to be their goal, rather wealth only. > To be amongst the first to purchase a large double plot in a new cemetery as > soon as it opened indicated, more than anything else, their determination to > make a go of it in their adopted land. > And they still enjoyed their Guinness sure:) > > Dee. > -----Original Message----- > From: fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dave H via > Sent: Monday, 15 June 2015 6:42 PM > To: fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD PENSIONS FOR IRISH ABROAD > > Yes I think that's correct and they had to apply in Ireland as they > qualified there. > > Handy to know, as if someone is found applying through Ireland it > possibly/probably is an indicator of when they left Ireland (less than > 25 yrs ago) to look for ship records etc.. > > Obviously if they had qualified in Oz, NZ etc they would have applied there, > much easier. I don't need to look for anyone and was just wondering. > > It must have been annoying in NZ having to watch others getting Pension yet > others had to wait until they qualified in Ireland/ under Irish conditions > in 1908. > > It would drive then to drink but they didn't have Pension to buy any! :-)) > > Dave. > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

This was the same story in the settling of the U. S.  Even some of the relatively well-off immigrants came here because they could purchase land.  Some of the oldest families in Virginia were established by the younger sons of the gentry, who were not able to own land in the old country because of primogeniture laws.  My own Yorkshireman came to Virginia as a bondsman. That is, he agreed to work for someone to pay off his passage to the new world.  When he died about forty years later, he left a 400-acre farm and sizable possessions to his children.  This was also the big inducement for the German immigrants who came in through our southern ports, made their way up the Mississippi River to the Missouri River, followed that river west, and settled the western part of Missouri.  As Eilish says, these folks would never want to go back to their homelands  --  no matter where those lands were. Carol From: Eilish via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> To: Dee Byster-Graham <deebg@bigpond.net.au>; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, June 15, 2015 5:00 PM Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD PENSIONS FOR IRISH ABROAD My McHughs came here for a better life, to get away from English oppression but most importantly, to have their own LAND! They too worked hard but were able to achieve what they never would in Ireland. After just a few years of work, they bought their parcels of land across the road from a cemetery and so became part time grave diggers as well as owner-farmers. Nobody had any intention of ever going back. This must have seemed like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for them. And one first generation Australian became a barman -- never too far from the Guinness! Eilish On 15/06/2015 7:44 PM, Dee Byster-Graham via wrote: > I agree. > And it is likely that a percentage of those who left to win their fortune in > Oz and elsewhere did so with the firm intention of going 'home' when they > earned enough money or found that mythical gold boulder- it was perhaps > never their intention to stay as long as they did, and never dreamt they > would one day need a pension to get by on. > Others, as my ancestors, came here determined to start a new life and family > in a new land - they surely had to work hard, but freedom and equity seemed > to be their goal, rather wealth only. > To be amongst the first to purchase a large double plot in a new cemetery as > soon as it opened indicated, more than anything else, their determination to > make a go of it in their adopted land. > And they still enjoyed their Guinness sure:) > > Dee. > -----Original Message----- > From: fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dave H via > Sent: Monday, 15 June 2015 6:42 PM > To: fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD PENSIONS FOR IRISH ABROAD > > Yes I think that's correct and they had to apply in Ireland as they > qualified there. > > Handy to know, as if someone is found applying through Ireland it > possibly/probably is an indicator of when they left Ireland (less than > 25 yrs ago) to look for ship records etc.. > > Obviously if they had qualified in Oz, NZ etc they would have applied there, > much easier. I don't need to look for anyone and was just wondering. > > It must have been annoying in NZ having to watch others getting Pension yet > others had to wait until they qualified in Ireland/ under Irish conditions > in 1908. > > It would drive then to drink but they didn't have Pension to buy any!  :-)) > > Dave. > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ================================== https://www.google.ie/ ================================== http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message