A SOFT DAY A soft day, thank God! A wind from the south With a honeyed mouth; A scent of drenching leaves, Briar and beech and lime, White elder-flower and thyme And the soaking grass smells sweet, Crushed by my two bare feet While the rain drips, Drips, drips, drips from the eves. -- Winifred M. Letts, "Songs From Leinster," 1913

BIO: Daniel SHAYS (1747-1825) was the descendant of Irish immigrants originally named SHEA. In 1786, he led a rebellion of Massachusetts farmers against high taxes and imprisonment for debt. Similar rebellions took place in nearly all the colonies, but Shays' was considered the most serious. Massachusetts farmers were especially hard hit by bad harvests and declining prices and thus found the high taxes particularly oppressive. Led by Shays, they took up arms and tried to seize an arsenal at Springfield. They also harassed politicians and merchants identified with the state government. The movement was eventually crushed by the state militia. Shays and the rebels were later pardoned, but it caused such alarm in the new nation that it gave momentum to the movement to abolish the Articles of Confederation and adopt a Constitution.

Hi Tamara, A lovely and unusual name, is Tamara. Where do I start with this reply? I think my best advice is, for you to contact a cousin of my husband: Morris Rathwell, 9, Deer Haven Rd., Arundel, PQ. JOT 1AO He has written a book about the Rathwell Family History, in that area, and has some info about the distant past. Our first Rathwell came to the Gore district PQ. in 1831 from Kilkenny Ire. I believe he was a Charles - 1780-1846, and m. a Sarah Kilfoyle 1800-1868; The other ancestor's were: Hance McCullough,1803-1882 who m. Mary Roony 1850's: The story goes that Hance and Mary, fled Ire, on a ship and were married by the captain, religious differences we believe. He writes: "The Rathwells moved from Margate, Kent County in England, to Wexford County in Ireland. They then moved to Prospect House, Kilkenny County. Their home was 8 miles from Carlow and 10 miles from Kilkenny which places them almost on the border of Carlow. Carlow was one of the most rebellious counties in all of ireland at this time. In the 1820's and especially in the 1830's there was a huge exodus of Protestants and in particular Anglicans, to America." The family down East remained Rathwell, My father in law, after coming west and finally staying here, changed the A to O, and all of the kids are now RO. I could find no RA in Kent in the past year, and none in Ireland where I looked either, but did find some RO in Kent and a few RO births in part of Ire. Arnold Irvine, wrote to me several years ago about our RO line, but haven't heard from him again. There is a Kathleen Morrison, in Montreal, who was a wealth of information, but she has not been well of late and has been admitted to hospital just a couple of weeks ago, so can't say what will happen with her now. She is 95. Here are some UK sites you might try for info. ."IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com" If this address doesn't work, look into WWW. Genuki.com. where you will find several Ire addresses to question. They are very helpful sometimes if they know. Irish Mom <Romilly@attbi.com> (for ire) "KILKENNY-L@rootsweb.com" "Isle-of-Thanet-L@rootsweb.com" (for Kent, Margate in on this Isle) These sites in the UK I find very helpful, you will find people who will answer your query, much later, after thinking about it, with all kinds of info. Meet lots of great folks too, even if they don't know anything. I have some info about an Archbishop William De. Rothwell in Norhthamptonshire also. Still have to research him to see if he had any descendants. Didn't give you much help, just a lot of suggested work I'm afraid. Happy Hunting, Dorothy Rothwell, Box 208, Moosomin, SK, SOG 3NO

Interests Surnames KEHOE DOBBINS Looking for the baptism of Martin KEHOE born 1862 of Patrick KEHOE born 1838 mothers name not known only Christian name was Ann,dont know the county of birth only last address was 4 Maudlin Street Kilkenny. Can anyone help me (brickwall). Les in Dublin

THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core. -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

THE TIME I'VE LOST IN WOOING The time I've lost in wooing, In watching and pursuing The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing. Though wisdom oft has taught me I scorn the lore that bought me, My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me. Her smile when beauty granted, I hung with gaze enchanted, Like him, the sprite, Whom maids by night Oft meet in glen that's haunted. Like him, too, beauty won me, But while her eyes were on me, If once their ray Was turned away, Oh! winds could not outrun me. Are those follies going! And is my proud heart growing Too cold or wise For brilliant eyes Again to set it glowing? No -- vain, alas! the endeavor >From bonds so sweet to sever; Poor wisdom's chance Against a glance Is now as weak as ever! -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

The 1880s brought a sharp rise in immigration to the US and an increase in anti-immigration hostility. Even though the Irish suffered greatly from discrimination in America, some Irish had proved willing to discriminate against other, more vulnerable groups including blacks who represented competition for jobs. During the depression years of the 1870s, the Chinese in California became the target of hostility and violence. The leader of the anti-Chinese movement was an Irish immigrant named Denis KEARNEY. He rose to prominence as head of the Workingmen's Party in large measure by fanning the flames of anti-Chinese racism among his largely Irish constituents. On several occasions workers attacked the Chinese settlement in San Francisco. Kearney's efforts culminated in Congress passing the Chinese Exclusion act of 1882, which banned all future immigration from China to the US until WWII. In contrast to their lowly status in the mid-19th century, Irish Catholics by 1900 had achieved an amazing degree of upward mobility. An Irish-American middle class had emerged and more and more Irish could be found in the ranks of business, politics, and the professions. Several expressions at the time referred to those who had "made it" -- "lace curtain," "two-toilet," and "cut glass." Working-class Irishmen, however, referred to their fellow Irish entering office work and the professions as "narrowbacks" -.i.e., weaklings. In keeping with their new-found economic success, many Irish-Americans worked hard to demonstrate their love of Ireland and America. An editorial in a 1916 "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" reads: "To call the members of the Hibernian race foreigners would be an anomaly, as they are an integral part of Americanism. The Irish have become an integral part of us, and even those of us who may be descended from passengers of the 'Mayflower" can hardly look upon them as foreigners. Once here, the Irish have bound us so closely to that little isle whence they came that we can no longer look upon Ireland as a foreign country.... Everyone in the United States knows that the "Old Country" can refer only to the Emerald Isle... We feel that, after the United States, Ireland is the country in which we take the most interest. This very remarkable psychological state is due entirely to the Irishman's wonderfully passionate patriotism... But the Irishman's love for his old home has never made him relegate America to a second place."

Hello - I'm researching my wife's family and have found one thread which runs through the Gough family, who lived in Portadown around the 1840s or 1850s. It appears that Thomas James Gough, who was born there in 1846, had at least the following siblings: a brother James, a sister Margaret and another sister who married Joseph Parks. Thomas James Gough moved to Newcastle, England to work and traveled to the US in June of 1867 on a cattle boat. He ultimately settled in state of Illinois. I'm interested in finding out more about these Irish roots and would like any suggestions on how to research deeper. Thanks for any suggestions. ruben ayala

LOAD Today we carted home the last brown sheaf and hookt the scythe agenst the dry barn wall: the yellow border's on the chestnut leaf, the beech leaf's yellow all. Tomorrow we must bring the apples in, they are as big as they shall ever be: already starlings eager to begin have tasted many a tree. And in the gardens, all the roses done, the light lies gently, faint and almost cold, on wither'd goldenrod and snapdragon and tarnisht marigold. -- John Hewitt (1907-1987)

MERU Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion; but man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality; Egypt and Greece good-bye, and good-bye Rome! Hermits upon Mount Meru or Everest, Caverned in night under the drifted snow, Or where that snow and winter's dreadful blast Beat down upon their naked bodies, know That day brings round the night, that before dawn His glory and the monuments are gone. -- William Butler Yeats 1935

One Protestant institution that drew the loudest condemnation from the Catholic clergy was the Children's Aid Society in New York City. Founded in 1853 by Charles Loring BRACE, the CAS was committed to saving children who were orphaned or living in unfit homes. The goal was to remove the children from the harmful environment of the slums and place them in the homes of respectable families. Starting in 1854 and running until 1929, the CAS sponsored so-called "orphan trains" that carried 250,000 children to the Midwest, where they were placed with adoptive families. In some cases the children were not actually "orphaned" but had been placed in the CAS by a surviving parent who fully intended on reclaiming the child as circumstances improved. Children on "orphan trains" were often herded onto a stage in some town along the route where prospective adoptive parents could examine and choose their child -- this event having been advertised in advance in the newspaper. Nonetheless, it is a fact that many children found loving new families and had been rescued from the dangerous and unhealthy conditions existing in the slums. Sadly, in some adoptive homes they were treated more like servants. Some children benefited enormously from the program and went on to successful lives as a result. John BRADY and his friend Andrew BURKE, for example, grew up to become the governors of Alaska and North Dakota. Other children merely ended up in Midwestern jails rather than Sing Sing. Upper-class New Yorkers hailed BRACE for his humanitarianism. Archbishop John HUGHES denounced him as a kidnapper, for the great majority of the children taken by the CAS were Irish Catholic and most ended up in Protestant homes. To combat the effort, he organized the Catholic Protectorate and other agencies designed to harbor children in need and to place them in Catholic families.

THE MOTHER I do not grudge them; Lord, I do not grudge My two strong sons that I have seen go out To break their strength and die, they and a few, In bloody protest for a glorious thing. They shall be spoken of among their people, The generations shall remember them, And call them blessed; But I will speak their names to my own heart In the long nights; The little names that were familiar once Round my dead hearth. Lord, thou art hard on mothers: We suffer in their coming and their going; And tho' I grudge them not, I weary, weary Of the long sorrow -- And yet I have my joy: My sons were faithful, and they fought. -- Padraic Pearse (1879-1916) wrote this poem for his mother just before he and his brother went out to fight in the Rising of 1916. Per J. J. Lee in his "Irish Counties," (1997) -- Born in Dublin, Pearse had a cottage in Rosmuc in Connemara (Galway) which was the summer holiday home of the schoolteacher-poet who championed the clandestine Irish Republican Brotherhood and was later executed for his part in the Easter Rising of 1916. One imagines he must have often sat inside the small windows dreaming his revolutionary dreams, and writing poetry, which was perhaps sometimes a little on the maudlin side, an Irish trait. From that place you can see the unfettered sweep of the great, granite mountains, empty and clean, being casually stroked by suns that turn furze bushes into whorls of gold, and lakes into pools of molten silver; a scene which inspired Pearse to write these lines from "The Beauty Of This World" -- The little fields where mountainy men have sown, And soon will reap, Close to the gates of Heaven.

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I need some help. I have information from my relatives regarding 2 seperate cities, one is Knocknaheeny in Cork. I am trying to find out about birth records death records etc for that area. The other one is Wilshut (thats how my relatives spelled it). I have looked everywhere and cannot find a city by that name or close to that spelling. Thank you for any assistance you may be able to provide. Kathy

Irish fought on both sides of the American Civil War. I found this gem in a little softbound book of verse by the Penn Publishing Co., Philadelphia (1903). The poem, author unknown, first appeared in the "New York Sun." BLUE AND GRAY 'Twas a sight to be long remembered, That I saw on the cars one day As the train was flying southward, In the latter part of May. It was only two aged women Who met by chance that day, One had eyes of loveliest blue, The other, the sweetest gray. "Where go you?" said the blue-eyed one To her with the eyes of gray, "I'm going to visit my husband's grave, In the Southland far away." "Was he a soldier? "the blue-eyed asked, As she gazed in the eyes of gray; And half unconsciously she grasped Her hand in a loving way. The eyes of gray lit up with pride; "Yes, he was a soldier true; He fell at the battle of Shiloh," "Oh! there's where mine fell, too." And then they clasped each other and wept, The eyes of blue and gray Mingled their flood of sympathy As the train sped on its way. "What uniform did your "soldier" wear?" "My soldier wore the blue." "Ah," said the other, "mine wore the gray." "No matter, they both were true." "Yes, they were true, our loved and lost, True till their dying day. And it matters not what they wore on earth, They are clothed in white to-day." And when we came to the station A very small town by the way, The men all stood bareheaded As the two went on their way, They walked up the street together, Like children hand in hand, Out on the country highway Where the old church used to stand. And on and on till they reached the place Where their soldiers brave were laid; They they kissed and wept o'er each grave alike, And together knelt down and prayed; Then each told the other about the past, How they lived with their children dear, And agreed, while God would spare their lives, To meet there once a year. And then they walked back to the station, These soldiers' widows in tears, Helped by each other's sympathy, To bear their burden of years, Back to the West they traveled, To their children, kind and true; One with eyes of the sweetest gray, The other, the loveliest blue -- Author unknown, "New York Sun" circa 1900

THE INFINITE The Infinite always is silent: It is only the Finite speaks. Our words are the idle wave-caps On the deep that never breaks. We may question with wand of science, Explain, decide and discuss; But only in meditation The Mystery speaks to us. -- John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890)

BIO: In 1996, Sr. Mary Erginia celebrated her 107th birthday, but her memory reached backed to pre-Famine Ireland through the stories told her by her great-grandmonther, Honora Kelly, who as a 30-year-old widow escaped the Great Hunger and brought her seven children to Chicago in 1849. Sr. Erigina lived with her great-grandmother and remembered her well. "She wore a white fluted bonnet and smoked a clay pipe," she said. "One or other of the children was always knocking it to the floor. It would shatter. Then I would run to one of the taverns on Archer Avenue and buy a new one for her for two cents." This was the Archer avenue of Peter Findley Dunn's "Mister Dooley," the main thoroughfare of Bridgeport and the end point of the canal system that drw Irish laborers to the prairie town of Chicago. The Kelly boys went to work there, and the girls found jobs too: "Laundry workers first, then milliners." One of Honora's grandsons, Edward Kelly, went from digging ditches for the Dept. of Streets and Sanitation to become the Mayor of Chicago, and was the founder of the great machine that produced Mayor Richard Daley. "Both my great-grandmother and grandmother spoke Gaelic," Sr. Mary Erigina remembers. "They used it when they didn't want us kids to understand what they were saying. But we studied the language at our school, St. Brigid's. Every year the parish priest held a contest for the best Irish speaker and every year Joey Lombardi, who was 100% Italian, won." In fact, the mixed nature of the southside Irish stronghold, Richard Daley's home turf, shatters a clique of immigrant insularity. "We had Polish, German and Italian families living near us on Hillock Avenue," Sr. Erigina recalls. "My grandmother was a Kelly, she married a Kelly, and my mother was a Kelly who married a Kelly." She remembers the women gathering at the street-level shop around the pot-bellied stove, sharing stories. "One lady, Mrs. O'Reilly, if you would ask how she was, she always answered, "Fine, with Pat working, thank God." Work was key, and Chicago provided a lot of it. As the city rebuilt after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, life was organized around the parishes. Sister's baptismal name was Agnella, after one of her mother's teachers at St. Brigid's, a sister of the Irish order the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The order, founded in Dublin by Mary Frances Clark, took root in the prairies of Iowa and then spread to the cities of the midwest. Agnella entered that Order in 1906. She came to the mother house in Dubuque, IA, carrying an envelope from the pastor of St. Brigid's: "I would like Agnella Kelly to be called Sr. Mary Erigina, in honor of Ireland's great medieval philospher," the note read. Mother Superior acquiesced, although "it was not a name I liked," says Sr. Erigina. "But it's grown on me." She spent more than 70 years teaching first grade, devoted to her "buttons and dolls" at Gesu School in Milwaukee and in Chicago parish schools. Pat O'Brien was her pupil, and there are hosts of Chicago's priests, judges and politicians who remember this "tall, blue-eyed woman who would hug your tears away," as one of one of the "buttons" recalls. Mason City, IA was her home for many years and in 1996 she lived at the BVM mother house in Dubuque wher she attended Mass every day. At 107, the sister could still recite the Irish prayers she learned as a child, but "there is no sing left in me," she would say with regret. "I can sing the songs in my mind, but I can't make music." She remembers her Uncle Mike, soaking his wooden flute, and her Uncle Mart, tuning his fiddle for the musical evenings that drew the neighborhood. There they were, the survivors of the great Hunger, saved by the greatest rescue effort the world has ever known. It was mounted not by governments, or even by organized charities or religious groups, but by themselves. One by one, family by family. Sr. Mary Erigina remembers them. She danced for her family on those nights more than a century ago, and said she could still see her great-grandmother Honora tapping along to the music.

EARLY THOUGHTS Oh gather the thoughts of your early years, Gather them as they flow, For all unmarked in those thoughts appears The path where you soon must go. Full many a dream will wither away, And Springtide hues are brief, But the lines are there of the autumn day, Like the skeleton in the leaf. The husbandman knowns not the worth of his seed Until the flower be sprung, And only in age can we rightly read The thoughts that we thought when young. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1838-1903)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------393DBEAA1AB47DC66A79A6BF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit You may get this same information through multiple lists, but I thought it could be of value to many people. This list is for folks with a Kilkenny connection, in the future I will do the other counties as I have chance. It is a long list! I found the following information in "The Irish Ancestor" publication Vol. 4, No. 2 for 1974 and thought it might be of help to someone. The list is from the parish records of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Halifax, N.S. St. Peter's started 1784 until 1830 and the later church is now called St. Mary's Basilica in Halifax. The list is much more extensive but I am only including Kilkenny entries here. It lists both the bridge & groom names as well as their parents and where they were from in most cases. 28 August 1817 Robert BONNET, of Kilmurray Co. Wicklow to Mary DOUL of Rossbercon, Kilkenny 3 February 1817 John CLARCK (of John and Mary McCallon, Co. Kilkenny) to Elizabeth MURPHY (of Daniel and Abigail Stevens of Pictou, Nova Scotia) 16 Sept 1817 Richard CODY of the Parish of Owning, Co. Kilkenny, to Mary BARY of Cove, Cty Cork. 25 Aug 1812 John CULLEN (of Patrick and Bridget Lahy of St. John's Newfoundland) to Ellen DULHANTY (of Thomas and Catherine Grace of Co. Kilkenny). 17 Nov 1806 Michael DELOUGHREY (of James and Catherine Cassin of Co. Kilkenny) to Mary SMYTH (of John and Bridget Doyle of St. John's Newfoundland) 2 Oct 1805 William DOBBIN (of Edmund and Johanna David of Co. Tipperary) to Mary MURPHY (of Richard and Anne Moran of Co. Kilkenny) 6 Feb 1812 William DONOVAN (of Thomas and Margaret Maher of Co. Tipperary) to Johanna HEFFERNAN (of Patrick and Anastas Dulhanty of Glenmore, Kilkenny) 15 Oct 1801 John DOYLE (of Michael and Alice Maloney of Newmarket-in-Ossory, Kilkenny) to Elizabeth SMITH (of William and Freelove Potter of Halifax) 16 Sept 1805 James DULHANTY (of Thomas and Elenor Flinn of Co. Kilkenny) to Ellen O'BRIEN (of Michael and Catherine Quinn of Cahir, Co. Tipperary) and widow of William Frizel of Halifax. 18 April 1803 John FANNING (of William and Mary Wall of Callan, Co. Kilkenny) to Elener FORRESTAL (of Thomas and Mary Doyle of Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny) 28 Sept 1817 Richard John GUILFOIL (of William and Elizabeth English of Co. Kilkenny) to Elizabeth BARTLING (of Christian and Catherine Fleder of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) 9 June 1808 Richard HABERLIN (of Richard and Catherine Lalor of Co. Kilkenny) to Mary LALOR (of Laurence and Eleanor Foley). 22 June 1805 Timothy HEFFERNAN (of Patrick and Anastasia Mary Dulhanty, of Glenmore, Kilkenny) to Margaret LONDERGAN (of Thomas and Mary McDonnell of Gammansfield, Tipperary) 15 Feb 1806 Michael HICKEY (of Patrick and Joanna Reshan? of Limerick) to Catherine LANIGAN (of Patrick and Anne Jackman of Callan, Kilkenny) 9 Sept 1803 Gerard HOWES (of Patrick and Margaret Mark of Kilkenny) to Margaret BERNARD (of Philip and Mary Egan of Carlow) 10 Nov 1802 Michael KAVANAH (of Joseph and Mary Dowling of Graiguenamanagh, Kilkenny) to Sarah FOSTER (of Thomas and Mary Escott of Trinity, Newfoundland) 18 Oct 1810 Patrick KEATING (of Thomas and Mary Walsh of Co. Wexford) to Alice Elizabeth BUTLER (of Michael and Eleanor of Co. Kilkenny) 26 July 1811 Michael KERWICK (of James and Catherine Whalen of Co. Kilkenny)to Catherine DALTON (of Michael and Mary Wall of Co. Kilkenny) 15 Oct 1817 John KIHO (of Patrick and Mary Morphy of Co. Kilkenny) to Margaret GROVES (of George and Catherine Butler, Halifax) 1 May 1815 John LAFFIN (of Michael and Bridget Glandon of Co. Kilkenny) to Catherine ROS (of Christopher and Jane Sutherland of Halifax 4 Oct 1810 Edward LAFFIN (of Michael and Bridget Glandon of Co Kilkenny) to Catherine ROS (of Christopher and Jane Sutherland Halifax) 30 Jan 1806 Peter LAFFIN (of Michael and Bridget Glandon of Co. Kilkenny) to Elizabeth WATSON (of Francis and Sarah Andrews of Falmouth, N.S.) 27 Jan 1814 William LAWLOR (of William and Mary Newman of Queen’s Co.) to Elener SHANAHAN (of William and Mary Maurice of Halifax) 10 Sept 1812 William LONG (of Patrick and Elenor Roche of Co. Kilkenny) to Anne Fitzsimons. 12 June 1813 John MAHER ( of John and Ann Kelly of Co. Kilkenny) to Catherine MAHAR (of Martin and Mary Ann Batchelor of Jeddore, N.S.) 9 Dec 1813 George MATTHEW (of Thomas and Rose Meehan of Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny) to Anne O’BRIEN (of Patrick and Mary Anglin of Halifax – and of Cahir, Co. Tipperary, T.M.P.). 25 Oct 1812 David MOORE (of Daniel and Elizabeth Drake of Fox Cove, Newfoundland) to Hannah DOLAN (of Matthew and Johanna Noonan of Co. Kilkenny) 19 Nov 1812 William MORAN (of William and Elizabeth Clerk of Co. Kilkenny) to Martha LAMB (of William and Mary Fitzpatrick of Newfoundland) 17 Aug. 1817 Peter MORRISSEY, widower of Bridget Brophy of Co. Kilkenny, to Catherine WALL, widow of Thomas TALBOT of Halifax. 29 April 1803 John MURRAY (of Michael and Mary Walsh of Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny) to Rebecca HATFIELD (of Nathan and Mary Murphy of Halifax) 15 July 1802 James NEAL, of the Parish of Skart, Co. Kilkenny to Mary ROURK of the City of Wexford. 19 Feb 1810 James O’Neil (of Thomas and Mary Walsh of Co. Kilkenny) to Elenor STUART (of Alexander and Euphemia Stuart of Banff, Scotland) 25 Feb 1816 Luke PYKE (of Edward and Catherine Walsh of Co. Kilkenny) to Sarah WAINWRIGHT (of Charles and Ellia Lampton of Halifax) 2 June 1808 William POWER (of Nicholas and Alice Flinn of Co. Waterford) to Mary LAFFIN (of Michael and Bridget Glandon of Co. Kilkenny), widow of William RYAN. 17 April 1811 Michael RUSSELL (of Philip and Elizabeth Sullivan of Co. Kilkenny) to Catherine GANNON (of John and Jane Wheally of Dublin) 21 Feb 1803 Richard SHEA (of John and Mary Flaw of Co. Kilkenny) to Elinor NEWMAN (of John and Margaret Reily of Louisbourg, Cape Breton) 28 May 1807 John SKERRY, ferryman (of Luke and Mary Larissy of Knocktopher, Kilkenny, widower (of Bridget Shea) to Maria MEAGHER (of Capt. Martin and Maria Batchelor of Jeddore, N.S.) 10 June 1813 John SULLIVAN (of Daniel and Bridget Hackett of Thomastown, Kilkenny) to Elenor MURPHY (of William and Mary). 7 Aug 1809 William TEEHAN (of William and Joanna of Co. Kilkenny) to Mary MURPHY (of Mark and Anne Smyth of Newport N.S.) 7 Jan 1804 Michael TOBIN merchant (of Michael and Hannah Murphy of Halifax) to Margaret LANIGAN (of Patrick and Anne Jackman of Callan, Kilkenny) 28 Jan 1813 Edward UPTON (of Charles and Judith Seaton of Newfoundland) to Mary DULHANTY (of Thomas and Catherine Grace of Knocktopher, Kilkenny) 14 Sept 1802 Patrick WALLACE (of James and Honor Cook, Parish of Callan, Kilkenny) to Anne LAWRENCE (of Leget and Mary Basnes of New York). 21 May 1812 James WALSH (of Richard and Mary Purcel of Co. Kilkenny) to Elener BOYLE (of John and Mary Brown of Co. Waterford). 5 Oct 1807 John WALSH shipwright (of James and Elener Haiz of Co. Wexford) to Johanna DOYLE (of James and Catherine Walsh of Co. Kilkenny) 2 Aug 1806 Martin WALSH (of William and Mary Neal of Co. Kilkenny) to Rebecca JENKINS (of Daniel and Lavinia Bent of Windsor, N.S.) 13 Nov 1813 Martin WALSH (of Nicholas and Anastasia Henneberry of Co. Kilkenny) to Johanna HATFIELD (of Nathan and Mary Anne Murphy of Dartmouth, N.S.) 20 Jan 1803 James WALSH (of Walter and Mary Shirtty of Co. Kilkenny) to Anne MURPHY (of Denis and Mary Whelan of Co. Kilkenny) and widow of Tobias JACKMAN of Newfoundland. --------------393DBEAA1AB47DC66A79A6BF Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="marnold.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Maryann Arnold Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="marnold.vcf" begin:vcard n:Arnold;Maryann tel;fax:609-258-6328 tel;work:609-258-5654 x-mozilla-html:FALSE org:Princeton University;Office of the Registrar version:2.1 email;internet:marnold@Princeton.EDU title:Administrative Assistant to the Registrar adr;quoted-printable:;;101 West College Building, Elm Drive=0D=0AP.O. Box 70=0D=0A;Princeton;NJ;08542-0070;USA x-mozilla-cpt:;-32016 fn:Maryann Arnold end:vcard --------------393DBEAA1AB47DC66A79A6BF--

Quakers (Society of Friends) began to arrive in Ireland in the mid-17th century as CROMWELLIAN settlers, and some authorities estimate that by 1690 their numbers were between 5,000 and 9,000. They are best remembered for their relief work during the Great Famine circa 1846. They collected large amounts of donations and used it to finance several carefully thought out schemes, some to bring immediate help to the starving, others with an eye to the longer term. It should be noted that all aid was dispensed without regard to the denomination of the recipients and that theirs was the first aid.. Unfortunately, the need was far greater than Quakers alone could provide, especially in the far west. There were also donations of aid from England and English Quakers, although foodstuffs in Ireland continued to be exported. Relief received from America and other countries resulted from the coverage by the press and heart-rending letters from Ireland were widely published in many U. S. newspapers, including one addressed to the ladies of America by the Irish authoress Maria EDGEWORTH. Once publicized there was a spontaneous reaction that resulted in widespread organized and privatized efforts toward famine relief. By 1847 the full horror of the famine became a reality to American readers, with increasingly graphic reports published in newspapers. Donations of money, food and clothing were forthcoming from individuals, churches, synagogues and other religious organizations, companies large and small, and fraternal and service clubs. The Shakers of New Lebanon sent stockings, socks, coats, vests, pants and children's clothing. Workmen at the Chickering Pianoforte Co. in Boston and the dry dock in Brooklyn, NY and the police of Worcester and Boston contributed a day's wages or more. Cash contributions were donated by mercantile firms in NYC and employers and employees of many other companies throughout the U. S. Officers and soldiers of the U. S. Army stationed in Tampico, Mexico and officers and cadets at the Military Academy in West Point contributed. The impoverished Choctaw Indian tribe sent corn and a donation. A ten-dollar contribution, which was to be used for a school party, was sent by the students of Lovingston Academy in Nelson Co., VA. Fund-raising activities were held such as grand balls, lectures, entertainment events staged by actors and actresses, and concerts like the one presented jointly by the choir of the Cathedral of Holy Cross and pupils at the Institution for the Blind in Boston. Food donations that were shipped to Ireland from the U. S. included corn, flour, peas, oatmeal, potatoes, dried applies, fish, beans, bread, barley, beef, pork, rye and rice. Farmers from Muskingum and Jefferson Counties in Ohio sent part of their harvest, and a delegation of farmers from Indiana traveled to Cincinnati, OH, to arrange sending food from their state as part of the relief effort The "Boston Courier and Enquirer" noted that more than $80,000 had been remitted from Irish laborers, servants and "others toiling for their daily bread" to their suffering relatives in Ireland. A particularly sad account of such a donation was published in the March 4, 1847 "Transcript." An unnamed servant girl in the family of General H. B. DURYEA sent all of her earnings ($30) to her friends in Ireland, only to learn a few days later that her father, mother and six brothers and sisters had died of starvation. One especially noteworthy contribution was made by the citizens of Nantucket, MA, who had suffered a devastating fire resulting in $600,00 in property loss. Despite their loss, they collected $2,000 which was forwarded to the Boston committee. Russia provided a shipment of rye to Ireland once the waterway had been cleaned of ice. Earlier, in 1846, little relief had been forthcoming, and on October 30, 1846, a letter had been written by a resident of County Roscommon, sent to a fellow Roscommon-born citizen in Washington DC, published in the November 11, 1846 "Intelligencer." He wrote, "For the last month there was no importation of Indian meal and the people congregate in hundreds and thousands, break into mills and bakers' shops, and force away all the meal and bread they can lay hold of; the military and police are called out to protect the property of those persons, and in many places lives were lost." He also took America to task, "I am astonished that the Americans, mixed with Irish as they are, never manifested the least sympathy for us in our present deplorable condition, more especially as in India the Irish there entered into the matter very cordially, and made up a considerable sum in Calcutta, say 11,000 pounds towards the relief of the poor Irish and they are still adding to it their c! ontributions monthly." By 1847, however, American relief was on its way to Ireland. To this day the people of Ireland have not forgotten that "the Quakers fed us in the Famine," although it was more of a drop in the bucket compared to the enormous and widespread need. The cover of "Irish Roots" magazine published in Cork (1998 #2) depicts "The Great Hunger" panel of a large Quaker Tapestry. This is an embroidered work of some 77 panels conveying insights and experiences of the Quaker during three and a half centuries. The tapestry was begun in 1981. Over 4,000 Quakers in ten countries had worked on it by 1998 and the beautiful tapestry had been displayed in Ireland, Britain and the United States. This particular panel shows a families walking towards a ship at the quay to immigrate, Quakers workers in a soup kitchen dispensing food, recording food contributions, a vacant-looking potato field and a stooped old man pulling a cart with a sheet-wrapped dead body, the rest of the family trailing behind. The embroidered panel also states that "1,500,000 d! ied of starvation and 1,000,000 emigrated. Irish "Friends" (i.e. Quakers) were entrusted with international relief funds to feed the starving, replenish seed and to redeem fishing nets and tools which had been pawned for food."