January 1881 DEATH OF CAPT. DENIS WILLIAM PATRICK PACK-BERESFORD Esq. D.L., J.P.of Fenagh House, Carlow. The death of Capt. Denis Pack- Beresford took place last week at his residence Fenagh House,Carlow. We regret having to add his name to the obituary list of this year the death of the above estimable gentleman, which took place, rather suddenly, on Wednesday night last. He had been suffering from an acute attack of gout which he appeared to have surmounted ; but that dread enemy was only momentarily baffled , for, it returned on the morning of Wednesday last , and put a sudden termination to the life of this widely-known and popular gentleman. He succumbed to an attack of apoplexy shortly before mid-night. He was the second son of the disinguished Peninsular officer, the late Major-General Sir Denis Pack, K.C.B. (who five times received the thanks of Parliament for his military services), his mother was the Lady Elizabeth Louisa la Poer Beresford daughter of George , First Marquis of Waterford. Denis was born on the 7th July 1818 and assumed , by Royal License, the additional name of Beresford in March 1854, in compliance with the will of his godfather and relative William Carr, Field Marshal Viscount Beresford, G.C.B. by virtue of which he had succeeded to that nobleman's estates in Carlow. In 1858 he was appointed Deputy-Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace and served the office of High Sheriff for Carlow county. In 1862 on the retirement of Capt.W.K. McClintock Bunbury he was elected Member of Parliament for Carlow in the Conservative interest, he was re-chosen at the General Election of 1865. On the 12th February 1863 he married Annette Caroline, only daughter of Robert Clayton Browne, Esq. D.L. of Browne's Hill by whom he leaves a youthful family of seven sons and two daughters. Capt.Denis Pack-Beresford was educated at the Royal Academy, Wollwich, he received his commission in 1836 and commenced his career in the Royal Artillery. On the breaking out of the Crimean War he volunteered for active service and was appointed extra aide-de-camp to General Cator and accompanied that officer to the East. On his return to Carlow he retired from the service to devote himself to the duties of his property as resident landlord. In every relation of life he was highly esteemed and his loss as an improving resident landlord, a liberal employer and generous benefactor of the poor, will be long and severely felt and especially in the locality of Fenagh, which he raised from a condition of wretchedness to comfort and prosperity. Like most country gentlemen , the deceased was an active votary of all field sports, and in the racing world was well known on both sides of the St. George's Channel. The remains of this lamented gentleman were interred in Lorum churchyard. The funeral which left Fenagh House shortly after noon was one of the largest that has taken place in the county for many years, the immense gathering , composed of men of all classes and creeds. Following a portion of the solemn funeral service held in Fenagh House which was read by the Rev. T.G.J. Phillips, Rector of Fenagh, the mournful cortege which extended fully a mile proceeded to Lorum, which was reached about two-clock. The coffin was brought into the church where the service was read by the Very Rev. the Dean of Leighlin and the Rev. Canon Finlay. The remains were encased in a suit of three coffins, the outer one of polished oak with gilt mountings, and bearing the simple inscription of the name, age, and date of death. It was laden with wreaths and immortelles, prepared by loving hands and placed there by relatives present and others were sent by the following, who were unable to attend :- Mr and Mrs Clayton- Browne, Mrs William Clayton-Browne, Lady Burton, Mrs Reynell Pack, Mrs Arthur Elliott, Mrs James Anson Farren, Sir William Reynell Anson, Algernon H. Anson, Esq. R,N. (nephews) Miss Ada Newton and Mrs William Vesey. =======================================

Below are some of the files added in January. To see the individual obits and vitals click on the text file link at the bottom of the email. To view these go to: http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ Click on COUNTY from table of counties and then sub-heading eg -Headstones. Christina ====================================== GENERAL IRELAND -Emigration Passenger Ship Portland to Charlestown - 1803 Passenger Ship Eagle to New York - 1803 Passenger Ship Susan and the American Brig, Neptune - 1803 DONEGAL -Census Substitutes List of Landowners in 1870's - A-Z DUBLIN -Headstones Deansgrange Cemetery, South West Section Part 3 (finished) -Land Canceled Valuation Books, Phibsborough Road (pt3), Arrans Quay ca. 1917-1921 Canceled Valuation Books, Tighe Street, Arrans Quay ca. (Parish of St. Paul) 1861-1868 KERRY -Vitals Assorted Marriages (Healey, Kerrisk & others) LAOIS -Census Substitutes List of Landowners in 1870's - Names & Addresses Only - A-Z LIMERICK -Cemetery Mt. St. Lawrence Cemetery, Limerick, Co. Limerick - Byrne, Byrnes, O'Byrne, Burns Mt. St. Lawrence Cemetery, Limerick, Co. Limerick - Dillon Mt. St. Lawrence Cemetery, Limerick, Co. Limerick - Moylan & Meany OFFALY -Church Baptisms 1866-1867, Parish of Rhode (RC) WATERFORD -Headstones Faithlegg Cemetery, Cheekpoint WESTMEATH -Census Substitutes Westmeath Landowners 1870's A-Z also see new text files: http://search.freefind.com/find.html?si=13812782&pid=r&n=0&_charset_=UTF-8&bcd=%C3%B7&query=2010+txt&s= ===================================================================================

What a sobering letter!!! Though I realized the cruel treatment of the Irish by the English landowners, reading this very touching letter made me sit back and think about how cruel human beings can be to one another. Very sobering! Thanks very much for posting it. Maureen N In a message dated 1/27/2010 11:24:55 A.M. Central Standard Time, carlowmike@gmail.com writes: Father James Maher was the subject of a lecture delivered by Prof. Donal McCartney in 1994. The lecture was published by Michael Purcell in "Carlow Past and Present" 1995 edition.. The following extract from "The Letters of Father James Maher" County Carlow at this time suffered considerably from the depopulating mania of the Landlords, a terrible evil which soon after spread to many other parts of the kingdom. Father Maher was from the first its open and unflinching assailant. His letter to the Carlow Sentinal of May the 4th, 1836, unmasks the barbarous unfeeling cruelty of this fell system, and will be found not devoid of instruction even at the present day :

Father James Maher was the subject of a lecture delivered by Prof. Donal McCartney in 1994. The lecture was published by Michael Purcell in "Carlow Past and Present" 1995 edition.. The following extract from "The Letters of Father James Maher" County Carlow at this time suffered considerably from the depopulating mania of the Landlords, a terrible evil which soon after spread to many other parts of the kingdom. Father Maher was from the first its open and unflinching assailant. His letter to the Carlow Sentinal of May the 4th, 1836, unmasks the barbarous unfeeling cruelty of this fell system, and will be found not devoid of instruction even at the present day : SIR, You have called the attention of the public not long since to the expulsion of the peasantry from the townland of Slygurf. Would to Heaven that the cruel depopulating system were confined to one property, or one parish only in this ill-treated county. The extent to which the system has been carried, is a subject upon which the Government and the public ought to be well informed. Permit me, therefore, to publish, through the columns of your journal, some afflicting details of the working of the system upon a small estate in the parish of Milford and Ballinabranagh, in this county. >From the townland of Crawn, the following families are in a few days to be turned to the road ; The widow Henesy and her four children, . . . . 5 The widow Brien, about 80 years old, bed -ridden for several years, and her daughter, . . . . . . 2 James Hughes, wife, and three infant children, . . 5 Pat Brien and four children . . . . . . 5 John Brien and four children, . . . . . . 5 22 What will become of these poor creatures when thrown upon a county where there is no provision made, even for the poorest of poverty 's children ? Where will the aged widow Brien, when driven from her home, lay her weary head ? With whom will she pass her few remaining days ?-with her children ? Alas ! no, her sons, Pat and John Bnen, her only sons, with their eight motherless children, all under fourteen years of age, are themselves in a few days to be reduced to the condition of less wanderers. Her daughter, the wife of James Hughes, with her infant children, have been a week or ten days since driven to the road ; and her sister-in-law, the widow Henesy, is also in the number of the proscribed. Oh sir it is I fear, reserved for the wretched widow, in her eightieth year, to see herself and every one that bears her name, her whole race driven from the habitations of men. expelled without offence, unconvicted, nay. 1 cused of a crime. I publish her wrongs to the world with a v.ew to prepaie aWous public to make some provision for her. When the notice to quit shall have been carried into effect, I will again appeal to the pubhcin her behalf, if the hand of death, in mercy, do not, in the mean time, rescue hlr from her sufferings. May Providence, who tempers the blast fo ^e horn sheep, grant her relief. Her fellow-man in the exerc.se , of h legal rights has set his face against her. From the same estate, withm the last ten years, have been ejected : Thomas Timmin, wife and family Pat Freeny James Nolan Michael NoIan * James Byrne William Brophy ....- Edward Cannon James Cannon Widow Murphy s family William Curran . . Ellen Commons Widow Mahon 75 It is not here asserted that bona fide arrears were not due by some of these families, or that their landlord had not a legal right to eject them 1 bare fact of their being turned to the road, is alone stated. Some oft since they have been driven from their homes, worn out by misery, hi gone to their grave. One died in an hospital in Dublin ; another was sent fo the Carlow Lunatic Asylum ; others have contrived, by begging through the country, to protract a wretched existence. Some have built temporary huts within the views of their form,r residences, or m the dykes of ditches, where they have lived for months in misery, which it is impossi describe. Amongst those driven from their home, is Ellen Commons, ejected for non-title, after having paid her rent for about thirty-seven years. During her occupation, she built a house, which cost her £14, for which, on quitting the premises, she received £1, and for giving peaceable possession, 2. Her poor sister, who lived with her, has been for eight years mostly confined to her bed, laboring under both bodily and mental in firmity. The loss of her home (for she was not insensible of what occurred), so increased her malady, that she has been since considered a fit subject for a lunatic asylum, in which, as stated above, she at length found refuge. Besides the ejected and those noticed to quit, twenty two electors on the same estate, most unfortunately for their own interests, have had the virtue, in those evil days, to support a Liberal Government by their votes at the hustings. For such an offence a most harassing war of citations, latitats, and subpoenas, &c., has been carried on against them, and has brought many of them to the verge of ruin. Their petition lately presented to the House of Commons, by Mr. Wallace of Greenock, will give some idea of the extent of their sufferings. This document eminently deserves the public attention it shows how far the people, for daring to advocate Reform, can be legally persecuted how they may be teased, and goaded, and robbed of their property, under the sanction of law. The spirit in which this war has been conducted is best collected from the tone and manner in which hostili ties were proclaimed. In open court the landlord solemnly swore, with uplifted hand to Heaven, before me and others, that he would exterminate his tenants who opposed Toryism, were twenty years necessary to effect his purpose. The war has since proceeded, as appears from the petition referred to, in a manner every way worthy of the spirit in which it was undertaken. To sum up all in a few words 12 families ejected within the last two years . . . . 74 5 noticed to quit . . . . . . . . . . 22 22 electors, allowing six to each family . . . . 132 228 It is impossible to estimate the extent and intensity of the sufferings which these 228 individuals, on one small estate, have endured within the short period of two years. Oh ! it is monstrous ; it is a crying sin a sin that might bring down the vengeance of Heaven on a nation that landlords should have the power, as in Carlow and other places, of sending the wretched occupiers of the acre to starve. The oppression of the people in this country has very nearly passed the limit of human endurance. The cup of bitterness is filled to overflowing. The landlord, churchman, and attorney, united together in an unholy league, have sorely tried the people s patience. Acting upon the advice of that clergyman (the Rev. M. Beres- -ford), they not only assert their right to rent and tithe, but they seek the expulsion of the peasantry from the lands of their birth lands which they cultivated before their oppressors had a single acre in the country. " I trust (said the patriotic and reverend gentleman, Marcus Beresford) that every good and faithful minister of God would sooner have potatoes and salt sur rounded with Protestants, than live like princes surrounded by Papists." I quote his words from the Evening Mail. This oppression, ere long, will produce its natural fruits. The hunted cottier will turn when too hard pressed, and revenge himself on his ruthless pursuers. Sheridan has expressed the idea " wherever the heel of oppression is raised, trodden misery springs up, and glares around for vengeance. " But a few days since a fine athletic fellow, but worn by sharp misery to the bones, said to a neighbouring parish priest, don t blame me, sir, if I do wrong, for I am starving. My own misery I could perhaps bear, but I cannot bear to see my wife and children famishing. Their cries tear my very heart. I know not what I shall do. The law. it is said, is the protection of the subject. What law, I should be glad to learn, protects or recognises the rights of the poor? " If I obey the law." said an oppressed tenant, " I will be turned out to starve. By violating it, I will obtain a jail allowance and a roof to shelter me." country is made to feel and know that other classes of men have their rights. All the courts of law ; judges, lawyers, attorneys, proctors ; all the dispos able troops of the kingdom horse, foot, and dragoons (what servants of the apostles of Christ !) seem at present to exist for the sole purpose of vindicating the rights of sinecure churchmen, a third part of which rights aie notoriously composed of the wrongs of the poor. On the other hand, the protection of the poor man s right seems to be no one s business. Now and then the priest raises his solitary voice to protest before God and man against the oppression of his fellow-creatures. But it is vox et praeterea nihil, whilst the whole business of the government is compelled to stand still until the church is gorged with the tenth of every man s possession. Teaching others to despise the things of this world, she claims the full tenth of the peasant s estate the inheritance which he has in the labour of his hands, and the sweat of his brow- the tenth of his potato pit, the only barrier between the poor man and starvation. What will the Legislature do to save us from impending evils ? Are the constituted authorities armed with no power to save from starvation a quiet and suffering people ! Have landed pro prietors a clear right to condemn to any degree of misery or destitution they think fit the laboring population ? We have seen, and every day see, power wielded in full might, and with all its resources, in the cause of church exaction, against a half-naked, half-starved peasantry. When shall we see the might of the government put forth in defence of an oppressed, a cruelly neglected people ? The exertion of the Catholic clergy to preserve the peace, and suppression of outrage, will not, I greatly fear, be much longer successful. Oppression in this county has very nearly reached the point which makes the wise man mad. Hundreds amongst us are literally famishing. It would be vain to attempt describing their misery. On one morning of last week ninety six persons applied, personally, to me, for relief. I have taken their names, and will, with your leave, publish them, at a future day, in the Poit. The number of applicants was not unusually large. The farmers, who alone seem to have any bowels of compassion for the poor, harrassed by the exaction of rent on the day it becomes due, and plundered in the name of religion by the Lay Association, have no longer the means of relieving them. Outrages, the commission of which both the oppressed and oppressors will have to deplore, will be the result of this cruel treatment of the people. Veniet dies irse, calamitatis et miseriae, dies magna et amara. Well as you know the Catholic clergy, yet you can scarcely ima gine what efforts we have made and are making to keep society together. Denounced though I have been a thousand times as an agitator, yet I am every day employed in exhorting men to have patience. I will not be suspected of admitting the justice of the sinecure parson s claim to the tenth of the farmer s industry. The peasant, says Grattan, is born without an estate : he is born with hands, and no man has a natural right to the labor of those hands, unless he pays him. Holding, as I do, this doctrine, yet for the sake of peace, and to save honest men from utter ruin. I have paid, within the last month, the full amount of the parson s claim on four Catholic farmers. They were unable to pay it themselves. The parson insisted on the full amount of his bond the attorneys and Lay Association were already prowling about for their prey, and were the poor farmers as friendless as they were pennyless, they should have gone to the road. This, sir, is an unnatural state of things. The Catholic priest, who has a large flock to attend who has many and laborious duties to perform who is every day at the bed-side of disease, much of which is brought on by want is obliged to give what he receives for himself and the relief of the distressed, to the non-resident and sinecure parson, who renders nothing to the Catholic, save offence, for the wages he receives, to which, before God, he has no right, and in consenting to receive which he is guilty even of great wrong. This letter. I regret, has already become too long. I have the honour to be, yours, in Christ "JAMES MAHER."

Thank you. Patricia IN. -----Original Message----- From: irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ProfColf@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:29 AM To: irish-american@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] City directories In the New Jersey room of the local libraries. Joe In a message dated 1/25/2010 10:22:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, liz3638@comcast.net writes: Where did you find these city directories? Patricia IN. -----Original Message----- From: irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of michael purcell Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:37 PM To: irish-american@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] City directories In Ireland Jno is usually John .... On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:21 PM, <profcolf@aol.com> wrote: > In researching my family tree, I came across some notations in the > Jersey City and Bloomfield, NJ city directories (1900-1910) which I > cannot understand. One notation was the letter "r" which is an > abbreviation for "rear"; does that suggest that my relatives' > residence had to be entered through the rear door, as if they were > boarders living upstairs? > > The other notation was "Jno". It usually appeared after the ditto > mark, indicating the same last name as the person listed above, but I > don't know what the "Jno" stands for . . . > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Joe > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname > Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

_Patii01@aol.com_ (mailto:Patii01@aol.com) Hi, What ever you meant to say about the 1836 Evictions didn't come through. Please try again! Joan

I have just added the tithe applotments for the following civil parishes on the County Tipperary section of my website: Whitechurch, South Riding, three books, 1826, 1827, 1831 Youghalarra, North Riding, ca 1826 -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I have just added the tithe applotments of the following County Kilkenny civil parishes to the County Kilkenny section of my website: Woolengrange Whitechurch Wells Note that the Wells Civil Parish also includes the part of the civil parish that is in County Carlow. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Free genealogy programs of Irish Research at the Central Library, Sacramento Ca.  For those in the Sacramento area and interested in Irish and/or Scottish Research, Free genealogy programs will be presented at the Central Library, 828 I Street, Sacramento. Sunday, January 31st, 1:30pm Irish and Scottish Research, with Cath Madden Trindle will look at some of the basic records of Ireland and Scotland. Learn where and how to search records, and what techniques and strategies to use when searching for your Irish or Scottish ancestors. This genealogy workshop series is sponsored by the Friends of Central Library. For details; the Sacramento Public Library at: www .saclibrary. org .

I have just updated the County Leitrim website on the Ireland GenWeb Project at: http://www.irelandgenweb.com/~irllet/ Two new sections have been added. Pictures-two albums of beautiful pictures of Mounthamilton Town and surrounding areas, including many graveyards New Civil Parish-Drumreilly-includes pages for all the townland within the civil parish, links, available films, etc. Also, Records, Surnames and Links have new information; many townlands pages are updated with new surnames, maps, pictures and links. If you have any questions, corrections or data you would like to contribute to the site, please contact me off the list. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

In the New Jersey room of the local libraries. Joe In a message dated 1/25/2010 10:22:40 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, liz3638@comcast.net writes: Where did you find these city directories? Patricia IN. -----Original Message----- From: irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of michael purcell Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:37 PM To: irish-american@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] City directories In Ireland Jno is usually John .... On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:21 PM, <profcolf@aol.com> wrote: > In researching my family tree, I came across some notations in the > Jersey City and Bloomfield, NJ city directories (1900-1910) which I > cannot understand. One notation was the letter "r" which is an > abbreviation for "rear"; does that suggest that my relatives' > residence had to be entered through the rear door, as if they were > boarders living upstairs? > > The other notation was "Jno". It usually appeared after the ditto > mark, indicating the same last name as the person listed above, but I > don't know what the "Jno" stands for . . . > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Joe > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname > Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The County Down Births section of the website has been updated, hundreds more names added. Thanks to Ned Kelly http://www.raymondscountydownwebsite.com

A friend asked me to share this website with all of you one these lists: http://www.irishmariners.ie/photo-gallery.php It is a great site, if you ancestors and/or relatives were seaman. It has pictures and gives years and deaths of those listed. It also has a good index. Thanks to Bob, for sending me this site. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Where did you find these city directories? Patricia IN. -----Original Message----- From: irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irish-american-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of michael purcell Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:37 PM To: irish-american@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] City directories In Ireland Jno is usually John .... On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 5:21 PM, <profcolf@aol.com> wrote: > In researching my family tree, I came across some notations in the > Jersey City and Bloomfield, NJ city directories (1900-1910) which I > cannot understand. One notation was the letter "r" which is an > abbreviation for "rear"; does that suggest that my relatives' > residence had to be entered through the rear door, as if they were > boarders living upstairs? > > The other notation was "Jno". It usually appeared after the ditto > mark, indicating the same last name as the person listed above, but I > don't know what the "Jno" stands for . . . > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Joe > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname > Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Coming from what has been called "the Catholic Clerical Aristocracy of the Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin" Father James Maher had several nephews who were ordained priests, two sisters and at least 18 nieces who were professed nuns, one of his nephews was Cardinal Cullen and his grand-nephew was Cardinal Moran of Australia.,(in theory I suppose there should not be very many descendants of this celibate family ?). During the Great Famine 1845-1850 various evangelising groups attempted to convert Ireland to Protestantism by distributing food, soup, clothes and bribes of all kinds. Father Maher became a leader in the fight for Ireland's soul. According to P.J.Kavanagh "Maher became a first-class pest, endlessly composing fierce pamphlets in his study at Saint Patrick's College Carlow". This he was to continue to do for the remainder of his long life. Debating with the Protestant clergy in letters to various newspapers, fighting against Landlords and their system, condemning gambling, drunkenness and secret societies such as the Free Masons, the Whitefeet and the Blackfeet. He became involved in numerous elections and court cases. One famous case ( involving Thomas H. Watson and Captain S.Vignoles), was that of Patrick Pacey, who was encouraged by Maher to commit perjury. Pacey was later transported to Australia for so doing. Father Maher died in 1874. In the 1930s his remains were dug up by the firm of undertakers Purcell's of Tullow Street to be re-interred in a new grave on the grounds of St. Clare's Church in Graiguecullen. His body was found to be in a perfect state of preservation (one of the signs of a Saint ?). His coffin was cut up by Pat Purcell and carved into little crosses and were distributed among the faithful. One of the crosses hangs on my wall as I write !. Michael Purcell 2010. Extract from "The Letters of Father James Maher". He was born at Donore, in the county Carlow, on the 24th of May, 1793. Very soon after, his parents, who were in comfortable circumstances, removed to Kilrush, in the county Kildare, where they were no sooner settled than they were exposed to all the anxieties and annoy ances of the troubled period of 1798. Martial Law being proclaimed, there was no protection for the Catholic farmers against the lawless bands of the military and yeomanry, who, under the pretence of searching for arms or for rebels, scoured the open country, and not unfre- quently surrounding, at night, the houses of the most peaceable families, not only carried away as booty whatever pleased their fancy, but moreover too often sub jected the inmates to the grossest indignities and insults. Father Maher retained in after times a lively remem brance of this trying period. It was little more than an amusing variety for him in his childish years, that the whole family was obliged to consult for safety bypassing night after night in a sand pit, situated on the farm not far from the dwelling-house, and even in advanced years he used to relate with the liveliest interest the many practical cautions and corrections which he then received, lest by his noisy frolics he might happen to betray to some passer-by the place of concealment, and thus imperil the lives of the whole party. His parents were remarkable for their solid practical piety, and above all for their boundless charity. His father, Mr. Patrick Maher, indeed met with his death whilst performing one of his ordinary charitable deeds. In February, 1808, as he travelled on horseback to the fair of Kilcullen, he overtook a poor aged neighbour, who was pursuing the same journey on foot but was com pletely broken down by the fatigue of the road. Mr. Maher, as was his custom, offered to help the poor man, by giving him a seat on the horse behind the saddle, and rode the horse into the ditch that thus it might be more convenient for him to mount. The poor weary man however, being rather awkward in his movements, the horse began to plunge, and Mr. Maher was thrown with violence on the road. From the injuries which he sus tained, he went to heaven, to receive the reward of his charity, on the 7th of March following. Mrs. Maher, whose maiden name was Catherine Moore, was a native of Paulstown, in the county Kilkenny, and she was full of the ardour of true piety, and of that devoted zeal for which the faithful of Kilkenny have been at all times so remarkable. No wonder that she should find it difficult during the troubled days of I/9&, to restrain her indignation on witnessing the insults which were constantly offered to everything most sacred, and the outrages to which the most peaceable families around her were subjected. On one occasion her son-in-law, Mr. Hugh Cullen, of Prospect, (the father of His Eminence Cardinal Cullen), was made prisoner in his own house on a charge of affording shelter and assistance to the rebels, when they were assembled a little time before at the adjoining Rath of Mullaghmast. What made this charge the more offensive, it was brought by a wounded yeoman, whom Mr. Cullen, after a skirmish near the Rath, had found in a dying state, and bringing him to his house had nursed with the greatest care, till he was perfectly restored to health. As the assizes were then proceeding at Naas, Mr. Cullen was placed in a chaise, and conducted thither under a military escort to stand his trial. The route lay close to Kilrush House, and all the family were assembled on the roadside in the hope that the escort and prisoner might halt for a time to partake of refreshments, which were prepared for them. As this was not allowed, Mrs. Maher boldly mounted the step of the chaise, and handing the prisoner a bottle of wine said in a loud voice, " Cheer up, my son, God will soon send you back victorious to us." One of the soldiers pushed her back with the flat of his sword, saying roughly at the same time, " He will soon be brought back a corpse to you," and raised his sword to strike her again, but the officer cried out, " Don t touch that brave little woman," and ordered the guard to march on with their prisoner. Father Maher received his early education at the Quakers School at Ballytore,and during this time lived in the house of his brother-in-law, at Prospect. Among the incidents of his school-life he used often to relate how, after school hours, the Protestant and Catholic boys were accustomed daily to engage in combat, with varying fortunes, and how one Protestant lad named William Hoystead, who was from the neighbourhood of Kilrush, invariably took part with the Catholic boys, alleging as his reason, that it was a duty of friendship to join his neighbour, James Maher. In 1808 James Maher entered Carlow College to study for the prieshood, and he pursued his studies there for eight years.

Father James Maher was the subject of a lecture delivered by Prof. Donal McCartney in 1994. The lecture was published by Michael Purcell in "Carlow Past and Present" 1995 edition.. The following extract from "The Letters of Father James Maher" County Carlow at this time suffered considerably from the depopulating mania of the Landlords, a terrible evil which soon after spread to many other parts of the kingdom. Father Maher was from the first its open and unflinching assailant. His letter to the Carlow Sentinal of May the 4th, 1836, unmasks the barbarous unfeeling cruelty of this fell system, and will be found not devoid of instruction even at the present day : SIR, You have called the attention of the public not long since to the expulsion of the peasantry from the townland of Slygurf. Would to Heaven that the cruel depopulating system were confined to one property, or one parish only in this ill-treated county. The extent to which the system has been carried, is a subject upon which the Government and the public ought to be well informed. Permit me, therefore, to publish, through the columns of your journal, some afflicting details of the working of the system upon a small estate in the parish of Milford and Ballinabranagh, in this county. >From the townland of Crawn, the following families are in a few days to be turned to the road ; The widow Henesy and her four children, . . . . 5 The widow Brien, about 80 years old, bed -ridden for several years, and her daughter, . . . . . . 2 James Hughes, wife, and three infant children, . . 5 Pat Brien and four children . . . . . . 5 John Brien and four children, . . . . . . 5 22 What will become of these poor creatures when thrown upon a county where there is no provision made, even for the poorest of poverty 's children ? Where will the aged widow Brien, when driven from her home, lay her weary head ? With whom will she pass her few remaining days ?-with her children ? Alas ! no, her sons, Pat and John Bnen, her only sons, with their eight motherless children, all under fourteen years of age, are themselves in a few days to be reduced to the condition of less wanderers. Her daughter, the wife of James Hughes, with her infant children, have been a week or ten days since driven to the road ; and her sister-in-law, the widow Henesy, is also in the number of the proscribed. Oh sir it is I fear, reserved for the wretched widow, in her eightieth year, to see herself and every one that bears her name, her whole race driven from the habitations of men. expelled without offence, unconvicted, nay. 1 cused of a crime. I publish her wrongs to the world with a v.ew to prepaie aWous public to make some provision for her. When the notice to quit shall have been carried into effect, I will again appeal to the pubhcin her behalf, if the hand of death, in mercy, do not, in the mean time, rescue hlr from her sufferings. May Providence, who tempers the blast fo ^e horn sheep, grant her relief. Her fellow-man in the exerc.se , of h legal rights has set his face against her. From the same estate, withm the last ten years, have been ejected : Thomas Timmin, wife and family Pat Freeny James Nolan Michael NoIan * James Byrne William Brophy ....- Edward Cannon James Cannon Widow Murphy s family William Curran . . Ellen Commons Widow Mahon 75 It is not here asserted that bona fide arrears were not due by some of these families, or that their landlord had not a legal right to eject them 1 bare fact of their being turned to the road, is alone stated. Some oft since they have been driven from their homes, worn out by misery, hi gone to their grave. One died in an hospital in Dublin ; another was sent fo the Carlow Lunatic Asylum ; others have contrived, by begging through the country, to protract a wretched existence. Some have built temporary huts within the views of their form,r residences, or m the dykes of ditches, where they have lived for months in misery, which it is impossi describe. Amongst those driven from their home, is Ellen Commons, ejected for non-title, after having paid her rent for about thirty-seven years. During her occupation, she built a house, which cost her £14, for which, on quitting the premises, she received £1, and for giving peaceable possession, 2. Her poor sister, who lived with her, has been for eight years mostly confined to her bed, laboring under both bodily and mental in firmity. The loss of her home (for she was not insensible of what occurred), so increased her malady, that she has been since considered a fit subject for a lunatic asylum, in which, as stated above, she at length found refuge. Besides the ejected and those noticed to quit, twenty two electors on the same estate, most unfortunately for their own interests, have had the virtue, in those evil days, to support a Liberal Government by their votes at the hustings. For such an offence a most harassing war of citations, latitats, and subpoenas, &c., has been carried on against them, and has brought many of them to the verge of ruin. Their petition lately presented to the House of Commons, by Mr. Wallace of Greenock, will give some idea of the extent of their sufferings. This document eminently deserves the public attention it shows how far the people, for daring to advocate Reform, can be legally persecuted how they may be teased, and goaded, and robbed of their property, under the sanction of law. The spirit in which this war has been conducted is best collected from the tone and manner in which hostili ties were proclaimed. In open court the landlord solemnly swore, with uplifted hand to Heaven, before me and others, that he would exterminate his tenants who opposed Toryism, were twenty years necessary to effect his purpose. The war has since proceeded, as appears from the petition referred to, in a manner every way worthy of the spirit in which it was undertaken. To sum up all in a few words 12 families ejected within the last two years . . . . 74 5 noticed to quit . . . . . . . . . . 22 22 electors, allowing six to each family . . . . 132 228 It is impossible to estimate the extent and intensity of the sufferings which these 228 individuals, on one small estate, have endured within the short period of two years. Oh ! it is monstrous ; it is a crying sin a sin that might bring down the vengeance of Heaven on a nation that landlords should have the power, as in Carlow and other places, of sending the wretched occupiers of the acre to starve. The oppression of the people in this country has very nearly passed the limit of human endurance. The cup of bitterness is filled to overflowing. The landlord, churchman, and attorney, united together in an unholy league, have sorely tried the people s patience. Acting upon the advice of that clergyman (the Rev. M. Beres- -ford), they not only assert their right to rent and tithe, but they seek the expulsion of the peasantry from the lands of their birth lands which they cultivated before their oppressors had a single acre in the country. " I trust (said the patriotic and reverend gentleman, Marcus Beresford) that every good and faithful minister of God would sooner have potatoes and salt sur rounded with Protestants, than live like princes surrounded by Papists." I quote his words from the Evening Mail. This oppression, ere long, will produce its natural fruits. The hunted cottier will turn when too hard pressed, and revenge himself on his ruthless pursuers. Sheridan has expressed the idea " wherever the heel of oppression is raised, trodden misery springs up, and glares around for vengeance. " But a few days since a fine athletic fellow, but worn by sharp misery to the bones, said to a neighbouring parish priest, don t blame me, sir, if I do wrong, for I am starving. My own misery I could perhaps bear, but I cannot bear to see my wife and children famishing. Their cries tear my very heart. I know not what I shall do. The law. it is said, is the protection of the subject. What law, I should be glad to learn, protects or recognises the rights of the poor? " If I obey the law." said an oppressed tenant, " I will be turned out to starve. By violating it, I will obtain a jail allowance and a roof to shelter me." country is made to feel and know that other classes of men have their rights. All the courts of law ; judges, lawyers, attorneys, proctors ; all the dispos able troops of the kingdom horse, foot, and dragoons (what servants of the apostles of Christ !) seem at present to exist for the sole purpose of vindicating the rights of sinecure churchmen, a third part of which rights aie notoriously composed of the wrongs of the poor. On the other hand, the protection of the poor man s right seems to be no one s business. Now and then the priest raises his solitary voice to protest before God and man against the oppression of his fellow-creatures. But it is vox et praeterea nihil, whilst the whole business of the government is compelled to stand still until the church is gorged with the tenth of every man s possession. Teaching others to despise the things of this world, she claims the full tenth of the peasant s estate the inheritance which he has in the labour of his hands, and the sweat of his brow- the tenth of his potato pit, the only barrier between the poor man and starvation. What will the Legislature do to save us from impending evils ? Are the constituted authorities armed with no power to save from starvation a quiet and suffering people ! Have landed pro prietors a clear right to condemn to any degree of misery or destitution they think fit the laboring population ? We have seen, and every day see, power wielded in full might, and with all its resources, in the cause of church exaction, against a half-naked, half-starved peasantry. When shall we see the might of the government put forth in defence of an oppressed, a cruelly neglected people ? The exertion of the Catholic clergy to preserve the peace, and suppression of outrage, will not, I greatly fear, be much longer successful. Oppression in this county has very nearly reached the point which makes the wise man mad. Hundreds amongst us are literally famishing. It would be vain to attempt describing their misery. On one morning of last week ninety six persons applied, personally, to me, for relief. I have taken their names, and will, with your leave, publish them, at a future day, in the Poit. The number of applicants was not unusually large. The farmers, who alone seem to have any bowels of compassion for the poor, harrassed by the exaction of rent on the day it becomes due, and plundered in the name of religion by the Lay Association, have no longer the means of relieving them. Outrages, the commission of which both the oppressed and oppressors will have to deplore, will be the result of this cruel treatment of the people. Veniet dies irse, calamitatis et miseriae, dies magna et amara. Well as you know the Catholic clergy, yet you can scarcely ima gine what efforts we have made and are making to keep society together. Denounced though I have been a thousand times as an agitator, yet I am every day employed in exhorting men to have patience. I will not be suspected of admitting the justice of the sinecure parson s claim to the tenth of the farmer s industry. The peasant, says Grattan, is born without an estate : he is born with hands, and no man has a natural right to the labor of those hands, unless he pays him. Holding, as I do, this doctrine, yet for the sake of peace, and to save honest men from utter ruin. I have paid, within the last month, the full amount of the parson s claim on four Catholic farmers. They were unable to pay it themselves. The parson insisted on the full amount of his bond the attorneys and Lay Association were already prowling about for their prey, and were the poor farmers as friendless as they were pennyless, they should have gone to the road. This, sir, is an unnatural state of things. The Catholic priest, who has a large flock to attend who has many and laborious duties to perform who is every day at the bed-side of disease, much of which is brought on by want is obliged to give what he receives for himself and the relief of the distressed, to the non-resident and sinecure parson, who renders nothing to the Catholic, save offence, for the wages he receives, to which, before God, he has no right, and in consenting to receive which he is guilty even of great wrong. This letter. I regret, has already become too long. I have the honour to be, yours, in Christ "JAMES MAHER."

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r is residence and I think Jno is John Bette -------------------------------------------------- From: "Irene Landenberger" <landen2@msn.com> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:44 AM To: "irish-american" <irish-american@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] City directories > > R usuakky srands for residence. Irene > >> From: profcolf@aol.com >> Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:21:26 -0500 >> To: Irish-American-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [IRISH-AMER] City directories >> >> In researching my family tree, I came across some notations in the Jersey >> City and Bloomfield, NJ city directories (1900-1910) which I cannot >> understand. One notation was the letter "r" which is an abbreviation for >> "rear"; >> does that suggest that my relatives' residence had to be entered through >> the rear door, as if they were boarders living upstairs? >> >> The other notation was "Jno". It usually appeared after the ditto mark, >> indicating the same last name as the person listed above, but I don't >> know >> what the "Jno" stands for . . . >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> Joe >> >> ====Irish American Mailing List===== >> Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname >> Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390710/direct/01/ > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message