That's great to know - a lot of work! I will look forward to more snippets. John > From: irl-carlow-request@rootsweb.com > Subject: IRL-CARLOW Digest, Vol 8, Issue 211 > To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:00:35 -0600 > > > > Before you send an email to this List you must first of all subscribe to the List. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Belated Congrats to Edward Gorman on his victory. > (Michael Purcell) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:49:13 +0100 > From: Michael Purcell <carlowmike@gmail.com> > Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Belated Congrats to Edward Gorman on his > victory. > To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <CAKqwSs7vpxZZipc+OWdqmCkrjfmUboNzp4nVba_T2iKn+L3AtA@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > >From :- > John Shepperd via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=1311182> > rootsweb.com > 13:01 (6 hours ago) > 13/06/2013 > to irl-carlow > Well hearty congrats to Mr Gorman. How long did he serve, and what records > were kept of his inquests? > > >From Mick Purcell :- > John, on behalf of Mr. Edward Gorman ( who is seriously indisposed at > present ) I thank you for your hearty congrats on his election, I am sure, > with foresight, he would have appreciated your belated good wishes. > Mr Gorman served for many years as Coroner in Carlow, he appears to have > been very good at his job and was kept very busy, his handwriting recording > the Inquests is very difficult to decipher. ( as is the handwriting of all > the other coroners before him !) > The Coroner election was not the last time Mr Gorman was involved in > election issues, the following year Mr Gorman was knocked from his horse at > Browne's Hill by a mob and beaten with sticks and stones in the run up to > the election contest of that year between Mr Kavanagh and Mr Bruen . > At present Michael Purcell is working on the Inquest Returns from the > D'Israeli collection ( see below ) > > Disraeli Inquest material on loan to Michael Purcell. > Over the next 12 months we will be transcribing Inquest reports from the > Disraeli Papers, the collection is on loan to us. > As the material forms part of a private collection we are unable to publish > all of the material, we hope to publish a few examples and give some copies > to Trevor for scanning. We will be watching for reports concerning some of > the surnames being researched on the Carlow IGP list. The Timmons man named > in this report was a highly regarded "bone-setter" living at Borlum, Carlow > town during this period. ( Grace Bunbury, Feb. 2012 ). > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRL-CARLOW list administrator, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list, send an email to IRL-CARLOW@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRL-CARLOW Digest, Vol 8, Issue 211 > ******************************************