To all those who carefully reconstructed Pat Purcell's family history collection: Congratulations on an outstanding job. I am particularly interested in the Beresford papers since there may be documents referring to the Darcy, Murphy and Stapleton families of Rathnageeragh townland and adjacent townlands. Tom Reed New Castle, DE USA --------------------------------------- Original E-mail >From : Michelle Wilson [[email protected]] Date : 04/30/2012 06:57 PM To : [email protected] Subject : Re: [IRL-CARLOW] Pat Purcell Papers. THANK YOU SO MUCH for all the work you all have done with this monsterous job. It is my hope that down the line there will be some index with family names, as Mike found some evidence that his Uncle Pat had done some genealogical reserach for my late Aunt in the 1930's. She and all the family info she found were lost in WW2 but I hope that maybe some evidence of his work for her will show up some day before I die.He was researching the FARLEY, MAGEE familes of Dublin and LEMON, ADAMS family of Carlow. Anyway...just wanted to say Thank you, and want you to know that many of us truly appreciate the long tedious hours that you all put in. Michelle Wilson Vermont USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Friend of Carlow" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 1:33 PM Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Pat Purcell Papers. > We have now catalogued the Pat Purcell Papers and have moved the archive > to > secure storage., Over the years since Pat's death the collection was moved > many times, we found it to be in total disorder and whatever format Pat > originally had assembled the collection in was long since broken up and > had > been rearranged many times, with no evidence of organization or function. > It was impossible to catalogue on the principle of original order. We > have > done our best to establish a chronological record inventory arranged by > year or if the content overlapped into other years we have attempted to > file under subject. There were many gaps as some of the PPP is in other > hands having been removed from the main collection. Unfortunately with so > little time we were unable to compile an index of surnames. Within the PPP > were various collections such as the Brophy Papers (52 items), Marlborough > Clake-Douglas Papers (15 items), Toler-Aylward Papers, (324 items ) Vigor > Papers ( 430 items), Bunbury Papers (524 items), Beresford Papers ( 189 > items), Browne-Clayton Papers (1,750 items, mainly photocopies compiled in > recent times with main original collection donated to Carlow County > Library), Letters (792 items), Genealogical enquiries (220 dating from > 1920s) Irish Republican Brotherhood Papers (129 items), Irish Republican > Army records (109 items ), Cumann na mBan records (87 items),War of > Independence Records (523 items), Civil War Records (512 items), > Political > Papers (2,010 items), Photos (128 items), Family (327 items), Legal > Papers, > Deeds etc. (1,645 items), Duggan Papers (272 items) Religious (413 > items), > Newspapers (312 items), bound books plus the main collection of the PPP. > The hope is that they will remain in storage until such a time as a > Archive > Centre is established for Carlow. In the meantime we have many photocopies > of items which we hope to share as time permits with Carlow IGP in the > future. I know that Mick Purcell will be offline until Christmas as he > will > be in Berlin carrying out research. As we will be operating voluntary from > our home computers we can only correspond through the IGP List. We are > unable to respond to individual emails. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message