Eleanor, I would be interested in seeing if there is something to be learned from this. I tried to order a copy, but didn't succeed. JACKSONs are the family that I am most focused on. It looks like an interesting find, Sharon Sharon Oddie Brown, Roberts Creek, BC, Canada. History Project: http://www.thesilverbowl.com/ On 05/05/2012 10:10 AM, [email protected] wrote: > By chance, I came across an online copy of the following item, which might > be of interest to some of us: > Title: A statement of persecutions on the part of certain Tory landlords in > the county of Carlow, refererred to in a petition of Nicholas Aylward > Vigors, Esq.: presented to the House of Commons on the 15th Feb. 1836. > Source: Hume Tracts, (1836) > Contributor(s): UCL Library Services > Stable URL: [1]http://www.jstor.org/stable/60205197 > > It is the petition mentioned in the Pat Purcell papers > ([2]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/PP_papers_116.htm). > My access was through JSTOR ([3]www.jstor.org), a subscription database > carried by many university libraries. It isn't one of the openly-accessible > items on JSTOR but there might be another online or print source. The > original is at University College London. Hume is Jeremy Hume. > Aside from historical interest, it gives the names of people identified as > having been evicted from the holdings of Beresford in a number of townlands > (it was a quick read -- I think that's what it's about). So, it's very > localized but many of the surnames are familiar. None, however, are of > interest to me and it is 60 pages long, which is a slog when the pages have > to be loaded individually and it won't download as a pdf file... > The format was to insert a short list of names for a townland within the > text of the petition. For example: > Townland of Ballyloughan > Widow Boyle and four children > Thomas Kealy and sister > Michael Nolan, wife, and four children > [14 families listed] > > 15-20 townlands are included. The text often does include other details > which might also be of interest about the individuals. > If anyone knows of an open online source to this, it would be a great > addition to our collective knowledge. Failing that, I'd be happy to access > it for people who can't -- just give me either a townland name or a surname > and I can let you know any information of interest. I'm also open to > suggestions if indexing the townlands and names makes sense or something > else. > > Eleanore Wellwood > Vancouver, Canada > > References > > 1. http://www.jstor.org/stable/60205197 > 2. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlcar2/PP_papers_116.htm > 3. http://www.jstor.org/ > > ------------------------------- > 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