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/