Hi, does anyone have any info on a workhouse that existed in Tralee in late 1800's. Would they have kept any death records? Regards, Fintan ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

Fintan, You may have already tried it, but here is a link to a web site. At the bottom, it suggests that the Kerry County Library in Tralee keeps records 1845-1922. http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Tralee/Tralee.shtml If you obtain any information about this, I'd be grateful if you copied me in on it as Tralee workhouse may be central to one of the main mysteries that is puzzling me in my own research, involving a death apparently at Tralee workhouse. The mystery, in case anyone has any knowledge or hints: My great-great-grandfather, David Leahy of Meenyvoughan, Brosna, disappears from land records in about 1870 and is recorded as deceased on my great-grandfather's marriage cert in 1876, yet the only potential death record that I can find is for a David Leahy who died of "bronchitis and neglect of the person" in the mission infirmary, Tralee workhouse in 1871. Some factors suggest that this was my relation, others that it may not have been, but workhouse records might confirm one way or the other. I suppose he could have fallen ill or on hard times and either gone to the Tralee workhouse of his own volition or been taken there by a family that couldn't afford to keep him....any relevant hints gratefully received. Paul Leahy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fintan Sheehan" <fintansheehan@yahoo.ie> To: <irl-kerry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:24 AM Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Tralee workhouse > Hi, > does anyone have any info on a workhouse that existed in Tralee in late > 1800's. Would they have kept any death records? > > Regards, > Fintan > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try > it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Hmm. It seems to me that records were only kept with regard to who could give them taxes/tithes. But am not at all sure. They'd need paper and a writing implement and the concern that goes with entering info such as that. There is a big site on Irish workhouses on the web somewhere. I know I have accessed it in the distant past. I' Maybe if you find one site, it will lead to another county site. Try: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ Also, http://www.thegreathunger.org/html/main/indexa.htm The Quinipiac library is supposed to be a fine one. And, http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Tralee/Tralee.shtml I've come across others as I am v. interested in the hist of the famine/starvation. Regards, Jane On Jul 17, 2007, at 4:24 AM, Fintan Sheehan wrote: > Hi, > does anyone have any info on a workhouse that existed in Tralee in > late 1800's. Would they have kept any death records? > > Regards, > Fintan > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. > Try it > now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Jane Dowling recommended that you visit the Quinnipiac University (Connecticut)Web Page, "An Gorta Mor", (The Great Hunger). Thanks, Jane! You need to share more with us! I hadn't visited there for a long time and I was wonderfully surprised at what I found and you will be too. http://www.thegreathunger.org/html/main/indexa.htm For they feature on the Home Page "Quinnipiac University's multimedia production of the Killarney Workhouse Minute books", 1845-46, the first years of the Great Famine. Click on the link beneath the cemetery photograph. I found it to be very slow loading on my new computer that wasn't designed for multi-media, but once it loaded the program operated perfectly and contained some outstanding photography and the voice of someone reading extracts from the Workhouse Minute Book for those years. It was extremely moving. Most of you probably won't have a big problem. If you aren't able to access the program, check out your local public library or a friend and mooch off of them. Sound is important on this display. Feel free to pass this on to your Irish pals who might not be blessed by being Kerry Folk. They will get value from it because the Famine didn't respect any boundaries, or faiths. It might take as much as a half hour or more to view the entire program. It will be worth it. It's the best thing Irish that I have seen on the Internet. Ray Marshall Minneapolis, sweating again. -----Original Message----- From: irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-kerry-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of jane dowling Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:22 PM To: Fintan Sheehan Cc: irl-kerry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Tralee workhouse Hmm. It seems to me that records were only kept with regard to who could give them taxes/tithes. But am not at all sure. They'd need paper and a writing implement and the concern that goes with entering info such as that. There is a big site on Irish workhouses on the web somewhere. I know I have accessed it in the distant past. I' Maybe if you find one site, it will lead to another county site. Try: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ Also, http://www.thegreathunger.org/html/main/indexa.htm The Quinipiac library is supposed to be a fine one. And, http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Tralee/Tralee.shtml I've come across others as I am v. interested in the hist of the famine/starvation. Regards, Jane