In a message dated 6/9/2004 5:00:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YWC.2ACI/4989 > > Message Board Post: > > I've seen a discussion on the Leitrim Mailing List on why people from > Leitrim, Sligo, and Roscommon settled in great numbers in Chelsea, MA. > > Can anyone answer the same question about Lowell, which is only 30 miles > away? > > Thanks in advance. > Anne they were because the presbyterians left ireland 1775 and when they got here no one wanted to work for an irishman. because irishmen of any religion were lower then blacks. so they asked the people they knew in ireland especially the ones they took from scotland to ireland [my line] to come there to work and get away from the nut house so to say. my people were asked to leave 1798-1810 posty 1798 and tom wolfe. some were cath some protestant or neither, forbes took us to longford to build castles and homes as stone cutters.we came to chelsea to do lithographs. slades did spices and tabbcco, hoopers and lows also hired us. Chelsea was stronghold of universalists and presbiteryians who knew the queens dislikes . and both worked to make it a place to live for imagrants. chelsea to this day does that, it tookin the irish ,italians,jews ,polish,armenians, , spanish, and asians if you want to know why not boston read "The Boston Irish" by thomas o'conner Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning- carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M a.-sprague- and ever growing list Jim Denning