HiIn fact I have seen this article, and I have complete photocopies of the Brooms marriage registerrefered to - from 1842 to 1855, when a new format of register was introduced and references to the residence and former residences in Ireland ceased. Similarly I have the early baptism reg from Brooms. However the Brooms register records no marriages, English or Irish between 18 August 1842, and 3 Feb 1845. The first recorded Irish marriage at Brooms occurred in on 4thMay 1845, when Michael Kelly married Anne Quinn. There was a further such marriage the following month. The next Irish marriage took place in Feb 1846, with another later that month. There were no further marriages of Irish partners recorded until June of that year (1846) when there were three, two more followed in July and one in August 1846. It seems highly unlikely that there were no Irish marriages prior to May 1845 as on 30 Dec. 1844 Daniel O’Connell’s ‘Repeal Rent’ fund, received a donation of £1 6s and 0d from the Rev. H Newsham, of Brooms. While Daniel O’Connell was held in high regard by the Church in Ireland where he was seen as a bulwark against more radical and violent forms of dissent, such as Ribbonism, it seems highly unlikely that Henry Newsham, a Lancashire born English priest, would have been sending money to Ireland from his own pocket. It seems more likely that Fr Newsham was forwarding money collected from his parishioners; this suggests an Irish community was already established in the area. On 2 Sept 1845 £3 16s was sent to the Repeal fund by Mr. James Burke, from Crookhall, Shotley Bridge, on behalf of ”76 contributors who are struggling for existence in the land of the Saxons – doomed to earn their bread in the bowels of the earth*, where they seldom meet anything but insult from their taskmasters, and they hope the time is not far distant when they can return to their native land, under the protection of a domestic parliament”. (*coal or ironstone miners MB) [Freeman’s Journal, Dublin]. Clearly by the autumn of 1845, if not earlier, there was a viable Irish community in the area. In this light it's unfortunate that there seem to be gaps in both register. However the entries that are available give interesting detail. If anyone wants a look up in the registers email me. _____________ Michael Burns To listen to my songs and tunes, go to http://michaelburns1.com/ >________________________________ > From: "irl-monaghan-request@rootsweb.com" <irl-monaghan-request@rootsweb.com> >To: irl-monaghan@rootsweb.com >Sent: Sunday, 23 December 2012, 8:00 >Subject: IRL-MONAGHAN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 197 > > > >+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >Put SURNAMES in CAPS > >Today's Topics: > >  1. Monaghan to Consett (A.Harney) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 09:36:57 -0500 >From: "A.Harney" <a.harney@inbox.com> >Subject: [IRL-MONAGHAN] Monaghan to Consett >To: <irl-monaghan@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <076BD4CFB799412F9606C1823A1E23C1@DesktopPC> >Content-Type: text/plain;    charset="us-ascii" > >  The Clogher Historical Society publication, Clogher Record,  had a great >article on the emigrants to Consett. Vol. 16, No. 1 (1997), pp. 37-45 >http://www.clogherhistory.ie/home > >The index used to be available online, however it has been moved to JSTOR, >thus limiting access! > >The beginning of this article is available here. >http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/27699414?uid=3739936&uid=2129&uid=2&ui >d=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101586009137 > >You must have access to JSTOR to read the rest of the article. Perhaps >others might have and would be able to read the article. > >HTH, >Ann >____________________ >County Monaghan History >http://ahd.exis.net/monaghan/ >McGeough / Connolly ~ Floody / Smyth > >Selby, Yorkshire ~ Lowry / Morris >http://ahd.exis.net/lowry/ > > > > > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the IRL-MONAGHAN list administrator, send an email to >IRL-MONAGHAN-admin@rootsweb.com. > >To post a message to the IRL-MONAGHAN mailing list, send an email to IRL-MONAGHAN@rootsweb.com. > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-MONAGHAN-request@rootsweb.com >with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the >email with no additional text. > > >End of IRL-MONAGHAN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 197 >******************************************** > > >