Hi folks, "Global Genealogy Newsletter " Subject: What's New at Global Genealogy & History Shoppe - 06 May 2006 Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 20:07:39 +0000 Includes a couple interesting items. One is a 'new' book (new paperback): "BOOK - To Hell or Barbados, An Ethnic Cleansing of Ireland. By Sean O'Callaghan This is the shocking, previously untold story of over 50,000 Irish men, women and children who were transported to Barbados and Virginia between 1652 and 1659. More information: http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/ireland/resources/080638.htm " The book is for sell at Amazon too. You can learn about this in various history books: basically people were rounded up by the Cromwellian Gov and shipped off. The victims included many confederates and their families. Actually very very few confederates were executed by Cromwell -- most were either already dead in the fighting (their families were often exiled to Barbados and other West Indies Islands) or were exiled with families. Some of these people were Protestants who were loyal to the Stewarts, others were "Old English" families, Catholic, in Ireland for centuries, some were po' people rounded up for slave labor, some were women rounded up to service the men. Some turn up on the mainland coast where they assimilated into american ethnic groups like "Yankee" and "Virginia Planter" and "PA Quaker" and "Scotch Irish". Luckily there are some records in Barbados, which apparently this author has used for the book. There are a lot of other West Indies Islands where people were sent so Barbados is only part of the story. There are very very very very very very very few records of British subjects emigrating from Ireland in the 1700s. There are SOME records of the same sent off to the West Indies in the mid 1600s. So it makes sense to check to see if you can find yours in the West Indies. There's a CD of records, but I don't own it. Another book of possible interest is: "BOOK - The Blessington Estate 1667-1908 [Ireland] By Kathy Trant. Everyone shares the common heritage of landlord, agent, middleman and tenant that was to cast such a long shadow over Irish life. Everyone has a link with the background – the plantations, the wars of the 17th century, 1798, the Famine and the Land League. The book is written in a lively readable style which brings that long-vanished world to life, and is an important contribution to the social history of Ireland. More information: http://globalgenealogy.com/countries/ireland/resources/080636.htm " Blessington was NOT in Ulster. it was in Wicklow. However you can learn a LOT about it at proni's website (if you dont' know what this is type in www.google.com and then PRONI -- it's important to learn how to do this to learn how to genealogy on the INternet). http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/dnshire.htm . In any case why do we care? We care because as those of us who slumbered through a basic set of Irish genealogy classes were taught (or missed!), tenants often moved to other estates owned by the same owner. If you had too many tenants in estate A and too few in estate B you could offer some in A an opportunity and get reliable tenants. You also moved your middlemen, your craftsmen, your servants, your gardners, your stablemen, etc, etc, etc, about on your various estates. So understanding the estate of the landlord is KEY to Irish genealogy. This Blessington book looks interesting to me and should be of interest to those with Wicklow surnames in Down or Down surnames in Wicklow and who wonder how come they moved. The key is the estate history. THe PRONI essay (above) alone is fascinating giving much detail on the famous Moses HILL, of the Elizabethan era. It includes details on deed holdings from 1607, I beleive as well as lease books, account books, and correspondence. (These items are in PRONI and some are filmed and in LDS library. You'll need to do research to figure out what is or go to Belfast and spend a few weeks in PRONI). More on Globalgenealogy: For a complete list of new publications and resources please see: http://globalgenealogy.com/new/index.htm Please visit our award winning website: http://globalgenealogy.com . Linda Merle