It was many years after the events outlined in the following ballad that the box of letters upon which the story is based, was found in an abandoned drawer. The tale was heart-rending:
1800-1900
Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires originated in
Captain Francis Crozier
Captain Crozier: Last Man Standing [Collins Press,
Ireland sold at Derramore?
Certainly Castlereagh and Isaac Corry were co-conspirators in the betrayal of
Castlereagh prospered on the larger stage of British politics.
Emigrants of Great Hunger
It is unfortunate that there does not exist a proper comprehensive cross-referenced database of emigrants from this area in the nineteenth century. The following however, is one page
1851 Census Returns: Newry Barony
This is an attempted analysis of one Famine time Census Return. Please read and comment!
Gentry Directory:19th Century
We have already had a favourable reaction to the posting of that initial list from the 19th Century Directory. The following is the rest of ‘Gentry Etc’ from mid-nineteenth century Newry.
19th Century Gentry
It is sometimes revealing, always interesting to review lists of prominent townspeople from past ages – if merely to note who contemporaries were. The following is of ‘Gentry Etc’ from the mid-nineteenth century.
Seavers of Killeavey
At the suppression of the Killeavey Convent under Henry VIII in the 1540s – a Convent then believed to be under the authority of the Culdees – the lands were seized and allotted to one Marmaduke Whitchurch. He failed to prosper there but a daughter married Nicholas Seaver of Lusk,