Thank you, Janet, Juliette must be thanked for transcribing the reports of the Board of Guardians deliberations; I was so angered by the mean-spirited pettiness that I felt that the names of those Guardians should be made known and included them in the file. It was pertinent also to include her death; a rather short retirement was to be her lot. Hoping that Catherine left a will it was a surprise that she did indeed and the image is available of the PRONI Wills Calendars PRONI Will Calendars - Image Viewer<https://apps.proni.gov.uk/willscalendar_ie/WillsSearchImage.aspx?id=180325> She was a prudent soul leaving an estate of one hundred and twenty-six pounds, five shillings and ninepence to charities, named relatives and others. She was indeed a faithful and loyal servant.
CTI contains another file concerning the Omagh Workhouse Deportation of Famine Orphans from Omagh, Gortin & Strabane, Co. Tyrone Workhouses to Melbourne, Australia, October 1848 (cotyroneireland.com)<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/famine/deportation1848.html> describing the "deported" Famine girls as "idle paupers" Deportation of Famine Orphans from Omagh, Gortin & Strabane, Co. Tyrone Workhouses to Melbourne, Australia, October 1848<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/famine/deportation1848.html> A little-known consequence of the devastation caused by the Great Famine (1845-50) was the large numbers of young orphans admitted to workhouses across Ireland and a scheme of emigration to the Australian colonies devised in Westminster to alleviate overcrowding: approximately 5,000 female pauper orphans emigrated 1848-50.Passages were paid by the colonials who were in great need of house ... www.cotyroneireland.com Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia ________________________________ From: Janet Fairless via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, 19 November 2021 1:17 PM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List <[email protected]> Cc: Janet Fairless <[email protected]> Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Re: New Content - The Superannuation of Catherine Caldwell, Nurse at the Omagh Workhouse, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1881 Oh my goodness… Here I am 140 years later, judging those mean-spirited, mendacious, miserable men…. Poor Catherine Caldwell… What an honourable and loyal servant. Thank you to Len, Jim and Juliette for bringing history alive and making such posts so visceral and relevant. With Gratitude and Best Wishes Janet On 19 Nov 2021, at 8:57 am, Dorothy Gaunt via CoTyroneList <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thank you for this. I was beyond sad and/angry - i was outraged! Women in Ireland have had to battle harder than many to overcome the ‘pale, stale, males’ dictating how they should live their lives. (With all due respect and apologies to Jim and Len and the many other fine contributors here. Please dont take offence 😳) Dorothy Sent from my iPad On 19/11/2021, at 3:23 AM, Pat Hocker via CoTyroneList <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dear Juliette, Len, and Jim, My sincere thanks to you for this fascinating piece of social history. Poor Catherine Caldwell…underpaid for years and subjected to such unbelievable meanness after all those years of service to the sick and destitute! It’s possible that this lady was one of my relatives as the family hailed from the Omagh area. My great-grandfather, Robert Caldwell (1836-1881), was baptised in the 2nd Presbyterian Church of Omagh. Wonder if they were sibs? Best wishes, Pat On Nov 18, 2021, at 5:04 AM, James McKane via CoTyroneList <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The Superannuation of Catherine Caldwell, Nurse at the Omagh Workhouse, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1881<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/famine/caldwell.html> Thanks again to Juliette Buchanan and Len Swindley for another great addition to CTI! Jim McKane Kitchener, Ontario ================================= Send a Message to the List - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List Archive - https://list.cotyroneireland.com/empathy/list/cotyronelist.list.cotyroneireland.com Join the list by sending an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To receive the Digest version, send an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe by sending an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ================================= ================================= Send a Message to the List - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List Archive - https://list.cotyroneireland.com/empathy/list/cotyronelist.list.cotyroneireland.com Join the list by sending an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To receive the Digest version, send an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe by sending an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ================================= ================================= Send a Message to the List - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> List Archive - https://list.cotyroneireland.com/empathy/list/cotyronelist.list.cotyroneireland.com Join the list by sending an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To receive the Digest version, send an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe by sending an email to - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> =================================
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