Wonderfully written Ron.
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From: "Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList"
To: cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com
Cc: "Ron McCoy"
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 6:50:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Observations on the Inhabitants of Clogher
Parish, Co. Tyrone, Norther
Elwyn
As a young boy in Ontario I spent much of my spring and summer tending our
farms crop of Potatoes .In 1974 I kept myself whole and hard by working potato
farms in the highlands of Scotland. Even then with help of modern equipment
potatoes are a labour intensive crop. In those days the me
Thank you to Len and Ron for all that you share with us.
I greatly appreciate the snippets from past records. In this case, Ron
has given us a good reflection from our distance.
The Ordnance Survey writer could only share /his opinions/ and is always
writing for a particular audience. It is a
Peter,
I take your point about the Lieutenant’slikely background but there are plenty
of other contemporaneous descriptions oflife in Ireland in the mid 1800s, some
written by respected Irish born people that tend tosupport his account of rural
life.
The image of spending 12 hours planting
> In the British army of the time, commissions, such as that of Lieutenant,
> were acquired through purchase. The cheapest lieutenancy, in an infantry
> regiment, cost seven hundred pounds. Access to that sort of money, roughly
> equivalent to fifty-eight thousand pounds sterling today, places t
Continuing the theme of trying to get afeel for life in Tyrone in the 1800s,
folk might be interested in details ofearly school records that they might find
interesting.
Broadly, there are 2 sets of records heldin PRONI. The first is attendance
records. So that’s daily attendance for eachpu
Good morning,
One English writer who lived for some years in Ireland to run the postal system
and was very complimentary to the ordinary Irish folk he knew was Anthony
Trollop. Check it out!
Katie Green
On Oct 26, 2018, at 6:50 AM, Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList
wrote:
> Hi Len and all
>
> Than
Beautifully written, Ron!
Thank you so much.
Jacquelyn
On Friday, October 26, 2018 9:20 AM, Liz Fitzgerald via CoTyroneList
wrote:
#yiv6592541155 P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}Thank you. This paints a
picture for me of my ancestors. Love it.From: CoTyroneList
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Ron,
It’s sometimes possible to see our ancestors’lives through rose tinted glasses.
Sometimes they didn’t live all that well, whether through fecklessnessor simply
poverty. You are scathing about the description of houses where youcan see
“pigs and fowls in the kitchen and everything is dir
Thank you. This paints a picture for me of my ancestors. Love it.
From: CoTyroneList on behalf of Len
Swindley via CoTyroneList
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2018 12:02 AM
To: CoTyroneList@cotyroneireland.com
Cc: Len Swindley
Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Observatio
Dear Ron,
You have expressed my thoughts perfectly! Thank you.
iola Whiteside.
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> On Oct 26, 2018, at 5:52 AM, Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList
> wrote:
>
> Hi Len and all
>
> Thank you Len for sharing this with all of us. I read this and many other
> pieces of history. I notice
Hi Len and all
Thank you Len for sharing this with all of us. I read this and many other
pieces of history. I notice the trend through out of the lack of mention of
positive attributes of the common people. Empathy for another human being is
completely devoid in these reports. The time period
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