Beautifully written, Ron!
Thank you so much.
Jacquelyn
On Friday, October 26, 2018 9:20 AM, Liz Fitzgerald via CoTyroneList
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#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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Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Observations on the Inhabitants of Clogher
Parish, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1833-5 Hello Listers; There has been
recent interest expressed in the lives of our Tyrone forbears (thanks to Elwyn)
and here is an extract from the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of the 1820s-30s that
offers some observations on living conditions in Clogher parish. Having read
through many of the memoirs covering the parishes of Co. Tyrone, this report
could be applied similarly to all parishes. Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
EXTRACTED FROM ORDNANCE MEMOIRS OF IRELAND: PARISHES OF COUNTY TYRONE VOL. 1
(INSTITUTE OF IRISH STUDIES, QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST) (1990)STATISTICAL
MEMOIR BY LIEUTENANT R. STOTHERDANSWERS TO QUESTIONS:THE HABITS OF THE
PEOPLE42nd: There is very little order, cleanliness, or neatness in general to
be found either in the houses or of the more wealthy farmers or in the cottages
of the poor. The turf stack often approaches within a few yards of the door and
thus intersects the view and stops the currency of the air. The yard in front
of the house is full of the odour of the cow house and stable, for they are
often built in the very front and sometime adjoining the dwellinghouse. The
lanes and approaches to the house are narrow, rough and filthy in the extreme.
Within no order is visible; you may see pigs and fowls eating in the kitchen
and everything is dirty and confused, the furniture a few pots and noggins, a
stool or a broken chair. The potatoes at meals are thrown out in a basket and
so laid on the table or on a stool, and the whole family gather round, master,
mistress, children and servants in a mass, and eat out of the basket without
knife, fork or any appendage at meals. A man who can give his daughter in
marriage 50 or 100 pounds will live in this manner. But this is not universally
the case: sometimes everything is seen comfortable, neat and clean, both within
and without the farmhouse, the furniture good and decent, the kitchen neatly
tiled, the outside of the house well whitewashed and thatched, the yard and
lanes about the house in good repair and clean. It is, however, to be regretted
that very few instances occur where this order and decency is observed.
FOOD44th: Potatoes and milk is the general food of the farmers of this barony,
for breakfast, dinner and supper during 9 months of the year. This is sometimes
varied by a bit of bacon for dinner, sometimes butter and oaten bread or eggs
are added to the potatoes for dinner. In 3 of the summer months when potatoes
begin to fail, stirabout or flummery is substituted for potatoes, for breakfast
or supper.45th: The same report will serve for the manufacturing class and
tradespeople.46th: Potatoes and milk, or when milk grows scarce potatoes or
herrings, or potatoes and salt is almost the only food of the poor inhabitants
during the entire year. Occasionally a little stirabout is added for supper or
breakfast in the summer months. EDUCATION47th: There is certainly a general
desire of instruction in all classes of the people, both Protestants and Roman
Catholics. The poor are anxious to teach their children reading, writing and
arithmetic, and although the facilities for the education of the Roman
Catholics is not so great as for the Protestants, being hindered by their
priests from attending Sunday and other schools, yet there is certainly a
desire in the minds even of the Roman Catholics for the education of their
children.48th: The children of the poor pay for their education according to
the following rates: for spelling and reading, for writing for arithmetic, for
book-keeping [blank]49th: It is believed that there is at least an improvement
in the morals and cleanliness of children attending Sunday Schools. They are
not permitted to attend unless they are clean and they are expelled if any
gross immorality be committed. It is also hoped that there is in the
inhabitants in general, a greater respect for the laws, fewer quarrels and less
fighting than formerly Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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