Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account

2018-10-30 Thread Len Swindley via CoTyroneList
ows 10 From: CoTyroneList on behalf of pjl265sh--- via CoTyroneList Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2018 4:51:54 AM To: Len Swindley via CoTyroneList Cc: pjl26...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account How did the Archbisho

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account

2018-10-29 Thread pjl265sh--- via CoTyroneList
To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List Cc: EVELYN CARDWELL Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account   Ron's description of the joys of planting and picking potatoes is an excellent record of the task and backache involved before mechanisation.  If only more people

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account

2018-10-27 Thread Len Swindley via CoTyroneList
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 10:53:14 PM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List Cc: EVELYN CARDWELL Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account Ron's description of the joys of planting and picking potatoes is an excellent record of the task and backache in

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account

2018-10-27 Thread P J Logan via CoTyroneList
Lyn; Your opinion regarding the tasks associated with growing potatoes is Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: EVELYN CARDWELL via CoTyroneList Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 7:54 AM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List Cc: EVELYN CARDWELL Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account

2018-10-27 Thread EVELYN CARDWELL via CoTyroneList
Ron's description of the joys of planting and picking potatoes is an excellent record of the task and backache involved before mechanisation.  If only more people would record their memories like this.  However most people in early 19th century Ireland were only growing smaller quantities for

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account

2018-10-26 Thread Elwyn Soutter via CoTyroneList
: peter mcdonald Sent: Friday, 26 October 2018, 16:51 Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account > In the British army of the time, commissions, such as that of Lieutenant, > were acquired through purchase. The cheapest lieutenancy, in an infantry > regim

[CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account

2018-10-26 Thread peter mcdonald via CoTyroneList
> 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