May I add my voice to what Ray has said? Thank you, Teena! I, too, understand how much time and dedication this took. Time now to rest your eyes a bit!
Under the current circumstances around our world, there are many reminders in these articles about how to treat others in hard times. Wishing all of you good health and the strength of our ancestors to find our way through the current challenges. Jane from 🇨🇦 Sent from my LG Mobile ------ Original message------ From: Ray15 Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2020 7:38 AM To: Teena; Cc: UlsterAncestry@cotyrone.com; Subject:Re: [UlsterAncestry] Last Pt. 13 - Potato Blight 1846-49 Wow! Teena. Firstly: A HUGE thankyou for your transcriptions. I know from long practice that this is a very time-consuming project. Even ‘just’ the ones on this page would have taken me one, two, or more weeks to transcribe. A massive effort on your part, and so many of us know that you have been providing this unpaid labour of love to us all for decades now. Thank you so very much. Secondly: The 8 Sept “1849 Evictions in Ulster” is a real eye-opener for me. How wonderful to read such an informed and sustained attack on the actions of one overlord family. And … in posting this, you have indeed provided a great starting point for anyone who would like to take up the author of the piece, to undertake the suggested research, in order to discover the end result. Great information. Thirdly: As an Australian who is very familiar with many aspects of our colonial convict history; and of the tales of some of the poor in England who committed crimes in order to be gaoled and then transported to a hopefully better life in Australia; it was another eye-opener for me to read this extract from the Poor Law Commissioners: “ … The gaols throughout Ireland are little better than auxiliary poor-houses, hundreds of unfortunate creatures having sought them as asylums preferable to the work houses…. “ That is: whilst I was aware of the commission of crimes in England in order to be transported; I was totally unaware that some of the poorest of the Irish at this period, similarly committed crimes in order to avoid the workhouse — which may have saved their lives in many cases. Fascinating stuff. With gratitude and thanks. Ray in Oz. ====================================================================================== On 27 Mar 2020, at 3:02 pm, Teena <4theloveoftyr...@gmail.com<mailto:4theloveoftyr...@gmail.com>> wrote: This completes my in-depth look at the effects of the Famine Years 1846-49. ... 8 Sept. 1849 Evictions in Ulster ... ... 14 Sept. 1849 (extracts from) The 2nd annual report of the Commissioners for Administering the Laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland Think of the position of a country of about 8,000,000 inhabitants, with 950,196 of them sustained by rates expensively levied off the property and industry of the rest. Yet this was the number in receipt of workhouse and outdoor relief on the 30th Jun. 1849; the date to which the commissioners have brought down their report. To any one who knows Ireland it is unnecessary to suggest the huge number of persons that are as poor as those in actual receipt of charity from the guardians of their unions, but who eke out a miserable subsistence by begging, by vending small wares, by the wretched wages of occasional employment, and, finally, by thievery. The gaols throughout Ireland are little better than auxiliary poor-houses, hundreds of unfortunate creatures having sought them as asylums preferable to the work houses. … ...
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