The tithe assessments were done in Dromore in 1834. There were four Michael McGuigans noted in four different townlands. Tithe Applotment Books Parish of Dromore Cornamucklagh Dromore Shanmullagh Glebe Letteree McGuigan, Michl McGuigan, Michl McGuigan, Michl McGuigan, Michl None of these townlands are very distant from each other. Dromore and Shanmullagh Glebe are adjacent townlands located in the center of the parish. Lettery is situated on the western border of the parish. Cornamucklagh is located in the eastern portion of the parish adjacent to Coyagh,Tattycor, and Drumderg, a small area where there was quite an assemblage of McGuigan families. Of the four Michaels living in Dromore, the one in Cornamucklagh seems to have the most potential. Several of the families in Pawtucket came from their homes in Coyagh and Cornamucklagh. Tithe Applotment Books Cornamucklagh Coyagh Drumderg Tatticor McGuigan, Michl McGuigan, Nichs McGuigan, Thos McGuigan, Jas McGuigan, Pat, Sr McGuigan, Patk McGuigan, Ann McGuigan, Bridget McGuigan, Pat, Jr McGuigan, Thos McGuigan, Patk McGuigan, Edwd McGuigan, Tery McGuigan, Owen McGuigan, Thos McGuigan, Henry McGuigan, Thos The next major land valuation work, Griffith’s Primary Valuation, was completed in Tyrone about 1860. In the twenty-six years between the two valuations, there were changes in the names of those living on the old farms. Some had emigrated; some had died. The McGuigans leasing the lands at that time were brothers, sons, daughters, nieces, and nephews. Only one Michael was left in Dromore. He was living in Shanmullagh Glebe. While the majority of farms in Dromore parish consisted of about sixteen acres, which was probably considerably less than ... ... middle of paper ... ...ight hit the fields and destroyed the crops, disaster ensued. In those terrible years, between 1846 and 1851, one million people died of starvation, malnutrition, typhus, recurring fever, dysentery and scurvy. Another million Irish citizens emigrated. Such was the environment in which droves of Irish immigrants sought to better their lives and those of their children by fleeing their homeland with its disastrous potato famines, and economic, political and religious repression. There are today descendants of the Goodwin families living in the Pawtucket area. There is certainly every likelihood that living today in Tyrone are many distant cousins. Tithe Applotment Books for Northern Ireland, ca. 1822—1937. Ireland: Land Commission. Parish of Dromore, Tyrone. FHL microfilm 258456. . Gray, Peter. The Irish Famine. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1995.
In Myne Owne Ground, Breen and Innes write about being a “tithable”. A tithable is “someone obliged to pay taxes”. In 1645, an act regarding tithables stated,
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The Bishop of Hamburg Grants a Charter to Colonists (1106) is a legal document commissioned by Frederick, Bishop of Hamburg, outlining the rights of the Hollanders in regards to the land he was offering for them to colonise. Furthermore, the charter was signed by “Henry, the Priest, to whom we have granted the aforesaid churches for life” in addition to the “laymen, Helikin, Arnold, Hiko, Fordolt, and Referic” . Produced in 1106, this source reveals the value of land in the economic climate of the Middle Ages. This source is “a perpetual benediction” , and thus is destined to the current and future Bishop landowners of the area, to bind them in legal agreement, according to the specific payment and dimensions laid out in the charter. This source illuminates the value and power of the ecclesiastical order of the land. This source reveals the interplay of the church and the secular clergy, the nobility and landowners, and the laity, with further insight into measurements and economic currency used in the 12th century Medieval Europe. Not only was this charter a means of granting land ...
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From the time that people began living in groups, people have migrated to suit their personal needs. For some, it was to escape difficult times or hardships faced by their ethnic group. Such is the case of the Irish who migrated to Quebec from 1815 to the Potato Famine of 1847. What causes and factors drove these people to cross an ocean and leave their homeland for the unknown prospects of Quebec? To examine and fully answer this question, one must look at the social, economic and religious conditions in Ireland at the time, as well as what drew the Irish to Quebec rather than somewhere else.
The Irish began immigrating to North America in the 1820s, when the lack of jobs and poverty forced them to seek better opportunities elsewhere after the end of the major European wars. When the Europeans could finally stop depending on the Irish for food during war, the investment in Irish agricultural products reduced and the boom was over. After an economic boom, there comes a bust and unemployment was the result. Two-thirds of the people of Ireland depended on potato harvests as a main source of income and, more importantly, food. Then between the years of 1845 and 1847, a terrible disease struck the potato crops. The plague left acre after acre of Irish farmland covered with black rot. The failure of the potato yields caused the prices of food to rise rapidly. With no income coming from potato harvests, families dependent on potato crops could not afford to pay rent to their dominantly British and Protestant landlords and were evicted only to be crowded into disease-infested workhouses. Peasants who were desperate for food found themselves eating the rotten potatoes only to develop and spread horrible diseases. ¡§Entire villages were quickly homeless, starving, and diagnosed with either cholera or typhus.¡¨(Interpreting¡K,online) The lack of food and increased incidents of death forced incredible numbers of people to leave Ireland for some place which offered more suitable living conditions. Some landlords paid for the emigration of their tenants because it made more economic sense to rid farms of residents who were not paying their rent. Nevertheless, emigration did not prove to be an antidote for the Famine. The ships were overcrowded and by the time they reached their destination, approximately one third of its passengers had been lost to disease, hunger and other complications. However, many passengers did survive the journey and, as a result, approximately ¡§1.5 million Irish people immigrated to North America during the 1840¡¦s and 1850¡¦s.¡¨(Bladley, online) As a consequence of famine, disease (starvation and disease took as many as one million lives) and emigration, ¡§Ireland¡¦s population dropped from 8 million to 5 million over a matter of years.¡¨(Bladley, online) Although Britain came to the aid of the starving, many Irish blamed Britain for their delayed response and for centuries of political hardship as basi...
The surname Millar is a variant of Miller, it is a Scottish surname that came about in 12 Century. The name originated from ‘the miller’ who was an occupational name for one that baked bread, grounded corn and was the dweller by the mill. The mill was a very important piece of medieval settlements as it provided a method for individuals to bring their corn to be grounded into flour, and in payment ‘the miller’ would take a proportion of it for himself. In medieval times record came to state that millers would substitute grain of poor quality for the good grain that they were given to grind, and due to this dishonesty they were a very unpopular group of people. They might have been unpopular although they made up most of the wealthy people in villages in those times. The surname miller appears in all record found in England. The surname originated from the English word “mylene”, and the later “milne” but it mainly originated from the Latin Roman word “molere” meaning to grind and ground. Scotland was the birth place of the name although they prefers to use “Millar” and not miller as it was more Scottish. The name was related often trace back to or associated with the Clan MAcFlarlane...
During a very feudalistic time in Irish society, poor Catholic farmers would rent plots from the rich protestant landowners. If the poor farmers couldn't pay rent to the middlemen they were harshly evicted. When evicted they couldn't grab any of their personal belongings they were literally forced out o...
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To undertake a full thematic investigation of this period would be very much beyond the scope of this paper. Thus, the essay will embark on a high level chronological interpretation of some of the defining events and protagonists, which influenced the early modernization of Ireland during the period 1534-1750. The main focus of the paper will concentrating on the impact and supervision of the Tudor dynasty. Firstly, the essay will endeavour to gain an understanding as to what contemporary historians accept as being the concept of modernization during this time period. The paper will then continue by examine the incumbent societal and political structure of Ireland prior to the Tudor conquests. This will have the impact of highlight the modernising effects produced by the subsequent attempts by the Tudors to consolidate and centralise power in the hands of the State. Once more, due to the vast nature of the time period, not every modernizing effect can be examined. Therefore, the paper will concentrate on the modernization of the political landscape, land ownership and the impact this had on the geographic construct of the island.
The potato famine of 1845, lead to the death of many Irish people. In the novel it discusses the effects of poverty, in the article “Great Famine” it talks about famine and the exportation of goods. After digging into the poverty that was discussed in the book, the main reason behind why Ireland was dealing with the Poverty and Famine was due to the Blight and its ties with the British exporting.
Given these points, John Williams was able to provide us with a strongly based arguments that can be relied on for future research. Although they are not plenty, the sources that were used are of great quality for this type of article. The author also covers his basis by approaching most of the exceptions encountered in the convict records. While it is evident in the text that Williams is siding with the Irish, it does not mean that the article is to be trashed since he maintains his objectivity, it, however, constitute a weakness of the