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Australia / Re: John and Margaret DEVINE
« on: Sunday 30 August 09 08:11 BST (UK) »
Book: "Poverty to Promise the Monteagle Emigrants 1838-58" Authors Christopher O'Mahony and Valerie Thompson published June 1994.
This book is out of print and quite hard to come by.
It is a book worth knowing so here it is in a few extrats:
"Lord monteagle's interest in emigration stemmed from trying to find a remedy for ireland's allegedly redundant population" page 7
"Desirable candidates were tradesmen or farm servants aged 35-50. Accompanied by their wife, and of good character. Single females aged 15-30 were welcome at this stage only as a part of a family group" pg 10
"By 1849 and 1950 the effect of the Famine were hitting even those who might have thought themselves less vulnerable a few years earlier. Tenant farmers were unable to pay their rent;...Monteagle was reluctant to evict. Some offered to surrender their leases in return for help to emigrate; some had to be asked......
Once we pass the 1850 mark, the circumstances of the Monteagle emigrants change once again. Now, either people are joining family or friends in Australia on the strength of money sent home, or they are asking for help to obtain a free passage...." pg 11
This is were the Coughlan 4 fit in 1855.
The book only references to the 4 is of them being Monteagle Emigrates on the Matoaka arriving in Sydney 17 May 1855
The book has a column on mother and fathers and has listed the Coughlan parents as Daniel Coughlan and Catherine nee O'Connell as being in Ireland and has the parents listed as alive.
Australia was a long way to send your 4 children in their late teens / early twenties for a better life.
I have also managed to track down copies of 2 of the 4 children's Ireland Baptismal Certificates.
Poverty to Promise - lists them as Coughlin and Connell- Irish records have then as Coughlan and O'Connell.
This book is out of print and quite hard to come by.
It is a book worth knowing so here it is in a few extrats:
"Lord monteagle's interest in emigration stemmed from trying to find a remedy for ireland's allegedly redundant population" page 7
"Desirable candidates were tradesmen or farm servants aged 35-50. Accompanied by their wife, and of good character. Single females aged 15-30 were welcome at this stage only as a part of a family group" pg 10
"By 1849 and 1950 the effect of the Famine were hitting even those who might have thought themselves less vulnerable a few years earlier. Tenant farmers were unable to pay their rent;...Monteagle was reluctant to evict. Some offered to surrender their leases in return for help to emigrate; some had to be asked......
Once we pass the 1850 mark, the circumstances of the Monteagle emigrants change once again. Now, either people are joining family or friends in Australia on the strength of money sent home, or they are asking for help to obtain a free passage...." pg 11
This is were the Coughlan 4 fit in 1855.
The book only references to the 4 is of them being Monteagle Emigrates on the Matoaka arriving in Sydney 17 May 1855
The book has a column on mother and fathers and has listed the Coughlan parents as Daniel Coughlan and Catherine nee O'Connell as being in Ireland and has the parents listed as alive.
Australia was a long way to send your 4 children in their late teens / early twenties for a better life.
I have also managed to track down copies of 2 of the 4 children's Ireland Baptismal Certificates.
Poverty to Promise - lists them as Coughlin and Connell- Irish records have then as Coughlan and O'Connell.
