Contents

Contents of blog 23 December 2012

This Blog features my family history, and aspects of the social history of parts of Ireland and of the North East of England, and is a work in progress.  Some of the research here features in my songs and tunes at http://michaelburns1.com/

2012 post
Landlordism in Ulster [Kildress]. Two waspish letters from two parish priest, one born in Kildress and one the priest of the parish.  The first in particular give details of the plight of the famers in the North of the parish.  It concurs with the situation decribed in one of the 'letters from Kildress' - see below.

2011 posts:
I think the most exciting thing on the blog so far is 'Letters from Kildress' which features letters from rural Tyrone in the 1879-80 to a relative in Pennsylvania.

Kildress and the Nolan Indemnity Fund gives another insight into Kildress Parish, near Cookstown, Co Tyrone,  this time in the early 1870s.  The surnames of many of the subscribers appear in the censuses and church records of the Consett area of North West Durham, and of Port Clarence in South East Durham, - both places where emigrants from Kildress settled.

The Corrs, Consett, Armagh, Louth & Tyrone.

Kildress Families in the Consett Area. Links between Tyrone, Ireland  and Co Durham, England.

 Bartholomew Monaghan his life and sad death!

Durham Iron Workers, late 1800s, features a great picture of Irish iron workers in Durham in the late likely  metal carriers.  It came from someone with links with Consett and Teeeside and the location is unknown.

2010 posts:
The Monaghans chapter 1, has information on Kildress, and my ancestors arrival in Tow Law .  The Monaghans

The history of the Monaghans Part 2 The family’s move to Consett, Co Durham.  The iron miners’ strike of 1845.  Adverts and reports from Consett in the 1840s, with an emphacis on the Irish.  The Crookhall boiler explosion of 1847.  Return to Ireland in the mid 1850s.

The history of the Monaghans Part 3  The Whitehaven Families 

The history of the Monaghans Part 4 The Linns (Armagh) and the Grahams, (Louth) in Whitehaven. Flax.  St Gregory’s / St Begh’s RC Whitehaven

The history of the Monaghans Part 5  The Boddens (Down) Loughinisland, Seaforde, Ardglass. Brigham, Cumberland.