His account of the journey provides invaluable eyewitness testimony to the trauma and tragedy that many emigrants had to face en route to their new lives in Canada and America. The Ocean Plague: or, A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel is based upon the diary of Robert Whyte who, in 1847, crossed the Atlantic from Dublin to Quebec in an Irish emigrant ship. Petty Sessions, fortnightly, on Friday: Geo. Marked thus sell spirits, thus hardware, thus seeds, thus coal, thus timber: Phil. It was granted with possessions by Queen Elizabeth to Miles Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel.Ĭatholic Ch.: Rev. The parish of Toom was famous down to the sixteenth century, for a priory dedicated to St. Vere Hunt and the trustees of Thomas Dowling are the landlords. A weekly market for butter, etc., was held some time ago, but it declined. Oats and potatoes are the principal crops. Some of the land of the district is fair, and some light. Some years ago it had considerable notoriety as the scene of faction fights, but in late years none have occurred. The village rises from both sides of a hollow, and is well built. To enjoy the rich variety of advertisements, confirm accuracy of the entries, or have a printed record of a family member, obtain an original or facsimile copy of The Book of County Tipperary.Ĭappawhite, in the parish of Toom, barony of Kilnamanagh, upper, is 7 miles, Irish, north of Tipperary, and 5 miles west by north from Dundrum, the nearest railway station. For a list of some of the more common forename abbreviations used in the directory, see Forename Abbreviations. With respect to the last point, surnames which today begin with the “Mc” prefix, for example, were often formerly spelt as “M‘,”. Be aware that there were often inconsistencies in spelling surnames in the 19th century and also that many forenames are abbreviated in Bassett’s directories.The text has been proofed with due care, but with large bodies of text typographical errors are inevitably bound to occur.
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This online version is designed primarily as a genealogical research tool and therefore the numerous advertisements in the original book, many full page, and quite a few illustrated, have been excluded.However, there are a few points to bear in mind. The Book of County Tipperary is the first of these to be made available on, with its own search page. The directories are naturally an invaluable resource for those tracing family history.
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