Wyndham's activities resulting in letters of the time
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 4:15 pm
As posted on Claire Santry's Irish Genealogy news blog, the Local Studies Centre has added a new online database for Clare residents signing a tribute to Col. Wyndham in 1844 after he distributed to them some land, undoubtedly freed up by tenants whom he evicted and/or moved out to Canada in earlier years. Here is the link: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... yndham.htm
You may recall that the Library's genealogy section also has a list of signators to another 1844 letter expressing gratitude to Wyndham's contribution to the new Fair Green in Ennis. Did this fellow have his own publicist ? I also have a letter from his Cobourg ONT former tenants, which will be added here later when I locate it. I am substituting a more formal letter from an observer of the time.
In any case, there does not seem to complete consistency among observers of the time as to the actual extent of Wyndham's largess. The parish priest said that not many of those turned out of their Wyndham tenancies actually emigrated; families tried hard to stay locally. Testimony by Henry Spaight and John Molony differs on Wyndham's practices - see attachments.
While too much of Wyndham's estate records are in Sussex, England (now catalogued), I wish someone would undertake further research and write it up. None of my people were involved, so it won't be me.
Sharon Carberry
You may recall that the Library's genealogy section also has a list of signators to another 1844 letter expressing gratitude to Wyndham's contribution to the new Fair Green in Ennis. Did this fellow have his own publicist ? I also have a letter from his Cobourg ONT former tenants, which will be added here later when I locate it. I am substituting a more formal letter from an observer of the time.
In any case, there does not seem to complete consistency among observers of the time as to the actual extent of Wyndham's largess. The parish priest said that not many of those turned out of their Wyndham tenancies actually emigrated; families tried hard to stay locally. Testimony by Henry Spaight and John Molony differs on Wyndham's practices - see attachments.
While too much of Wyndham's estate records are in Sussex, England (now catalogued), I wish someone would undertake further research and write it up. None of my people were involved, so it won't be me.
Sharon Carberry