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Ancestors of Peter William McEntyre
Generation 1
1.
Peter William McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Marise Patricia Jones was born on 19 8 1963 in Sydney , New South Wales, Australia. He married Yuriko Hoshino, daughter of Taro Hoshino and Hideko Nakamura on 16 12 1991 in Ichikawa-shi, Chiba-ken, JAPAN. She was born on 22 12 1967 in Shiga-ken ,JAPAN.
The readings and quotations which follow are from several learned investigators who have attempted to sort out the history of the Mhac an t’Saoir name. If you read on, you will see why it has proved such a difficult name to trace.
A number of authorities on the history of Scottish and British surnames seem agreed that the names McAteer, MacAteer, MacTier and MacTear are shortened forms of MacIntyre. This idea is certainly relevant in the Scottish context, and while it is sometimes true of Irish McAteers it is probably more the exception than the rule, in the Irish context.
Adams (1960, p-325) in his book on “The Clans, Septs and Regiments, of the Scottish Highlands”, in discussing Clan Macintyre Septs, states under MacTear: “Some Scots Mactears and Irish Mac-a-tears are really Macintyres.
Reaney (1958, p-210) in “A Dictionary of British Surnames” under Macintyre lists: “McEntire, McAteer, McTear”.
MacLysaght (1960, p-23) in his work on “Irish Families” has this to say:
MacAteer, MacIntyre, Carpenter, Freeman. The Gaelic surname Mac-an-t-Saoir belongs both to Ireland and Scotland. In Scotland, it is always MacIntyre. In Ireland, the MacIntyres slightly outnumber the MacAteers, but a number of the former are Ulstermen of Scottish extraction. Taken together they are estimated in population statistics to number some 4,500 persons in Ireland; practically all the MacAteers are in Ulster (Armagh, Antrim and Donegal), while the MacIntyres are less concentrated in area, though chiefly in Ulster, with a considerable number also in Co. Sligo. Ballymacateer is a place near Lurgan [Co. Armagh] …………. MacAteer, or MacIntyre, is one of those names which have been subjected to anglicization by translation. Saor is the Irish Gaelic word for a certain type of tradesman such as a mason or a carpenter. The name has never become Mason, but Carpenter was fairly widely adopted as a synonym, so that the surname Carpenter in Ireland is often not English in origin but MacAteer in disguise. Similarly, since Saor also has the secondary meaning of free, the English surname Freeman sometimes hides a MacAteer origin.
George F. Black (1965) in his book on the “Surnames of Scotland” gives the following information:
Clann MacIntyre Page
It is said, that the first Mac an t-saoir was actually a MacDhonuill (MacDonald), who had the name conferred upon him because of an adventure he endured while out to sea alone. The story goes, that in a wind tossed sea, his boat sprang a leak. As the poor rascal had no other way to stop it, he thrust his thumb into the hole. Being as how it was impossible to steer the boat and stop the leak at the same time, he lopped off his thumb. He made it home, but because of his particular brand of resourcefulness, he was ever thereafter called “the carpenter”.
The name Mac an t-saoir means,”son of the carpenter; son of the wright”. It was anglicized to ‘MacIntyre’ and it’s many derivatives. No doubt the name is a Highland cognomen which derived from a skill. Popular tradition has it, that the Clann is a branch of the MacDhonuills. Mac an t-saoir’s were found throughout Scotland, and held lands under the chiefs of many different clanns, and fought valiantly for them as well.
In particular, and the traditional ties to Clan MacDhonuill aside, Mac an t-saoirs were always oathed to the chiefs of Upper Zorn and were included in the counts of the “native men” of the Stewarts of Alpin. In 1745, five Mac an t-saoirs were wounded and five killed, while serving in Alpins regiment. Most of the Clann seems to have fought for the Bonnie Prince. A branch of Clan Mac an t-saoir was a sept of Clan CaimBeul (Campbell ) of Craignish.
There were also Mac an t-saoirs in Badenoch who formed a sept of Clan Chattan. They descend from a bard of Clan Mac an t-saoir who was admitted in 1496 by William, thirteenth Chief of Clan MacKintosh.
Mac an t-saoirs were the hereditary foresters to the Stewarts of Lorn. They were also hereditary pipers to the Chiefs of Clanranald and Menzies.
Though the name appears so scattered across Scotland, Glenoe (near Bunawe, Nether Lorn) seems to be where the most of the clann resided. From 1380 to 1810, the Clann held land in Glenoe. In the remote past the Mac an t-saoirs held their land by might of sword. However, eventually they had imposed upon them feudal obligations to the CaimBeuls. At first these were the purely symbolic rent payments of a white calf and a snowball. The snowball they always had, even at mid-summer when the rent was due, as they retrieved it from the backside of the mountain which was a major part of their land. This is the same mountain refered to in the battle cry, “Cruachan!”. As they always raised white cows, neither was that part of the rent a problem. Finally in the 18th century, the CaimBeuls of Breadalbane imposed a rent so horrendous that by 1806 first Duncan and then Donald, 4th & 5th Chiefs, ended up in America, the victims of clearances.
While the name is related to a skill, the Mac an t-saoirs have always excelled more in the arts than in the skills. There are several bards of note, these include the aforementioned bard whose patron was William, the thirteenth Chief of Clan MacKintosh, and Duncan Ban MacIntyre. Duncan was one of the few of the Clann who did not fight for the Stewarts in the rebellion, though his ending up in prison for satirizing the Hanoverians shows that he didn’t sympathize with the enemy either. It was only in that he had well connected friends that his life was spared him. His great skill has caused him to be called “the Ossinian of the 18th century.”
One family of Mac an t-siors was a well known family of musicians in the district of Rannock. From 1680 on, they were, as stated earlier, the pipers of the Menzies who in fact owned this area. It was at the battle of “Sheriffmuir” in 1715, that Ian MacDhonuill Mor, a relative, wrote the pibroch “Cath Sliabh an t-Siorra”, which commemorates that event.
The Clann motto is “Per Adua”, which means, “through difficulties”. And through them we have come, always holding a distinct view of who we are, the most of us never forgetting. After almost two centuries of dispersion and a lack of representation, finally in 1991, the MacIntyres once more took their seat on the Council of Clan Chiefs after the correct shield of arms was recorded by the 9th Chief.
The septs of Mac an t-sior include MacIntire, MacIntyre, MacKintyre, MacTier, MacTear, MacTire, Tyre, MacCosham and Wright.
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A brief history of names:
To best understand the name McAteer, we must realize that it is neither the original name, nor the only legitimate name of our family. In fact, our original name began its career not as a surname, as we know surnames today, but as a descriptive sentence in the old Gaelic tongue. Our name has a literally prehistoric root, in the old Gaelic title “Mhac an t’Saoir”, which means “the son of the carpenter”. The Gaelic noun “saoir” has a number of meanings, and could equally mean “mason”, according to some authorities. That it has never been interpreted that way in our case, may be significant.
In the fullness of time, any oft repeated phrase or expression will slowly condense into a string of syllables, and so the more modern rendering and pronunciation of the name as a single tri-syllabic word, appeared in due course. With the later incursion of English political power accompanied by English literacy into the Gaelic speaking world, it became useful to write names down. As this happened over some period of time, and in different places, many different spellings of “Mhac an t’Saoir” arose, and McAteer is just one of these, albeit the most common. Some of the names that are known to be or believed to be derived from Mhac an t’Saoir are:
MacAtee
Matear Mateer Matier Matire
McAtear McAteer McAtier
McAtee
McEntire McIntyre
McTear McTeer McTier
Meteer Metteer
Tyre
and Irish forms of:
Carpenter
Freeman
Searson
Seary
Wright
“McAtee” is believed by many, to derive from the Gaelic “Mhac an t’Saoi”; “saoi” being the word for “scholar” or “sage”. MacLysaght traces McAtees to Counties Armagh and Monaghan, and McAteers to Armagh, Antrim, and Donegal. There is a suspicious closeness in the distribution of these two names in Ireland, just as there is in the spellings of the names themselves. “Saoi” and “saoir” are not only close in spelling, but their historic meanings are close as well. Although the McAtees straddle the border between Ulster and the Irish Republic, they still outnumber McAteers in Northern Ireland and the UK, and in the USA as well. Their migration patterns to the New World however, are very different.
Are the McAtees simply a southern branch of the same clan; were they just unusually learned or wise McAteers; or are they a completely separate family? Well, we don’t know – and neither does anyone else! We are presently working together with our McAtee cousins, and will carry on until either new evidence appears, or they themselves pronounce on the matter.
Although differences in the spellings are readily apparent, differences in pronunciation are more subtle, and except for “Tyre” which lacks the first syllable, it would be easy enough to mistake “Mateer” for “McTeer”, over the phone, for example. Outside Ireland and Scotland, there is a modern tendency to pronounce “Mc” differently from “Mac” with some names. (McAteer seems to have been an exception.) Both spellings are simply different renderings of the same Gaelic surname, so these modern differences are really products of the New World. The main point here is that the differences in spelling arise from the fact that the original Gaelic form of the name “Mhac an t’Saoir” was first written down as it was heard, and this was done for the “first” time, in many different places by many different people. Spelling out a Gaelic name in English cannot be an easy thing to do, and it would be more surprising if there were only one spelling.
Later on, with the increase of English power keenly felt throughout the Gaelic speaking world, some Mhac an t’Saoirs translated the name into English to avoid persecution or discrimination, and so “Mhac an t’Saoir” became Carpenter, Freeman, Searson, Seary, or Wright. Freeman was an acceptable translation because the skilled tradesman was usually a free man, and this was true often enough that “saoir” has the secondary meaning of “free” in Gaelic. Interestingly, we have not found a single case where the name is translated into “smith”, “mason”, or “tinker”, so there seems little doubt that our ancestors were associated with wood working.
“Mhac an t’Saoir” itself turns up under a variety of spellings, in various places. The same name was in use in Ireland and Scotland, and it appeared on gravestones in Scotland as late as the eighteenth century, usually as “Mac an tSaoir”, after which time it usually appears as MacIntyre. Its earliest documented use though, is in Ireland, in the fifth century, when it first enters recorded history as the name of a saint!
In quiet Clonmacnoise,
About Saint Kieran’s feet,
Everlasting quires
Raise a concert sweet.
The evolution of the name:
Elsewhere we mentioned that McAteers emigrating over to Scotland would often change their name to MacIntyre, and that there are historical records of MacIntyres immigrating into Ireland, and converting to McAteer. There have been cases where a given family would switch names more than once in its travels. We do not know exactly why this happened. Were such families just conforming to what they saw as a local convention in spelling, or did they believe they were changing names to better fit in? If the former, then they must have believed that McAteer and MacIntyre were the same family.
This “interchangeability” must have ended when written records began to be kept, for today the biggest concentration of McAteers outside Ulster, is around Glasgow, Scotland. These families, who probably arrived during the Irish potato famine, and during the early industrialization of Scotland, have not become MacIntyres. Some authorities mention MacAteers, but we have not been able to find that surname in any of our searches, and its derivation is unclear. Clan MacIntyre recognizes MacTear, MacTier, and McTier as variants of MacIntyre.
In Ireland, the name has experienced even more variety. There are McTears, McTeers, M’teers, McTiers, Mateers, Matears, and so, on and on. The greater variety of renderings of Mhac an t’Saoir in Ireland may have been be due to the slower incursion of English, into that country. More recently, to escape various forms of persecution, McAteer sometimes became Carpenter, Freeman, Searson, Seary, Wright, etc. Presumably, this happened under the English occupation. In any case, such variety has done little to clarify our history.
New spellings and interchangeability have not been confined to Ireland. Some names, such as McTyre, Meteer, and Metteer, seem to be American variants of older names, as these three names are rare or non-existent in Europe, and seem confined almost entirely to the USA. At least one American McAtee informs us he has traced his line back to a McAteer, who arrived in Canada in the 1800′s. As far as we know, there have not been any interchanges from the German names Polmateer, Palmeteer, and Meter, nor have we found any from the Irish, McTiernan.
1st Son was named after the Father’s Father
2nd Son was named after the Mother’s Father
3rd Son was named after the Father
4th Son was named after the Father’s eldest brother
1st Daughter was named after the Mother’s Mother
2nd Daughter was named after the Father’s Mother
3rd Daughter was named after the Mother
4th Daughter was named after the Mother’s eldest sister
These patterns are not always adhered to but seem to be fairly common.
The readings and quotations which follow are from several learned investigators who have attempted to sort out the history of the Mhac an t’Saoir name. If you read on, you will see why it has proved such a difficult name to trace.
A number of authorities on the history of Scottish and British surnames seem agreed that the names McAteer, MacAteer, MacTier and MacTear are shortened forms of MacIntyre. This idea is certainly relevant in the Scottish context, and while it is sometimes true of Irish McAteers it is probably more the exception than the rule, in the Irish context.
Adams (1960, p-325) in his book on “The Clans, Septs and Regiments, of the Scottish Highlands”, in discussing Clan Macintyre Septs, states under MacTear: “Some Scots Mactears and Irish Mac-a-tears are really Macintyres.
Reaney (1958, p-210) in “A Dictionary of British Surnames” under Macintyre lists: “McEntire, McAteer, McTear”.
MacLysaght (1960, p-23) in his work on “Irish Families” has this to say:
Generation 2
2.
James Joseph McEntyre, son of Patrick William McEntyre and Zillah Josephine Mackins was born on 19 7 1931 in Flat 2 Bellever Cnr Birrell st & St Mary’s ,Waverly ,New South Wales Australia. He married Marise Patricia Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler on 10 12 1960 in Riverview College ,Sydney ,NSW ,Australia.
3.
Marise Patricia Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler was born on 19 12 1934 in 16 Upper st Tamworth,New South Wales Australia. She died on 15 9 1993 in Sydney,New South Wales (RNSHospital).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
Mother’s hair dark brown to black .Father’s dark auburn to brown Both went grey in 50′s
Marise Patricia Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler was born on 19 12 1934 in 16 Upper st Tamworth,New South Wales Australia. She died on 15 9 1993 in Sydney,New South Wales (RNSHospital).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
Mother’s hair dark brown to black .Father’s dark auburn to brown Both went grey in 50′s
Notes for Marise Patricia Jones:
Marise Patricia Jones and James Joseph McEntyre had the following children:
1. i.
Peter William McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Marise Patricia Jones was born on 19 8 1963 in Sydney , New South Wales, Australia. He married Yuriko Hoshino, daughter of Taro Hoshino and Hideko Nakamura on 16 12 1991 in Ichikawa-shi, Chiba-ken, JAPAN. She was born on 22 12 1967 in Shiga-ken ,JAPAN.
ii.
Gregory James Joseph McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Marise Patricia Jones was born on 31 5 1966 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. He married FM on 31 12 1995 in Singapore. She was born on 20 6 1968 in Singapore.
iii.
Marguerite Kathryn McEntyre, daughter of James Joseph McEntyre and Marise Patricia Jones was born on 29 9 1968 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. She met Andrew McAlpine. He was born on 25 2 1966.
iv.
Paul James Joseph McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Marise Patricia Jones was born on 02 9 1970 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia.
Generation 3
4.
Patrick William McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy was born on 07 12 1891 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He died on 19 4 1964 in Sydney, New South Wales. He married Zillah Josephine Mackins, daughter of George Peter Mackins and Mary Kelleher on 04 1 1928 in St Francis Paddington Sydney New South Wales.
5.
Zillah Josephine Mackins, daughter of George Peter Mackins and Mary Kelleher was born on 09 4 1890 in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales. She died in 1966 in Sydney, New South Wales.
Zillah Josephine Mackins and Patrick William McEntyre had the following children:
2. i.
James Joseph McEntyre, son of Patrick William McEntyre and Zillah Josephine Mackins was born on 19 7 1931 in Flat 2 Bellever Cnr Birrell st & St Mary’s ,Waverly ,New South Wales Australia. He married Marise Patricia Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler on 10 12 1960 in Riverview College ,Sydney ,NSW ,Australia. She was born on 19 12 1934 in 16 Upper st Tamworth,New South Wales Australia. She died on 15 9 1993 in Sydney,New South Wales (RNSHospital).
ii.
Rosemary McEntyre, daughter of Patrick William McEntyre and Zillah Josephine Mackins was born on 09 1 1929 in Waverly, NSW, Australia. She married Robert Johnson Greer, son of Erika Florence Walters on 31 1 1976. He was born on 11 6 1931 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. He died on 21 6 1986 in Sydney, NSW,Australia.
6.
Reginald Raymond Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born on 25 5 1901 in Tamworth, New South Wales Australia. He married Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler, daughter of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy on 01 9 1923 in St Nicholas Church, Tamworth NSW.
7.
Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler, daughter of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy was born on 05 1 1902 in Dubbo, New South Wales. She died on 28 5 1975 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia.
Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler and Reginald Raymond Jones had the following children:
i.
Reginald Raymond Jones, son of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler was born on 05 5 1924 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. He married Hazel Ives, daughter of Ives on 26 6 1948 in St Patricks Catholic Church Parramatta. She died in 2006 in Leura, New South Wales, Australia.
ii.
Kathleen Doreen Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler was born on 25 3 1926 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. She died in 6 2009 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She married Milton Hanley Brennan, son of Brennan and Rose Evylyn Bell on 28 6 1946 in Mary Immaculate Catholic Church Waverley. He was born on 13 11 1921 in Chippingnorton, Liverpool, New South Wales,.
Notes for Milton Hanley Brennan:
The following was taken from an Irish magazine. It is by John Grenham…
BRENNAN
This is one of the most frequent surnames in Ireland, and is to be found
throughout the country, though noticeably less common in Ulster. In 1980
it was ranked 27th, with 358 births, while in 1996 it was 14th in the
Republic and only 91st in Northern Ireland.
It derives from three Irish originals: O’Braonain, a diminutive of
braon, possibly meaning “sorrow”, Mac Branain, and O’Branain, both mean
bran, meaning “raven”, one of the most popular personal names in early
Ireland.
The Mac Branain were chiefs of a large territory in the east of the
present Co. Roscommon, and a large majority of the Brennans of north
Connacht, counties Mayo, Sligo and Roscommon, descend from them.
O’Branain was a name found among the Cenel Eoghan, the tribal grouping
claiming descent from Eoghan, (one of the sons of the 5th century
monarch, Niall of the Nine Hostages), who was reputedly responsible for
the kidnapping of St. Patrick to Ireland and who was the founder of the
Ui Neill dynasty. This territory included the modern county which
records his name, Tyrone, and it is in the area and the adjoining
counties of Donegal, Fermanagh and Monaghan that the northern Brennans
are now most commonly found. In this area, especially Donegal, the name
was also anglicised and Brennan and Branny. Fifteen Brannan births are
recorded in 1890, most of them in Donegal.
O Braonain originated in at least four district areas, Kilkenny, east
Galway, Westmeath and Kerry. Of these the most powerful were the O
Braonain of Kilkenny, chiefs of Idough in the north of the country,
around the modern town of Castlecomer. The original Braonan from whom
they claimed descent was the son of Cearbhall, a ninth century leader of
the Osraige, famed in the Annals for his many bloody victories over his
neighbours. Displaced by the Normans in the twelfth century, they slowly
regained their power over the succeeding two centuries as the Normans
were assimilated. By the start of the 17th century, four separate
sub-groups of the family are indentified as landowners in north
Kilkenny. After they lost their lands and status to the English, many of
them became nortorious as leaders of bands of outlaws. Witness the
popular ballad “Brennan on the Moor”.
One of the last claimants to be chief of the name of the Kilkenny branch
was JOHN BRENNAN (1768-1830), popularly known as the “wrestling doctor”
for his satires on the Dublin medical establishment. The classical
scholar CHRISTOPHER (JOHN) BRENNAN was the most learned poet Australia
produced at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
Mostly in the symbolist tradition, his work is characterised by force of
feeling and depth of imagery.
JOSEPH BRENNAN (1887-1963) was one of the most influential Irish civil
servants of his generation, becoming the first Secretary of the
Department of Finance, chairman of the Currency Commission and, from
1942 until 1953, first govenor of the Central Bank.
Have a great day!
Researching: BYRNE in Co. Wicklow
JUDGE and JOYCE in Galway
Kathleen Doreen Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler was born on 25 3 1926 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. She died in 6 2009 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. She married Milton Hanley Brennan, son of Brennan and Rose Evylyn Bell on 28 6 1946 in Mary Immaculate Catholic Church Waverley. He was born on 13 11 1921 in Chippingnorton, Liverpool, New South Wales,.
Notes for Milton Hanley Brennan:
The following was taken from an Irish magazine. It is by John Grenham…
BRENNAN
This is one of the most frequent surnames in Ireland, and is to be found
throughout the country, though noticeably less common in Ulster. In 1980
it was ranked 27th, with 358 births, while in 1996 it was 14th in the
Republic and only 91st in Northern Ireland.
It derives from three Irish originals: O’Braonain, a diminutive of
braon, possibly meaning “sorrow”, Mac Branain, and O’Branain, both mean
bran, meaning “raven”, one of the most popular personal names in early
Ireland.
The Mac Branain were chiefs of a large territory in the east of the
present Co. Roscommon, and a large majority of the Brennans of north
Connacht, counties Mayo, Sligo and Roscommon, descend from them.
O’Branain was a name found among the Cenel Eoghan, the tribal grouping
claiming descent from Eoghan, (one of the sons of the 5th century
monarch, Niall of the Nine Hostages), who was reputedly responsible for
the kidnapping of St. Patrick to Ireland and who was the founder of the
Ui Neill dynasty. This territory included the modern county which
records his name, Tyrone, and it is in the area and the adjoining
counties of Donegal, Fermanagh and Monaghan that the northern Brennans
are now most commonly found. In this area, especially Donegal, the name
was also anglicised and Brennan and Branny. Fifteen Brannan births are
recorded in 1890, most of them in Donegal.
O Braonain originated in at least four district areas, Kilkenny, east
Galway, Westmeath and Kerry. Of these the most powerful were the O
Braonain of Kilkenny, chiefs of Idough in the north of the country,
around the modern town of Castlecomer. The original Braonan from whom
they claimed descent was the son of Cearbhall, a ninth century leader of
the Osraige, famed in the Annals for his many bloody victories over his
neighbours. Displaced by the Normans in the twelfth century, they slowly
regained their power over the succeeding two centuries as the Normans
were assimilated. By the start of the 17th century, four separate
sub-groups of the family are indentified as landowners in north
Kilkenny. After they lost their lands and status to the English, many of
them became nortorious as leaders of bands of outlaws. Witness the
popular ballad “Brennan on the Moor”.
One of the last claimants to be chief of the name of the Kilkenny branch
was JOHN BRENNAN (1768-1830), popularly known as the “wrestling doctor”
for his satires on the Dublin medical establishment. The classical
scholar CHRISTOPHER (JOHN) BRENNAN was the most learned poet Australia
produced at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.
Mostly in the symbolist tradition, his work is characterised by force of
feeling and depth of imagery.
JOSEPH BRENNAN (1887-1963) was one of the most influential Irish civil
servants of his generation, becoming the first Secretary of the
Department of Finance, chairman of the Currency Commission and, from
1942 until 1953, first govenor of the Central Bank.
Have a great day!
Researching: BYRNE in Co. Wicklow
JUDGE and JOYCE in Galway
3. iii.
Marise Patricia Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler was born on 19 12 1934 in 16 Upper st Tamworth,New South Wales Australia. She died on 15 9 1993 in Sydney,New South Wales (RNSHospital). She married James Joseph McEntyre, son of Patrick William McEntyre and Zillah Josephine Mackins on 10 12 1960 in Riverview College ,Sydney ,NSW ,Australia. He was born on 19 7 1931 in Flat 2 Bellever Cnr Birrell st & St Mary’s ,Waverly ,New South Wales Australia.
iv.
Shirley Anne Jones, daughter of Reginald Raymond Jones and Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler was born on 19 12 1934 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. She died on 22 12 1934 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia.
Generation 4
8.
James Joseph McEntyre, son of Thomas Joseph McEntyre and Rose Egan/ Mary Cummins was born in 1859 in Dublin. He died on 20 12 1904 in Auckland Hospital, New Zealand #2130. He married Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan on 24 5 1887 in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, Victoria , Australia.
9.
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
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From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
===================================================================
Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
(End)
The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
———
From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
===================================================================
Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
(End)
The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
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From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
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Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
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The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
———
From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
===================================================================
Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
(End)
The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
———
From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
===================================================================
Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
(End)
The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
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From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
===================================================================
Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
(End)
The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
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From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
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Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
(End)
The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy, daughter of William Murphy and Catherine Coughlan was born in 1856 in Wexford, Ireland. She died on 06 7 1915 in Petersham, New South Wales (reg # 10418).
Notes for James Joseph McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, James Joseph CM 652522 Marriage
Spouse: MURPHY, Alice Maud
Marriage Place: Ireland?? (mistake)
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 2606
Only McIntyre suitable was James (19) arrived 1878 on “Pericles” Reels 2141
and 2489 (Melbourne)
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From: Anne Cropley
Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 1996 7:15 PM
To: genuki-l@mail.eworld.com
Cc: Peter McEntyre
Subject: Jesuit College, University, Dublin, McEntyre.
James Joseph McEntyre may have attended Belvedere College, a Jesuit
Secondary College in Dublin. It was/is situated in one of the finest
18th century houses in Dublin. The house was purchased in 1841 by
the Jesuits from George Rochfort, 2nd Earl of Belvedere. In 1884 the
purchased the adjoining house of Lord Fingall. I do not know if
Belvedere College is still in existence – perhaps someone from Dublin
can tell you. I do not know about student records. If you are
unable to obtain information from Belvedere, you might try writing
to Clongowes Wood College, Clane, Co. Kildare, the head Jesuit college
in Ireland. They may be able to forward your letter to the appropriate
place for the information you are seeking. Father S.J. Moore was
possibly Father Moore, Society of Jesus. If your g-grandfather was
born after 1864, I would suggest that you obtain his birth certificate
from Ireland. This should give you the exact location of the family
in Dublin. If the family were living in Ireland in 1901, you could
then try and find them on the 1901 Census of Ireland (available through
the Mormon Family History Centers- under Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints in phone book).
The university associated with the Jesuits was University College,
Dublin, originally known as the Catholic University. It
was founded in 1853 by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The Jesuits had
taken over the college in 1883 but they did not introduce a strong
religious aspect to the university. Following the passage of the
Universities bill in 1879, it was known as University College.
James Joyce attended Belvedere College from 1893 to 1898. He then
attended University College from 1898 until June, 1902. He then
attended the Royal University where he planned to study medicine.
He did not apply himself and ended up graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts degree from the Royal University. There is more information
on Belvedere College and University College in the biography of
James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, available in most libraries.
In this time period, circa 1890, Trinity College was considered
the premier university of Ireland. Prior to about 1966, many
Catholics did not attend because it was considered a mortal sin
to do so, but this may not have applied in the 1890 time period.
Anne Cropley, Sydney, Australia.
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Father Moore SJ could and probably was Isaac Moore who was born in 1829
and joined the Jesuits in 1852. Master and prefect in Clongowes, ordained 1865, to Australia (Melbourne) 1866, back to Britain and Ireland (various places), back to Melbourne in the
1880′s where he died in 1899.
Possibly James had his schooling in Australia by Father Moore.
James was supposedly a butchers apprentice in Melbourne and met Alicia frequently
as he would deliver to her house. (per Rosemary Greer per Patrick William McEntyre.)
Hello Peter, (28/10/99)
Well I think you are just a little bit lucky so here we go.
On each ship coming into Sydney there were two lists made out Shipping List and Board List both have not always survived but in the case of Pericles they have.
Sometimes the board list contains names of parents but in this case the board list does not, bad luck.
The shipping list contains 2 McIntyre’s
James 19 b. Dublin, Farm Labourer, RC, Both reads and writes
Mary 21 b. Dublin, Servant, RC, Both reads and writes
The board lists contain 2 McEntyre’s
same as above except in the case of Mary it adds to Wagga . So it looks as though you may have found your James and maybe a sister.
I looked for Alicia Murphy but no luck there – sometimes they came on the same ship 3 months together and all that.
The fare was 14 pound 10 shillings.
The ship left Plymouth 22/8/1878 and arrived Syd. 10/11/1878, there were 4 deaths and the journey took 80 days.
Having seen the entry for Wagga I looked up BDM’s for McEntyre and found a number of entries for McEntyre in Wagga Wagga so there would appear to be extended family settled there. And if Mary was a sister then they may all be related to you as well.
If you are interested, and if you have access to Excel, I could download them and attached to email for you to hold onto, not a big job. I did not look at McIntyre for Wagga.
And Wagga of course is roughly half way between Syd and Melb.
2 of our Grandchildren have just returned from a two week school excursion to Sasebo which they enjoyed very much. They would like to go again someday. They come from Coffs Harbour which I understand has twinned with Sasebo.
happy hunting
Bill Spillane Sydney
Summary of passengers
PERICLES
souls adults
Married men 62 62
women 62 62
Single men 86 86
women 144 144
Children
from 1-12
Boys 38 19
girls 38 19
Children
under1 11
total 441 392
PERICLES (1)
1,598 gross tons, length 259.5ft x beam 39.3ft (79,10m x 12,00m), three
masted, full rigged ship, iron hull. Built in 1877 by W.Hood & Co, Aberdeen
as a wool clipper for the Aberdeen Line, she was launched in July 1877.
Fitted with the latest improvements such as a donkey boiler and engine,
steam condenser and steam windlass. Her maiden voyage was 71 days outward
to Melbourne, and by 1886-7 she was no longer a wool clipper but a general
cargo carrier and sailed home via India and the Pacific. In 1904 she was
sold to Leif Gundersen, Porsgrund, Norway and was rigged as a barque. Owned
by Pettersen and Ullenaess, Porsgrund in 1911 and sold to Christiansands
Shipping Co in 1916 and renamed SJURSO. In Sep.1923 she was scrapped at
Kiel.[Merchant Fleets by Duncan Haws, vol.17, Aberdeen and Aberdeen &
Commonwealth Lines]
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, Monday November 11, 1878.
The clipper ship Pericles arrived yesterday from Plymouth, bringing 439 immigrants,
classified as follows:-
62 married couples, 86 single men, 144 single women and 87 children. During the
passage there were four deaths (infants) and two births. The passengers have
been under the special care of Dr J.M. Booth, surgeon- superintendent, while Miss
Jones has had charge of the single females. The Pericles has brought to our
shores perhaps the most perfect sample of English workmen and buxom ladies that
has ever migrated from the old country, and independent of her being a fine
ship, the excellent arrangements on board, the remarkable cleanliness observable
throughout, and the kindly feeling expressed by the immigrants, with regard to
their treatment during the voyage, is highly creditable to Captain Largie and
his officers. The surgeon-superintendent and the matron are evidently especial
favourites, in fact, judging from the many kindly remarks made, the good ship
has brought to Australia a large, but most happy family. The Pericles left
Plymouth at 3pm on 22nd August, with a strong breeze from S.E., with thick rain,
on the 23rd variable winds; after had strong breeze from NW and SW till the
30th, in latitude 36.19N longitude 16.22W; after got light NE winds till 4th
September in latitude 24.42 N, Long 24.24W; after had NE winds, variables and
calms till the 12th, in latitude 11.31 N Long 22.26.W; after got the wind
W.S.W., S.W and South, and crossed the equator on the 20th, in longitude 15.08
W, after had favourable SE trades which were carried till the 28th in latitude
24.02S Long 24.46W; after had variable and southerly winds till the 6th October,
and crossed the meridian of Greenwich in Latitude 37.30 south; after had
favourable westerly winds and crossed the meridian of the Cape on the 9th in latitude 39.40
South; after had south and variable winds till the 14th in latitude 42.35 south ,
longitude 37.05 E; after had west winds and variables till the 18th, in latitude 41.04 S,
longitude 53.43E; on the 19th strong gales from the west with heavy squalls and
gusts increasing to hurricane force, bar. 29.67 latitude 41.07S longitude 60.53E;
after had moderate west winds and fine weather; crossed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin
on the 30th, lat 40.40S; after had strong NE winds variable and calms, then got strong
SW winds; and passed Cape Otway at 8.am on the 6th November; after had good winds,
passed Wilson Promontory at 9.25 pm; at noon on the 8th Cape Howe, bearing west,
distance about 16 miles; after had NW., variable and calms and anchored at 9 a.m on the 10th.
(End)
The Clipper Ship.
By 1830 general usage had made the term clipper synonymous with fast sailing, although no specific hull type or rig was standard. After about 1845 the term was used in conjunction with a name indicating the cargo carried or area served by a fast-sailing vessel, and a specific rig and hull type usually were indicated. The more common types were the California clipper, China clipper, coffee clipper, opium clipper, and tea clipper. The California clipper, China clipper, and tea clipper were ship-rigged vessels with sharp bows and were designed for speed. The coffee and opium clippers varied in size and might be schooner, brigantine, brig, bark, or ship rigged, but were equally sharp bowed for fast sailing.
The ships having the sharpest bows, that is, those in which cargo capacity was most sacrificed for speed, were called extreme clippers. All the extreme clippers were built between 1850 and 1856. Moderately sharp-bowed vessels capable of carrying more cargo than the extreme ships were called clippers. Ships with small cargo capacity but having bows sufficiently sharp to give fairly high speed were called medium clippers or half clippers. A small proportion of the American California and China clippers were of the extreme type; medium clippers predominated.
The American clipper ship era extended only from about 1845 to 1859. Not many American clippers were launched before 1850 and few were built after 1857. In Great Britain clipper shipbuilding continued until well into the 1870s, because the British tea trade employed fast-sailing ships long after that and similar trades became unprofitable for fast American vessels. Most of the British clipper ships were of extreme models, but on the average they were smaller than the earlier American clipper ships. Some iron clipper ships were built in Great Britain, none in the U.S. Some 15 or 16 clippers were built in Canada, in Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, from 1850 to 1860. Most of the Canadian clipper ships were employed in the packet service between Great Britain and Australia. A small number of clipper ships were built in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden.
The building of medium or half clippers extended generally from 1845 to 1860. Some vessels of this description that were built after 1860 for the coffee trade were bark rigged, but were of small size compared with the earlier California and China clipper ships. From 1850 to 1860 many sharp-bowed brigantines and schooners were built on the model of the large clippers; these vessels replaced the earlier Baltimore clippers in the coastal and ocean trades.
Because of the diversity of clipper ship models, whether ships, barks, or small vessels, generalizing about their appearance is almost impossible. As conceived popularly in the 1850s, a clipper ship was a large, ship-rigged vessel having a graceful sheer (an upward curve of the lines of the hull as seen from the side), a simple, high-arched stem fitted with a figurehead, a square or a round stern, rather low freeboard when loaded, generally a very sharp bow, and an extremely large sail area. The American clipper ships depended on proportion and line for beauty rather than on carving and external decoration.
For a seagoing, cargo-carrying sailing vessel, the clipper ship was remarkably fast; claims for speeds from 16 to 18 nautical mph are common, and exceptional speeds of up to 20 knots have been documented.
The size of the American clipper ships of the 1850s, many of them built by Boston naval architect Donald McKay (1810-80), ranged in length from about 46 to 76 m (about 150 to 250 ft). Only six noted American clipper ships were longer than 76 m (250 ft), and the longest, McKay’s Great Republic, was 92 m (302 ft) long, the largest clipper ship ever built. Only 30 clipper ships of about 370 vessels classified as American clippers were as long as 64 m (210 ft). The most common length was about 56 m (about 185 ft).
American clipper ships, which usually carried crews of 25 to 50 sailors, established many remarkable and long-lasting records, among them those of McKay’s “Yankee clippers,” the Lightning, which established a world record by sailing 436 nautical mi in one day; the James Baines, which set a transatlantic record of 12 days 6 hr from Boston to Liverpool and an around-the-world record of 133 days; and the Flying Cloud, which sailed from New York City around Cape Horn to San Francisco in 89 days. Other clipper records were set by the Nightingale, which sailed from Shanghai to London in 91 days; the Sea Witch, Guangzhou to New York in 81 days, and the Challenge, Hong Kong to San Francisco in 33 days.
American clipper ships generally were strongly built; iron was strapped over the frames and on the sides of the inner keel, or keels, in many instances. Although they suffered much damage in spars, rigging, sails, and topside fittings because of hard driving, which made them expensive to maintain, clippers commonly lasted well. Some record-holding clipper ships had an active life of 23 to 48 years.
The clipper era ended when the transoceanic carrying trade was affected by the reduced freight rates made possible by the introduction of the steamship. Thereafter only sailing vessels capable of carrying very large freight cargoes could be operated profitably.
PERICLES (495?-429 BC). The “glory that was Greece” reached its height in the 5th century BC, in Athens, under the leadership of the statesman Pericles. He opened Athenian democracy to the ordinary citizen, he built the magnificent temples and statues on the Acropolis, and he created the Athenian empire.
Pericles was born in Athens in about 495 BC to a family of wealth and position. His father, Xanthippus, was also a statesman, and his mother, Agariste, was a member of the politically powerful Alcmaeonid family. Pericles himself first gained fame in the spring of 472, when he provided and trained the chorus for Aeschylus’ play ‘The Persians’.
Pericles was first elected strategos, or general, in 458. Generals were elected yearly to devise and carry out the strategy necessary to manage the affairs of state at home and abroad. Pericles won reelection frequently for about 30 years. In a time of kings and tyrants as rulers, his policy at home was to place the state in the hands of the whole body of citizens under the rule of law. The Assembly made the laws, the Council of 500 executed them, and popular courts judged those who broke them. About 451 a law restricting Athenian citizenship to those of Athenian parentage on both sides was passed with Pericles’ support.
About this time the war with Persia finally ended. The Delian League, a confederation of Greek city-states, had been formed against Xerxes and the Persians. Each of the states was assessed according to its ability to pay. Some of the larger islands, such as Naxos, were able to contribute their own ships, but most could not. Instead they contributed money, and Athens built the ships in its shipyards and recruited crews. Pericles increased the size of the navy and instituted payment of wages to crewmen.
In 454 the treasury of the league was transferred from Delos to Athens. Pericles used the defense money to rebuild the temples of the gods that had been destroyed by the Persians in 480. Pericles argued that the allies were paying for their defense and, if that were assured, Athens did not have to account for how the money was spent. In 447 work started on the Parthenon, and the sculptor Phidias began work on the statue of Athena. (See also Acropolis.)
Pericles realized his ambition to make Athens, “the queen of Hellas,” not only the most beautiful but the most powerful of the Greek states. He lived also to see the states of the Peloponnesus, under Sparta’s leadership, rise against Athens’ overgrown power in the Peloponnesian War. The closing years of his life were times of storm and trouble. While Athens was besieged by the enemy outside the walls, a terrible plague raged within. For the first time Pericles fell from popular favor and was deposed from office. He was even fined 50 talents on a charge of embezzlement. Only a few weeks later the people repented and reinstated him with greater powers than before. But weakness from an attack of plague killed Pericles the following autumn.
The speeches of Pericles were not written down and preserved. However, Thucydides in his history of the Peloponnesian War provides some idea of Pericles’ power as an orator.
The funeral oration that he has Pericles deliver in honor of the dead during the first year of the Peloponnesian War is especially noble: “Of all cities Athens alone is even greater than her fame. She needs no poet to sing her praises; every land and every sea can furnish proofs of her enterprise and success. Her enemies when defeated are not disgraced; her subjects confess that she is worthy to rule them.” Of Athens’ dead he says: “To men who fall as they have fallen death is no evil.”
Plymouth Emigration Depot
I went hunting for information about the Depot and found that it was an
accommodation depot for approved emigrants for several days prior to
boarding their ships. Here hundreds of people slept in dormitories and
ate in a huge dining hall, in spartan conditions designed to acclimatise
them to shipboard life. Luggage was inspected, and medical examinations
were conducted. In Plymouth the Depot operated from 1842 to 1890.
For anyone with ancestors who emigrated via Plymouth I have found the
following references make interesting reading:
“Parting Sorrows” by Barbara Marlow page 32/33 Family Tree Magazine Jan 1989
“Point of Departure” copied from a 1884 Plymouth newspaper, in The South
Australian Genealogist 1994,21:4 pp 24-29
“The Emigration Depot in Plymouth” The Devon Family Historian #70 May 1994
“The Long Farewell” by Don Charlwood 1998 edition, has several references to
conditions in emigration depots pp 74, 75, 252, 253.
Hello folks,
Thought some of you might like to see these passages from a book based on an
emigrants experiences on the outward voyage to NZ in 1879.They describe five
days that were spent at the emigration depot in Plymouth,Devon whilst
awaiting embarkation orders and give a good insight into the conditions at
such places leading,at times,to the reasons why so many travellers
succumbed to disease and death on the voyages.
title: Westland – journal of john Hillary, emigrant to NZ, 1879
author: J.H.Hillary (grandson of the journal writer)Saturday, 22 November 1879
Were met at the station by an agent and conducted to the depot where at
first sight our hearts almost failed us. Imagine about 300, chiefly Irish
and Scotch, many of them of the lowest type, all messing in one room, ten at
each table. When Mess tickets were given out we ran to the
kitchen below for 1? loaves of bread with a piece of butter on a plate and a
can of tea, or if at dinner time a flat brown dish with a partition, having
meat on one side and unpeeled potatoes on the other. After mess we had to
wash up, wash tables down, sweep up crumbs and put forms upon tables and
walk out into the enclosed yard, or sit in this one room amidst concertina
playing, singing, shouting, whistling, stamping, screaming babies and all
the hideous noises by which people could disturb each other, and make the
place more like hell. The food was good and plentiful all things considered
and the rooms and beds clean, but so narrow were the stalls, the married
peoples’ being only 3ft. wide, that it was exceedingly difficult to alter
your position during the night or turn over, and for couples of larger
proportions I should say impossible. We had to back out feet foremost.
Sunday, 23 November 1879
After breakfast a few others went with me to a splendid new Wesleyan chapel
and heard the Rev Mr. Banham from Bristol, who was preaching mission
sermons. Afternoon we had a walk through the streets of the town and along
the quay the weather being beautifully fine. Returning before 5 o’clock we
were made prisoners and allowed no more outside the depot walls until we
take ship. Emigrants are coming in by every train until the mess room is
crowded to suffocation and this horrible place almost unbearable. The
government of England strictly enforces sanitary
measures upon its towns and villages, why then is this place not inspected ?
Four hundred breathing the vitiated air of one room, 100 sleeping in one
bedroom, only one stove to which poor starving people can go, and that
covered by babies linen, which mothers are trying in vain to dry, WC is
filthy, no comfort. If you go near the stove the arbitrary officials drive
you away, indeed the treatment is that of warders to prisoners, civilities
are out of the question. The majority of emigrants are of low class and need
strict discipline, but there are a number of respectable people who turn
from such treatment with tears in their eyes, or looks which say “is Thy
servant a dog?” If this place has not sown the seed of disease among these
two ships passengers it will be well.Monday, 24 November 1879
This day was employed in examining boxes and was one of confusion. Many
having brought feather beds in their luggage had to sell them for a small
advanced upon nothing.Tuesday, 25 November 1879
All passed an examination before the doctor in the depot surgery. In the
evening the Rev Mr Barnes, Chaplain of Plymouth, came and conducted a
service and with his Ladyfs assistance supplied us poor dark emigrants with
some tracts. He also considerably diluted his address that it might be
adapted to our weak capacities. The Irish made a lot of derisive noises
outside. Had a busy afternoon lading all the luggage upon a barge to send
down to the ship which is waiting in Plymouth Sound.Wednesday, 26 November 1879
All were ordered to pack up immediately after dinner, and passing in
families before the doctor again and receiving contract tickets we walked
through the gate to the steamer lying beside the depot wall, and in a short
time were put on board the gWestlandh in Plymouth Sound.
Notes for Alicia Maud Murphy:
There is a bus which terminates right opposite the Catholic Office
at Rookwood. Who have a map of the sections.
After finding the correct area, and walking right around where I needed
to be, I found E 1516. It is very old, but a couple of feet to the left
of a renovated grave. This is double width, with 8 inch high concrete
walls painted white. The number on the front of it is also clear, which
helps. So if you want to have a look, it will be easy to find.
As for E 1516, the headstone is a sort of round-top slab, with a Celtic
cross on the top. It is made of sandstone, partially covered with
lichen, which is where the bad news starts.
Both Alice and Catherine are in this grave. The sandstone is rather
weathered, and a lot of the lettering is not as deep as the names, and
is barely visible. Some of it I could read, but not the important bits:
the dates.
I got a container from a nearby grave, (a sort of Pitcher), and found
a tap. Wetting the headstone helped a bit, but not enough.
I’m going to ask if there is something else that can be done, but
I don’t feel hopeful.
There are some glyphs at the top which don’t translate to computer
characters. Under that is:
A TRIBUTE
OF LOVE
TO THE
MEMORY OF
OUR [DEAR] [MO]THER << only 1st & last bits clear.
ALICE Mc ENTYRE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE << faint.
JULY .. …. AGED .. YEARS << also faint.
RIP
……………….. << completely illegable.
CATHERINE MURPHY
……………….. << completely illegable.
[JULY] ………….. << I think it says JULY.
P….. << again, I think. Followed by
marks which may only be cracks.
Hi Peter,
didn’t see your original query, but saw Les Bayliss response
I haven’t been to the cemetery, but I do have the Memorial inscriptions on fiche
(from Society of Aust Genealogists – 1988)
Mentyre, Alice Our Mother 6 Jul 1915 age 59
Murphy, Catherine Our Aunt 30 Jul 1922 age 73
Alicia Maud Murphy and James Joseph McEntyre had the following children:
i.
Mary Agnes McEntyre, daughter of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy was born on 25 3 1888 in Windsor, Victoria, Australia. She died on 13 7 1978 in St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne,Victoria,Australa.
Notes for Mary Agnes McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, Mary Agnes CB 1364930 Birth
Father: James Joseph
Mother: Murphy Alice
Event Place: Prn
Reg Year: 1888 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 14648
Sister M. AELRED McENTYRE. 1888 – 1978
Sister Of Charity Archives 106
Sister M. Aelred was educated with the Sisters of Charity at
Paddington, and for a number of years was cashier and reservation clerk at the
‘California’ , Katoomba until she entered ‘Bethania’.
After Profession, Sister was on the clerical staff at St. Vincent’s,
Melbourne. All her work bore the stamp of the dedicated, conscientious
religious. Sister M. Aelred was a much loved community Sister, and to the
Nurses and other hospital staff with whom she came into contact her life
was an inspiration. Quiet, gentle, with a keen sense of humour, the outstanding
traits in her character were fidelity and integrity. As stenographer -secretary
her services were much sought after in meetings of a confidential nature with
Advisory and Medical Boards.
With failing eyesight and hearing Sister gradually waithdrew from
active work and spent much time in prayer. She had a childlike devotion to Our Lady,
and one could imagine the conversations she had with her as she fingered her Rosary.
Until a week before her death in her 91st year, she was present
at the community Mass each morning. Her death was simply a peaceful sleeping in
the Lord. A large representative gathering attended her Requiem which was celebrated
in St. Vincent’s Hospital Convent chapel.
The accompanying lines found among Sister M. Aelred’s notes tell
us much of Sister herself.
May she rest in peace.
+ + + + + +
Mother Teresa (1910 – )
————————————————————————
Mother Teresa was born in Albinia. Originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she entered the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland at the age of 18. She took her religious vows in 1937 and served as the principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta. In 1950, she started her missionary works for the poor people in Calcutta and in 1952 she opened the “Nirmal Hriday” (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. In recognition of her hard works and efforts, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(1910-1997)
Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to this site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta:
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910- ), Albanian-born Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and Nobel laureate. Originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland at the age of 18. She trained in Dublin and Darjeeling, India, before taking her religious vows in 1937. While serving as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, she was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city’s streets. In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick. In 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity. Later the order was recognized as a pontifical congregation under the jurisdiction of Rome. Members of the congregation take four vows on acceptance by the religious community. Required in addition to the three basic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience is a fourth vow pledging service to the poor, whom Mother Teresa described as the embodiment of Christ. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (“Pure Heart”) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. Subsequently she extended her work onto five continents. In recognition of her efforts she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was forced to scale down her activities in 1990 because of declining health.
“Mother Teresa of Calcutta” Microsoft(R) Encarta.
Copyright(c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation.
Mary Agnes McEntyre, daughter of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy was born on 25 3 1888 in Windsor, Victoria, Australia. She died on 13 7 1978 in St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne,Victoria,Australa.
Notes for Mary Agnes McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, Mary Agnes CB 1364930 Birth
Father: James Joseph
Mother: Murphy Alice
Event Place: Prn
Reg Year: 1888 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 14648
Sister M. AELRED McENTYRE. 1888 – 1978
Sister Of Charity Archives 106
Sister M. Aelred was educated with the Sisters of Charity at
Paddington, and for a number of years was cashier and reservation clerk at the
‘California’ , Katoomba until she entered ‘Bethania’.
After Profession, Sister was on the clerical staff at St. Vincent’s,
Melbourne. All her work bore the stamp of the dedicated, conscientious
religious. Sister M. Aelred was a much loved community Sister, and to the
Nurses and other hospital staff with whom she came into contact her life
was an inspiration. Quiet, gentle, with a keen sense of humour, the outstanding
traits in her character were fidelity and integrity. As stenographer -secretary
her services were much sought after in meetings of a confidential nature with
Advisory and Medical Boards.
With failing eyesight and hearing Sister gradually waithdrew from
active work and spent much time in prayer. She had a childlike devotion to Our Lady,
and one could imagine the conversations she had with her as she fingered her Rosary.
Until a week before her death in her 91st year, she was present
at the community Mass each morning. Her death was simply a peaceful sleeping in
the Lord. A large representative gathering attended her Requiem which was celebrated
in St. Vincent’s Hospital Convent chapel.
The accompanying lines found among Sister M. Aelred’s notes tell
us much of Sister herself.
May she rest in peace.
+ + + + + +
Mother Teresa (1910 – )
————————————————————————
Mother Teresa was born in Albinia. Originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she entered the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland at the age of 18. She took her religious vows in 1937 and served as the principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta. In 1950, she started her missionary works for the poor people in Calcutta and in 1952 she opened the “Nirmal Hriday” (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. In recognition of her hard works and efforts, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(1910-1997)
Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to this site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta:
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910- ), Albanian-born Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and Nobel laureate. Originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland at the age of 18. She trained in Dublin and Darjeeling, India, before taking her religious vows in 1937. While serving as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, she was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city’s streets. In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick. In 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity. Later the order was recognized as a pontifical congregation under the jurisdiction of Rome. Members of the congregation take four vows on acceptance by the religious community. Required in addition to the three basic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience is a fourth vow pledging service to the poor, whom Mother Teresa described as the embodiment of Christ. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (“Pure Heart”) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. Subsequently she extended her work onto five continents. In recognition of her efforts she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was forced to scale down her activities in 1990 because of declining health.
“Mother Teresa of Calcutta” Microsoft(R) Encarta.
Copyright(c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation.
Mary Agnes McEntyre, daughter of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy was born on 25 3 1888 in Windsor, Victoria, Australia. She died on 13 7 1978 in St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne,Victoria,Australa.
Notes for Mary Agnes McEntyre:
MCINTYRE, Mary Agnes CB 1364930 Birth
Father: James Joseph
Mother: Murphy Alice
Event Place: Prn
Reg Year: 1888 Reg State: Victoria
Ref Number: 14648
Sister M. AELRED McENTYRE. 1888 – 1978
Sister Of Charity Archives 106
Sister M. Aelred was educated with the Sisters of Charity at
Paddington, and for a number of years was cashier and reservation clerk at the
‘California’ , Katoomba until she entered ‘Bethania’.
After Profession, Sister was on the clerical staff at St. Vincent’s,
Melbourne. All her work bore the stamp of the dedicated, conscientious
religious. Sister M. Aelred was a much loved community Sister, and to the
Nurses and other hospital staff with whom she came into contact her life
was an inspiration. Quiet, gentle, with a keen sense of humour, the outstanding
traits in her character were fidelity and integrity. As stenographer -secretary
her services were much sought after in meetings of a confidential nature with
Advisory and Medical Boards.
With failing eyesight and hearing Sister gradually waithdrew from
active work and spent much time in prayer. She had a childlike devotion to Our Lady,
and one could imagine the conversations she had with her as she fingered her Rosary.
Until a week before her death in her 91st year, she was present
at the community Mass each morning. Her death was simply a peaceful sleeping in
the Lord. A large representative gathering attended her Requiem which was celebrated
in St. Vincent’s Hospital Convent chapel.
The accompanying lines found among Sister M. Aelred’s notes tell
us much of Sister herself.
May she rest in peace.
+ + + + + +
Mother Teresa (1910 – )
————————————————————————
Mother Teresa was born in Albinia. Originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she entered the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland at the age of 18. She took her religious vows in 1937 and served as the principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta. In 1950, she started her missionary works for the poor people in Calcutta and in 1952 she opened the “Nirmal Hriday” (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. In recognition of her hard works and efforts, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(1910-1997)
Special thanks to the Microsoft Corporation for their contribution to this site. The following information came from Microsoft Encarta:
Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910- ), Albanian-born Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and Nobel laureate. Originally named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, she entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland at the age of 18. She trained in Dublin and Darjeeling, India, before taking her religious vows in 1937. While serving as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, she was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city’s streets. In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick. In 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity. Later the order was recognized as a pontifical congregation under the jurisdiction of Rome. Members of the congregation take four vows on acceptance by the religious community. Required in addition to the three basic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience is a fourth vow pledging service to the poor, whom Mother Teresa described as the embodiment of Christ. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (“Pure Heart”) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. Subsequently she extended her work onto five continents. In recognition of her efforts she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She was forced to scale down her activities in 1990 because of declining health.
“Mother Teresa of Calcutta” Microsoft(R) Encarta.
Copyright(c) 1995 Microsoft Corporation.
ii.
Thomas Joseph McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy was born in 1890 in SOUTH MELBOURNE,Victoria, Australia,RegNumber: 34510. Number: 34510. He died in 1890 in SOUTH MELBOURNE,Victoria, Australia,Reg16834..
Notes for Thomas Joseph McEntyre:
>Surname: MCENTYRE
>Given Names: Thos Jos
>Event: B
>Sex: M
>Spouse Surname/Father: Jas Jos
>Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Alice Maud MURPHY
>Age:
>Age Code:
>Birth Place: SOUTH MELBOURNE
>Death Place:
>Year: 1890
>Reg. Number: 34510
>
>Surname: MCENTYRE
>Given Names: Thos Jos
>Event: D
>Sex: M
>Spouse Surname/Father: Jas Jos
>Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Alice Maude MURPHY
>Age: 2
>Age Code: M
>Birth Place:
>Death Place: Melb S
>Year: 1890
>Reg. Number: 16834
Thomas Joseph McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy was born in 1890 in SOUTH MELBOURNE,Victoria, Australia,RegNumber: 34510. Number: 34510. He died in 1890 in SOUTH MELBOURNE,Victoria, Australia,Reg16834..
Notes for Thomas Joseph McEntyre:
>Surname: MCENTYRE
>Given Names: Thos Jos
>Event: B
>Sex: M
>Spouse Surname/Father: Jas Jos
>Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Alice Maud MURPHY
>Age:
>Age Code:
>Birth Place: SOUTH MELBOURNE
>Death Place:
>Year: 1890
>Reg. Number: 34510
>
>Surname: MCENTYRE
>Given Names: Thos Jos
>Event: D
>Sex: M
>Spouse Surname/Father: Jas Jos
>Spouse Gvn Names/Mother: Alice Maude MURPHY
>Age: 2
>Age Code: M
>Birth Place:
>Death Place: Melb S
>Year: 1890
>Reg. Number: 16834
4. iii.
Patrick William McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy was born on 07 12 1891 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He died on 19 4 1964 in Sydney, New South Wales. He married Zillah Josephine Mackins, daughter of George Peter Mackins and Mary Kelleher on 04 1 1928 in St Francis Paddington Sydney New South Wales. She was born on 09 4 1890 in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales. She died in 1966 in Sydney, New South Wales.
10.
George Peter Mackins, son of George Mackins and Julia McMahon was born in 1862 in Tumut, New South Wales. He died in 1920 in Balmain South , New South Wales reg #17674. He married Mary Kelleher, daughter of John Kelleher and Margaret Carroll on 19 4 1887 in St Francis Church Sydney,NSW,Australia.
11.
Mary Kelleher, daughter of John Kelleher and Margaret Carroll was born on 07 10 1850 in Liverpool,New South Wales,Australia. She died on 03 8 1918 in 21 Queen St Woollahra.
Notes for George Peter Mackins:
Tumut Family History Group
P.O. Box 238 TUMUT NSW 2720
Mary Kelleher and George Peter Mackins had the following children:
5. i.
Zillah Josephine Mackins, daughter of George Peter Mackins and Mary Kelleher was born on 09 4 1890 in Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales. She died in 1966 in Sydney, New South Wales. She married Patrick William McEntyre, son of James Joseph McEntyre and Alicia Maud Murphy on 04 1 1928 in St Francis Paddington Sydney New South Wales. He was born on 07 12 1891 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He died on 19 4 1964 in Sydney, New South Wales.
ii.
Julia Mary Mackins, daughter of George Peter Mackins and Mary Kelleher was born on 26 3 1888. She died on 30 9 1945. She married Thomas Joseph Lonergan.
iii.
Rose A Mackins, daughter of George Peter Mackins and Mary Kelleher was born on 29 10 1891 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. She died on 05 1 1959 in Lewisham Private Hosp,. She married Charles Boucher Smith, son of Charles John Smith and Elizabeth Pauline Boucher on 04 9 1917. He was born on 22 6 1894 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. He died on 22 2 1995 in Concord (repatriation Private Hosp).
Notes for Charles Boucher Smith:
Per Newspaper
Carl’s 100th
Wednesday, June 22, 1994
Charles (Carl) Boucher Smith, of Bondi Beach was born in Paddingtonon June
22, 1894, a third generation Australian who went to St. Anne’s Parish, Bondi
Beach.
They produced seven children, Charles, Bernard, Marie, Rose, Jim, Tony, and Barbara, who died as an infant.
His wife died in 1959, Jim 1982, Charles 1993. Today Carl is grandfather to
12 and great grandfather to 19 and they are closely knit. He became a
Lands department cadet draftsman on leaving school and they went into
business.
He was invited to join The Catholic Weekly in 1942 when The Freeman’s
Journal and the Catholic Press was amalgamated.
He became General Manager until his retirement in 1968. During all his
working life he was active as a Catholic layman, both in his parish at Bondi Beach and on city, state and national committees.
He was an active member of the Knights of the Southern Cross and was particularly devoted to vocational guidance, helping young men in the depression to find jobs.
Carl was a keen swimmer and surfer at Bondi. He was 45 when World War 2 broke out. He became ARP Warden at Waverly Council, watching for Japanese air raids and warning people who broke the wartime blackout.
His two older sons were in the Army, Charles who died last year at the age of 75 was in the AIF in the Middle East, returning to Australia to join the
Australian paratroops and Bernard, who qualified as a civil engineer, served
in the Pacific. Charles was the patron of Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club.
Carl was also honoured by the presentation of a Papal Blessing for his 100th Birthday.
Carl enjoyed attending the annual May Procession at Christian Brothers”
College, Waverley, where his name is on the Honour Roll as the schools first Dux.
He is believed to be the college’s oldest old boy.
His younger son, Tony who lives with his family at Maroubra, still represents him in the procession.
Carl still likes to listen to the cricket and footbal lon the wireless and to the Royal Blind Society Books on audiotape. Carl is still very interested in current
affairs and extremely happy to be in touch with his extended family and
friends by phone and all his friends wish him a deservedly 100th Birthday!
PHOTO
Carl Smith The Oldest Living Ex-Student Of
Waverley College
2 He also received a letter from Prime Minister Paul Keating wishing him
a happy birthday.
Rose A Mackins, daughter of George Peter Mackins and Mary Kelleher was born on 29 10 1891 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. She died on 05 1 1959 in Lewisham Private Hosp,. She married Charles Boucher Smith, son of Charles John Smith and Elizabeth Pauline Boucher on 04 9 1917. He was born on 22 6 1894 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. He died on 22 2 1995 in Concord (repatriation Private Hosp).
Notes for Charles Boucher Smith:
Per Newspaper
Carl’s 100th
Wednesday, June 22, 1994
Charles (Carl) Boucher Smith, of Bondi Beach was born in Paddingtonon June
22, 1894, a third generation Australian who went to St. Anne’s Parish, Bondi
Beach.
They produced seven children, Charles, Bernard, Marie, Rose, Jim, Tony, and Barbara, who died as an infant.
His wife died in 1959, Jim 1982, Charles 1993. Today Carl is grandfather to
12 and great grandfather to 19 and they are closely knit. He became a
Lands department cadet draftsman on leaving school and they went into
business.
He was invited to join The Catholic Weekly in 1942 when The Freeman’s
Journal and the Catholic Press was amalgamated.
He became General Manager until his retirement in 1968. During all his
working life he was active as a Catholic layman, both in his parish at Bondi Beach and on city, state and national committees.
He was an active member of the Knights of the Southern Cross and was particularly devoted to vocational guidance, helping young men in the depression to find jobs.
Carl was a keen swimmer and surfer at Bondi. He was 45 when World War 2 broke out. He became ARP Warden at Waverly Council, watching for Japanese air raids and warning people who broke the wartime blackout.
His two older sons were in the Army, Charles who died last year at the age of 75 was in the AIF in the Middle East, returning to Australia to join the
Australian paratroops and Bernard, who qualified as a civil engineer, served
in the Pacific. Charles was the patron of Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club.
Carl was also honoured by the presentation of a Papal Blessing for his 100th Birthday.
Carl enjoyed attending the annual May Procession at Christian Brothers”
College, Waverley, where his name is on the Honour Roll as the schools first Dux.
He is believed to be the college’s oldest old boy.
His younger son, Tony who lives with his family at Maroubra, still represents him in the procession.
Carl still likes to listen to the cricket and footbal lon the wireless and to the Royal Blind Society Books on audiotape. Carl is still very interested in current
affairs and extremely happy to be in touch with his extended family and
friends by phone and all his friends wish him a deservedly 100th Birthday!
PHOTO
Carl Smith The Oldest Living Ex-Student Of
Waverley College
2 He also received a letter from Prime Minister Paul Keating wishing him
a happy birthday.
12.
David Jones, son of John Jones and Dinah F Wilson was born in 1862 in 2. He died in 1903. He married Emma Norris, daughter of Charles Norris and Catherine McSweeney in 1882 in -ST JOHNS CHURCH TAMWORTH NSW -CHURCH OF ENGLAND -AUBREY HAYDON, CATHERINE M NO.
13.
Emma Norris, daughter of Charles Norris and Catherine McSweeney was born on 14 3 1861 in Gunnedah ,New South Wales Australia (1861 #13205.
Notes for David Jones:
I am not sure that John Jones had the first butcher shop in Tamworth, as
there is mention of a George Alward (1880) and John Alward (1889) as having
opened a butcher shop, but of course John Jones could have been the first
to open one in the main street (Peel Street), as the other two seemed to
have been in South Tamworth.
Here is something that I found in the Lyall Green Papers.
David and William Jones : (ex-Singleton). On February 21, 1893, David’s
wife, Emma, presented him with a son, Leslie. At the time he was butchering
in Peel St. diagonally opposite the Police-Citizens’ Boys’ Club. People
recall seeing cornbags full of salted meat hanging on hooks around the
wall, ready to be taken by teamsters. His meat probably came from his
brother William’s slaughter house at the Forest.
David Jones died pre-World War 1 and the Peel St. site was leased to
blacksmith, John Lonergan, but, his brother, William acquired it either as
a legacy or by purchase.
William Jones, either during or at the end of World War 1, erected a
butchery at what is now 69-73 Bridge St. It is not clear whether he
occupied it at first, himself, or leased it. The first known lessee seems
to have been Joseph Turner, followed, perhaps by George Kiefer.
Following William’s death c. 1925-6, the Peel St. site was sold to McKnight
Bros and Bridge St. to butcher, L.B. Smyth.
I trust you liked that small story, as it is as true as it can be.
MARRIAGE REGISTRATION TRANSCRIPTION REF NO 1882/6609
GROOM -DAVID JONES
STATUS -BACHELOR
PLACE OF BIRTH -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -BUTCHER
AGE -NOT STATED
USUAL RESIDENCE -TAMWORTH
FATHER -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
MOTHER -NOT STATED
BRIDE -EMMA NORRIS
STATUS -SPINSTER
PLACE OF BIRTH -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
AGE -NOT STATED
USUAL RESIDENCE -DEAD HORSE GULLY
FATHER -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
MOTHER -NOT STATED
DATE OF MARRIAGE -12/12/1882
PLACE OF MARRIAGE -ST JOHNS CHURCH TAMWORTH NSW NSW
RELIGION -CHURCH OF ENGLAND
WITNESSES -AUBREY HAYDON, CATHERINE M NORRIS
MINISTER -WM J KILLICK PIDDINGTON
NB: THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS NOT A CERTIFIED COPY FROM THE REGISTERS AND CANNOT BE USED IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHATSOEVER
Notes for Emma Norris:
NSW BIRTH REGISTRATION TRANSCRIPTION REF NO 1861/13205
NAME -EMMA NORRIS
SEX OF CHILD -FEMALE
DATE OF BIRTH -4/3/1861
PLACE -GUNNEDAH NSW
FATHER -CHARLES NORRIS
OCCUPATION -CONSTABLE
BIRTHPLACE -ISLE OF MAN
AGE -38
DATE OF MARRIAGE -1856
PLACE OF MARRIAGE -MURRURUNDI
MOTHER -CATHERINE MCSWEENEY
BIRTHPLACE -COUNTY OF CORK IRELAND
AGE -26
PREVIOUS ISSUE -2 FEMALES LIVING
INFORMANT -CHARLES NORRIS, FATHER, GUNNEDAH
PRESENT AT BIRTH -CATHERINE THOMSON
REGISTERED -1/4/1861 TAMWORTH
NOTES -
NB: THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS NOT A CERTIFIED COPY FROM THE REGISTERS AND CANNOT BE USED IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHATSOEVER
NORRIS, Emma CB 1537201 Birth
Father: Charles
Mother: Catherine
Reg Year: 1861 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 13205
Emma Norris, daughter of Charles Norris and Catherine McSweeney was born on 14 3 1861 in Gunnedah ,New South Wales Australia (1861 #13205.
Notes for David Jones:
I am not sure that John Jones had the first butcher shop in Tamworth, as
there is mention of a George Alward (1880) and John Alward (1889) as having
opened a butcher shop, but of course John Jones could have been the first
to open one in the main street (Peel Street), as the other two seemed to
have been in South Tamworth.
Here is something that I found in the Lyall Green Papers.
David and William Jones : (ex-Singleton). On February 21, 1893, David’s
wife, Emma, presented him with a son, Leslie. At the time he was butchering
in Peel St. diagonally opposite the Police-Citizens’ Boys’ Club. People
recall seeing cornbags full of salted meat hanging on hooks around the
wall, ready to be taken by teamsters. His meat probably came from his
brother William’s slaughter house at the Forest.
David Jones died pre-World War 1 and the Peel St. site was leased to
blacksmith, John Lonergan, but, his brother, William acquired it either as
a legacy or by purchase.
William Jones, either during or at the end of World War 1, erected a
butchery at what is now 69-73 Bridge St. It is not clear whether he
occupied it at first, himself, or leased it. The first known lessee seems
to have been Joseph Turner, followed, perhaps by George Kiefer.
Following William’s death c. 1925-6, the Peel St. site was sold to McKnight
Bros and Bridge St. to butcher, L.B. Smyth.
I trust you liked that small story, as it is as true as it can be.
MARRIAGE REGISTRATION TRANSCRIPTION REF NO 1882/6609
GROOM -DAVID JONES
STATUS -BACHELOR
PLACE OF BIRTH -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -BUTCHER
AGE -NOT STATED
USUAL RESIDENCE -TAMWORTH
FATHER -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
MOTHER -NOT STATED
BRIDE -EMMA NORRIS
STATUS -SPINSTER
PLACE OF BIRTH -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
AGE -NOT STATED
USUAL RESIDENCE -DEAD HORSE GULLY
FATHER -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
MOTHER -NOT STATED
DATE OF MARRIAGE -12/12/1882
PLACE OF MARRIAGE -ST JOHNS CHURCH TAMWORTH NSW NSW
RELIGION -CHURCH OF ENGLAND
WITNESSES -AUBREY HAYDON, CATHERINE M NORRIS
MINISTER -WM J KILLICK PIDDINGTON
NB: THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS NOT A CERTIFIED COPY FROM THE REGISTERS AND CANNOT BE USED IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHATSOEVER
Notes for Emma Norris:
NSW BIRTH REGISTRATION TRANSCRIPTION REF NO 1861/13205
NAME -EMMA NORRIS
SEX OF CHILD -FEMALE
DATE OF BIRTH -4/3/1861
PLACE -GUNNEDAH NSW
FATHER -CHARLES NORRIS
OCCUPATION -CONSTABLE
BIRTHPLACE -ISLE OF MAN
AGE -38
DATE OF MARRIAGE -1856
PLACE OF MARRIAGE -MURRURUNDI
MOTHER -CATHERINE MCSWEENEY
BIRTHPLACE -COUNTY OF CORK IRELAND
AGE -26
PREVIOUS ISSUE -2 FEMALES LIVING
INFORMANT -CHARLES NORRIS, FATHER, GUNNEDAH
PRESENT AT BIRTH -CATHERINE THOMSON
REGISTERED -1/4/1861 TAMWORTH
NOTES -
NB: THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS NOT A CERTIFIED COPY FROM THE REGISTERS AND CANNOT BE USED IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHATSOEVER
NORRIS, Emma CB 1537201 Birth
Father: Charles
Mother: Catherine
Reg Year: 1861 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 13205
Emma Norris, daughter of Charles Norris and Catherine McSweeney was born on 14 3 1861 in Gunnedah ,New South Wales Australia (1861 #13205.
Notes for David Jones:
I am not sure that John Jones had the first butcher shop in Tamworth, as
there is mention of a George Alward (1880) and John Alward (1889) as having
opened a butcher shop, but of course John Jones could have been the first
to open one in the main street (Peel Street), as the other two seemed to
have been in South Tamworth.
Here is something that I found in the Lyall Green Papers.
David and William Jones : (ex-Singleton). On February 21, 1893, David’s
wife, Emma, presented him with a son, Leslie. At the time he was butchering
in Peel St. diagonally opposite the Police-Citizens’ Boys’ Club. People
recall seeing cornbags full of salted meat hanging on hooks around the
wall, ready to be taken by teamsters. His meat probably came from his
brother William’s slaughter house at the Forest.
David Jones died pre-World War 1 and the Peel St. site was leased to
blacksmith, John Lonergan, but, his brother, William acquired it either as
a legacy or by purchase.
William Jones, either during or at the end of World War 1, erected a
butchery at what is now 69-73 Bridge St. It is not clear whether he
occupied it at first, himself, or leased it. The first known lessee seems
to have been Joseph Turner, followed, perhaps by George Kiefer.
Following William’s death c. 1925-6, the Peel St. site was sold to McKnight
Bros and Bridge St. to butcher, L.B. Smyth.
I trust you liked that small story, as it is as true as it can be.
MARRIAGE REGISTRATION TRANSCRIPTION REF NO 1882/6609
GROOM -DAVID JONES
STATUS -BACHELOR
PLACE OF BIRTH -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -BUTCHER
AGE -NOT STATED
USUAL RESIDENCE -TAMWORTH
FATHER -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
MOTHER -NOT STATED
BRIDE -EMMA NORRIS
STATUS -SPINSTER
PLACE OF BIRTH -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
AGE -NOT STATED
USUAL RESIDENCE -DEAD HORSE GULLY
FATHER -NOT STATED
OCCUPATION -NOT STATED
MOTHER -NOT STATED
DATE OF MARRIAGE -12/12/1882
PLACE OF MARRIAGE -ST JOHNS CHURCH TAMWORTH NSW NSW
RELIGION -CHURCH OF ENGLAND
WITNESSES -AUBREY HAYDON, CATHERINE M NORRIS
MINISTER -WM J KILLICK PIDDINGTON
NB: THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS NOT A CERTIFIED COPY FROM THE REGISTERS AND CANNOT BE USED IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHATSOEVER
Notes for Emma Norris:
NSW BIRTH REGISTRATION TRANSCRIPTION REF NO 1861/13205
NAME -EMMA NORRIS
SEX OF CHILD -FEMALE
DATE OF BIRTH -4/3/1861
PLACE -GUNNEDAH NSW
FATHER -CHARLES NORRIS
OCCUPATION -CONSTABLE
BIRTHPLACE -ISLE OF MAN
AGE -38
DATE OF MARRIAGE -1856
PLACE OF MARRIAGE -MURRURUNDI
MOTHER -CATHERINE MCSWEENEY
BIRTHPLACE -COUNTY OF CORK IRELAND
AGE -26
PREVIOUS ISSUE -2 FEMALES LIVING
INFORMANT -CHARLES NORRIS, FATHER, GUNNEDAH
PRESENT AT BIRTH -CATHERINE THOMSON
REGISTERED -1/4/1861 TAMWORTH
NOTES -
NB: THIS TRANSCRIPTION IS NOT A CERTIFIED COPY FROM THE REGISTERS AND CANNOT BE USED IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS WHATSOEVER
NORRIS, Emma CB 1537201 Birth
Father: Charles
Mother: Catherine
Reg Year: 1861 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 13205
Emma Norris and David Jones had the following children:
i.
William C Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born in 1883.
Notes for William C Jones:
JONES, William C CB 1061383 Birth
Father: David
Mother: Emma
Reg Year: 1883 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 30469
ii.
Charles B Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born in 1886. He married Florrie.
Notes for Charles B Jones:
JONES, Charles B CB 1050178 Birth
Father: David
Mother: Emma
Reg Year: 1886 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 33941
iii.
Gertrude J Jones, daughter of David Jones and Emma Norris was born in 1887. She married Arthur Rollings.
Notes for Gertrude J Jones:
JONES, Gertrude J CB 1053938 Birth
Father: David
Mother: Emma
Reg Year: 1887 Reg State: New South Wales
Ref Number: 34839
iv.
Albury Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born in 1890 in Tamworth,New South Wales Australia.
v.
Leslie Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born on 21 2 1893 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. He died in 1893 in Tamworth, New South Wales Australia.
Notes for Leslie Jones:
3
Birth Cert
34299/1893 JONES LESLIE DAVID EMMA
Leslie Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born on 21 2 1893 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. He died in 1893 in Tamworth, New South Wales Australia.
Notes for Leslie Jones:
3
Birth Cert
34299/1893 JONES LESLIE DAVID EMMA
vi.
Murial P Jones, daughter of David Jones and Emma Norris was born in 1894 in Tamworth,New South Wales Australia(32703)register. She died in 1894 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia.
vii.
Percival N Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born in 1895 in Tamworth,New South Wales Australia. He married Mary.
viii.
Arthur W Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born in 1898 in Tamworth,New South Wales Australia(16307)register. He married Jessie.
6. ix.
Reginald Raymond Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris was born on 25 5 1901 in Tamworth, New South Wales Australia. He married Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler, daughter of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy on 01 9 1923 in St Nicholas Church, Tamworth NSW. She was born on 05 1 1902 in Dubbo, New South Wales. She died on 28 5 1975 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia.
14.
Michael Joseph Bowler, son of Richard Bowler and Catherine Fitzgerald was born on 17 11 1868 in Gurtador, Dunurlin, IRL. He died on 08 9 1938 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. He married Margaret Helenor Murphy, daughter of Timothy Murphy and Julia Elizabeth Lane in 1899 in Wagga Wagga.
15.
Margaret Helenor Murphy, daughter of Timothy Murphy and Julia Elizabeth Lane was born on 12 9 1876 in Pipers Flats Christchurch, New Zealand. She died on 28 5 1960 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia.
Notes for Michael Joseph Bowler:
Index to Griffith’s Valuation of Ireland, 1848-1864
Bowler, Ellen County : Kerry
Parish : Dunurlin
Location : Smerwick
Bowler, James County : Kerry
Parish : Dunurlin
Location : Ballyougteragh North
Bowler, John County : Kerry
Parish : Dunurlin
Location : Smerwick
Bowler, Maurice County : Kerry
Parish : Dunurlin
Location : Smerwick
Bowler, Richard County : Kerry
Parish : Dunurlin
Location : Smerwick
Comment : John
Bowler, Richard County : Kerry
Parish : Dunurlin
Location : Smerwick
Comment : Maurice
Bowler, Thomas County : Kerry
Parish : Dunurlin
Location : Gortadoo
Margaret Helenor Murphy and Michael Joseph Bowler had the following children:
i.
Mary Magdalene Veronica Bowler, daughter of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy was born on 07 7 1900 in (21224) Condobolin register. She married Vincent Joseph McGee, son of Connell McGee on 08 4 1923 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia.
7. ii.
Kathleen Julia Celestine Bowler, daughter of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy was born on 05 1 1902 in Dubbo, New South Wales. She died on 28 5 1975 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. She married Reginald Raymond Jones, son of David Jones and Emma Norris on 01 9 1923 in St Nicholas Church, Tamworth NSW. He was born on 25 5 1901 in Tamworth, New South Wales Australia.
iii.
Margaret Philomena Bowler, daughter of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy was born on 15 9 1904 in Tamworth,New South Wales Australia. She died on 27 2 1994 in Sydney ,New South Wales.
iv.
Daniel Joseph Bowler, son of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy was born on 11 11 1906 in 33586 register Condobolin. He died on 08 7 1974 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia. He married Clare Irene Tillot Fowler in West Tamworth.
v.
Thomas Patrick Bowler, son of Michael Joseph Bowler and Margaret Helenor Murphy was born on 13 3 1909 in 13495 register Condobolin. He died on 24 9 1985 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. He married Alice Isobel Richardson on 09 10 1943 in Sydney ,New South Wales, Australia. She died on 28 6 1974 in Tamworth ,New South Wales Australia.
Notes for Thomas Patrick Bowler:
I remember as a very young boy staying on Toms farm and collecting the eggs in the morning with Alice.
Also looking into the distant hills and talking of the foxes that supposedly lived there.
I remember the car (old Valiant station wagon) getting bogged in the side of the road and two men stopped
to help us.
I must have been four years old. Greg could walk as well.
There is a photo of Greg and I with a ball in a sheep paddock from I guess this same trip to the farm.
I am only aware of going to the farm this time and again when I was 18.
Notes for Alice Isobel Richardson:
I remember staying at the farm and collecting eggs from the chook house and Alice cooking them for breakfast. I must have been about 4 years old. One of my earliest memories.
