Materials regarding four letters held in PRONI (T1727) sent from James and Robert Wray from New York and Pennsylvania between 1817 and 1849 to their brother Thomas, along with their mother and sister, living in Quilleybane near Coleraine, County Derry. Includes transcripts of the letters, copies of the original letters, and a copy of Ulster Genealogical and Historical Guild Newsletter (volume 1, no. 10, 1984) in which some of the letters were published. The letters recount family news, including news of the Wrays' brother John who lives in Kentucky, as well as asking after family at home and the brothers' good situation teaching in the United States.
Containing most notably Bernadette Mount's diary of public/political events of 1970 to 1972, a copy of the "Barricade Bulletin" of August 1969, and further various types of documents, mostly of a later date, contextualising events. Original box labelled "68-72. All items within have been copied. Civil Rights Era"
This series has been divided into 4 sub-series according to document type, originals, probates, letters of administration and copy wills. There are 21 wills in all, dating from 1664-1887 and relating to five different families. Ormsby (14), Ruttledges (4), Elwood (1), O'Malley (1) and Semple (1). Two wills (LE40/6/132 and LE40/6/139) express a wish to be buried in the graveyard at Sligna. This must have been an old name for the area on which Killegan church is built (see LE40/87) which is the lease from Thomas Ormsby of an acre for the churchyard at Sligne. In his will Anthony Ormsby of Ballinamore wished to be buried in the graveyard at Sligna (see LE40/6/132) and he is buried at Killedan (see "Memorials of the Dead in Ireland", vol 4, p 107.
The Williamson family collection is based on 43 documents, dated 1843-1918, which are primarily typed transcripts and photocopies of transatlantic correspondence between brothers William and James Williamson in New York, Illinois, and northern California, and their parents and siblings in Ahory townland, near Richhill, County Armagh, and Manchester, England. The series also includes: Kerby A. Miller's research correspondence, especially with the Williamson emigrants' descendants who provided extensive materials and information; Miller's research notes, mostly from Irish primary sources; and photocopied pages from old histories of the Illinois and California locales where William and James Williamson resided.
Per Miller, the Williamson letters illuminate:
-society, landlord-tenant relations, religion, and culture among middle-class north Armagh Protestants;
-emigration for opportunity, ambition, ""independence,"" but also via family networks;
-return migration by unsuccessful emigrants to America (John Williamson);
-farming on the Illinois prairie in the 1840s;
-gold mining and miners' society, religion, etc., in mid-19th-century northern California;
-blacksmithing and engineering in mid-19th-century northern California;
-farming, ranching, and lumbering in late 19th-century northern California;
-transatlantic travel by sail, Liverpool-New York, 1843;
-travel between the eastern US and California in 1850 (wagon), 1853-54 (ship, via Panama), and 1874 (rail).
Materials regarding a letter written by Irish emigrant William Brown in New Orleans to Robert Grimshaw of Belfast, 7 April 1819. Brown was from a prominent Belfast merchant family who operated on both sides of the Atlantic.
Letters and associated papers relating to the war service of Peter Freyer during the years 1915-1920. At the beginning of World War I Freyer placed his services at the disposal of the Director General of Medical Services. In Jan 1915 he was appointed consulting surgeon to the Indian hospitals at Brighton. When the Indian hospitals were closed he became the consulting surgeon to the hospitals for British troops at Brighton. In March 1916, at the request of Sir Alfred Keogh (1857-1936), Director General Army Medical Services 1914-1918, he became consultant to all the army hospitals in the Sussex district of the Eastern Command. Like Freyer, Keogh was also a graduate of Queen's College, Galway, and he was the instigator of far-reaching medical reforms in army practice. He is described in the DNB as 'an organizer and administrator of the first rank'. Keogh's successor as Director General was Thomas Herbert Goodwin (1871-1960) and it was to him that Freyer applied in Aug 1918 [see P57/143] for permission to visit military hospitals in France. A request that was at first acceded to and then withdrawn. In Aug 1919 Freyer spent some time with his friends Sir William Robertson and his wife Mildred at Cologne, while serving in a temporary capacity with the British Army of Occupation on the Rhine. William Robertson had had a brilliant army career and was Chief of the General Staff at the War Office 1915-1918. However he did not get on well with Lloyd George and in the spring of 1919 was made Commander in Chief of the British Army of Occupation on the Rhine. A series of 23 letters from him to Freyer document his activities in Germany and prospects for his future career
This contains items pertaining to "Walter" (Martin McGuinness), and particularly his and Duddy's period of close co-operation in 1993, and Duddy's continued role as friend of the Republican movement. Including items of correspondence and memoranda by Brendan Duddy for McGuinness, relevant newspaper cuttings. Many of these items are the originals of documents listed before, in the chronologically arranged series above (especially series 11). Original box labelled "Walter".
This series relates primarily to the use of Irish in voluntary organisations in their everyday dealings with the general public. It is further divided into three subseries: Forás Éireann (a voluntary organisation); Voluntary Irish Language Organisations Commission; and TREO 2000, a report commissioned by Michael D Higgins (TD) in 1997 to examine the role of Irish in Voluntary Organisations. It mainly consists of correspondence and reports.
Tag / Ref: G60/43