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- 1841-1995 (Creation)
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57pp
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Archival history
Letter transcripts were excerpted from Langhoff, Michael J. (1995), An Immigrant Family: The Shaughnessys Of Glanduff County Limerick, Ireland (Unpublished manuscript], Milwaukee, Wisconsin). Langhoff provided his manuscript and the transcripts therein to Kerby A. Miller via letter in 1995. The original manuscripts remains with the family.
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Copy of Michael J. Langhoff's 1995 manuscript An Immigrant Family: The Shaughnessys Of Glanduff County Limerick, Ireland, which includes transcripts of 14 letters written between 1841 and 1910 by members of the O'Shaughnessy/Shaughnessy family. The series also includes correspondence between Langhoff, Kerby A. Miller, and researchers regarding the family.
Ten of the O’Shaughnessy letters were written between brothers William O'Shaughnessy, who emigrated from Glanduff (Glenduff) to Jackson, Mississippi in the 1840s, and Michael Shaughnessy, who emigrated to the Milwaukee area in 1836. Of the later letters, notable is a 1910 letter from a genealogist hired by Sir Thomas Shaughnessy (later 1st Baron Shaughnessy), president of the Canadian Pacific Railway, to research his family history in County Limerick. The manuscript concludes with an account of Langhoff’s own visit to Glanduff to try and locate the remains of the Shaughnessy family homestead.