Arquivo P6 - PHOTOCOPY Perkinson-Monaghan Correspondence

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PHOTOCOPY Perkinson-Monaghan Correspondence

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  • 1777-1883 (Produção)

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(1799-)

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Born in [Tipperary], William Perkinson married Mary Monaghan of Croghan,Lower Ormond, Tipperary, near Birr, County Offaly, on or before 1825. They settled in Croghan and had four children, Eliza (b. 1825), William Jr (b.1831), Mary Maria (b. 1836) and Matilda (b. 1838).

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(1800-1876)

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Born c.1800 in Croghan, County Tipperary, and near to the town of Birr, County Offaly, Mary Monaghan married William Perkinson in or around 1825.

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(1831-)

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Born in Croghan, County Tipperary, to William and Mary Perkinson, William emigrated to England with his wife and lived in Widnes, Lancashire. They had three children, William (b. 1866), Michael (b. 1869) and Richard (b. 1871).

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(1798-1873)

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Born in Croghan, County Tipperary, on 3 November 1798, John Monaghan married Lucy Kemp on 19 February 1827 in Suffolk, England, and emigrated to Michigan, United States of America . He died there on 15 May 1873 and is buried in Lenawee, Michigan.

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Copy correspondence between two generations of Perkinson and Monaghan family members, all connected with Croghan, near Birr, Co Offaly and the Irish Hills area of the state of Michigan, USA. Following the devastation of the Great Famine, John Monaghan emigrated firstly to Suffolk and then to Michigan, where he received letters from his sister, Mary and her husband William Perkinosn, pleading for assistance to also enable their family emigrate to America. The correspondence describes the effect of famine and emigration on the Croghan area. Their son William, who emigrated to Lancashire, also writes to his cousin in Michigan of the second generation with much the same request.

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By appointment only. Contact Offaly Archives at [email protected]

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May be reproduced in accordance with provisions of the Copyright and Related Rights Act (2000). No reproduction online, in print or broadcast without the express permission of copyright holder.

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      Offaly County Library

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      Croghan, in the barony of Lower Ormond, Co Tipperary, is a small townland on the border with County Offaly. Its nearest town is Birr and it was in the Poor Law Union of Parsonstown (Birr). Many of the letters in this correspondence give the postal address as 'Croughan, Birr, King's County'. Not to be confused with the County Offaly townland of Croghan, in the barony of Lower Philipstown.

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      ISAD (G), 2nd Ed.

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      September 2020
      Revised and published April 2024

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