Eedy Letters. Copy letters and other items mainly concerning Robert Eedy, formerly of Bandon, Co Cork, later of Bathurst, British North America. The collection sheds light on Eedy's family and local connections in Ireland and Canada, on the tribulations of poor protestant families and depression in the weaving and other trades (especially in Bandon), political unrest arising out of Catholic Emancipation (including the formation of Liberal and Brunswick Clubs), and pre-Famine protestant emigration to Canada.
TitreEedy Letters. Copy letters and other items mainly concerning Robert Eedy, formerly of Bandon, Co Cork, later of Bathurst, British North America. The collection sheds light on Eedy's family and local connections in Ireland and Canada, on the tribulations of poor protestant families and depression in the weaving and other trades (especially in Bandon), political unrest arising out of Catholic Emancipation (including the formation of Liberal and Brunswick Clubs), and pre-Famine protestant emigration to Canada.
RéférenceIE 627/U9
Date
1814-1877
Date 1814 - 1877
Etendue et contenuRobert Eedy (1785-1857) emigrated from Bandon, Co Cork, in 1824*, to the Nova Scotia area of British North America, later Canada, his address in 1830s being Bathurst, New Brunswick. Earlier letters are addressed to New Bandon, Chaleurs (or Shaloor) Bay, evidently in the same vicinity. Letters are principally from his nephew, John Hewston (or Huston), and his brother and sister, William and Lidia Anstis, in the Bandon area. Also present are two letters of 1877 by William Eedy of Gloucester County, New Brunswick, apparently to his distant cousin John Wolfe Eedy. He explains the Cromwellian origins of the Eedys around Bandon, and discusses family connections. This William may have been a grandnephew of Robert. Robert Eedy was married to Jane Morgan, and a copy of the 1814 will of her father, James Morgan of Newcestown, Co Cork, is also present. *Dates for Robert Eedy from finding aid MC651, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick.
Etendue15 items
LangueEnglish
Mot clé de personneEedy Family (Bandon, Co Cork)
SujetEmigration, Weaving Trade, Protestant Ascendancy, Catholic Emancipation, Liberal Clubs (19th century Catholic organisations), Brunswick Clubs (19th century Protestant organisations), O'Connell, Daniel, Nineteenth Century Cork
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