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From: "Jim Lockhart" <>
Subject: Re: [S-I] SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 4, Issue 303
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:16:19 -0500
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My gggf was living in Mullaghmore at the time. Is there anything written re:
the Big Wind from that location. Thanks for checking for me. Jim Lockhart

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>
>
> Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: indenture,etc (Hugh Fullerton)
> 2. Re: Night of the Big Wind (John Muirhead)
> 3. The Big Wind (Shirley Newbold)
> 4. Big Wind - Omagh (Daniel Wilson)
> 5. Re: Big Wind - Omagh (Jim White)
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:36:00 -0500
> From: Hugh Fullerton <>
> Subject: Re: [S-I] indenture,etc
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> I've been traveling and out of touch, so I don't have the preceding posts
> on
> this thread. I presume it refers to the Lancaster County Historical
> Society. Can someone provide the URL for the website focusing on the
> Scotch-Irish townships?
> Many thanks
> Hugh S. Fullerton
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Ann Heinz <> wrote:
>
>> Lancaster County has a separate web site for the townships settled by
>> Scotch/Irish in 1700-1800's. There is a long out-take of Pennsylvania
>> Gazette advertised masters looking for indentured runaways... don't know
>> if
>> all these are in the published books on indentured runaways.
>> There are also published tax lists, etc.... pretty extensive coverage
>> for
>> small historical society but Lancaster County in general emphasizes it's
>> German cultural heritage so this is welcome for researchers.
>> Ann
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> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:58:09 -0600
> From: John Muirhead <>
> Subject: Re: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
> To: <>
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> Ballymena?
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>
>
>> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:08:06 -0700
>> From:
>> To:
>> Subject: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>>
>> The "Night of the Big Wind" that's been discussed here recently, was the
>> night of Sunday, January 6, 1839. It was apparently one of the most
>> vicious storms in Ireland history, and it struck the entire island. In
>> his book of the same name, Peter Carr relates many anecdotes of floods,
>> fires, houses blown down, even graves being unearthed. The book has a
>> section in which reports of the damage were gleaned from newspapers all
>> over Ireland. If someone has a particular area they're researching, let
>> me know and I'll look up your town. Note, most of the newspapers were in
>> fact in towns rather than townlands, so send me the name of the nearest
>> large town.
>>
>> Here's the info on the book.
>>
>> Carr, Peter (1991), THE NIGHT OF THE BIG WIND, Belfast: The White Row
>> Press. paper; 155pp.
>> ISBN 1 870132 50 5
>>
>> Dan Wilson
>>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:44:49 -0400
> From: Shirley Newbold <>
> Subject: [S-I] The Big Wind
> To: <>
> Message-ID: <>
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>
> Dan,
>
> My people were in Mountmellick and Wicklow Town at that time.
>
>
> That is a terrible story, I wonder why it isn't more mentioned since it
> caused such widespred devastation.
>
>
> Shirley Newbold
>
> NEWBOLD, BROWN, COOPER, CUMMINGS, CODY in Ireland
>
>
>
>
>> From:
>> Subject: SCOTCH-IRISH Digest, Vol 4, Issue 302
>> To:
>> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:01:38 -0600
>>
>>
>>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. Night of the Big Wind (Daniel Wilson)
>> 2. Re: Night of the Big Wind (Jim White)
>> 3. Re: Night of the Big Wind (Jim White)
>> 4. Re: Night of the Big Wind (Ulster Ancestry)
>> 5. Night of the Big Wind (Daniel Wilson)
>> 6. Re: Night of the Big Wind (Joan Hunter)
>>
>>
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:03:07 -0700
>> From: Daniel Wilson <>
>> Subject: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>> To:
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Yes, the Night of the Big Wind occurred in 1839, the year that my gggf
>> packed it in and emigrated to Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA. There's a
>> book written about it taking accounts from many of the newspapers in
>> Ireland. I have the book at home and will post the author's name later.
>>
>> Dan Wilson
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:30:48 -0500
>> From: "Jim White" <>
>> Subject: Re: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>> To: <>, <>,
>> <>
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
>> reply-type=original
>>
>> Hi Dan:
>>
>> A brief summary of the story would be appreciated by all.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Daniel Wilson" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:03 PM
>> Subject: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>>
>>
>> > Yes, the Night of the Big Wind occurred in 1839, the year that my gggf
>> > packed it in and emigrated to Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA. There's a
>> > book written about it taking accounts from many of the newspapers in
>> > Ireland. I have the book at home and will post the author's name later.
>> >
>> > Dan Wilson
>> >
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:30:48 -0500
>> From: "Jim White" <>
>> Subject: Re: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>> To: <>, <>,
>> <>
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
>> reply-type=original
>>
>> Hi Dan:
>>
>> A brief summary of the story would be appreciated by all.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Daniel Wilson" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 12:03 PM
>> Subject: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>>
>>
>> > Yes, the Night of the Big Wind occurred in 1839, the year that my gggf
>> > packed it in and emigrated to Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA. There's a
>> > book written about it taking accounts from many of the newspapers in
>> > Ireland. I have the book at home and will post the author's name later.
>> >
>> > Dan Wilson
>> >
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:15:44 +0000
>> From: Ulster Ancestry <>
>> Subject: Re: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>> To: <>
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The Night of the Big Wind is well established in Irish folklore.
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is a good link
>> http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/ACalend/BigWind.html
>>
>>
>>
>> A little extract from it
>>
>>
>>
>> The superstitious were quick to attribute the storm to the fairies.
>> Traditionally, the 5th of January was the feast of St. Ceara, when it was
>> believed the fairies held a night of revelry. The fairies, they thought,
>> were so unruly that the storm resulted. Others believed that on that
>> night, all but a few of the fairies of Ireland left the country never to
>> return and that the wind was caused by their departure.
>>
>>
>>
>> The devout, noting that the storm occurred on the night of the Epiphany,
>> saw it as of Divine origin. All the more so since many Roman Catholics in
>> Ireland believed that the 7th of January would be the Day of Judgement.
>> P.W. Joyce tells of one man's reaction to the devastation.
>>
>>
>>
>> He says: "I was looking round with others at the havoc, and whom should
>> we see but old Jacob Stuffle, a well-to-do farmer, one of our Palatine
>> neighbours, a small man with a tremendous voice. He was standing high up
>> on a hillock looking with dismay at his haggard farm which his
>> comfortable well-thatched stacks had been swept out of existence.
>> Suddenly, he raised his two hands, palms open, high over his head, and
>> looking up at the sky, he cried out in the bitterness of his heart, in a
>> voice that was heard all over the village 'Oh, God Almighty, what did I
>> ever do to You and You should thrate (treat) me in this way!'"
>>
>>
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> www.ulsterancestry.com
>>
>>
>>
>> > Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:03:07 -0700
>> > From:
>> > To:
>> > Subject: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>> >
>> > Yes, the Night of the Big Wind occurred in 1839, the year that my gggf
>> > packed it in and emigrated to Mauch Chunk, Carbon Co., PA. There's a
>> > book written about it taking accounts from many of the newspapers in
>> > Ireland. I have the book at home and will post the author's name later.
>> >
>> > Dan Wilson
>> >
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>> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:08:06 -0700
>> From: Daniel Wilson <>
>> Subject: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>> To:
>> Message-ID: <>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> The "Night of the Big Wind" that's been discussed here recently, was the
>> night of Sunday, January 6, 1839. It was apparently one of the most
>> vicious storms in Ireland history, and it struck the entire island. In
>> his book of the same name, Peter Carr relates many anecdotes of floods,
>> fires, houses blown down, even graves being unearthed. The book has a
>> section in which reports of the damage were gleaned from newspapers all
>> over Ireland. If someone has a particular area they're researching, let
>> me know and I'll look up your town. Note, most of the newspapers were in
>> fact in towns rather than townlands, so send me the name of the nearest
>> large town.
>>
>> Here's the info on the book.
>>
>> Carr, Peter (1991), THE NIGHT OF THE BIG WIND, Belfast: The White Row
>> Press. paper; 155pp.
>> ISBN 1 870132 50 5
>>
>> Dan Wilson
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:00:59 -0400
>> From: "Joan Hunter" <>
>> Subject: Re: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>> To: <>
>> Message-ID: <001501ca591d$f94f5510$ebedff30$@com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>>
>> Thanks very much for your offer, Dan. My folks were from Omagh area and
>> Ballybay.
>> Joan
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Daniel Wilson
>> Sent: October-29-09 11:08 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [S-I] Night of the Big Wind
>>
>> The "Night of the Big Wind" that's been discussed here recently, was the
>> night of Sunday, January 6, 1839. It was apparently one of the most
>> vicious storms in Ireland history, and it struck the entire island. In
>> his book of the same name, Peter Carr relates many anecdotes of floods,
>> fires, houses blown down, even graves being unearthed. The book has a
>> section in which reports of the damage were gleaned from newspapers all
>> over Ireland. If someone has a particular area they're researching, let
>> me know and I'll look up your town. Note, most of the newspapers were in
>> fact in towns rather than townlands, so send me the name of the nearest
>> large town.
>>
>> Here's the info on the book.
>>
>> Carr, Peter (1991), THE NIGHT OF THE BIG WIND, Belfast: The White Row
>> Press. paper; 155pp.
>> ISBN 1 870132 50 5
>>
>> Dan Wilson
>>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:24:33 -0700
> From: Daniel Wilson <>
> Subject: [S-I] Big Wind - Omagh
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> Hi Joan,
>
> Here's what they have to say about Omagh - Dan
>
> "From this town we hear of some houses having been blown down, and other
> damaged by being stripped and their windows shattered - the throwing
> down of stacks of oats and hay, and the tearing up of trees, fill up the
> report of this calamitous visitation, which appears to have extended its
> ravages far and wide, and to have spared neither rich nor poor. The
> latter, however, who have been smitten by it, are the greatest
> sufferers, several families having lost their all in the destruction of
> their frail cabins, which have, in many instances, with all they
> contained, been consumed by fire."
>
> Carr, Peter (1991), /The Night of the Big Wind. /Belfast: White Row Press/
> /
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:29:41 -0500
> From: "Jim White" <>
> Subject: Re: [S-I] Big Wind - Omagh
> To: <>, <>
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> Hi Dan:
>
> Could you see what the bokk says on "Sligo Town".
>
> Regards
>
> Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 7:24 PM
> Subject: [S-I] Big Wind - Omagh
>
>
>> Hi Joan,
>>
>> Here's what they have to say about Omagh - Dan
>>
>> "From this town we hear of some houses having been blown down, and other
>> damaged by being stripped and their windows shattered - the throwing
>> down of stacks of oats and hay, and the tearing up of trees, fill up the
>> report of this calamitous visitation, which appears to have extended its
>> ravages far and wide, and to have spared neither rich nor poor. The
>> latter, however, who have been smitten by it, are the greatest
>> sufferers, several families having lost their all in the destruction of
>> their frail cabins, which have, in many instances, with all they
>> contained, been consumed by fire."
>>
>> Carr, Peter (1991), /The Night of the Big Wind. /Belfast: White Row
>> Press/
>> /
>>
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