Still others were among the thousands who were exiled to the West Indies by Cromwell during the 1640s and later made their way to America. There was an increase in Irish immigration during the eighteenth century, though the numbers were still relatively small. Most of the century's arrivals ...
When the Irish stepped off ships by the tens of thousands during the great waves of Irish immigration to America, they brought with them little more than the clothes on their backs, empty stomachs, and a special gift for song. In fact, the Irish are known for their inspiring music perhaps...
–I Give and bequeath unto my cousin Philip Slead son of my brother Edward Slead Deceased, that Orchard which I bought of William Slead which was formerly Robert Gibbs : And also my Negro boy named Daniel : to him the sd Philip Slead his heirs and assigns forever… –I Give and bequ...
bold, and sure of action; and in reclaiming the wilderness, building the home, the village, the church, and the school, none took a stand more advanced. Locally speaking, the trend of Scotch-Irish immigration to Ohio was in two main lines; one over the mountains through ...
aOptimists argue that Europe will eventually learn from America. Aristide Zolberg, of the New School University in New York, recalls that the first big crisis in American immigration came in the 1830s when the Catholic Irish began to arrive. Their religious loyalties were assumed to be to a ...
servants; Irish; emigration; immigration; domestic; gothic; historiographical metafiction; re-visionary fiction; Dracula; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde1. Introduction In Valerie Martin’s 1990 novel Mary Reilly, the eponymous narrator, a servant working in the household of Dr Henry Jekyll ...
Anthes,Ariosto,Emigration/Immigration,Kline/Cline/Klein,May,Portage County,Trares Attention all Knapp clan members: Check out the Reunion 2022 tab to get the scoop about this year’s Knapp Family Reunion. Thank you to Gary Knapp for sending out the email to everyone listing all of the detail...