Earl Grey’s Irish Famine Orphans (24): More family reconstitutions

Some more orphan family reconstitutions

I used to own a number of books on historical demography–by T.G. Hollingsworth, E.A.Wrigley, R. S Schofield at al.–from the days when I taught early modern European history. Students were always interested in ‘sex and death’. But wouldn’t you know it? These were the very books I gave away when I was trying to reduce my library. I thought I’d never go back to that stuff. They would be very useful now: I could use them to tell you more about the family reconstitution method used by historical demographers. Nonetheless, such are the wonders of the modern world that all we need do, is type ‘family reconstitution method’ into Google. And lo, there is a link to E.A. Wrigley’s English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837, CUP, 1997. Large sections are available to read for free. We can see what he has to say about family reconstitution in his introduction.  https://books.google.com.au/books?hl=en&lr=&id=oFQBvre0xoMC&oi=fnd&pg=PR12&dq=family+reconstitution+method&ots=6JefQO9N8e&sig=nDXcqQbL9gHov9s_pTxphVUwvng#v=onepage&q=family%20reconstitution%20method&f=false  It may be more than you ever want to know.

Anyways, here are some more reconstituted orphan family charts from my original files. Click on the image to make it larger.

 

Alice Gorman per Tippoo Saib   

 

Ann Dowd per Tippoo Saib 

 

Ann Dowd again. This gives more details about her husband’s arrival. 

 

Bridget Penrose per William and Mary 

 

Catherine O’Donnell per Tippoo Saib 

 

Emma Kelly per Earl Grey 

 

Eliza Geoghagan per Digby 

 

Eliza Roughan per Thomas Arbuthnot

 

 

Jane McGarry per Earl Grey 

Mary Ann Prendergast per Thomas Arbuthnot  

 

 

 

Mary Green per Inchinnan 

Mary Jane Galway per Earl Grey. Did she marry again?

 

Mary Weatherall per Lady Peel 

 

 

Mary Fitzgibbon per Thomas Arbuthnot

 

Margaret Plunkett per John Knox

 

Mary Power per John Knox 

 

 

Mary Roughan per Thomas Arbuthnot  

Finally, a couple of graphs which put the orphans into a larger immigration context. They were drawn a good while ago.

The figures are percentages 

 

As always, my sincere thanks to the kind people who sent me information and photographs to use. The photograph at the head of the post is of Catherine Elliott nee Moriarty from Dingle, County Kerry. She is with her family in Queensland c. 1886. See Kay Caball’s The Kerry Girls.

The link to the contents of my blog is at http://wp.me/p4SlVj-oE  I made a mess of posts relating to the orphans’ voyage. There are three at 7(a), 7(b) and 7(c). 7 (c) is the substantive one.