Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Families

by Mary Elizabeth Sinnott

1905

John Francis Sinnott (b.1837), a son of John Sinnott and Mary Armstrong, immigrated from Ireland to Philadelphia in 1854, and married Annie Eliza Rogers in 1863. He and his wife were parents of the author. Also traced are earlier Sinnott individuals and families immigrating from Ireland to the United States from the early 1600s on. Some descendants and relatives of these earlier Sinnott immigrants are included, as well as those of John Francis and Annie Eliza. Thus descendants and relatives of all the listed Sinnott immigrants lived in New England, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and elsewhere. Includes many ancestors and genealogical data in Ireland and elsewhere to 1060 A.D.

The Book of the Agnews

by Mary Virginia Agnew

1926

James Agnew was born on 31 July 1711 in Great Britain and died on 2 October 1770 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of James Agnew with whom he emigrated to America in 1717. His first wife was Margaret. He later remarried to Rebecca Scott, daughter of Abram Scott. Ancestors and descendants lived primarily in the British Isles and Pennsylvania.

Growing Up in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

by Mary Hatfield

2019 · Oxford University Press

Why do we send children to school? Who should take responsibility for children's health and education? Should girls and boys be educated separately or together? These questions provoke much contemporary debate, but also have a longer, often-overlooked history. Mary Hatfield explores these questions and more in this comprehensive cultural history of childhood in nineteenth-century Ireland. Many modern ideas about Irish childhood have their roots in the first three-quarters of the nineteenth century, when an emerging middle-class took a disproportionate role in shaping the definition of a 'good' childhood. This study deconstructs several key changes in medical care, educational provision, and ideals of parental care. It takes an innovative holistic approach to the middle-class child's social world, by synthesising a broad base of documentary, visual, and material sources, including clothes, books, medical treatises, religious tracts, photographs, illustrations, and autobiographies. It offers invaluable new insights into Irish boarding schools, the material culture of childhood, and the experience of boys and girls in education.

Reading the Irish Woman

by Gerardine Meaney, Mary O’Dowd, Bernadette Whelan

2013 · Liverpool University Press

The first analysis of the Enlightenment and Irish women and the most comprehensive study to date of Irish women and American emigration. Irish women negotiated, selected and at times defied the representations of womanhood presented to them in official and commercially sponsored media.