The Northern Standard 1839-1847: Birth Marriage and Death Notices with accounts of other Auspicious and Adverse Events: Transcripts Extracts and Indexes

A fully indexed compilation of Birth Marriage and Death notices with reports of other Auspicious and Adverse Events from The Northern Standard newspaper 1839-1847.On January 12 1839 Arthur Wellington Holmes (c.1811-1851) launched The Northern Standard from his office at 26 Mill-street Monaghan. Mr. Holmes aimed to publish not only the first newspaper in the county of Monaghan but also one of a High Tory character in a staunchly liberal region.This book presents transcriptions of articles selected from historic editions of The Northern Standard published between January 1839 and December 1847. During this nine-year period the Standard carried a fascinating array of local and national events such as: the Presbyterian marriage question; the notorious bigamy trials of Copeland v Browne and the Queen v Mary Downes; the abduction of Jane MKee by John Feehan; marriage festivities and funerary customs; the concurrent illnesses and deaths just one day apart of the Earl of Besborough Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin and of Mr. Daniel OConnell M.P. at Genoa in Italy; and the ravages of starvation and disease during the early years of the Great Famine.The first chapter of this book includes 2346 birth marriage and death notices. The second chapter consists of 1556 reports of other auspicious and adverse events--that is news accounts on such wide-ranging subjects as accidents bigamy breach of promise disease and epidemics divorce and separation elopement estates famine funerals hospitals and dispensaries longevity disasters at sea marriages in high life monuments and testimonials obituaries starvation sudden deaths and suicide. Both chapters are indexed by surname subject and institution and publication. In all this work comprises 431 pages or nearly 390000 words of transcribed text and extracts and 57 pages of index terms.Place names in the province of Ulster are cited in about 70% of the articles in this volume; the county of Monaghan features in about 20%. Other counties are represented including Dublin (651 articles) Cork (126) Louth (110) and so on. England (423) Scotland (93) the East Indies (57) France (39) and the USA (35) are also mentioned.Whether employed in the pursuit of family or local history research or perused at leisure may this book also serve as a tribute to the memory of the people who were born in the county Monaghan in neighbouring counties and in Ireland generally--and perhaps especially--to the memory of the many Irish whose names were not immortalized in The Northern Standard or other contemporary newspapers.Alison Kilpatrick is an amateur genealogist with a keen interest in historic newspapers. Alison is well known in the online community as much for her family history research interests in Ireland and England as for the volume and reliability of her transcriptions from 18th and 19th century Irish newspapers covering several counties in the province of Ulster.