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From: "mtmm" <>
Subject: Re: Irish Quarriers in Vermont
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:34:48 -0400
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Dear Ron,
My friend, Merle Coughlin's, paternal grandfather immigrated to Barre,
Vermont about 1890. He came from Kilmallock, Co. Limerick. Daniel Coughlin
joined his brother, Michael Couglin, who had immigrated earlier. Michael was
killed in a granite quarry accident in the Barre, Vermont area. After that
Daniel moved to Monpelier and worked as a tombstone cutter.
I would be interested to know if you know, what port the Irish likely
came to when they were heading to the granite quarries in Vermont.
Hope this info helps. Take care, Margaret O'Neill
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Subject: Irish Quarriers in Vermont


> If any one knows, I would be interested in learning from what part of Cork
> might the Irish Quarrymen have come from.
>
> Many immigrated straight to Vermont and worked in the quarries upon
arriving
> in the U.S. during the 1840's to the late 1860's. When the railroad was
> finished in the early 1870's a great many of them then migrated to
> Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island and worked as weavers in the
> cotton mills. Quite of difference in employment but I believe the cotton
> mills didn't really get into their heydays until the mid to late 1860's.
>
> Still, these people must have had the weaving skills when they arrived but
> couldn't put them to use in this country until the opportunity became
> available.
>
> I hope someone on the list may be able to shed a little light on these
people
> for me. Thank you, Ron Myer
>
>
>
>
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