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From: "Carol McCuaig" <>
Subject: [LIMERICK] Nagle etc
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:05:27 -0400

With regard to the County Cork info which appeared today, I believe that the
Mr Nagle mentioned may have been David Nagle who came to Ontario, Canada, in
1825 with a group of government-sponsored families. When I was researching
my book Peter Robinson's Settlers I found that this man boarded the ship for
Canada in great secrecy, saying that the Whiteboys were after him and he
would be killed if caught. His crime was that he had worked as an agent for
a landlord.

At that time his place of origin was given as Mitchelstown rather than
Buttevant, but that was probably where he signed on. More than 50,000 people
applied to come to Canada of whom fewer than 3,000 were ultimately selected.
People who could not obtain passage at the nearest application centre often
did the rounds of other places in the hope of finding a vacancy there. Peter
Robinson's settlers came from a number of counties in the south of Ireland,
including Cork, Limerick and Tipperary with a majority from County Cork.

Carol

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