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The slender thread: Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860

Willeen Keough 2009 © Columbia University Press
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Audio Samples
  • Map of Southern Avalon
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1 Picking Up the Thread Locating Irish Newfoundland Women in the Narrative of Migration and Settlement
    • [Intro]
    • Early European Settlement in Newfoundland and Canada
    • The Irish Diaspora in North America
    • Hooking into the Past
    • Transition
  • Chapter 2 The Slender Thread Cast Off Migration and Reception in Newfoundland
    • [Intro]
    • Early Migration
    • A "Notoriously Disaffected" and "Wicked & Idle" People: Early Reception
    • "...there is not a saint in the calendar that was not invoked...": Passages
  • Chapter 3 Ciphering Ciphers Tracing Irish Women on the Southern Avalon
    • [Intro]
    • Source Areas
    • Motives and Patterns of Migration
    • Intermarriage and Assimilation
    • A Maturing Population
    • Transition to Household Production
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 "A good, hard-working stump of a girl" Irish Women's Work and the Construction of Identity on the Southern Avalon
    • [Intro]
    • Household Production
      • [Intro]
      • Cod Fishery
      • Subsistence Agriculture
      • Housewifery
      • Wrecking and Salvaging
      • Sexual Division of Labor within Households
    • Women in Paid Work, the Hospitality Trade, and Proto-Professions
      • [Intro]
      • Service
      • Paid Washing and Sewing
      • Agriculture—Production for Market and Paid Labor
      • Hospitality Trade
      • Community Healing and Midwifery
      • School Teaching
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them" Irish Newfoundland Women and Informal Power in Family and Community
    • [Intro]
    • The Family
    • The Economic Sphere
    • The Spiritual Realm
    • The Information Highway
    • What's in a Name?
    • Collective Actions and Private Wars
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 "Humbel" Petitioners and "Litigeous" Persons Southern Avalon Women and Encounters with Formal Justice
    • [Intro]
    • Civil Litigation
      • [Intro]
      • Debt Collection
      • Employment Disputes
      • Landlord-Tenant Matters
      • Trespass
    • Criminal Matters: Female Complainants and Defendants
    • Female Witnesses
    • Female Petitioners
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7 "Whilst Grass Grows or Waters Run" Women and Testation Practices on the Southern Avalon
    • [Intro]
    • Wills, Deeds of Gift, and Deeds of Conveyance
      • [Intro]
      • Women's Wills and Deeds of Gift or Conveyance
    • Gender, Ethnicity, Class, and Testation Practices
    • Intestacies
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8 "To fix [their] character... in virtue and innocence" The Regulation of Irish Women's Sexuality on the Southern Avalon
    • [Intro]
    • Irish Womanhood within Plebeian Culture on the Southern Avalon
    • Irish Plebeian Womanhood and the Court System
      • [Intro]
      • Seduction and Paternity Suits
      • Infanticide and Concealment of Birth
      • Prostitution
      • Rape
      • Loss of Consortium
      • Wife-Beating
      • Desertion, Separation, and Maintenance
    • Irish Plebeian Womanhood and the Catholic Church
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9 The "Other" Woman
    • [Intro]
    • English Gentry Women
    • "Exceptional" Women
    • Conclusion
  • Chapter 10 The Slender Thread Cast On
  • Appendix A Plebeian and Elite Communities on the Southern Avalon
  • Appendix B Historiography, Sources, Study Area, and Naming Patterns
    • Historiography
      • [Intro]
      • Early European Settlement in Newfoundland and Canada
      • The Irish Diaspora in North America
    • Sources
    • Study Area
    • Naming Patterns
  • Appendix C Women's Presence in the Mercantile Accounts
  • Appendix D Marital and Other Family Arrangements in Ferryland District, ca. 1800
  • Appendix E Partial Family Tree, Carter-Morry Families
  • Case File Archive
  • Supplementary Tables
    • Table 3.1 Source and Destination Areas of Irish Women Immigrants to the Southern Avalon to 1860
    • Table 3.2 Catholic marriages to 1860, southern Avalon
    • Table 3.3 Protestant Marriages to 1860, Southern Avalon
    • Table 4.1 Wages of Fishing Servants (per Season) and of Seamen (per Month) Selected Years
    • Table 4.2 Prices for Provisions Selected Years
    • Table 4.3 Washerwomen and Seamstresses Earnings and Purchasing Power
    • Table 4.4 Mary Foley, Renews Account with Goodridge's, 1839-41
    • Table 4.5 Comparison of Midwives' Earnings with Fishermen's Wages
    • Table 4.6 Teacher Salaries and Class Sizes on the Southern Avalon
    • Table 5.1 Julia McCarthy, Renews - Accounts with Goodridge's, 1839-1841
    • Table 5.2 Profile of Women's Cases Involving Gossip
    • Table 6.1 Creditors and Debtors in Cases Involving Women
    • Table 6.2 Female Creditors and Debtors—Causes of Action
    • Table 6.3 Breakdown of Debt Collections by Amount
    • Table 6.4 Employment Disputes Involving Women—Causes of Action
    • Table 6.5 Property Litigation Involving Women
    • Table 6.6 Matters Involving Female Witnesses
    • Table 6.7 Women's Petitioning—Categories of Concern
    • Table 7.1 Women and Wills, Deeds of Gift, and Deeds of Conveyance
    • Table 7.2 Women and Intestacies
  • Supplementary Figures
    • Figure 3.1 Source Areas of Irish Immigrants as Percentage of Total
    • Figure 3.2 In- and Out-Migrations (Non-local), Ferryland District, Spring 1800
    • Figure 3.3 Local Out-Migrations from Harbors within Ferryland District, Spring 1800
    • Figure 3.4 Local In-Migrations from Harbors within Ferryland District, Spring 1800
    • Figure 3.5 Partial Family Tree, Oldridge Family, Cape Broyle
    • Figure 3.6 Over-Wintering Population, Southern Avalon, 1735-1857 (Ten-Year Intervals) - Men, Women, Children, and Total as well as Catholics as Percentage of Total
    • Figure 3.7 Examples of Complex Interrelationships within Middle-Class Families on the Southern Avalon
    • Figure 3.8 Over-Wintering Population, Southern Avalon, 1735-1857 (Five-Year Intervals) - Planter Group and Servants
    • Figure 3.9 Summer Inhabitants, Southern Avalon, 1735-1857 (Five-Year Intervals) - Planter Group and Servants
    • Figure 3.10 Percentage of Working-Aged Population Employed in the Fishery, Southern Avalon, 1857
  • Notes
    • Chapter 1 Picking Up the Thread Locating Irish Newfoundland Women in the Narrative of Migration and Settlement
    • Chapter 2 The Slender Thread Cast Off Migration and Reception in Newfoundland
    • Chapter 3 Ciphering Ciphers Tracing Irish Women on the Southern Avalon
    • Chapter 4 "A good, hard-working stump of a girl" Irish Women's Work and the Construction of Identity on the Southern Avalon
    • Chapter 5 "She made the cannonballs, and he fired them" Irish Newfoundland Women and Informal Power in Family and Community
    • Chapter 7 "Whilst Grass Grows or Waters Run" Women and Testation Practices on the Southern Avalon
    • Chapter 6 "Humbel" Petitioners and "Litigeous" Persons Southern Avalon Women and Encounters with Formal Justice
    • Chapter 8 "To fix [their] character... in virtue and innocence" The Regulation of Irish Women's Sexuality on the Southern Avalon
    • Chapter 9 The "Other" Woman
    • Appendix A Plebeian and Elite Communities on the Southern Avalon
    • Appendix B Historiography, Sources, Study Area, and Naming Patterns
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
    • 1 Primary Sources and Unpublished Manuscripts
      • A Manuscripts
      • B Newspapers
      • C Unpublished Manuscripts from the Study Area
      • D Published Manuscripts and Documents
      • E Oral Interviews and Personal Correspondence from Informants
      • F Other
    • 2 Secondary Sources
    • 3 Internet Sources
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Lamanche, a small fishing village on the southern Avalon, circa late nineteenth century. PANL, Photograph Collection, no. e48-31. Unidentified photographer.

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