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

Table of Contents

• 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
• Additional Links
• About the Author