The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-07-27
In His Youth He Was Summoned to Stafford
Gaol to Attend Allen, Larkin,
O'Brien, Maguire, Condor.
He Often Spoke Of the Time He Spent With
the Men Whose Names Are House.
hold Words in Irish Homes.

The Jamestown Exposition. now In
progress. is affordng many pro- Eng
lish speakers an opportunity to refer
to that state as lofty example of
Anglo -Saxonism. says Charles H, Mad
den in the Catholic Sun. Protestant
Episcopal ministers. the country over,
claim that Virginia was great because
their church was established there.
conveniently forgetting that their
church in the main. was bitterly hos
tile to the American Revolutionists.
Even Amba ssador Bryce. in his James
town address, took occasion to lauh
Virginia as an example of the Mother
Country's prowess.
All these forget that there was an
element, and a strong one in Virginia
calculated to make the citizens Of that
state indomitable fighters. They for
get, for instance, that Cromwell took
Irish young women from their homes
and firesides, even wives and mothers
| from their husbands and children. anG
disposed of these Irish wenches" as
wives to young and old unmarried Vir-
ginia planters. after 1871. They for
get also that thousands of Irish men
were brought to that colony and sold
as slaves to the same Anglo-Saxon
planters. Was not all this diffusine
l~C T,.i, - ,ol, hot n
monwealth? Was it not a shaping OF
the destiny of the nation?
The fact that there were thousands
of Irish brought to Virginia is abso-
lutely indisputable.
Among the "Livinge" are found such
names as Moore, Holloway, Starkey
Brady. Duffey. Butler, Gill; Raylc
Dawlen. Conway. Haines, Hilln. Cam
Hart, Heelin. Burrin. Young. Reinolds
Deucy, Collins, Ward, Allen, Browne
Burren, Kilbride. Waters. Moore, Hig-
gins. Bryan. Gayne and Cogley.
Among the Dead" are recorded
such names as Conyers, Collins. Moore,
Redding, Quailey. Quincy. Sexton. Grf-
fin, Reynolds, Huies, Manning, Cant
we'll, Boyle. Dun. Brogden. kerll
Cane. Cuffe, Hussey, Fenton and Ga
vett Lastly. there were John and
James" whose names We're unknown
but who. in order to distinguish them
from others, were entered on the death
records as "1rishmen." There are a
great many others on the records who
may have been Irish, such, for in
stance, as several called "Fitts," and
others who bore Christian names such
as Timothy, Dennis. Brian, Bridget and
the like that are popular among ma
tives of Ireland.
Hotten also gives the names of per-
sons who landed on the coast of Vir-
ginia. the names of the ships that
brought them and the dates of their de-
parture from English ports. between
the years 1884 and 1856. In so far as
family names are any criterion. the
names of these exiles indicate that q
good percentage Of them were natives
of Ireland
Ordinarily, statistics make rather
! uninteresting reading. and our excuse
for including such long lists of names
in this article is because of the fact
that the books and old records in
which they are contained are accessi-
BILE to only a small portion Of our
readers. Besides, there is an object
lesson in the reading of these names,
showing how the names of tn ede-
scendants Of the earliest settlers be
came twisted out Of all recognition.
The Bonaventure. which sailed from
London on January 2, 1894. brought
Miles Riley. Garrett Riley. Richard
Hughes. Henry. James and jeremiah
Redding. John Hryan. Michael Browne,
Simon Kennedy. Thomas Murfie. Henry
Dunnell. Daniel Greene. John Russell,
Christopher Carnoll (CorralD. John
Lee. Philip Conner. John Dunn, Daniel
Daniel, Mary Carlton and Robert More