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The slender thread: Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860
Willeen Keough
Year: 2009, c2006.
Publisher:  Columbia University Press. 
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table of contents
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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Title: The slender thread : Irish women on the southern Avalon, 1750-1860 / by Willeen Keough.
Author: Keough, Willeen G., 1955-
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Keough, Willeen G., 1955-
New York: Columbia University Press, 2009, c2006.
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Subject Headings: • Women immigrants -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- History -- 18th century
• Women immigrants -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- History -- 19th century
• Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 18th century
• Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
• Irish -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 18th century
• Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
• Women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Avalon Peninsula -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• Ireland -- Emigration and immigration
• Avalon Peninsula (N.L.) -- Emigration and immigration
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