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MOLLy (MARY) MALONE
FISHMONGER
1663-1699
'Cockles and Mussels' has become an unofficial anthem of Dublin city. The song tells the sad story of Molly Malone the fishmonger.
Molly (Mary) Malone, was Baptised on 27 July 1663 and was the youngest daughter of two fishmongers named Patrick and Colleen Malone. She was a strong & attractive girl, dressed in full-length, lined chemise, following the example of her parents in the fish trade. Molly would push her barrow along the narrow, winding streets of Dublin City.
“To see her was to love, her,” indeed. From the time she was a little girl holding on to her mother’s skirts as the two of them made their daily rounds through the streets of Dublin, everyone knew that Molly Malone would grow up to be among the most beautiful flowers of all Ireland and none were disappointed. In fact, such was young Molly’s beauty that when she was old enough to push her own barrow through the cobbled streets, she was like a ray of sunshine bringing hope and gladness into the dingy lives and sad hearts of all who saw her. None were unaffected by her grace, her delicate auburn-haired beauty, her happy disposition.
They say she had a beau, by the name of Timothy Pendleton. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman and a poor Irish seamstress, young Timothy made a meager living as an itinerant street musician who entertained passersby for whatever they would throw in his open fiddle case.
In 1699 on a summer evening, a crowd gathered as a young girl lay on the ground. A medical man examines a lifeless body that was taken by Typhoid fever. Despite the pallor of death, we can see that she was a fine strong and attractive girl. 'Who is it?', someone asks, 'tis Molly Malone & she is no more', replied a lad.
Bending down, he examines the dead girl, and after a minute or so rises and addresses the gathering: 'If this unfortunate female has not been taken by the typhoid fever, then has she succumbed to a disease of venery? and in either case ye had better step back lest ye be contaminated by noxious vapours!'. The crowd dispersed quickly and the talk was all of the dead Molly Malone and her short and tragic life. Her parents, also in the fish-selling business, reside near Fishamble Street, where the trade is mostly carried on.
The Minister begins his Funeral sermon-"I baptised Molly in St Andrew's Church". Molly's coffin was lowered into the ground at St John's Churchyard, on 13 June 1699, her short life not forgotten.
In fact, so great was the outpouring of grief at the funeral of young Molly Malone, struck down by a fever as she blossomed into full womanhood, that the pubs for sixteen miles in every direction were obliged to stay open around the clock for three days following the sad event. Indeed, the reason for this unprecedented communal agony was summed up neatly by the epitaph engraved on the simple stone that graced her final resting place. To wit: Here Beneath This Cold, Hard Stone, Lies Lovely, Lifeless Molly Malone. Cruelly Snatched From This Vale of Tears at a young age.
The ballad mongers commemorate her in song, which is still heard of today. It's said, that on dusky evenings you can hear the eerie sound of Molly's handcart in Dublin's cobbled streets.
During Dublin's Millennium in 1988, a statue of Molly was erected & on the 300th anniversary of her death in 1999: the 13 June was declared International Molly Malone Day. The City of Dublin full of culture keeps heritage alive, alive o!
Reference
This story came from two sites in part each and when I read the beautiful stories about Molly Malone from the 17th Century, I thought that I just had to share it. Wouldn't we all like to think that our Ancestors were remembered in this way, after such a short and simple life? how much more information we would
have?.
I scrolled down to the bottom of this website below
http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/irhismys/molly.htm
and it seems as if it might all be just a tale.
or this site-
http://mollymalones.com.cy/about-cyprus-and-ireland/molly-malone-story/
maybe just an elaborate Pub story? Nobody is really sure, but maybe one of the many Molly(Mary) Malones in Dublin at that time, did wheel her barrow selling fish. You make up your own mind, but whoever she was, she is well celebrated.
That's the Irish for you! (of which so many of us are descended from)
Molly (Mary) Malone, was Baptised on 27 July 1663 and was the youngest daughter of two fishmongers named Patrick and Colleen Malone. She was a strong & attractive girl, dressed in full-length, lined chemise, following the example of her parents in the fish trade. Molly would push her barrow along the narrow, winding streets of Dublin City.
“To see her was to love, her,” indeed. From the time she was a little girl holding on to her mother’s skirts as the two of them made their daily rounds through the streets of Dublin, everyone knew that Molly Malone would grow up to be among the most beautiful flowers of all Ireland and none were disappointed. In fact, such was young Molly’s beauty that when she was old enough to push her own barrow through the cobbled streets, she was like a ray of sunshine bringing hope and gladness into the dingy lives and sad hearts of all who saw her. None were unaffected by her grace, her delicate auburn-haired beauty, her happy disposition.
They say she had a beau, by the name of Timothy Pendleton. The illegitimate son of an English nobleman and a poor Irish seamstress, young Timothy made a meager living as an itinerant street musician who entertained passersby for whatever they would throw in his open fiddle case.
In 1699 on a summer evening, a crowd gathered as a young girl lay on the ground. A medical man examines a lifeless body that was taken by Typhoid fever. Despite the pallor of death, we can see that she was a fine strong and attractive girl. 'Who is it?', someone asks, 'tis Molly Malone & she is no more', replied a lad.
Bending down, he examines the dead girl, and after a minute or so rises and addresses the gathering: 'If this unfortunate female has not been taken by the typhoid fever, then has she succumbed to a disease of venery? and in either case ye had better step back lest ye be contaminated by noxious vapours!'. The crowd dispersed quickly and the talk was all of the dead Molly Malone and her short and tragic life. Her parents, also in the fish-selling business, reside near Fishamble Street, where the trade is mostly carried on.
The Minister begins his Funeral sermon-"I baptised Molly in St Andrew's Church". Molly's coffin was lowered into the ground at St John's Churchyard, on 13 June 1699, her short life not forgotten.
In fact, so great was the outpouring of grief at the funeral of young Molly Malone, struck down by a fever as she blossomed into full womanhood, that the pubs for sixteen miles in every direction were obliged to stay open around the clock for three days following the sad event. Indeed, the reason for this unprecedented communal agony was summed up neatly by the epitaph engraved on the simple stone that graced her final resting place. To wit: Here Beneath This Cold, Hard Stone, Lies Lovely, Lifeless Molly Malone. Cruelly Snatched From This Vale of Tears at a young age.
The ballad mongers commemorate her in song, which is still heard of today. It's said, that on dusky evenings you can hear the eerie sound of Molly's handcart in Dublin's cobbled streets.
During Dublin's Millennium in 1988, a statue of Molly was erected & on the 300th anniversary of her death in 1999: the 13 June was declared International Molly Malone Day. The City of Dublin full of culture keeps heritage alive, alive o!
Reference
This story came from two sites in part each and when I read the beautiful stories about Molly Malone from the 17th Century, I thought that I just had to share it. Wouldn't we all like to think that our Ancestors were remembered in this way, after such a short and simple life? how much more information we would
have?.
I scrolled down to the bottom of this website below
http://homepage.eircom.net/~seanjmurphy/irhismys/molly.htm
and it seems as if it might all be just a tale.
or this site-
http://mollymalones.com.cy/about-cyprus-and-ireland/molly-malone-story/
maybe just an elaborate Pub story? Nobody is really sure, but maybe one of the many Molly(Mary) Malones in Dublin at that time, did wheel her barrow selling fish. You make up your own mind, but whoever she was, she is well celebrated.
That's the Irish for you! (of which so many of us are descended from)
Dublin City Council
http://www.dublincity.ie/search/site/Molly%20malone Ask about Ireland, Archives http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/culturenet/archives/ |
1. Dublin
2. Fishmongers
3. Fishmonger's Company
4. London
5. Literal Street Naming
6. Billingsgate
7. Cockles & Mussels
8. Fish People of Aberdeen
9. BallyKelly
10 Ireland
11 Heraldry of Fish
2. Fishmongers
3. Fishmonger's Company
4. London
5. Literal Street Naming
6. Billingsgate
7. Cockles & Mussels
8. Fish People of Aberdeen
9. BallyKelly
10 Ireland
11 Heraldry of Fish
Dublin
The Great Music Hall in Fishamble Street, Dublin, where Messiah was first performed
Purported baptism record of Molly(Mary) Malone, 27 July 1663
And Burial of Molly (Mary) Malone 13 June 1699
Costermonger, Fish-woman, Fish-crier, Fishwife, Fish-fag or Fishlass
all refer to someone who sells fish.
all refer to someone who sells fish.
Statue of Molly Malone in seventeenth-century dress by Jeanne Rynhart, Grafton Street, Dublin
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Update to the Indexes to the Historic Civil Records now on-line-Irish Genealogy
http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/ Dublin’s most famous street trader could find herself wheeling her wheelbarrow to a new home surrounded by her modern day counterparts, if a proposal by Dublin city councilors is successful. http://www.irishtimes.com/news/molly-malone-may |
The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)
Mon 06 Jun 2011 'Head of Molly Malone' to go under hammer- WHO WILL buy a “spare head” for Dublin’s landmark Molly Malone statue when it's auctioned next month at a value of up to 30,000 pounds? It has emerged that two identical heads were prepared from the original mould for the bronze sculpture on Grafton Street 23 years ago in order to hedge against problems during casting. In the event both were cast successfully |
Mr. Mayhew, in his work on " London Labour and the London Poor," calculated that
as many as 4,000,000 pounds weight of these fish are annually distributed
in the great metropolis by the costermongers
as many as 4,000,000 pounds weight of these fish are annually distributed
in the great metropolis by the costermongers
Fishmongers
Fishmonger's Hall
On the south side of Thames-street is Fishmongers' Hall, on the west side of Adelaide place. The old hall having been taken down at the latter end of 1827 and the new being erected shortly after. Previous to the incorporation of the two companies of salt-fishmongers, and stock-fishmongers, the fishmongers had six halls. This is the third Fishmonger's hall to be built near this site, the first being destroyed in the great fire of London. Illustrations of the Public Buildings of London: Volume 2 By John Britton, Augustus Pugin 1838 |
The various collections of documents that were destroyed in the Blitz.
http://www.1914-1918.net/arnside.html UK, WWII Civilian Deaths, 1939–1945
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London Blitz in 1940
The New Fishmonger's Hall, built for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers to a design by Henry Roberts (assisted by George Gilbert Scott) in 1831-34, was badly bomb damaged during the London Blitz in 1940. It was restored by Austen Hall and reopened in 1951. https://www.architecture.com/image- September 7, 1940 heralded a tactical shift in Hitler's attempt to subdue Great Britain. Hitler turned his attention to destroying London in an attempt to demoralize the population and force the British to come to terms. At around 4:00 PM on that September day, 348 German bombers escorted by 617 fighters blasted London. This was the beginning of the Blitz - a period of intense bombing of London and other cities that continued for the next consecutive 57 days and night. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search? |
The City had limited the profit of the London fishmonger to a penny in the shilling; moreover, no one was to sell fish except in the open market-place, and no one was permitted to water fish more than twice, under pain of fines and the market-place stocks.
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Fishmongers were amongst the earliest of the metropolitan guilds
At first the fishmongers, consisted of two companies, namely, stock-fishmongers and salt-fishmongers, each bearing different coats of arms. With their merger, the Fishmonger's Company was formed. The two coats of arms were combined as well.
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THE SECOND FISHMONGERS'S HALL
Fish Street Hill was formerly called New Fish Street. The Black Prince once lived there, according to Stow. "Above Crooked Lane end, upon Fish Street Hill," he says, "is one great house, for the most part built of stone, which pertained some time to Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III., who was in his lifetime lodged there. It is now altered to a common hostelry, having the 'Black Bell' for a sign."
Fishmongers' Hall and Fish Street Hill
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp1-8
Fishmongers' Hall and Fish Street Hill
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol2/pp1-8
Fishmonger's
Company
Company
The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical By Edward Wedlake Brayley, John Britton
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0Y9CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=fishmongers&hl
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=0Y9CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA366&dq=fishmongers&hl
A fishmonger (fishwife for women practitioners -
"wife" in this case used in its archaic meaning of "woman") is someone who sells raw fish and seafood.
"wife" in this case used in its archaic meaning of "woman") is someone who sells raw fish and seafood.
London
The Monument and Fish Street Hill, 1755 - (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
Standing at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill in the City of London, there is a 61 metre tall Monument.The stone tower was constructed between 1671 and 1677 and served to commemorate the catastrophic Great Fire of London as well as to celebrate the subsequent rebuilding of the City.
A trip up the 330 year old Monument tower in central London http://www.urban75.org/blog/a-trip-up-the-330-year |
Great Fire of London Monument
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Old Fish Street
Henry III, in order to increase his Queen's customs at Queenhithe (Thames Street), prohibited any fish being landed from fishing-vessels except at that port. This led to a great London fishmarket being established in Old Fish Street (near Doctors' Commons), and Knightrider Street soon became famous, as Stow tells us, for fish dinners. The stalls soon grew into houses, and this is why St. Nicholas Coleabbey contained the tombs of so many celebrated Fishmongers. Edward I., finding the old restrictions work badly, restored the Fishmongers to their ancient liberty, and in the next reign they removed to Bridge Street, thenceforward called New Fish Street. Here the Fishmongers could correspond with Billingsgate, and their other colonies at Fish Wharf, Oyster Gate, and Eastcheap. |
Looking at London
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The Ingoldsby Country, by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper, Illustrated by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
https://www.mirrorservice. The main archive of St Mary Magdalen Old Fish Street dates from the 17th century, but also includes parish registers (baptisms, marriages, banns, burials) from 1539; deeds, including one dated 1428; Vestry minutes; Churchwarden's accounts; and poor rate assessments https://familysearch.org/se |
Literal Street Naming
Except this one!
The Man in the Moon Passage was created between 1816 and 1819 and was named after a former pub at this location. |
BREAD STREET (off Cheapside). – The Liber Albus; the White book of the City of London, compiled when Dick Whittington was Lord Mayor, says: "Of Bakers... that no baker shall sell bread before his oven, but only in the market of his Lordship the King." This place was an open market in 1302 for bakers of Bromley and Stratford-le-Bow who were forbidden to sell bread in their shops or homes. The bread market, however, gave the name to the street long before Whittington's time the name Bredstrate appearing already in 1180.
FISHMONGER ALLEY (on the west side of the site where Ironmongers' Hall stood in Fenchurch Street). – In the 16th century called Culver Alley. (See Cullum Street.) FISH STREET HILL (from Lower Thames Street, and continued northwards by Gracechurch Street). – Earlier named New Fish Street. The street is very ancient, and before being reduced to give way for King William Street was the main approach to the old London Bridge. During the 13th and 14th centuries it was called Bridge Street (Bruggestrete), and the present name only appeared during the 16th century. It was then the authorised centre for the sale of fish, and near by stood the old Hall of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers on the site where their present Hall is situated. Then, as now, this Company carried on the supervision of the sale of fish at Billingsgate market. EAST INDIA AVENUE (off Leadenhall Place, and connected with a passage through East India Chambers with Leadenhall Street). – Named after the old East India House, the headquarters of the famous East India Company which was situated here, but demolished in 1862. IRONMONGER LANE (Cheapside – Gresham Street). – In the reign of Edward I. dealers in ironmongery resorted here, hence the name of the lane. In documents from that period the name appears as Ismongere Lane (from the O.E. iren or isern = iron), and this form was retained until 1382 or later. The Ironmongers' House, the original Hall of the Ironmongers' Company, was established here in the 15th century, but was purchased by the Mercers Company in 1517 for the extension of their own Hall LLOYD'S AVENUE (Fenchurch Street – Crutched Friars). – This is one of the newer of City streets only. being opened in 1899. Named after the palatial headquarters of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping at the corner of Fenchurch Street. PEPYS STREET (connecting Savage Gardens with Seething Lane). – An empty street in 1924, inasmuch as no houses were as yet built on its northern side. The street follows the north side of Port of London Authority's new building. Muscovy Court (see this name)stood here before its demolition in 1919-20, to give room to the P.L.A. building. On the northern side of Muscovy Court stood the old Navy Office, with entrance from Crutched Friars (see this name). Samuel Pepys, the City diarist and Secretary of the Navy Office in the reign of King James II., lived in an adjoining house and this is no doubt the reason which prompted the City Fathers to call this little street after this remarkable man. SEETHING LANE Had 23 different spellings from 1257-1579 Street names http://www.maps.thehunthouse.com/eBooks/City_Street_Names.htm |
Fish Street Shrewsbury
The fish market was held there on certain days of the week up until 1869 when it was removed to the new market hall at the top of Mardol. It was the first public house in Shrewsbury to introduce a no smoking policy on its premises.
http://www.historicalhostelries.co.uk/000011.html |
Fish Street
Shrewsbury, Shropshire The inn was known first as the Fishes, then the Old Three Fishes and from 1838 to the present day as the Three Fishes. There are two possibilities for the origin of its name. The first is that it takes its name from the emblem of the Abbot of Lillishall Abbey whose town house stands on the corner at the junction of Fish Street and Butcher Row. The second and most likely is that the name reflects the fishmonger's trade that was carried out in the street from boards hung on the wall opposite and stretching from the Bear Steps to the junction with High Street. |
Billingsgate
Billingsgate Wharf
In its original location in the 19th century, Billingsgate was the largest
fish market in the world
fish market in the world
Landing fish at Billingsgate Market, London, 1880s
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Billingsgate Wharf, close to Lower Thames Street, became the centre of a fish market during the 16th and 17th centuries but did not become formally established until an Act of Parliament in 1699.
In 1850, the market according to Horace Jones, "consisted only of shed buildings ... The open space on the north of the well-remembered Billingsgate Dock was dotted with low booths and sheds, with a range of wooden houses with a piazza in front on the west, which served the salesmen and fishmongers as shelter, and for the purposes of carrying on their trade." |
In that year the market was rebuilt to a design by J.B. Bunning, the City architect. Bunning's buildings was soon found to be insufficient for the increased trade, and in 1872 the Corporation obtained an Act to rebuild and enlarge the market, which was done to plans by Bunning's successor as City architect Sir Horace Jones. The new site covered almost twice the area of the old, incorporating Billingsgate Stairs and Wharf and Darkhouse Lane. Work began in 1874, and the new market was opened by the Lord Mayor on 20 July 1877. (wiki)
St Mary Magdalene Old Fish Street with St Gregory by St Paul, London
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The history of the twelve great livery companies of London: By William Herbert 1836
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Sketches of Early Churches, including St Mary Magdalene
Old Fish Street RIBApix is a stunning visual archive of over 85,000 digital images brought to you from the magnificent collections of the British Architectural Library. https://www.architecture.com/image-library/ribapix.html? |
Costermonger- to sell fruit, vegetables, fish, etc., from a cart, barrow,
or stall in the streets; coster.
or stall in the streets; coster.
Cockles and Mussels
Verse 2
She wheeled (rolled) her wheelbarrow through streets broad and narrow, Just like her mother and father before And they wheeled their wheel barrow, through streets broad and narrow, Crying, "cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!" (Repeat Chorus) |
Verse 1
In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty, I once met a girl called sweet Molly Malone, As she wheeled her wheelbarrow through the streets broad and narrow, Crying "cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!" Chorus Alive alive oh, Alive alive oh Crying, cockles and mussels, Alive alive oh. Verse 3
My love had a fever and no one could save her, And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone, But her ghost wheels her barrow through streets broad and narrow Crying, "cockles and mussels, alive, alive oh!". (Repeat Chorus) |
Background on the Song
Molly Malone, Molly Mogg and a Missing Link - the Fishy History and Origins of "Cockles and Mussels"
http://esnpc.blogspot.com.au/2015_07_01_archive.html |
The Dubliners - Molly Malone
3:11 |
The Fishwives Choir
3:32 |
From-
Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Volume 2, 1804
Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Volume 2, 1804
Aberdeen is full of stories of the fisherfolk.
Fish People
of Aberdeen
of Aberdeen
Footdee (Fittie) An historic fishing village on the river Dee in Aberdeen. At the mouth of the river Dee, and in two squares, called Fishers' Squares, separated from the rest of the town by only a few dockyards, are a race of people who differ more in dialect, customs, superstitions, and other peculiarities, from the Aberdonians, than the latter do from any of the other inhabitants of the lowlands of Scotland. They are a completely separate community; and their dialect is so different from that of the working classes of Aberdeen that, though the two races have a sufficient number of words in common for transacting business with each other, most of the words used by the 'Foot-Dee' or 'Fittie folk', among themselves are unintelligible to the 'Aberdeen folk'. The 'Fittie folk' scarcely ever intermarry with the other citizens and seldom send their children to school. Their sons are almost invariably brought up to follow the occupations of their forefathers, and never learn any regular trades, except that, perhaps, now and then , a youth, more adventurous than usual, becomes a ship-carpenter.
Fish Wives and Herring Girls
http://www.seaboardhistory.com/gallery/herring-girl |
Women would clean and pack the fish which would then be dispatched to the markets as ‘fresh’ fish. The women also went through the process of splitting, gutting and packing the herring which were to be sold on as ‘cured’ fish. Distribution and sales of fish, both fresh and cured, before the development of railways required the women to walk miles to the nearest town to sell their catch. The women would cart their catch in ‘creels’, (large wicker baskets which are fastened to their shoulders and rest on their hips) to the nearest town to sell at market. The travelling ‘fisher wife’ was a very striking sight, she wore voluminous cloth skirts and a spotless white ‘mutch’ or cap.
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Read full article on 'The Fish-people of Aberdeen'
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 9 By Charles Knight 1840
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-BHnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=The+Fish
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 9 By Charles Knight 1840
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-BHnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=The+Fish
The fish market at Aberdeen, used to be near the River Dee
and has a stream passing through it
that falls into that river :
the fish-women expose their wares in large baskets.
and has a stream passing through it
that falls into that river :
the fish-women expose their wares in large baskets.
From-
Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Volume 2, 1804
Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters, Volume 2, 1804
Ireland
The Fish Trade
Fishing was an important commercial activity, particularly herring fishing in the north-west and west of the country. For instance, in 1773 Robert Alexander, a Derry merchant, began a fishery with two 40-ton sloops; the next year he added a brig and exported 650 barrels of salted herrings to Antigua. He also had a coastal trade, and the fate of one of his vessels indicates some of the problems and dangers of this activity. |
In 1775 Alexander had about 500 ships involved in his enterprise. Although it was very large by contemporary Irish standards, it was not the only such capitalised undertaking. Another ambitious venture was the Burton-Conyngham fishery on Rutland Island, off the Co. Donegal coast, ‘where a village with every necessary building and accommodation for setting and curing the fish was erected, at an expense, to himself of £38,000 and £20,000 granted by Parliament’. The fishery was supported by an elaborate infrastructure of roads and the provision of 300 vessels and 1,200 boats but, after a initial success, the herring disappeared and the scheme failed.
http://www.ancestryireland.com/history-of-the-irish-parliament/background-to-the-statutes/trade/
http://www.ancestryireland.com/history-of-the-irish-parliament/background-to-the-statutes/trade/
Fishing house ruin - Cong, Ireland
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century Wakefield discovered the fishermen in Co. Clare making fishing boats from cow-hide daubed all over with tar – a method they had inherited from remotest antiquity. These cost about 32s. Further south the two-ton herring boats at Dingle, Co. Kerry had 14-foot keels and cost £3 5s to build. A string of three nets cost £3 3s. Nets made of Baltic hemp were used for professional fishing. |
These boats carried five men and, as was common elsewhere, the poor fished in partnerships. At the end of the century in Co. Dublin the fishing boats, known as wherries, carried seven or eight men, each of whom had a share in the catch, while two shares were reserved for the boat’s owner.
Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, 14 & 15 Vict., cap. 93. (Form Ad.) Solemn Declaration.
I, John Kinkead, of Broharris, do solemnly and sincerely declare, that I remember my father holding about 18 acres in Ballykelly, 10 of which were under lease from the Beresfords, "middlemen holding under " the Company of Fishmongers." In 1820 the Fishmongers came into possession of the estate and compelled my father to relinquish his lease. The boundaries of the farms were then straightened, and, as a consequence, my father lost his holding, but got instead a few years after a farm in Ballyking townland, which was previously held by a man named Wright, who had to leave not being able to pay the rent. Many others were in this same position Memorial to the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, London, from their Tenantry
on the Manor of Walworth, County of Londonderry. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/livery-companies |
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At Galway there was a large herring fishery which at one time was estimated to employ 2,500 people.
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Fishmongers' Company in Ulster- James Stevens Curl 1981
[Extract from the introduction to this book, outlining the involvement of the London Companies in the Plantation of Ulster]: [In 1609] A prospectus was now drawn up called 'Motives and Reasons to Induce the City of London to Undertake the Plantation in the North of Ireland' that contained four main sections. The first emphasised that the City should 'Plant' the ruined town of Derry and the town of Coleraine to provide security and ports.The towns were to have the benefit of customs on all exports and imports for 21 years, admiralty rights on the coasts, and the salmon fisheries. |
Paul Rink (1861-1903) - Old Fisherman in his boat, watercolor. 1901.
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The second and third sections dealt with products of the sea and of the woods, and the possibilities of trade. The fourth part speculated on the advantages of employment and the provision of accommodation for the surplus population of London.
The City summoned each of the City Companies to call their most substantial members in order to discuss the Plantation of Ulster. Sir Thomas Phillips was closely examined on the facts and details, and it was decided to send a deputation to Ireland to verify the accounts of the lands.
The City summoned each of the City Companies to call their most substantial members in order to discuss the Plantation of Ulster. Sir Thomas Phillips was closely examined on the facts and details, and it was decided to send a deputation to Ireland to verify the accounts of the lands.
A precept was sent to the Companies ordering them to prepare lists of members who would contribute, and, ominously, to take the names of those who refused. A special meeting was called by the Clothworkers, but many Members failed to attend and were fined accordingly. At the Fishmongers' Court of Assistants there were dissenting voices saying that it 'were best never to entermeddle at al in this busyness... for... it is thought it will be exceading chargeable'. Despite these worries, and with the possibility of being fined or otherwise pressurised, no less than 43 members of the Company put their names down as subscribers. 21 members were able to subscribe, but refused, and 29 members failed to turn up. read more..............
[The book goes on to describe in some detail the Fishmongers' work in the Ballykelly area].
http://www.uahs.org.uk/store/publications/?q=0&pid=43
[The book goes on to describe in some detail the Fishmongers' work in the Ballykelly area].
http://www.uahs.org.uk/store/publications/?q=0&pid=43
Oysters and shellfish were very popular
particularly on the Dublin market.
particularly on the Dublin market.
BallyKelly
More.......... North West Ulster: The Counties of London Derry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone By Alistair Rowan https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Iq |
In 1786 the Cork and Waterford merchants lobbied the House of Commons to have the duty on foreign herrings removed as it interfered with their provision trade, but the Galway fish merchants counter-petitioned, pointing out that while this might benefit the southern provision merchants it would be disadvantageous to the nation as a whole. http://www.ancestryireland.com/history-of-the-irish |
The mind gradually becomes callous of wrong-
and persons act on the idea of the old fish woman
whose practice it was to skin eels alive;
on being asked if it was not cruel do to so? said she "thought so at first, but they had got used to it!"
Niles Weekly Vol. 23 1823
and persons act on the idea of the old fish woman
whose practice it was to skin eels alive;
on being asked if it was not cruel do to so? said she "thought so at first, but they had got used to it!"
Niles Weekly Vol. 23 1823
Heraldry of Fish
Heraldry of fish. Notices of the principal families bearing fish in their armsby Moule, Thomas, 1784-1851
https://archive.org/stream/heraldryoffishno00moul#page/n87/mode/2up
https://archive.org/stream/heraldryoffishno00moul#page/n87/mode/2up
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
Coat of Arms |
The Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
Was a merger of The Salt-Fishmongers and The Stock-Fishmongers. Before the merger, they each had their own coat of arms, which they combined together to make the new coat of arm. Colourful stained glass window with coat of arms in Fishmongers' Hall, London
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He Shares the Same Surname, but Most Likely Not a Relative of Molly Malone!
Edmond Malone (4 October 1741 – 25 May 1812)
Edmond Malone (4 October 1741 – 25 May 1812)
Edmond Malone was descended from an Irish family of the highest antiquity and his immediate predecessors were distinguished men. He was an Irish Shakespearean scholar and editor of the works of William Shakespeare. Assured of an income after the death of his father in 1774, Malone was able to give up his law practice for at first political and then more congenial literary pursuits. He went to London, where he frequented literary and artistic circles. The years from 1783 to 1790 were devoted to Malone's own edition of Shakespeare in multiple volumes, of which his essays on the history of the stage, his biography of Shakespeare, and his attack on the genuineness of the three parts of Henry VI, were especially valuable.
The Malone Society is a British-based text publication and general scholarly society devoted to the study of 16th- and early 17th-century drama. |