- Date
- 1991-09
- Kind
- Publication
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- migrationheritagehistoryfamilycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Clementine McCauley’s September 1991 account describes family memories of Irish migration from Arranmore through Canada to Beaver Island and later Irish-family settlement, work, and homesteading on the island.
Evidence limits
This is a retrospective oral-history-style account. It preserves named family traditions but does not by itself establish every date, household, migration count, or land claim.
Sources
- Clementine McCauley, “HOW THE IRISH CAME TO SETTLE ON BEAVER ISLAND,” Beaver Beacon, September 1991.Recounts family oral tradition about Arranmore and Canadian migration, lighthouse and lumber work, homesteading, fishing and farming, and later arrivals of McDonough, Boyle, Connaghan, Bonner, Martin, Kilty, and McCann families; the account explicitly marks some numbers and names as remembered or uncertain. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1991-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page issue scan confirms the first-person historical account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1991-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Clementine McCauley recounts Irish settlement of Beaver Island, 1991”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/clementine-mccauley-irish-settlement-account-1991/, accessed [date], citing Clementine McCauley, “HOW THE IRISH CAME TO SETTLE ON BEAVER ISLAND,” Beaver Beacon, September 1991. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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