Unusual case. (Stealing Children)
From Pat Purcell Papers.
1836
The Information of Elizabeth O'Neill, Widow, who being duly
Sworn saith that on or about [ blank ] Lucinda O'Neill of the
Town of Carlow, Spinster, did by fraud take or entice away
three of Elizabeth's Children, to wit Patience O'Neill – James
O'Neill and O’Connell O'Neill each of said Children being
under the age of Ten years with intent then and there to
deprive said Elizabeth O'Neill the Mother of said Children of
the possession of said Children.
- (signed) Elizabeth O'Neill.
- Sworn before me at Carlow this 3rd day of November 1836
- (signed) William Fishbourne.
Source: Michael Purcell. 2012
Carlow Sentinel.
June 1836.
Shameful Ingratitude. – Mr. Edward
Gorman.
Our readers
will recollect that in the period of the contest for the Coronership
of this county every gentleman came forward to help elect Mr Edward
Gorman, who had nothing to recommend him so far as mental
qualifications are concerned.
Mr Kavanagh
turned the election against Thomas C. Bunbury and it went in Mr
Gorman's favour, by sending his tenantry AT HIS OWN EXPENSE to vote
for Mr. Gorman, and even travelled to Carlow himself to vote for him.
Behold
reader, Mr Gorman's gratitude; he locked himself in his house, and
never came forward to support by his vote, his generous benefactor, Mr
Kavanagh.
How true it
is that in all the relations of life ~~~
"No Faith Is To Be Kept With Heretics"
This is one
of the most melancholy instances of ingratitude to be found on the
records of contested elections, and will operate as a salutary warning
to the gentry of this county, on whom they should in future bestow
favours.--
Mr. Gorman's
brothers also absented themselves from voting and shamefully neglected
their duty -- the Coroner is a public officer -- in future he will
have to look to the Tinryland priest, Thomas Tyrrell for support. He
can expect none from any other quarter.
Note from Michael Purcell:
The Carlow Sentinel 1836 "heretics" of course
being the Roman Catholics, who were ruled by 'the ungovernable ruffians
who supported Mr. Thomas C. Bunbury, in 1835, what a twist!
Back then a year was a long time in politics.
In a further twist, that must a stung, they
used the term "Faith not kept with Heretics" aimed at the voting Catholics
in Carlow, it was first introduced during the Crusades and reinforced by
the Roman Catholic Church as dogma during several church Councils dating
back to 1167!
"Faith not kept with Heretics" ranks as church
dogma alongside "Mental Reservation",
the ability to tell an untruth that may
not regarded as a lie"
(practiced in recent times by Cardinal
Desmond Connell in a radio interview) and Swearing an Oath on a Protestant
Bible is not binding or regarded as
perjury (as advised by Father James
Maher in the 1830s), "Faith not kept with Heretics" could be interpreted
as giving your word of honour to an infidel, heretic or unbeliever and not
having to keep it (this was used in the1930s in a dispute with
Browne-Clayton of Browne's Hill, when a priest gave an undertaking that
land donated for free and in good faith by Browne-Clayton would be used
for a school, the land was later sold, the priest claimed that he did not
have to keep faith with a non-Catholic.)