Patience is a requirement for the family historian....that may be the most understated sentiment of all. The thousands of hours rifling through old documents, obscure resources, going beyond the leaves that Ancestry posts...
On my various searches, I do dive into resources that don't make it into the resources of the big, DNA genealogy company search tools.
I like Ireland Old news for its snippets, a time capsule, pieces of daily life from hundreds of years ago. Was reading through the remnants that have been posted for County Cork, and stumbled upon this little gem: (image added by me, found on this blog:
Hibernian Chronicle, 18 October 1770
| CATHERINE HIGGINS, Distiller, in Cove Lane, outside Southgate, Cork, takes this method of informing her friends and the public that she continues to distill all sorts of malt and melasses [sic] spirits, little inferior to foreign; rasberry brandy, whiskey shrub, anniseed water, wormwood water, hot surfeit water, usquebagh [whiskey], with all kinds of cold waters, all of which she will sell on the lowest terms, and will give great encouragment to those who buy for sale. She returns her grateful acknowledgements to all her customers and requests a continuance of their favours, who, with all others, may depend on being well used. |
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