HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lucan Biddulph, Social Bandit, Arson
27 Feb 2013
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Murder and other crimes in the 20th century. The crime was dealt with in an informal manner community crime control (important). Landlords would purchase the land as an investment. Economic conditions in ireland at the time were terrible: the irish donnelly family moved because they wanted to improve the conditions in which they lived in, groups that moved irish people to better situations in ontario. Roman catholic and was a colony of england. The two groups did not get along (catholics versus protestants) open violence: hostile social environment, crops kept failing disaster, 1846. James and joanna: children: james jr. , william, john, patrick, michael, robert, thomas, jenny. Cousin- bridget: they were squatters dishonourable but very common for those settling. The owner sold this land to a man name pat ferral who was made they were squatting there so he fought against them.
