Coppingers of Barryscourt Descriptive List (Ref. U405)

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expresses confidence in ‘the Great Providence of God’, and hope s still to see them at a later date. He sends his wife’s sympathies to William’s wife.

42.

10 January 1753

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from John Galwey, Carrigg, explaining ‘I waited for an opportunity of sending my letter to Corke as I knew the uncertainty of your post in Midletown’. He has heard from Joe Coppinger of Tommy being entirely recovered. He reports that he lately went to Kilworth to meet his brother and Dr McEnire ‘on this commission of ours’, and explains that only a sho rt meeting was possible. He adds that he must shortly send Dan.ll Bryen to Dublin to prove his father’s will. He wishes William had been with him for the holidays, for one reason in particular: ‘the destruction of the cocks, which were in great plenty here & which I had my share of, tho no assistance’. He remarks of ‘Sister Flaherty’, sister of Pierce Nagle, that ‘she now says she is possess’d, which I think may be sign of an amendment’. He adds ‘to be sure you heard of Molly Fitzgerald’s going to bed to one Mr Kavanagh, I’m told she has made a good hitt o f it & indeed I am glad of it’.

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43.

20 January 1753

Letter to William Coppinger, Barry’s Court, from Joseph Coppinger, Cork, s tating ‘your herrings are not yet disposed of, they have been from the first day laid on their sides. You judged right of my hurry about my Wines, this day I put the last of them in my Cellar & I with truth thank God can assure you they are charming elixir’. He adds ‘the Sparrow is alsoe come in so that I have Tappé & Champagn e in plenty’; he has kept some of the former for William. He asks that William deliver to brother Sarsfield an invoice in connection with a cargo of wine. He states ‘ I must now tell you I heard for certain Stephen Coppinger is tomorrow to be married to Miss Goold his jaunt to Cloyne was as you guess’d’. In a post scrpt he writes ‘Molly advises I may let my sister know Biddy Egan came here this day to offer her service to you as cook and house keeper, how capable she is we know not but she braggs of her own exploits’. In a note on the back Joseph writes ‘I believe you must rank this in the number of my letters you cant read, for I can sc arce hold my pen so cold am I’.

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22 January 1753