Robert Goodbody Journal

Tullamore, 22nd of 1st month, 1855.

Being now within three months of seventy-four years old, I think it possibly would afford satisfaction to some of my children, if I should note down some occurrences of my life.

I was born the 9th of the 4th month 1781. My father's name was Mark Goodbody, and my mother Elizabeth the eldest child of Robert and Alice Pim. My father was born in the year June 1749, and my mother in 1753. They were married early in the year 1777. They had a son before me, born in1779, who died of the smallpox at the age of 4½ years. I don't recollect him, as I was for some time previous at Tullylost, in the county Kildare, and was continued there for some time to avoid the infection. My grandfather Robert Pim died while I was in Tullylost, both he and my brother died early in 1784. I suppose that if I had been at home I would have remembered them both, as I well remember the year 1784. My father removed that year to the house on the ground where Thos. Pims house now stands.

I was born in the house where my father-in-law Jonathan Pim lived. He raised it and improved it in 1792. All my children were born in the old house where Thos. Pim built.

I recollect Rebecca Jones and Sarah Grubb being in Mt mellick in the summer of 1785,but I don't recollect their persons.

I think the first time that I was at meeting was n that year at the marriage of Jane, the daughter of John Halton by his first wife. She married a friend from England named Tucket. She died soon after. He had a sister who travelled here as a minister about 1820.

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