Robert Goodbody Journal

in the shop until shortly before her marriage in 1880, and was very clever there, setting my father much at liberty when called by business from home. My Aunt Sarah had been brought up by her grandmother wyly, until her death, and only then came to reside with her mother. Alice Simmons also lived with her grandmother, and came also with Aunt Sarah. My grandmother's house stood where Jonathan Pim's shop is now. Mary Ridgeway and Aristis Sparks her sister also lodged with my grandmother. She had previously lodged with my father when I and my brother was born, but on my fathers moving across the street she went to grandmother.

In 1789 Mary Ridgeway and Jane Watson went to America I well remember her going round the town to bid farewell. She came to my father's after meeting on a first day evening, and the family and her were both in tears. I don't recollect that I ever witnessed such a parting scene. They set out next day for Cork, where they took shipping in a vessel of Anthony Harris who went with them, and afterwards brought them back in1792. Mary Ridgeway had with her, her daughter -n law. The wife of her son John, who was then in Philadelphia. Her name was Elizabeth, a sister of Mary Thacker. She was a tall handsome woman, and well beloved in Mountmellick. Her brother Nathaniel took her in a chair, now called a Gig, to Cork, in company with her mother in law; but the grief of her family of parting with her was excessive. There was no parting of them, until my father took her in his arms, and carried out and placed in the carriage. She was a very nice woman, and much loved by her acquaintances. She died I a few years afterwards, perhaps about 1795, and her husband, of the yellow fever a few years after. A son of theirs, named

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