Leadbeater, Mary ___ 1758-1826 ___ Irish ___ n/a

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
There is very little information about Mary Shackleton readily available on the internet. She was the daughter of the master of the school in Ballitore, a village in County Kildare founded by the Quakers in the 1700s. She married William Leadbeater, a former pupil and teacher at the school. In her diaries, 45 of them, she describes the Quaker life and characters in Ballitore.
A biography link
No Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1774-1826 ___ domestic religious social family people village UK

WEB TEXT LINKS
a bit about
a couple of quotes

ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
National Library of Ireland

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Annals of Ballitore
 

October 2005, July 2008
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IMPORTANT NOTES AND CAUTIONS: 1) The first line of basic information may be incomplete in several ways: some historical figures have different names (titles, pen-names); their birth and death dates may be unknown or uncertain (g - guess, c - circa); similarly, their occupations may be unknown, or they may have had other jobs; and, for early diarists, I've used 'British' a bit too freely. 2) The biographical summary may not be accurate. It was compiled quickly from various sources, mostly on the internet, and the facts were not checked anywhere near as rigorously as they would have been if they'd been intended for publication in a printed form. 3) The journal dates and descriptors (which are in no particular order) must be treated with caution: since I have not examined the diaries myself, the descriptors are only guesses based on bibliographies, anthologies and internet biographies. 4) For the biography and etext links, I have ignored any sites with charges, and I have avoided, wherever possible, those with pop-ups or too much advertising. I have limited myself to providing three etext links where there is some variety between them. 5) For the original manuscript links, I have limited myself to providing a maximum of two (although, for a few diarists, their original diaries are held in more than two places). 6) I have provided the titles - chosen randomly - for up to three printed editions of the diaries.