[Note 100.5] "Dungannon" :- A town in Ulster. Many miles inland.

[Note 100.7] "There was pick-a-ninnys and fan-dangs" :- . It was common for black adults to be treated as children. the Piccaninnies might have been black entertainers like C.W. Pell's Serenaders shown in the Vauxhall Gardens advertisement below. There would almost certainly have been aristocrats among the passengers.

[Note 100.6] "Bog of Allen" :- About 50 kilometers inland west of Dublin

[Note 100.8] "Van Amburgh's strolling players " :- Isaac A. Van Amburgh (1811–1865) was an American animal trainer who developed the first trained wild animal act in modern times. During the mid-1840s his was the largest traveling show in England. He performed for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert [ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_A._Van_Amburgh]. The advertisement below comes from the Illustrated London News 5th August 1848. No evidence has come to light to suggest that he was on board the Great Britain when she grounded.