Hearing your story is one of the real pleasures in doing family history - thank you for sharing it. Elizabeth Wright Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Holt" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 7:11 AM Subject: [CoTyIre] Michael Burns' Songs > Fascinating to read about Irish immigrants and others in England in > these songs. They reminded me of an overnight ferry trip I made in > 1961/62 from Belfast to Liverpool (I think it was) when I sat in a > lounge with many Irish men returning to their jobs in England, after > Xmas in Ireland with their families. As we tried to sleep sitting up, > one of the seated men sang a long sad song of many verses about a blind > Irish girl in a village. Everyone listened with their eyes closed and > when he had finished , no-one clapped which I think showed the singer > had truly mirrored the men's feelings. > > One of the men in Michael's songs is named COTTRELL, a surname found in > my Irish ancestry of Cork. I read it comes from the French surname > COQUEREL (meaning rooster). As I have discovered good number of my > Irish ancestors were originally Huguenots (some of whom had become > Catholics by the late 1700's), that made sense to me. So Michael's > "Renaissance" man had perhaps come a long way to England, maybe via > Ireland, maybe not. > > My Tyrone ancestry consists of COTTINS /COTTONS from Killyman Parish, > thought to be of Huguenot ancestry. If anyone is interested in that > name in Tyrone (also appearing as COULTEN, COULTER, COUTER, COTTER in > different parts of Tyrone or in the name WILLIS (Scottish origin), also > in Killyman, please contact me. I am enormously grateful to the > website accompanying this list for having my COTTER/WILLIS marriage of > 1794 on it, as I had looked for it at PRONI twice on trips to Ireland. > > Barbara Holt, New Zealand > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://cotyroneireland.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message