Vi, Your remembrances are always delightful to hear - and in this case our ears are wide open as you refer to Magauran etc. Did this Dolan family work for the local Council or similar to have such a nickname? Dee. -----Original Message----- From: fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:fermanagh-gold-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Viola Wiggins via Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2015 8:17 AM To: Marge Rossini; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Magauran/Fee When I was a very small child, we had neighbours McGurn/ Magauran, ( the Buckies) living up the "Marlbank road" in Killykeeghan or Kilnameel. The head of that household was Mick. There were three girls, but I don't remember any boys. Mick used to travel in a Jennet and cart. There was also two Fee brothers, Pat and John in Crossmurren. Pat used to bring stone bags of Hazel nuts to us for Hallow eve. He and his brother were gentle kind people, herding a farm for another family. The milk for their house was Goat's milk, and they existed, rather than lived, a very frugal life on a low income until they got their pension. Then Pat told my mother that he was on "On the pig's back" as regards money. John died before pension age. Those families lived almost beside each other with Dolan (the Clerks), and Nolan (of the bog) in between. Nick names in brackets. I'd guess that Mick, Pat and John would have been born in the 1880s, as they were weather worn old men in my young eyes, but always referred to as "Mr" by us children. The Fees were either "Mr Pat" or "Mr John" so my parents would know which one we were speaking about. Otherwise we addressed them as Mr Fee. Viola ================================== https://www.google.ie/ ================================== http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The Dolans [the Clerks] got their nick name because Patrick(Paddy) Dolan, was from Dowra and his father, Michael? used to be "The Clerk of the Court" in Dowra. Paddy (the Clerk) Dolan married Maggie Murphy d/o Pat, and got the occupancy of their farm, Their son Jim bought a couple of fields down at the bottom end of our road, where I now live. If I saw Jim mowing the grass there I'd make a paked lunch up and put two mugs, milk and Sugar and the Tea in the Teapot, with a greaseproof cork in the spout, into the basket and drive down with it to him and we'd have "Tea in the meadow" together. No tea ever tasted so good apart from "Tea in the bog" Jim's mother used to make me tea, home made bread with Jam, while I was still sitting on the horse's back, when I called with her while collecting 1d per week for the Red Cross during WW2. If I had dismounted I'd have to walk a quarter mile to get back up on the horse's back. So I considered it a debt I owed Jim to give him that treat. He liked Five spoons of sugar in his tea. God Bless Him. He was a real Gentleman may he RIP. Viola. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

Oh, Vi, how I love your stories! Luv, Marge Searching: Golden, Sullivan, Kelly, Shea, in Kerry and Connecticut O'Connor in Kerry Fee, Cassidy, Gilbride in Fermanagh, Cavan and Connecticut Lynch in Kildare, Limerick and Connecticut Walsh, Stackpole, Garry/Garrey/McGarrey, Donovan, Doyle, Clowney/Clooney, King in Kildare On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Viola Wiggins via < fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> wrote: > The Dolans [the Clerks] got their nick name because Patrick(Paddy) Dolan, > was from Dowra and his father, Michael? used to be "The Clerk of the Court" > in Dowra. Paddy (the Clerk) Dolan married Maggie Murphy d/o Pat, and got > the > occupancy of their farm, > Their son Jim bought a couple of fields down at the bottom end of our road, > where I now live. > If I saw Jim mowing the grass there I'd make a paked lunch up and put two > mugs, milk and Sugar and the Tea in the Teapot, with a greaseproof cork in > the spout, into the basket and drive down with it to him and we'd have "Tea > in the meadow" together. > No tea ever tasted so good apart from "Tea in the bog" > Jim's mother used to make me tea, home made bread with Jam, while I was > still sitting on the horse's back, when I called with her while collecting > 1d per week for the Red Cross during WW2. > If I had dismounted I'd have to walk a quarter mile to get back up on the > horse's back. > So I considered it a debt I owed Jim to give him that treat. He liked Five > spoons of sugar in his tea. God Bless Him. He was a real Gentleman may he > RIP. > Viola. > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >