Hi list, from Repton Dbys. Settlement Examination James MARTIN 29 born Shelborne Cork, Ireland. Enlisted 6th Rgt Heavy Dragoons in Ireland, served in England, married Leics. ,marched to Nottingham, discharged Exeter, went to London. Hired to Job CLARK in Repton. Document dated 1804 mike http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~spire/Yesterday/index.htm

SNIPPET: Argentina provided a minor destination for Irish emigration during the 19th century, receiving a total of around 7,000 settlers up to 1870, and another 3,600 by 1895. The prominence among these settlers of migrants from Cos. Westmeath, Longford and Wexford suggests a classic pattern of chain migration, in which existing settlers encouraged and assisted the arrival of relatives and former neighbours. Up to circa 1870, Irish settlers were in many cases able to build up substantial cattle ranches in a rapidly expanding economy; thereafter this type of spectacular upward mobility became more difficult to achieve.

Destiny Margaret Nohilly I walked into the shop and there you were, a pyramid of yellow pears clutched to your chest, and a smile that cancelled years. We magnetised each other as we do when so we meet, trade trifles from our separate lives with words that hide and seek. It might have been otherwise the candour in your eyes reminds me. We stand in a synergy I know I can trust, and scintillate that it be so though life has led us different roads of growth and tears. Our choices yield both loss and gain, I do not know for whom you buy your pears.

Below is a partial list of uploads in December. To view go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ Click on the County and area listed. Or use the search engine which can be limited by County. IRELAND GENERAL *Vitals - Births/Marriages/Deaths HEMPENSTAL/HEMPENSTALL - Wicklow & Wexford CARLOW *Cemetery Killeshin Graveyard Headstones (transcribed from photos) CORK * Land Vol. 4, No. 24 - Estate of John SULLIVAN; William TOWNSEND and Morgan M'SWEENY Vol. 4, No. 25 - Estate of Mary BRIBOSIA, wife of Francis BRIBOSIA, Esq. Lot 1 & 2 Vol. 4, No. 25 - Estate of Mary BRIBOSIA, wife of Francis BRIBOSIA, Esq. Lots 3,4,5 Vol. 4, No. 25 - Estate of Mary BRIBOSIA, wife of Francis BRIBOSIA, Esq. Lots 6,7,8 Vol. 4, No. 25 - Estate of Mary BRIBOSIA, wife of Francis BRIBOSIA, Esq. Lots 9,10,11 Vol. 4, No. 26 - Estate of Benjamin JEFFERS; John JEFFREYS et al. Lands of East Ballygarvan Vol. 4, No. 27 - Estate of Benjamin Hill GILLMAN - OWNER and Petitioner * Vitals Marriage Record - Margaret GRAHAM - Patrick BRUCE - 1825 DUBLIN Cemetery History of the Dublin Catholic Cemeteries by Wm. J. Fitzpatrick - Chapter III Glasnevin Map showing location of Historic Graves Glasnevin Map showing location of Historic Graves Historic Graves in Glasnevin Cemetery - Tidbits Headstones Deansgrange updated Newspaper London Times, Involvency - FALKINER, CLOIREE, BARKER Miscellaneous "The Erasmian" dated Dec. 1918. Obituaries KERRY *Headstones MARY AGNES HICKSON Headstone LOUTH *Newspaper Irish Times (Co. Louth) May 17, 1859 Landed Estates Court MEATH *Newspaper May 14th 1859 Irish Times. (Co. Meath) Carberry V. Healy MONAGHAN *Misc. Surnames found in County Monaghan 1100-1600 SLIGO *Misc. Surnames found in County Sligo 1100-1600 TIPPERARY *Headstones Ballyneale Cemetery in Ballyneale, near Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary Hore Abbey Kilcash Cemetery Kilsheelan Cemetery Old Kilcash Cemetery - (1 mile from Ballyneale) Rock of Cashel, Tipperary St. Mary's Thurles *Newspaper Irish Times. Thurles Fair Sept. 24th 1866 *Miscellaneous Short Biographies of John O'LEARY & D.C. O'KEEFFE Dec 2007 C. Hunt Tipperary Arrests under Insurrection Act - 1823 WICKLOW *Newspaper Irish Times May 3, 1859 HALPIN v HALPIN Christina Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/form.htm (Submission Form)

Derry's contemporary poet, Seamus Heaney, described the uneasy Anglo-Irish relationship in terms of a husband's feelings for his pregnant wife - ACT OF UNION Your back is a firm line of eastern coast And arms and legs are thrown Beyond your gradual hills. I caress The heaving province where our past has grown. I am the tall kingdom over your shoulder That you would neither cajole nor ignore. Conquest is a lie. I grow older Conceding your half-independent shore Within whose borders now my legacy Culminates inexorably. Ulster's tragic melodrama has continued to unfold, the great majority of the population, though still segregated by the sour dance of religion and history, has looked on aghast from opposing wings, hoping that peace can bring down the curtain, permanently, on a show which has long outrun any purpose it once had. -- "Irish Counties, " J. J. Lee (1997)

SNIPPET: Englishman Richard LOVETT kept notes of his journey throughout the Emerald Isle in 1888, and these were published that same year by 'The Religious Tract Society.' Vowing to "keep an open mind," LOVETT demonstrated a deep interest in Ireland and genuine respect for its people. In fact, he stated that if the English spent more time getting acquainted with Ireland they would rethink their position on the Irish. LOVETT stated, "A steamer ran regularly to the Arran Islands, these are three rocky island lying off the mouth of Galway Bay, abounding in ruins of the most remarkable kind, and inhabited by a simple and kindly race of peasant fisherman. On these islands, at places like Barna, in Galway Bay, and in fact almost universally along the western coast, the traveller meets and can readily test the seaworthy qualities of the curragh, the representative of the ancient coracle. These boats, made of tarred canvas stretched over a light frame, frail as they seem, can live in very rough weather, and are managed with very great skill by the boatmen. Their chief defect is that they make much leeway when there is a strong breeze. But any one who wishes to make a voyage along this coast in much the same fashion as the Christian missionaries in the fifth and sixth centuries, can do so by employing the modern curragh. After exhausting in a more or less rapid fashion the sights of Galway and the neighbourhood, most travellers push on into the wilds of Connemara. Loughs (lakes) Corrib and Mask, together with the village of Cong, lie at the beginning of the route. During the summer a steamer sails daily from Galway to Cong, traversing Lough Corrib, which is not only one of the largest but also one of the loveliest in Ireland. It covers an area of no less than 44,000 acres. it is studded with islets, the most important being Inchagoill, or 'the island of the devout foreigner,' which contains an ancient graveyard and the ruins of two very old Irish churches. The more ancient of the two is known as Teampull Phaidrig, or St. Patrick's Church, and has claims by no means despicable to be considered as belonging to the age of the great Irish missionary. There is, moreover, upon Inchagoill a stone monument bearing the inscription, 'the stone of Lugnaedon, son of Limeneuh,' who is generally held to have been the sister of St. Patrick. Experts have decided that on paleographical grounds the inscription cannot be referred to a later date than the beginning of the sixth century. The second church, Teampull-na-Neave, 'the church of the Saint,' is several centuries younger than St. Patrick's, and presents to the student of church architecture a very fine example of the decorated, circular-arched, cluster-pillared doorway. On the isthmus connecting Loughs Corrib and Mask stands the village of Cong, the name being derived from the Irish word 'Cunga,' which mean 'a neck.' About the year 1010 Cong was the seat of a bishopric, and there are still extant the ruins of a very fine abbey dating from the twelfth century. It belonged to the wealthy order of St. Augustine. During the last fifty or sixty years the remains have suffered severely from the depredations of those who considered and used it as a handy quarry. It was famous in early days for wealth and ecclesiastical treasures; of the latter the famous Cross of Cong, is a good example. This is a famous relic, dating from the Middle Ages, enshrining and illustrating, the traditions and habits and life of the early Irish church. This cross was constructed, as one of the five inscriptions upon it states, for the following purpose: 'In this cross is preserved the cross on which the Founder of the World suffered.' In other words, it is a reliquary (a receptacle for sacred objects) and at one time was believed to contain a piece of the cross upon which Jesus Christ suffered 'the just for the unjust,' in order 'that He should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.' It was made by order of Turlough O'Connor, father of the last king who ruled Ireland prior to the Norman invasion, about the year 1123, and placed in the Church of Tuam, during the Archbishopric of Muiredach O'Duffy, who died in 1150. This is clearly shown by the inscriptions still decipherable upon it. It was transferred to Cong either by O'Duffy, who died there, or by order of King Turlough O'Connor, who founded and endowed that abbey. At that time of the Reformation it was concealed in an oaken chest, and early in the present century a parish priest, the Rev. Mr. Prendergast, found chest and relic in a cottage. From his successor, Professor MacCullagh bought it, and presented it to the Museum (Dublin). The shaft is thirty inches high, the arms eighteen and three-quarter inches broad, and it is one and three-quarter inches thick. It is of oak, covered with plates of copper. On the central plate of the front at the junction of the cross is a large crystal, through which what was supposed to be the true cross could be seen. Eighteen jewels were placed at regular intervals, and of these thirteen still remain. Two out of the four beads which originally surrounded the central boss of the four beads remain. The lower part of the shaft is the head of a grotesque animal, beneath which is the richly decorated ball containing the socket into which the pole was inserted by which the reliquary was borne aloft on processional occasions. The Annals of the Four Masters record that in 'A.D. 1150, Muireadhach Ua Dubhthaigh, Archbishop of Connaught, chief senior of all Ireland in wisdom, chastity, in the bestowal of jewels and food, died at Cong in the 75th year of his age.' This man's name is inscribed upon the processional Cross of Cong..." (The village of Cong) -- "Roderick O'Connor, who is often described as 'the last King of Ireland,' died here in 1198. The popular view, that he was also interred in Cong Abbey, is incorrect, he having been buried at Clonmacnois. But here he spent the last fifteen years of his life. 'Standing between the river and the abbey, the picture naturally rises before us of the ancient monarch, broken down by the calamities which his family was suffering from, a foreign invasion, which he was no longer able to resist, but still more so by the opposition and ingratitude of his own children and relatives - passing up the river with his retinue, landing here in 1183, and received by the Lord Abbot and his cannons and friars, and then taking leave of his faithful adherents at the water's edge, being conducted in procession to the abbey, which, it is said, his munificence had endowed. There as a recluse, untrammelled by the weight of state affairs, and possibly unaffected by the quarrels of his chieftains and kinsfolk, the Last Monarch of Ireland, abdicating his authority because the country no longer supported him, died, a sad but fitting and prophetic emblem of the land over which he had ruled.' Not far from Cong is the plain of Moytura, where one of those famous battles - half-historic, half-mythic, lasting three days, took place in the dawn of Irish history between the Firbolgs and the Tuatha de Danaan. Those who wish to get some accurate notion of what really took place on that occasion cannot do better than consult Sir W. Wilde's 'Lough Corrib,' where they will find the history of the great struggle minutely traced. Lough Mask is about nine miles long and four wide, in a very beautiful part of the country, abounding in traces of ruined castles and churches. The river connecting the two lakes runs partly underground, and we are able to give an engraving of one part of this subterranean channel where it is easily accessible and widens out into what is known as the 'Pigeon Hole.' The lively Celtic imagination, which has produced all over Ireland such a rich crop of fairy lore and local legends, has enriched the stream with a brace of holy white trout, which it would be impious in the extreme to catch."

December updates to IGP Project Archives for Counties CLARE, LIMERICK, GALWAY and MAYO include the following thanks to some great volunteers! http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ If you have any data please consider sharing it in the archives to help fellow researchers! Submission form http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/form.htm or alternately (if you don't want to use the form) send data to the appropriate file manager listed at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ with "IGP Submission" in subject line. Co. CLARE Cemeteries - St. Finghin's Churchyard, Quin from Anna Ryan Cemeteries - Inagh Cemetery, Inagh, from Anna Ryan Court Records - Trial of M Kennedy, M Murphy, D Kennedy, T Hogan, D McNamara, J Slattery and J. Rochford ? 1847 from Jim McNamara Church Records - RC Baptismal Records for Feakle and Tulla (May 1860-July 1880) from Jim McNamara Directories - 1881 Slater's Directory of Ennistymon (with Lahinch, Liscannor and Neighbourhoods) from Cathy Labath Newspapers - Misc News Items from Clare Journal and Ennis Advertiser, 1836, 1837, 1859, 1861 and 1864 from David Kenny Co. GALWAY Church Records - Marriages of Beagh Parish Jan-Feb 1850 & May 19, 1860-Oct 27, 1863 from C. Labath Census - 1911 Census of Kilmacduagh Parish - Heads of Household (Ballybaun, Ballylinnan, Ballysheedy, Castlequarter, Drumminacloghane, Knockamacoura,Lisheen, Newtown, Newtown Glynn, Newtown Regan, Sheeaun, Termon, Cloughnakeeve) from C. Labath Directories - Directory of Eyrecourt, 1824 from C. Labath Directories - Directory of Eyrecourt, 1846 from C. Labath Directories - Directory of Eyrecourt, 1881 from C. Labath Directories - Directory of Portumna, 1881 from C. Labath Co. LIMERICK Census Substitutes - Index of Freemen of Limerick, 1746-1836 (Surnames L-R) from C. Labath Headstone photos from Abingdon Cemetery from Joe Ryan Land - Deed of Assignment, Memorial 193, Registered 1860 (William Lane Joynt to John Keane; Premises situate in Limerick City )from C. Labath Land - Deed of Assignment, Memorial 290, Registered 1863 (Edward & James O'Donnel Joynt to Dudley Joynt; Premises situate in Limerick City) from C. Labath Co. MAYO Cemetery - Slievemore Cemetery from Bernie McCafferty Cemetery - Aughagower Cemetery, Westport from Anna Ryan Cemetery - Burrishoole Cemetery from Bernie McCafferty Cemetery - Killeen Cemetery from Bernie McCafferty Cemetery - Kilmeena Cemetery from Bernie McCafferty Cemetery - Old Kilmeena Cemetery from Bernie McCafferty Cemetery - Murrisk Cemetery from Bernie McCafferty Cemetery - Drum Cemetery ,Claremorris from Anna Ryan Headstone Photos - Barna-Carroll Cemetery from Eve Casserly Cathy Joynt Labath Archive File Manager for Clare, Limerick, Galway and Mayo http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/

SNIPPET: Researchers with an interest in the 62 years of British transportation to NSW (Australia) might be interested in a 200-page biography by Jacqueline GRANT and published by Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW in 1994. It is the story of the life and times of John GRANT who was born in 1792 at Moyne, County Tipperary. He was accused of attempted murder. At the age of 18 he was among the youngest of all the cargoes of prisoners sent to the penal colony during the 62 years of British transportation. It also relates the grim and gory details of the murder of Nicholas MAHER in Moyne, County Tipperary in 1810. It was John GRANT's sister Mary who 'beat out the brains' of her lover, Nicholas MAHER, her motive revenge. On his escape from Clonmel gaol, Jeremiah, John's brother, became the infamous and notorious Captain Grant the Highway of County Tipperary. The author traces the history of this one-time convict from his roots in Tipperary to his final arrival in NSW in 1811. "Providence" was the name of the ship which transported him with 180 other convicts to NSW. Because of good behaviour and thrift, GRANT was to become the owner of some 12,000 hectares of land and, with the assistance of the 58 men who worked for him, he managed over twelve thousand sheep. He became 'the father of Hartley.' Appendix three of this well-researched book lists all 181 convicts (140 males and 41 females). Of the prisoners, 52 of them had life sentences, four had 14-year terms and the remaining 125 received the minimum seven years. The names of the counties of origin for each convict is also included. Seventy-six of these convicts were from Dublin. Professor Patrick O'FARRELL, University of NSW, said of this book - "Jacqueline GRANT has made a fine job of weaving the GRANT story into the early history of the colony - I congratulate her on her achievement." The author was living in Orange, NSW at the time of publication.

THE OTHER SIDE My grandparents went down to the woods on the day I was born, and blessed an infant tree they found, naming it as my guardian twin. Throughout my childhood I never knew I was bound to something wild, that I grew through frost and winter storms, raising many arms to distant light. Until one day, when school was over, and grandma took me into the woods. She said a time of change had come, that I was turning into a man. We met grandpa working there, splitting a rooted tree with a curved iron blade. They stripped me naked, pulled the split apart and gently pushed me through and splashed cold water over me, then bound the tree shut with white rags and told me childhood was left behind forever, on the other side. I stayed near the tree a lot at first, feeling abandoned and out of place, thinking about the time ahead. The tree healed, its bandages rotted away, and it became like other trees, except its bark was scarred for me. Then I met a girl, and went away for years. But I never forgot, and always returned at the great moments of my life - times of grief or celebration, and felt a special union with the other side. Once there was a year when things got so dark I wanted to open the tree again and go back through, but felt in my bones that unless the slit was exactly the same I was sure to end up in some other place. Now that I am very old and another change is near. I often visit my guardian tree. How massive it's become these recent years, joined at last to the sky above. Soon I will enter my heart's house and lock the door behind. I'll climb the creaky forest stairs, and slip through the gap where the light seeds the complex silence on the other side. -- Roderick Ford, from the U. S., published widely in the U. S. and Europe -- from "Seeing the Wood and the Trees," eds. Rowley & Haughton, Cairde na Coille - Forest Friends Ireland/Rowan Tree Press (2003)

The IGP archives has a number of counties available for adoption. You need to know enough about websites to upload (ftp) and link files. A desire to get files for your favorite county online is a must! Contact me off list if interested. Thanks, Christina [email protected] Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/

I forgot to mention with my email yesterday that I do not do personal research. I have no other information, other than what is on the site. There are many resources and links on the site where you can write to get answers to your research questions. If your questions are County Mayo related, they are best asked on one of the Mayo mailing lists. Here is the one I admin and there are many good people on the list that will help you: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/MAYO.html -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Today the Ireland GenWeb County Mayo Website was updated with the addition of 88 new townland pages plus a website for the Oughaval Civil Parish. The following townland pages were either updated or added: Barnaderg, Cuilmore, Derryaun, Derryhawna, Derrylea, Derrymore, Drummin East & West, Glenlaur, Leenavesta, Lenanadurtaun, Muingatogher, Oughty, Pollanoughty, Shanvallybeg, Tawnyard, Tawnycrower, Barraglanna, Boheh, Carrowmacloughlin, Cartoor, Durless, Furgill, Glenbaun, Glencally, Gorteendarragh, Cuilleen, Carrownalurgan, Knockfin, Streemstown, Westport Town, Westport Quay Town, Ardmore Point, Ballina Town, Ballindine Town, Ballinrobe Town, Ballinvoash, Ballybroony, Bunree Town, Kiltamagh Town, Park, Shanaghy, Treanfohanaun, Tully, Steelaun, Killala Town, Ballycastle, Swineford, Cloghmore, Belmullet Town, Steelaun, Rathfran, Kilsallagh Lower & Upper, Leckanvy, Mullagh, Tangincartoor, Tawnyslinnaun, Bellataleen, Carrowkeel, Carrowkeeran, Crott Mountain, Deerpark West, Fahburren, Glaspatrick, Killadangan, Lenacraigaboy, Meermihil, Murrisk Demesne, Murrisknaboll, Owenwee, Teevenacroaghy, Thornhill, Cahernaran Island, Roeillan, Inishdaugh, Inisheeny, Aghamore, Ardoley, Beclare, Ballynastangford Upper & Lower, Carrowbaun, Churchfield, Clerhaun, Cloghan, Clooneen, Drumminaweelaun, Farnaght, Gortaroe, Killaghoor, Killeencoff, Knockaraha East & West, Rossbeg, Rossymailley, Illanroe Island, Roman Island, Ardmore, Attireesh, Cahernamart, Carrowbeg, Cloonmonad, Deerpark East, Knockranny, Westport Demesne, Annagh Island East, West & Middle, Cloonbrone, Ballinglen, Rathmore, Crossmolina, Freeheen, Greenaun, Carrowmore. The Surname, Links, Resources and Records pages were also updated with new church records, pictures and links. If you would like to contribute to this site, or have corrections and/or comments, please contact me off the list. You can find the site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlmayo/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I have updated the IGW & IGP County Leitrim websites by adding a webpage for the Fenagh Civil Parish, plus webpages for all the townlands located in the parish. The following pages have been added or updated: Mohill Town, Gortletteragh, Manorhamilton Town, Cattan, Drumany, Aroddy, Coldrumman, Glasdrumman, Laragh, Sruhaun, Aghaboneill, Annaghaderg, Cornagon, Cornvad, Corrabarrack, Drumcollop, Garadice, Knockroosk, Boneill, Corragoly, Drumany (O'Brien), Drumany (Tenants), Gubroe, Kilmacsherwell, Kiltyfinnan, Leamanish, Branra, Churchfield, Cloodrumman Beg & More, Cornabrone, Corrabeagh, Corrachoosaun, Corraphort, Derreen, Kerrinkip, Derrymacoffin, Drumcarra, Drumeanan Beg & More, Drumkirwan, Drumlitter (Besborough), Drumroosk North & South, Muckros, Aghavadden, Ardagh, Ballycalleen, Commons, Corlough, Cornafostra, Costrea, Cuillagh, Drumcattan, Drumharkan, Drumlaheen, Drumlitten (King), Fenaghbeg, Glebe, Greagh, Knockmullin, Mough, Mullaghnameely, Tully, Derrylustia, Lisinagroagh. There are now a total of 294 townland pages. Other pages that have been updated with new data include the Surname and Records pages. If you would like to comment, correct and/or contribute to this site, please contact me off the list. The sites are located at: Ireland GenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlleitr/ Ireland Gen Projects: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irllet/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

CHRISTMAS TREE little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest and were you very sorry to come away? see I will comfort you because you smell so sweetly I will kiss your cool bark and hug you safe and tight just as your mother would, only don't be afraid look the spangles that sleep all the year in a dark box dreaming of being taken out and allowed to shine, the balls the chains red and gold the fluffy threads, put up your little arms and i'll give them all to you to hold every finger shall have its ring and there won't be a single place dark or unhappy then when you are quite dressed you'll stand in the window for everyone to see and how they'll stare! oh but you'll be very proud and my little sister and i will take hands and looking up at our beautiful tree we'll dance and sing "Noel Noel" -- e. e. cummings American poet Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962), renowned poet, painter, and playwright, was born in Cambridge, MA, the son of a prominent Boston clergyman and teacher. Cummings volunteered as an ambulance driver in WWI and wrote his experiences in a detention camp, "The Enormous Room." (1922). Seeking a spontaneous and fresh presentation in his writing, he generally disregarded grammar and punctuation, even in his own name - coined his own words, ran words and sentences together. After their divorce, his first wife and daughter went to live in Ireland. Cummings always stressed individualism. Some of his verses have been set to music and played in various venues including Ireland. In Kilkenny the former Augustinian Friary played host to "A Wind Has Blown The Rain Away," an evening of e. e. cummings songs with NY composer/pianist Ellen Mandel, accompanied by tenor Toss Almond. The Queen's University, Belfast, has one of Cummings lines on their website - "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

Mike, There are two sets for each cemetery. Example: deansgrange-n01.txt Deansgrange North Section The first link is the text file. The second is the tomstone photos. The first link takes you to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/1headstones/dublin/deansgrange/index.html The second is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/1headstones/dublin/deansgrange-n1/index.html Another way is to look at the directories: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/1headstones/ Ignore the directory called "headstones" because the text files are in there. The others are tombstone photos. Hope this helps. Regards, Christina Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ | I tried to find them yesterday to no avail and I just used your | link below. It takes us only to the tombstone transcriptions rather | than to actual tombstone photos.

MIDNIGHT MASS The peaceful stillness of a winter night Blesses my journey to the chapel gate. I join the murmurous worshippers who wait To fill the shadowy church with candlelight. Small kindling flames that make the darkness bright Serve to express what we anticipate, The miracle for which we congregate, The love that comes to set our world to right. And holding up our candle we repeat The vows made for us in our infancy, Receiving in exchange that promise sweet, The prelude to the first Epiphany. Give us the hearts of children when we greet The Christ Child born to our humanity. -- Warren O'Connell, "Duet for Two Dubs, Poetry and Prose by: Warren O'Connell and Maureen Charlton," Swan Press Dublin (1997)

THE LARK IN THE CLEAR AIR Dear thoughts are in my mind And my soul soars enchanted, As I hear the sweet lark sing In the clear air of the day. For a tender beaming smile To my hope has been granted, And tomorrow she shall hear All my fond heart would say. I shall tell her all my love, All my soul's adoration; And I think she will hear me And will not say me nay. It is this that fills my soul With its joyous elation, As I hear the sweet lark sing In the clear air of the day. -- Sir Samuel FERGUSON. - Lawyer, Poet, Antiquarian, President Royal Irish Academy was born in Belfast in 1810 to a well-off ascendancy family, married Mary GUINNESS of the wealthy brewing family, couple lived at 20 North Great George's Street, Dublin.

Peter - go here and at the bottom in the PICO Search Engine key in MALLOW [Nothing Me] Knew the name rang a bell - as spelled w/an 'a' from some transcribing http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ It pays everyone to check this site frequently as over 800 articles uploaded of interest and records now there Thanx to the site managers [Christina Hunt and Don Kelly] and their volunteers [they have a way of coordinating all that makes it so easy to be a volunteer - and can always use more - VBG >> Mimi Taylor -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Gainsborough Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2007 9:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IRELAND] Interests: Mellows & Mellowes Hello Listers, I would like to express my interest in the MELLOWS and MELLOWES surnames. If you have either of these names in your family tree, or know someone with either of these names, please will you/they contact me? Thank you for reading this. Peter Gainsborough ------------------------------- 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

Christina, I tried to find them yesterday to no avail and I just used your link below. It takes us only to the tombstone transcriptions rather than to actual tombstone photos. Mike On Dec 24, 2007 8:16 AM, Christina Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: > Mimi, > Here is the direct link to the headstone photos for Dublin County. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/1headstones/dublin/markers.htm > The Google search is only on the main page. Pico is below it and on the > county > pages. As we are over 900 pages online, I was worrying about a search > engine > that can go higher than 1500 pages. Giving Google a try. It is not as up > to date > though, as it updates about once a month. > So, play with Google but don't trust it completely. Pico gets more hits. > Thanks, > Christina > Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives > http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ > > | Hey - Hi - I don't see any photos at all - > | And also have you noticed not a PICO search anymore - but Google at > | bottom of each page - noticed this in the past couple of weeks > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >

Mimi, Here is the direct link to the headstone photos for Dublin County. http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/1headstones/dublin/markers.htm The Google search is only on the main page. Pico is below it and on the county pages. As we are over 900 pages online, I was worrying about a search engine that can go higher than 1500 pages. Giving Google a try. It is not as up to date though, as it updates about once a month. So, play with Google but don't trust it completely. Pico gets more hits. Thanks, Christina Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlarchive/ | Hey - Hi - I don't see any photos at all - | And also have you noticed not a PICO search anymore - but Google at | bottom of each page - noticed this in the past couple of weeks