My maternal GreatGreat Grandparents came to England before 1839. As they had my Great Grandfather in Stepney London in January of that year. They were William Nowlan [Nolan]born around 1804 and Rebecca Patterson born 1808. That is all I know except my mother always said they came from Galway. Taken from the British Isles Vital Records CD (Partial) Collection Here is the only hit for a William and Rebecca - keep for your records, who knows it might tie in later . NOWLAND, William Christening Gender: Male Birth Date: 3 Apr 1766 Christening Date: 13 Apr 1766 Recorded in: Westminster, London, England Collection: St James Father: William Nowland Mother: Rebecca Source: FHL Film 1042308 Dates: 1723 - 1786 PATTERSON - Many Rebecca Pattersons in Antrim, Tipperary, Down, Fermanagh, Donegal, listings from 1868 to 1872 .. No marriage listing for these names Keep in mind this is only a partial listing, if you go to the Family History Cantres you wil find more data .. Good luck in your research .. MaryPat

My gg grandmother was married at Dundrod in County Antrim. Would the church still have the records or would they be held in the Archives somewhere. Cheers Chris OZ

I am so sorry, I put my last post under the wrong heading. I told you I was new! Wendy

Hello Everyone, This is my first time on this list, I have left my Irish family research until last as I am not sure I have enough information to find them. My maternal GreatGreat Grandparents came to England before 1839. As they had my Great Grandfather in Stepney London in January of that year. They were William Nowlan [Nolan]born around 1804 and Rebecca Patterson born 1808. That is all I know except my mother always said they came from Galway. Would any knowledgeable person know if that is enough to trace them, and how I would start to look please. Best wishes Wendy.

In a message dated 1/14/06 4:19:03 AM, labaths@celticcousins.net writes: > > | My gg grandmother  was married at Dundrod in County Antrim. > | > | Would the church still have the records or would they be held in the > Archives somewhere. > | > > What was the approximate year of marriage? > Which church? Genealogyforum.org Manager Irish and Scot chat host

Anything on 'the old IRA' military?

THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, Monday, October 11, 1824 MILITARY PROMOTIONS War Office, Oct. 1, 1824 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons - Lieut. Robert Lewis, from the 12th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice St. Quintin, who exchanges. 6th Regiment of Dragoons - Ensign Henry Robert Addison, from the 65th Foot, to be Cornet, vice Dund??, who exchanges. 7th Ditto - Lieutenant William Inge, to be Captain by purchase, vice Williams, who retires; [cannot read next line]. 11th Ditto - Captain Henry Bond, from half-pay 12th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Thomas ???? Barlow, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 17th Ditto - Lieutenant Matthew Chitty Downes St. Quintin, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant vice Lewis, who exchanges. 3d Regiment of Foot Guards - George Augustus Frederick Noust??n, Gent, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Westenra, promoted in the 75th Foot. 7th Regiment of Foot - Assistant-Surgeon vice James, appointed to the ?????. 13th Ditto - Ensign James Jones, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Rothe, deceased; Richard William Croker, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Jones. 21st Ditto - Captain Richard Doherty, to be Major by purchase, vice Maclaine, promoted; Lieutenant Marcus Beresford, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Doherty Second Lieutenant, John Picton Becle, to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Beresford; Wm. Heary Armstrong, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice ?ee?e. 30th Ditto - John Charles Bettley, Gent, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Vandergee, deceased. 35th Ditto - Lieut. Fowk Moore, from the 87th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Wa??e, appointed to the ? Royal Veteran Battalion. 38th Ditto - Lieutenant Charles John Boyes, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice James Watson ??yes, who retires upon half-pay, vice Toot. ??th Ditto - Assistant-Surgeon Richard Noble Starr from half-pay of the Regiment to be Assistant-Surgeon. ?7th Ditto - Brevet Major John Owens, from half-pay 74th Foot, to be Captain, vice Weste??? Warner Lewis, who exchanges. ?0th Ditto - Second Lieutenant Robert Price, from half-pay 2d Ceylon Regiment, to be Second Lieutenant, vice Carl Wevel Von Krager, who exchanges receiving the difference. 62d Ditto - Ensign George Damerura, to be Lieut. by purchase, vice Mitchell, who retires. 65d Ditto - Brevet major Charles Wm. Kerr, from the 2d Roayl Veteran Battalion, to be Captain, vice Smith ,who exchanges. 6?th Ditto - Cornet Richard Dundas, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Ensign, vice Addison, who exchanges. 69th Ditto - To be Lieutenants without purchase, ensign John Fenn, vice Smith promoted; ensign James Eyre Muttlebury, vice Roy, deceased; to be ensign William Semple, junior, vice Muttlebury. 75th Ditto - Major Henry Viscount Barnard to be lieutenant-colonel by purchase, vice Sir John Campbell, who retires; captain William M'Adam, to be major by purchase, vice Lord Barnard; lieutenant Hon. J.C. Westenra, from the 3d Foot Guards, to be captain, by purchase, vice M'Adam. 87th Ditto - Lieutenant Crosbie Morgell Christian from the 1st Royal Veteran Battalion, to be lieutenant, vice Moor, appointed to the 35th Foot. 91st Ditto - Brevet lieutenant-colonel John M'Donald to be lieutenant-colonel by purchase, vice MacNeile, who retires; captain Robert Anderson, to be major, by purchase, vice Macdonald; lieutenant William Fraser, to be captain, by purchase, vice Anderson; ensign George A. Barnes to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fraser; William M. Weltenhall, Gent to be ensign, by purchase, vice Barnes. 2d West India Regiment - lieuteant John Campbell from the Ceylon regiment, to be lieutenant, vice Boyes, appointed to the 38th foot. Ceylon Regiment - Lieutenant T.E. Hodges, from half-pay 21st foot, to be lieutenant, vice Campbell, appointed to the 2d West India Regiment. Royal African Colonial Corps - Hospital Assistant John Bell to be Assistant Surgeon, vice Geddes, whose appointment has not taken place. 1st Royal Veteran Battalion - Captain Wm. Smith, from the 63d Foot, to be captain, vice Kerr, who exchanges; assistant-surgeon William Dillon, from half-pay 72d foot, to be assistant-surgeon, vice Wm. Gardiner, who exchanges. Veteran Companies for service at Newfoundland - assistant-surgeon James Strachan, from half-pay 3d West India Regiment, to be assistant-surgeon. STAFF - Lieutenant Henry Anderson, from the 39th foot to be Adjutant of a Recruiting District, vice Valentine Munbee, who retires upon half-pay ?9th foot. HOSPITAL STAFF - Staff Surgeon William Lyons, from half-pay, to be surgeon to the Forces vice Tully, promoted; Assistant Surgeon Isaac James, from the 7th foot, to be Assistant Surgeon to the Forces, vice Muir, who retires upon half-pay, 1st foot. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Henry Grattan Douglass, a native of Ireland, is appointed Chief Magistrate of Van Dieman's Land. Lieutenant-Colonel Sutherland, who commanded our troops in defeating the Ashantees, was stationed in Limerick garrison, not long since, as Major of the 93d Highlanders. Captain Morgan, of the 2d battalion 35th Native Infantry, is discharged the East India Company's Service, for insulting his Commanding Officer. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

----- Original Message ----- From: "Goldstraw" <pcgoldstraw@tca-online.com.au> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 9:39 PM Subject: [IRELAND] Church Records | My gg grandmother was married at Dundrod in County Antrim. | | Would the church still have the records or would they be held in the Archives somewhere. | What was the approximate year of marriage? Cathy

Hi List Looking for information on my great grandmother MARGARET HODGINS BORN BELFASTABT1821 IMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA1841 ship " LASCAR"aged abt 20 years under the protection of RICHARD CARTER and his wife to be employed by SIR JAMES DOWLING WOOLOOMOOLOO she was a QUEEN IRELAND NURSE what ever that means.Thanks Ena

Hello All, All I have on my Great great grandparents is. William Nolan Born about 1904 /Rebecca Patterson born about 1808. My mother said the Nolans were from Galway. I have no idea about researching Irish families. Is this a lost cause? William and Rebecca were in Stepney County of London in 1839 as my Great Grandfather was born there in January of that year. Hoping for some advice. Wendy

Hi, Ena. Are you sure she was born in Belfast? You are probably already familiar with the website with generations of the DOWLING family that includes Chief Justice Sir James Dowling, and the author J. M. BENNETT who wrote an biography about the Chief Justice and that DOWLING is buried in Waverley Cemetery, Bronte, Australia. You are probably familiar with the website "Find A Grave" with a picture of DOWLINGs grave and a list of others buried in that cemetery. You might check to see if anything "rings a bell." Since surnames often change in spelling when immigrating, I am wondering if a godfather named Arthur HODGSON in the associated tree of James Sheen DOWLING could have any connection to your HODGINS. Also, I saw some reference to Co. Laois in some of the branches and Co. Laois was also known as Leix and Queen's County. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ena Jewell" <ena.jewell2@bigpond.com> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 5:43 AM Subject: [IRELAND] MARGARET HODGINS > Hi List > Looking for information on my great grandmother MARGARET HODGINS BORN BELFASTABT1821 IMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA1841 ship " LASCAR"aged abt 20 years under the protection of RICHARD CARTER and his wife to be employed by SIR JAMES DOWLING WOOLOOMOOLOO she was a QUEEN IRELAND NURSE what ever that means.Thanks Ena

BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, May 1, 1850 CITY POLICE COURT THE FAIRIES - At the city Limerick Police court on Thursday, a lad named Cornelius Hennessey, arrested as a vagrant, told the presiding Magistrate he had been for some time with the fairies! Magistrate - Who are the fairies? Prisoner - The "good people," whose souls the Almighty lets live upon earth, though their bodies are buried - they took me away from my father's house, and in a hurling match they broke my leg. - (laughter) A Policeman - Though young that lad is, your worship, he is most incorrigible - breaks window glass and plunders bread-shops - he has a name for every day of the week. Magistrate - If I let you off will you go back to your father? How can I, sir? sure there is a fairy at home at my place, and my father thinks he is his son; as he says he don't know me (great laughter). Magistrate - I'll send you back to the "good people" so (a laugh). Prisoner - I wouldn't know where to find them now, sir (much laughter). Magistrate - I believe not, but you shan't put a finger in my eye. You are a regular juvenile trickster, and I'll punish you. Prisoner - I am satisfied if it is by giving me enough to eat, your honour (roars of laughter). Magistrate - I sentence you to 21 days imprisonment, at hard labour on the treadmill. Prisoner - Very will, sir, I used to practice a little that way with the fairies (loud laughter) - When you go to them that you may break your shins on the treadmill (immoderate laughter). The delinquent was then committed. Cornelius O'Donnell and Wm. Craven were sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment and to be whipped, for stealing lead; Partrick Gleeson and Patrick Downy, for stealing hay, like rule.---Limerick Chronicle. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

Jean, One of my most favorite novels. There is also a sequel which I will have to search our bookshelves to get the exact title. Many lively conversations were held around our Sunday family dinner over coffee and dessert. Multi generational, the role of the Catholic clergy stated in the book shocked the older emigrants and the first generation members. Then we younger ones would join in with our John XXIII enlightenment. Much of what the Jewish people have and had suffered was similar to the Irish status over the centuries with the English. URIS pointed this out in numerous interviews. His wife wrote a wonderful "coffee table" book called "A Terrible Beauty" full of her photography in Ireland. I've often wondered why it was never made into a movie as his other books were. Mary Ellen Chambers "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> wrote: BOOK REVIEW: "There is no present or future - only the past, happening over and over again - now." That is a line from Eugene O'NEILL's "A Moon for the Misbegotten." In 1976 celebrated author Leon URIS published his powerful 751-page novel "Trinity," set in Ireland between the period of the famine of the 1840s and the Easter Rising of 1916. Per the author, much background research went into his work which gives voice to the generations of Catholic hill farmers in Donegal fighting for survival against the harshness of the land and the injustice in their lives. His novel also attempts to give us insight into the times and events from the perspective of families of the British aristocracy, who ventured to Ireland to conquer, colonize and exploit. Also portrayed are the lives of devout Belfast shipyard workers whose Scottish-Presbyterian ancestors were planted in Ulster to secure the Crown's interests. "This is his Trinity, the oil and water of the Irish epic that would never mix, their interrelations of love and hate in a terrible and beautiful drama spanning over half a century." You should be able to find a copy in your local library if the subject interests you. ==== IRELAND Mailing List ==== Ireland Mailing List website..surname registry, links, lookup volunteers,unsubscribe, change your subscription from L to D or D to L http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrelandList/

BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 24, 1850 FRIGHTFUL STORM AND INJURY TO PROPERTY IN IRELAND On Thursday between the hours of three and four o'clock in the afternoon, our city was visited by a terrific thunder storm, accompanied by a perfect hurricane and fall tempest, the most fearful in its violence, and the most disastrous in its effects on property (considering the short life of its countenance), that has ever occurred in the memory of the oldest who witnessed it. In fact this terrible convulsion of the elements partook in a very slight degree of the characteristics ascribed to storms in these temperate latitudes. Its phenomena were rather those peculiar to the sudden snow gales of the Baltic, the fatal Mediterranean white squall, or the disastrous and the often unforeseen and unprovided for West Indian hurricane. The conflict of the elements burst upon the city with a suddenness and violence that smote the inhabitants with terror and dismay. We have taken some trouble to ascertain the principal facts attainable concerning this sudden visitation, both as to the very singular atmospheric peculiarities observed at its commencement, as also the extent of injury done in our city and its immediate vicinity, and it gives us no small pleasure to be able to state, that so far as we have yet learned loss of human life is not to be reckoned with in this latter category. The enormous size of the globules of hail was a subject of intense wonder, and even curiosity, scarcely repressed by this terror of the awe-stricken people. We ourselves saw hailstones fall near us considerably larger each of them than the largest grape-shot. But we have authority for stating that congealed balls of frozen fluid were dashed in through windows in some more exposed places, the size of each mass being nearly that of an egg. This enormous size of the hail-stones was not, of course, in general, and we have heard the greater size of some of them accounted for by the very natural supposition of several separate hail-stones being congealed together at a great altitude whilst falling. It is clear, at all events, that the hail was of sufficient size and driven with sufficient force to destroy the glass of an estimated fifth of the windows in the city. SACKVILLE-STREET lying north and south, and its houses being so very high and close together, did not suffer so much as other parts more exposed. Several houses, however, suffered greatly, particularly those of the western side, on which the force of the storm struck obliquely. The upper windows of the Sackville-street Club, and of nearly all the splendid houses on the same side of the street were dashed to pieces. The traders and shopkeepers hastened to close their shops; all business was suspended; the streets were deserted, save under the Post-office piazza, where crowds, surprised by the fearful suddenness of the storm, shrank cowering in terror from the repeated flashes of forked and vivid lightning that heralded the deafening peals of thunder that seemed to split the very sky overhead. The windows of the Prince of Wales's and Abbott's hotels in Prince's-street, near the Post-office corner, were almost totally shattered and the glass in all of the houses, from the corner of Prince's-street to Mr. Chancellor's, near Carlisle-bridge, presented a scene of demolition and ruin. The hail as it fell congregated in enormous heaps on the pave, and at each point where it was driven by the fury of the wind; and as the congregated masses dissolved, the entire street became flooded with water. The crossings then became impassable in many places. The thunder was at one period absolutely deafening, and the drivers of the equipages assembled at the Rotunda flower show could scarcely restrain their horses from bursting away with affright. The animal attached to one vehicle, a one-horse phaeton, sprung away, and galloped with alarming speed down Britain-street, and turning up Dominick-street, ran against the area railings of Mr. Lentaigne's house, which were driven in by the concussion. The horse was severely hurt and the carriage broken. Such parts as faced the north and east presented in their entire extent a scene of desolation and injury to property - windows broken, and everything at all tangible injured or destroyed. In Mountjoy-square trees and shrubs were blown down, and at Summer-hill the houses on the side facing the storm all suffered. In some, the glass of the windows was literally blown out of the frame; in short the streets presented the aspect of what we read of a city after a siege. The Round Room of the Rotunda suffered fearful damages and the hail and rain found its way into the body of the room, the serious personal inconvenience of the large crowd which thronged it. The room had several inches of water on the floor, inundated from the garden. The Show Yard of the Royal Dublin Society was devastated. The temporary sheds were prostrated - the poultry coops scattered about and their gathered inhabitants sent flying abut terror-stricken. Leinster lawn looked to be a field after battle. A servant of Lord Plunkett's was so injured by the fall of the sheds as to be obliged to go to Hospital. Several trees were blown down. A great number of persons sought shelter at Johnston's the silk mercer's, in Sackville-street. The whole of these extensive premises are covered in with glass, the smashing of which caused the greatest consternation, and many ladies fainted with terror from the lightning. At one time a strong smell of fire increased the alarm which speedily subsided. The destruction amounted to about a thousand panes of glass. The Mansion House, the ancient seat of civic authority, experienced in an unusual degree the severity of the hurricane. The two fine old elm trees, in the lawn, near the statue which stood since the reign of Charles I, and contributed so much to beautify and ornament the building, were blown down by the violence of the storm, and in the space of a few minutes torn up by the roots and completely given asunder. The Mansion House itself received considerable injury, the roof being stripped, and almost all the windows broken. A most extraordinary scene was presented in the Law Library of the Courts, at four o'clock, when the hailstones burst over it. There were sixty or seventy barristers writing in the inside room which is almost entirely lighted from the roof, when a sudden flash of lightning was succeeded by a shower of hailstones some as large as grapes. Instantly every pane of glass was shivered and the fragments dashed down on the learned heads. The wig proved itself a helmet, but notwithstanding this protection, briefs, books, and bills were instantly deserted - the narrow gallery afforded but little shelter. Some were protected under the old folios, spreading these capricious volumes over them, whilst others wrapped their gowns turbanwise round their heads, whilst the hail pelted in and the glass flew about in every direction; but when the storm passed over the destruction was visible, and many a forsaken wig had received the contents of folios of drafts which were wholly washed out and obliterated. In the course of the evening two patients were admitted into Mercer's Hospital, who had received injuries in consequence of the storm, one and old woman, whose temple was severely cut by a fall on the street, and the other a woman, who was crushed by the fall of a ceiling in one of the houses in the Liberty. Seven elm trees in the College park were prostrated, and a part of one was broken off. The destruction of glass will amount to several thousand pounds. GLASNEVIN - The storm appears to have raged with much greater violence here than it did on the south side of the city. The devastation it has made on the roofs of the conservatories is indiscribable; scarcely a whole pane in some of the houses remain. The roofs of the new range have not suffered nearly as much, but altogether the spectacle is a very melancholy one at present, and the damage done very extensive. Trinity College suffered a great deal of damage, a great deal of glass was broken, and several trees were blown down. In the squares also, or wherever else the houses were exposed to the fury of the storm, the amount of injury was considerable. In Aungier-street, the upper part of a house was blown down, and several in other streets, besides a large number of chimneys, &c. In one district, in the neighbourhood of the Meath Hospital, twelve or fourteen houses were completely unroofed. In portions of Merrion-square, Stephen's-Green, Nassau-street, and other streets in this district, a vast amount of damage was sustained by the smashing of glass, particularly in greenhouses in situations exposed to the fury of the gale. - We regret to stay that almost every pane of glass in St. Vincent's Hospital (Stephen's Green) was shattered to pieces. Some roofs of houses were more or less stripped of their slates, and the chimney of a house in North Frederick-st., corner of Molesworth-st, blown down on the flagway, but fortunately without personal injury to anyone. Houses in Bolton-street, Britain-street, Summer-hill, and places in that direction have also more or les suffered by the severity of the storm. However, it is needless to advert to the appearances presented by the several streets - the description of one is that of all. The effects of the storm were unparalleled, considering its short countenance.---Dublin Commercial Journal Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

THE FAIR IN DROMORE My father was anxious to make me a farmer, He gave me some money to go to the Fair, To learn to buy and to make a good bargain, And be a good judge of the stock that was there. I rose up next morning - the day was just dawning, I made a quick sandwich with butter and jam. The brown egg I took from the shelf on the dresser, To hurry the breakfast I fried on the pan. No time to be lost I just cleared up the table, I looked at the clock as I made for the door, The cash in my pocket I left good and early To try out my luck at the Fair of Dromore. My footsteps were swift as the hare on the mountain, As onward I sped through the cool morning air. The long winding roadway I soon left behind me, And landed in time for the start of the Fair. The buyers were there from the northern counties. The farmers were there with their stock on the Green, And the publicans' tents for the beer and refreshments High up on the hillside were easily seen. The calves in their crates were well covered for shelter, The sheep and the lambs were all gathered around, And the bloodstock came in from the plains of Tireragh With long sweeping tails that were trailing the ground. The traders and dealers took up their positions. The bellman was there his announcements to make. The priest to attend those who fell by the wayside And Vincent de Paul his collection to take. The tinker was there with his cans on his shoulders. The fisherman's wife was content at her stall. The man with the ice-cream was selling his spices And tickets were sold for a dance in the hall. The man with the delph sold his cups and his saucers. The man with the ballads was selling his straw. While the man with the dice and the big wheel of fortune Was making his money in spite of the Law. The man with the rifle and bell was surrounded With sharpshooters waiting and watching the score. Three shots for a penny and well worth the money. If you think you can shoot, you should go to Dromore. As bargains were made and the drinking continued The loud noise of commerce increasingly grew And the stalwart policemen alert and officious Looked out for offenders but found very few. The smell of the roast in the coffee house cooking Attracted a crowd through the wide open door, But the butterfly caps of the white-coated angels That served at the table attracted far more. Dromore is well known for the Fair and the ladies With sweet smiling faces that ever pass by And many a man who might still be a loner Was swept off his feet by the wink of an eye. But one man's good luck is another's misfortune, The facts as we find them we cannot ignore. And the lady I met as I walked through the Fairgreen Left me to regret that I went to Dromore. She stepped from the crowd, laid her hand on my shoulder, As soft as a butterfly floating on air. Her voice was so gently, her manner so simple, Politely she asked what I thought of the fair. And that's how we started a long conversation. She told me her life story, and I told her mine And to walk through the Fair with a dashing young lady Was something I wanted a very long time. She told me her father was Lord of a Manor With lands stretching out over Salsbury Plane And now in retirement, he came back to Ireland For peace and contentment to paint was his game. Her mother was mostly away on location But what destination she wouldn't disclose. A family would thrive in the car she was driving She wore costly jewels and elegant clothes. She told me that she was their one only daughter. She never considered the wealth she might own But would marry the man that she found to her liking On a small bit of land where lived all alone. The fun of the Fair she enjoyed to perfection, But now it was late and she must get back home. She asked me to come with her just for protection, She was so much afraid walking back on her own. Of course I agreed and I walked on beside her. She knew the direction and soon we were there And I laughed as I thought how I'd tell to my father That wonderful bargain I got at the Fair. We were standing in front of an old fashioned cottage And I knew that we could not be far from the sea. I was tired and cold and I silently wondered Would she now take me in for a hot cup of tea. She pulled on a chain and a light came on inside, A fine looking man quickly opened the door And the speed that I made as I hit for the mountains Was never recorded on two feet or four. I got such a fright that the objects around me Seemed out of proportion and ghostly and bare and even the man in the moon walked on crutches His feet must be sore he might be at a Fair. How I managed back home I can never remember. My father was seated just in from the door And I thought of the man on the Almanack's Cover In every respect he was just like old Moore. But I was the one that was making predictions. The stick in his hand I seen swiftly to fall On the back of my head and of course I then fainted. But no, he sat there and just smiled through it all. For many days later, I tried to unravel The mystery surrounding the man in the chair. And then I remembered, he knew all about it. He was young once again and he went to the Fair. -- Patrick James ROCHFORD, from "Close To The Foothills, a journey of Prose and Poetry through the Ox Mountains," (1991). Note, the range of mountains extending from Ballisodare, Co. Sligo to Foxford in Co. Mayo is referred to as the Ox Mountain Range. Mr. Rochford is very familiar with this area and his fine book includes much history about the region.

BOOK REVIEW: "There is no present or future - only the past, happening over and over again - now." That is a line from Eugene O'NEILL's "A Moon for the Misbegotten." In 1976 celebrated author Leon URIS published his powerful 751-page novel "Trinity," set in Ireland between the period of the famine of the 1840s and the Easter Rising of 1916. Per the author, much background research went into his work which gives voice to the generations of Catholic hill farmers in Donegal fighting for survival against the harshness of the land and the injustice in their lives. His novel also attempts to give us insight into the times and events from the perspective of families of the British aristocracy, who ventured to Ireland to conquer, colonize and exploit. Also portrayed are the lives of devout Belfast shipyard workers whose Scottish-Presbyterian ancestors were planted in Ulster to secure the Crown's interests. "This is his Trinity, the oil and water of the Irish epic that would never mix, their interrelations of love and hate in a terrible and beautiful drama spanning over half a century." You should be able to find a copy in your local library if the subject interests you.

Hello, listers I'm still on the lookout for information on the surname SALISBURY in Ireland. My 4 x great-grandmother was Mary Ann SALISBURY, b. 1819, Waterford. She married Robert MORLEY in Montreal in 1838 but I don't know when she left Ireland. If any of you are researching the surname SALISBURY or can point me in the direction of anyone who is, I'd be grateful. Thanks, Ros in Canada Mary Ann's baptism: 5195 SALISBURRY, Mary Ann 5 July 1819 Father: Timothy Mother: Mary late BORRIS Sponsors: Stephen CONNER & Mary Ann RYAN Parish: ST JOHNS Church: ST JOHNS Priest: Patrick MORISSEY B/M 1818-1828 P.37 Baptism of her sister: 5195 SALISBURRY, Ann 22 July 1828 Father: Timothy Mother: Mary late BORRIS Sponsors: John CONNER & Johanna MURPHY Parish: ST JOHNS Church: ST JOHNS Priest: T DIXON B/M 1818-1828 P.203 Possible baptism of Mary Ann's father, Timothy: 1132 SALSBURY, Timothy 18 February 1787 Father: John Mother: Mary (surname: POWER) Sponsors: - Parish: St Patrick's Church: St Patrick's Priest: Fleury ARCHDEACON B/1773-1812 P.49

SNIPPET: Co. Roscommon: A three hundred strong father and son labor force was employed in the north Roscommon coalfields of Arigna. A generation mostly gone, joined again to the mineral heart of the valley. Men with the white eyeballs and the black faces of cotton plantation slaves. A coal lorry was used to carry the pitmen to and from work. There was talk that Arigna coal was too heavily subsidized. The local power-station was being taken off the grid. At a packed meeting in a smoke-filled hall the matter of the miners' redundancy payments was finally settled. The mines closed. Memories of the native industry with its factory buildings, old mills, and mineshafts have joined the ranks of Newgrange, and The Ceide Fields in Ireland's legacy of ancient wonders and attractions. On a Bank holiday weekend circa 1996 a poster with a pitman at the coalface says, "Arigna Mining Display, a three-day exhibition of coal mining artefacts, photographs and videos." The old hall has had a face-lift, and there are snapshots donated by the community of pitmen and their trade, family and school photographs: heartbreaking reminders of how it was, and all who have passed away. Those who arrived to look at the artefacts on display were lulled into a chapel hush. The pick-axes, the carbide lamps and short-handled shovels, the implements of manual labour and bits of coal-cutting machines seemed consecrated with a special power, a power close to holy relics. The torn caps and pit helmets were laid out like vestments, with old account books and colliery receipts for sacred manuscripts. And the black and white photos of the pitmen at their work had a sanctified presence. Images that froze and distanced their subjects from their own lives Icons. And a litany of names -- Cullen, Daly, Lavin, McManus, Early, McDermott, McLouglin, Lynch, Conway, Gilrane, McPartland, Dooley, Rynn, Gaffney...generation upon generation. -- Excerpt, "The Leitrim Guardian"

PRAYER OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI Lord, Make me an instrument of Your peace; Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

The Ireland GenWeb County Mayo website has been updated. A webpage for the Ballysakeery Civil Parish has been add. Webpages for the following town(land)s have been added/updated: Ballintecan, Broadlands, Knockafarson, Carrowkelly, Carrowreagh, Cloonawillin, Cloonshinnagh, Coonealcauraun, Coonealmore, Derreens, Knockalough, Knockatinnole, Lecarrow, Lisglennon, Mullafurry, Rathbal, Foxford Town, Newtownwhite, Rathglass East & West, Rathroeen, Rosserk, Rusheens, Freaghillan, Goose Island, Inishdugh, Balloughadalla, Ballybroony, Ballymackeehola, Cloonfadda, Cloonmaan, Coolcran, Farragh, Knockaunderry, Magherabrack, Raheens, Rathoma, Ballynaboll, Lauvlyer, Tooreenphilip, Ballysakeery, Cloonalough, Allwoan, Tonacrock, Gortbaun New records, links and surnames have also been added. If you have any additions, suggestions and/or corrections to this website, please write me off line. You can find the site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlmayo/ -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com