THE CONNAUGHT JOURNAL Galway, Thursday, October 7, 1824 PROVINCIAL NEWS The Honorable Thomas Vesey, the eldest son of Viscount De Vesei, having completed his 21st year on the 21st September last, great rejoicings took place at Abbeyleix and its vicinity. An entertainment was given at Abbeyleix-house to the tenantry and tradesmen, and an ox roasted on the lawn for the gratification of the populace. In the evening several barrels of ale were set a-stoup in the market place, and the town and gentlemen's houses in the neighbourhood were tastefully illuminated. On the preceding day similar rejoicings were held at Stradbally, to celebrate the birthday of Thomas Crosby, jun., Esq., who came of age on that day. Both these young gentlemen being the sons of resident landlords, who prefer being useful and respected at home, to a life of comparative obscurity in England, the festivities were marked by a cordial and sincere delight, very different from the "enforced respect" observed on such occasions. SEIZURE OF TOBACCO - Wednesday evening, about seven o'clock, about 129 bales of tobacco were seized at Whitegate, in this harbour, by Robert Blake, Chief Officer of the Coast-guard, stationed at Poor Head. Immediately after the tobacco was put on board a lighter, for the purposes of it being conveyed to the Custom-house, a large party of the country people, to the amount of between two and 300, collected and fired several shots at the revenue party, but without any effect, and the tobacco has been lodged in the King's stores in this city.-- Cork Paper. POLICE AFFRAY. - We are sorry to learn that J. Cosgrave, who was desperately wounded during the late unfortunate affray at Summer-hill, in the co. Meath, has since died, in consequence of the injuries he received on that occasion. A Coroner's inquest was held on the body; and the following verdict returned: - "That the deceased, John Cosgrave, otherwise Cuskenny, came by his death by means of a wound on his forehead, inflicted by one of the Police constables, as yet unknown, by a gun, or some other weapon, at Summer-hill, on the night of the 22d September, of which wound he died on Sunday, the 26th September, at Isaacstown." CATHOLIC BISHOPRIC OF MEATH. - We have the pleasure to announce that Doctor Logan, of Duleek, has been appointed Coadjutor to the venerable Bishop Plunket. KILKENNY, OCT. 2 - Joseph Green, Esq. has been sworn in Mayor of Kilkenny, and Henry Anderson and John Keogh, Esqrs. Sheriffs. CLARE, ENNIS, Sept. 30 - The Very Rev. H. Vesey Fitzgerald, was sworn in High Vice-Provost, and John O'Donnell, Esq., Town Clerk, for the ensuing year. CLONMEL, SEPT. 20 - Between eight and nine o'clock on Friday night last, ten armed fellows entered the house of one Denis Lonergan, on part of the lands of Dogstown, between Cashell and New-Inn, just after the family had done supper. - They inflicted two cuts of swords on the shoulders of Lonergan's son, though the blankets with which he had covered himself, he having just gone to bed - and they next attacked Lonergan himself, who kept them off with a slane, they being afraid to fire, lest the police at New-Inn should hear the shots. They, however, brought in stones from the yard, and after striking him with several out of twenty-three which were found after them in the morning, they went away, leaving a few marks of their violence; but on going, one of them took out a book, and swore if Lonergan would not give up in the morning, they would return and burn his house. Lonergan said, "What must I give up?" they replied, "What you have in your case," - meaning, as he supposes, the herding for Mr. Philips, of Gate, which had been done by another person formerly. What renders the matter singular is, that these lands were never in the hands of cottiers, nor was even a dwelling or any other place for the like erected thereon, so that it is supposed the attack was in favour of one of the former herdsmen. On the night of Tuesday last, some miscreants cut off the tails of two fine cows, belonging to Mr. Daly, of Athlone, printer, on the lands of Cranagh, in the parish of Drum, near Athlone, in the county of Roscommon. This farm Mr. Daly holds under the court of Exchequer. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 24, 1850 MEETING OF GUARDIANS Ballina Union - The usual weekly meeting of the Guardians of this Union was held in the Boardroom on Saturday, Edward Howley, Esq. in the chair. Among the other guardians present were - Captain Atkinson, Mr. Jones, Captain J. Knox, Mr. Malley, Mr. Paget, Mr. E. Orme, Mr. Gardiner, Major J.F. Knox and Mr. Wills. The following return of the staff of the workhouse with their respective salaries, was held before the Board agreeably to Mr. Paget's notice of motion:- List of Officers at present employed in the Ballina Union, together with the dates of their appointment, Salaries per annum, &c.: Rev. A. Moore, Protestant Chaplain, 16th June, 1849, 20l. no rations. Rev. Dominick Madden, Roman Catholic chaplain, 8th May, 1849, 75l.; no rations. Mark H. Devlin, Medical Officer, 19th April, 1847; 100l.; no rations. James M'Nair, Apothecary, 7th December, 1846, 50l.; no rations. Patrick M'Nulty, Clerk of the Union, 12th April, 1847, 100l. including all assistants; no rations. Thomas Hart, Master, 1st August, 1842, 80l.; rations and apartments. Mrs. Catherine Hart, Matron, 22d. December, 1849, 30l.; rations and apartment. Miss Kilkenny, auxiliary matron, 29th September, 1849, 30l.; rations and apartments. Anthony Bourke, auxiliary master, 4th February, 1848, 20l.; rations and apartments. Jeremiah Lonigan, auxiliary master, 30th March, 1848, 20l.; rations and apartments. Joseph Cullen, schoolmaster, 21st Dec, 1846, 20l.; rations and apartments. William Johnston, assistant schoolmaster, 12th January, 1850, 10l.; rations and apartments. James Gill, master tailor, 30th Dec, 1848, 26l.; apartments and rations. Miss Quigley, schoolmistress, 5th Jan. 1850, 15l. rations and apartments. Jane Bourke, assistant schoolmistress, 27th July, 1848, 10l.; rations and apartments. James Hart, master's clerk, 11th Nov, 1848, 20l; rations and apartments. Wm. M'Loughlin, porter, 28th April, 1849, 15l.; rations and apartments. Catherine Grehin, infirmary nurse, 4th Feb, 1849, 15l.; rations and apartments. Eliza James, infirmary nurse, 27th Jan, 1849, 10l.; rations and apartments. Ally Toohill, infirmary nurse, 17th Nov, 1848, 10l.8s.;rations and apartments. Ann Malley, infirmary nurse, 17th Feb, 1849, 10l.8s; rations and apartments. Total amount of Officers Salaries..........£716 16 0 Add cost of Officer's rations for a year...232 0 0 ---------- Total................. 948 16 0 RELIEVING OFFICERS Annesley Knox, 7th January, 1848, 25l; no rations. John Anderson, 30th March, 1848, 25l; no rations. Michael O'Malley, 16th August, 1847, 25l.; no rations. John M'Hale, 16th August, 1847; 25l.; no rations. George Robinson, 8th June, 1848, 25l.; no rations. John Peter Nolan, 27th Oct, 1849, 25l.; no rations. John Robinson, 21st July, 1849, 25l; no rations. Total.......... £175 0 0 BALLINA FEVER HOSPITAL STAFF Doctor William Whitaker, medical officer, 91l.5s.; no rations. Dr. Robert Atkinson, apothecary, 54l.12s.; no rations. William Kearney, steward, 20l.; rations. Mrs. Rodgers, matron; pro tem, 12l.; rations. Catherine Barrett, nursetender, 10l.8s.; rations. Bridget Rooney, nursetender, 10l.8s.; rations. Mary M'Nallin, nursetender, 10l.8s.; rations. Letty Reynolds, nursetender, 10l.8s.; rations. Margaret Gardiner, nursetender, 10l.8s.; rations. Total............. £229 17 0 Gross total from the Three Classes.............. £1353 13 0 NOTE - The foregoing is the Return moved for by Thomas Paget, Esq., on last Board day, and which return Mr. Paget moved should be printed for the information of the Guardians and Ratepayers of the Union, preparatory to his bringing it before the Board on next day of meeting. By order, PATRICK M'NULTY, Clerk of the Union. April 20, 1850. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

BLOOMSDAY Reading at St. Anne's Church, Dawson St. At the poetry reading you are sensitive to the unclear sounds, the untrained voices. Your ear never hears the writer's words; instead you become edgy and agitated. Before the first half you are gone in search of your own voice, and never ending dreams. I stay to listen, absorb all the words, follow the stories, and feel inebriated by this new writing. Traditional music fills the old Church here in Dawson St, with flowing melodies. A beat of feet balances the sweetness of sound with the way words, placed in a new order, lighten up our consciousness, give meaning to our lives. If only you would curb your critical ear, listen with your heart. -- 'Bloomsday,' from "The Road to Gowel," Swan Press/2000. Mary Guckian, born on a farm in Kiltoghert, Leitrim, now resides in Dublin.

For anyone interested- whilst on the subjects of Trevor and County Down here is another extract which refers to Colonel Donnell Magennis. Ref. Trinity College Dublin Mss 1641, Deposition Book County Down (pg 186) The examination of Colonel Donnell Magennis aged 36 years or thereabouts taken before us the ninth June 1653 Who saith that he was never governor nor deputy governor of the Newry but saith that he was in Newry when Hugh McDaniel Oge Magennis was deputy governor of that town under Sir Con Magennis (this examinats brother) and with him then there was Turlough Roe O’Neill brother to Sir Phellimy and Turlough McBrian McHenry Oge O’Neill with Colonel Plunkett and Ever Magennis. At this time (as he remembereth, long before Christmas next after the Rebellion began anno 1641) there came a messenger called Bryan O’Rowny with letters from Captain Patrick Trevor and Sir Henry Tichbourne to Sir Edward Trevor and Marcus his son. In which letters it was desired by them that the English forces in Ulster should be of good courage and march away to Drogheda where Sir Henry Tichbourne was governor, that they and this party should join together to suppress and root out the Irish rebels. Which letters being taken from the said Rowny after perusal at the Council of War held there by the said Hugh McDaniel Oge Magennis, deputy governor and the said Turlough Roe O’Neill then called Governor of Ulster and the rest of the company before set down. The said governor and this examinat were sent with these letters to Sir Edward Trevor read them, who after reading of them he said that these letters were sent for his the said Edward Trevor and his son Marcus their destruction or to break their necks, whereupon this examinat told the said Sir Edward, believe they shall not do you hurt till we hear further of the matters for so long as I live you shall not suffer by reason of these letters. And saith that the next day after by the said Council of war the said Bryan O’Rowny was directed to be hanged and was accordingly accomplished albeit this examinat did solicit earnestly for his life…. Taken before R.Lydon and J. Reding

I've sent this over from something I put on the Nir-Down list in case anyone is interested. We were discussing the name Rostrevor and Welsh influences in Ireland Edward Trevor went over to Ireland with Edward Blayney of Montgomeryshire as a Captain after the Battle of the Yellow Ford in 1598.(short article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Yellow_Ford). Briefly - he married Rose, his second wife,daughter of James Ussher, archbishop of Armagh. He settled in County Down , naming his estate there Rostrevor. One of his sons Mark -by this second marriage to Rose became 1st viscount Dungannon and Baron Trevor of Rostrevor in 1662. The Trevors brought a strong contingent of Welsh settlers with them who spread out in the surrounding areas. There were other Welsh families from Denbighshire and Flintshire who followed the Trevors putting their stamp on Irish surnames and placenames. The Trevor family (1662-1862) were the Viscounts Dungannon The Brynkinalt Manuscripts (Irish Estates) cover the period 1612 -1750 and refer to Counties Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Cork, Donegal, Down and Monaghan; rentals and accounts,1663-1909 .A student at an Irish university has completed his PhD on the Trevors of Rostrevor. I am reading it at present. The Trevor Mss are a mine of information on the 'happenings' of the family and Irish , and Anglo-Welsh settlement I include a section from the will of Sir Edward for anyone who is interested. It is a 'copy of a copy' It may be of interest for names and places. Sir Edward died in 1642 after a period of imprisonment in Newry . Proved in the Pregoative Court in Dublin 1649 - Ref Brynkynallt Mss DD.BK. 1.47 'In the name of God Amen. I Sir Edward Trevor late of Rostrevor in the county of Down knight and now prisoner here in the Newry do make this my last will and testament in manner fors following. Videlicit – here I bequeath my soul to Almighty God my maker, and my body to be buried in the Church of Clonallin by late wives and children. Then I bequeath and unto my son Mark Trevor all my lands which I bought of my cousin William Winter in Denbeighshire, he paying for the same to my cousin Sir Charles William’s daughter £400 sterling all the Lady Trevor of Plasteige about four or five years hence according to the conveyance by me made, which I pray my feoffes of trust to perform. Here I give to my daughter Magdalen Trevor three hundred pound of my lands in Denbeighshire in three years next after my decease and I do give here seven hundred pounds more to make it a thousand out of my lands in Ireland if it be recovered, within three years after the recovery. Here I give and bequeath unto my son Arthur Trevor and my son Edward Trevor jointly between them the benefit of the lease of Loghorne in Ireland. Here I give unto my servants Christian Edwards and Jane Rowlands ten pounds a year over and above the charge they shall be in carrying over my grandchildren Edward Fitton and Edward Trevor to their friends. Videlicit – Edward Fitton to Sir Edward Fitton in Cheshire and Edward Trevor to Brynkynallt Denbeighshire. Also I give to the said Christian Edwards if she (sic) will have it my house in Magerra and all the lands between the watercourse of the mills and the river in the county of Down for forty years if she live so long. And for the rest of my children I give them my blessing and I pray God to bless them for all their portions are paid and I do hereby appoint my son Mark Trevor and my grandson Edward Trevor son unto the said Mark to my executors absolutely. I give unto my well beloved wife Margaret Trevor all such goods and household stuff as she brought with her from her late husband Mr. Jeffries. I do hereby annihilate frustrate and make void all former wills by me made in witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand seal the twenty second day of February 1641 Gill

Seasons greeting list, I have just joined in hope of finding out anything about GEORGE BAGGIN that was born circa 1830 in Ireland. On the 1851 Census he was living in Sheffield, Yorkshire with wife CAROLINE & daughter SARAH E. both born in Sheffield. I'm trying to find GEORGE parents, or to prove that JAMES BAGGAN & ANNE MARTIN (who married by Licence 1822 in Pontefract, Yorkshire) are them. JAMES was a Soldier when they had two sons born in Pontefract 1822 & 1825 Did they move to Ireland (leaving the two sons in Pontefract, as I have them on the 1841 alone) to have GEORGE? thank you for any help, take care, Maureen _www.pontefractfhs.org.uk_ (http://www.pontefractfhs.org.uk/) _www.pontefractus.co.uk_ (http://www.pontefractus.co.uk/)

SNIPPET: Excerpt from the following Ellis Island document -- "On the line if an Englishman reacts to questions in the manner of an Irishman, his lack of mental balance would be suspected. The converse is also true." MENTAL EXAMINATION OF IMMIGRANTS Administration and Line Inspection at Ellis Island by E. H. MULLAN, Surgeon, United States Public Health Service "Public Health Reports", 22, no. 20 (May 18, 1917) 733-46 Immigrants not traveling in the cabin, who enter the United States at the port of New York, are first brought to Ellis Island in order to undergo an examination to determine their fitness for admission. The average immigrant remains at Ellis Island two or three hours, during which time he undergoes an examination by the Public Health Service in order to determine his mental and physical condition, and by the Immigration Service in order to find out whether he is otherwise admissible... As the immigrant approaches the officer gives him a quick glance. Experience enables him in that one glance to take in six details, namely, the scalp, face, neck, hands, gait, and general condition, both mental and physical. Should any of these details not come into view, the alien is halted and the officer satisfies himself that no suspicious sign or symptom exists regarding that particular detail. For instance, if the immigrant is wearing a high collar, the officer opens the collar or unbutt! ons the upper shirt button and sees whether a goiter, tumor, or other abnormality exists... Likewise, if the alien approaches the officer with hat on he must be halted, hat removed and scalp observed in order to exclude the presence of favus, ringworm, or other skin disease of the body. Pompadours are always a suspicious sign. Beneath such long growth of hair are frequently seen areas of favus...Where the alien carries luggage on his shoulder or back, it may be necessary to make him drop his parcels and to walk 5 or 10 feet in order to exclude suspicious gait or spinal curvature. Immigrants at times carry large parcels in both arms and over their shoulders in order that the gait resulting from shortened extremity or ankylosed joint may escape notice. In like manner they maneuver in attempting to conceal the gaits of Little's disease, spastic paralysis, and other nervous disorders. All children over 2 years of age are taken from their mother's arms and made to walk... Many inattentive and stupid-looking aliens are questioned by the medical officer in the various languages as to their age, destination, and nationality. Often simple questions in addition and multiplication are propounded. Should the immigrant appear stupid and inattentive to such an extent that mental defect is suspected an X is made with chalk on his coat at the anterior aspect of his right shoulder. Should definite signs of mental disease be observed, a circle X would be used instead of the plain X. In like manner a chalk mark is placed on the anterior aspect of the right shoulder in all case where physical deformity or disease is suspected. In this connection B would indicate back; C, conjunctivitis; CT, trachoma; E, eyes; F, face; Ft., feet; G, goiter; H, heart; K, hernia; L, lameness; N, neck; P, physical and lungs; Pg, pregnancy; Sc., scalp; S, senility. The words hand, measles, nails, skin, temperature, vision, voice, which are often used, are written out in full. Th! e alien after passing the scrutiny of the first medical officer passes on to the end of the line, where he is quickly inspected again by the second examiner. This examiner is known in service parlance as "the eye man." He stands at the end of the line with his back to the window and faces the approaching alien. This position affords good light, which is so essential for eye examinations....He looks carefully at the eyeball in order to detect signs of defect and disease of that organ and then quickly everts the upper lids in search of conjunctivitis and trachoma. Corneal opacities, nystagmus, squint, bulging eyes, the wearing of eye glasses, clumsiness, and other signs on the part of the alien, will be sufficient cause for him to be chalk-marked "Vision." He will then be taken out of the line by an attendant and his vision will be carefully examined... Roughly speaking, from 15 to 20 per cent of the immigrants are chalk-marked by the medical offers, and it is these chalked individuals who must undergo a second and more thorough examination in the examinations rooms of the Public Health Service. Those aliens marked X and circle X are placed in the mental room. All other marked aliens are placed in the two physical rooms, one for men and the other for women....Every effort is made to detect signs and symptoms of mental disease and defect Any suggestion, no matter how trivial, that would point to abnormal mentality is sufficient cause to defer the immigrant for a thorough examination.... Experience enables the inspecting officer to tell at a glance the race of an alien. There are, however, exceptions to this rule. It occasionally happens that the inspecting officer thinking that an approaching alien is of a certain race brings him to a standstill and questions him. The alien's facial expression and manner are peculiar and just as the officer is about to decide that this alien in question belongs to an entirely different race. The peculiar attitude of the alien in question is no longer peculiar; it is readily accounted for by racial considerations. Accordingly, the officer passes him on as a mentally normal person. Those who have inspected immigrants know that almost every race has its own type of reacting during the inspection. On the line if an Englishman reacts to questions in the manner of an Irishman, his lack of mental balance would be suspected. The converse is also true. If the Italian responded to questions as the Russian Finn responds, the former wo! uld in all probability be suffering with a depressive psychosis.

Hi Jean Thank you for giving us all a chance to read 'Mid-Term Break' again. This autobiographical poem was my first exposure to Heaney's work and it still has a profound effect on me. The image of the last line haunts me - the horror of looking at your four year old brother in a coffin must be unbearable. Heaney has captured the trauma in a few lines. Thanks again, Jean. --- "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> wrote: > MID-TERM BREAK > > I sat all morning in the college sick bay > Counting bells knelling classes to a close. > At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home. > > In the porch I met my father crying -- > He had always taken funerals in his stride -- > And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow. > > The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram > When I came in, and I was embarrassed > By old men standing up to shake my hand > > And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble." > Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest, > Away at school, as my mother held my hand > > In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs. > At ten o-clock the ambulance arrived > With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the > nurses. > > Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops > And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him > For the first time in six weeks. Paler now, > Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple. > He lay in the four foot box as in his cot. > No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear. > > A four foot box, a foot for every year. > > -- Seamus Heaney born 1939 Mossbawn, Co. Derry > > > ==== 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/ > > ___________________________________________________________ NEW Yahoo! Cars - sell your car and browse thousands of new and used cars online! http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/

MID-TERM BREAK I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. At two o'clock our neighbours drove me home. In the porch I met my father crying -- He had always taken funerals in his stride -- And Big Jim Evans saying it was a hard blow. The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram When I came in, and I was embarrassed By old men standing up to shake my hand And tell me they were "sorry for my trouble." Whispers informed strangers I was the eldest, Away at school, as my mother held my hand In hers and coughed out angry tearless sighs. At ten o-clock the ambulance arrived With the corpse, stanched and bandaged by the nurses. Next morning I went up into the room. Snowdrops And candles soothed the bedside; I saw him For the first time in six weeks. Paler now, Wearing a poppy bruise on his left temple. He lay in the four foot box as in his cot. No gaudy scars, the bumper knocked him clear. A four foot box, a foot for every year. -- Seamus Heaney born 1939 Mossbawn, Co. Derry

Hi Mary, I just noticed a extensive featured article (with photos) that you might be interested as you research your WINGFIELDs. 'Family Connections' can be found in the Jan-Feb 2006 issue of Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine, written by renowned genealogist Paul GORRY about the prosperous Oliver WALSH and Margaret BORROWES family who lived in Ireland in the seventeeth century and their progeny. ( In 1639 Oliver WALSH purchased lands in Ballykilcavan in what was then Queen's Co. (now Laois). He died in 1658, bequeathing his DNA to posterity). Mentioned is Powerscourt House near Enniskerry, home of the WINGFIELD family, who provide a WALSH family link to the well-known Sarah FERGUSON, erstwhile wife of PRINCE ANDREW in Britain. Others mentioned include son Oliver WALSH, and wife Editha HUNT of Dublin, Toby CAULFIELD of Clone, Co. Kilkenny, Frances BEST and husband, Kepple DISNEY (and animator Walt DISNEY), Robert STRATFORD of Warwickshire and Mary WALSH, George CANNING of Garvagh in Derry, Stratford CANNING, Elizabeth STRATFORD and husband Charles PLUNKETT of Dillonstown, Co. Louth, their daughter Anne who married the 5th earl of Antrim, Sir Henry VANE-TEMPEST. Also mentioned are Charles, LORD STEWART, LORD CASTLEREAGH, the DUKE of MARLBOROUGH, Charles Stewart PARNELL, Sir Basil BROOKE, Augusta, LADY GREGORY, one of the founders of the Abbey Theatre, Winston CHURCHILL, artist Sir William ORPEN, architect Sir Thomas Newenham DEANE, Canadian-born actor Hume CRONYN and wife Jessica TANDY, Irish singer-songwriter Chris DE BURGH, and English actors Ralph and Joseph FIENNES, who spent part of their childhood in Ireland. Explorer Sir Ranulph FIENNES, Rosanna DAVISON, Jemina GOLDSMITH, PRINCESSES Beatrice and Eugenie of York, many more. You can obtain a copy, if you are interested, by contacting the "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine website at www.irelandofthewelcomes.com Jean ---- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 2:10 PM Subject: Re: [IRELAND] RE: VISIT TO POWERSCOURT -- (WINGFIELD) > Hi Mary - (Love it when somebody responds to my posts with more > information!!!) So your line is from the WINGFIELDs. I understand that the > mansion's interior is partially restored after a 1974 fire, and there are > meticulously kept aristocratic gardens - Ireland's best! The house was > commissioned in the 1730s by Richard WINGFIELD, first viscount of > Powerscourt, as you are no doubt aware. Per a recent guide book - The > gardens were created during the Victorian era (1858-75), and are called "the > grand finale of Europe's formal gardening tradition ... probably the last > garden of its size." As a backdrop is the impressive summit of the Great > Sugar Loaf Mountain, and there is a fine Japanese garden, Italian garden > and what has been called a "goofy" pet cemetery - what would that be like??? > Apparently there was a movie, "Barry Lyndon" filmed in this green, > well-watered aristocratic area of Wicklow. The Gardens of Powerscourt, a > mile above the village of Enniskerry, cover several thousand acres within > the 16,000 acre estate and the "dreamy driveway" alone is a mile long. > There is a nearby waterfall four miles away. Thanks for your comment. > (The correct title of CLEARY's beautiful poem is "A Trip to Powerscourt." - > my subject line was off.) Jean xx > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Doug Connell" <doug.connell@sympatico.ca> > To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:11 PM > Subject: [IRELAND] RE: VISIT TO POWERSCOURT. > > > > Thanks for the poem My line is from the Wingfields > > Regrds > > Mary

BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 17, 1850 HORRIBLE MURDER OF AN INFANT - Thos. Denny, 32, was tried at Kingstown on Tuesday, for having murdered an infant by sticking an awl into its neck. The prisoner had been a shoemaker but was at the time of the occurrence a farm labourer. He had a son by a deceased wife. He cohabited with a young woman named Ferrant, with whom and his son he lived in a loft. On the 16th of August last the girl Farrant was delivered of a child. The prisoner took it from her and stuck an awl into its throat, which caused its death shortly afterwards. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged. There are only four persons receiving outdoor relief in Sligo union. PAUPER INSUBORDINATION - On Monday morning the female paupers at our workhouse broke out into open rebellion against the authority of the officers, and refused to eat the stirabout supplied for breakfast, alleging that it was too thin for human food. The assistance of the police was called in, and the constables acting under the personal direction of the Mayor quelled the riot, which, however, did not proceed at any time beyond shouts and threats. Six women were arrested, and committed as examples to the others, to city jail for three days, with hard labour. The make portion of the inmates took their breakfast without evincing any sympathy in the insurrectionary spirit of the women, but one of the men was expelled by the board in consequence of its having been discovered that he had joined in the conspiracy, and had issued orders to contractors not to supply the milk which was required to be used with the stirabout in the house.-- Kilkenny Moderator. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE - A MAN SHOT BY A CARETAKER. - On Monday morning an unfortunate man, named Hendricksen, met his death at Sandford's Court, near this city, under the following circumstances, as nearly as can be ascertained at present:- It appears that a man named Phelan was placed by Mr. J. Cahill, of Sandford's Court, to watch his farm by night, in consequence of some thefts which had recently taken place upon it. Hendricksen 9who was a person in most miserable circumstances endeavouring to obtain outdoor relief, but disqualified in consequence of having a few acres of land) came to one of the fields and was pulling turnips which were there growing; on the approach of Phelan he ran away, and the latter pursued him with his gun in his hand. Whether the weapon was accidentally or intentionally discharged is uncertain, but be this as it may, Hendricksen was shot dead on the spot. Phelan absconded immediately. The unfortunate deceased has left a wife and seven young children.--Kilkenny Moderator. EXECUTION AT TULLAMORE - Tuesday being the day named for the execution of John Ryan, who was found guilty at the last assizes for the murder of Serjeant Grant, a large concourse assembled in front of the jail to witness the awful spectacle. At five minutes past twelve the unfortunate culprit tripped up the ladder with a light step, accompanied by the Revs. Messrs. Cullery and Flood, Roman Catholic curates, and were it not for the appearance of the jail and its officials, the demeanour of the unfortunate man would not impress the spectators that it was an execution - for never did a man walk up that fatal ladder with more apparent less concern. He turned his back to the people just as he stepped on the drop, while the executioner was adjusting the rope and putting his cap over his face. He never spoke - and in a few minutes he was let off and died in great pain and agony, struggling for a long time. At the usual time he was cut down and buried within the precincts of the jail. His brother was under the drop witnessing the scene.--King's County Chronicle. Sub-Constable Thomas Crane, charged at Mountrath with forging additional figures and letters in orders for cash given by the Clerk of the Peace to crown witnesses, for their expenses in prosecuting larceny cases, is committed to Maryborough jail. MOST EXTRAORDINARY EVIDENCE. - That fact is stronger than fiction, is fully verified in the following true case of Irish ingenuity, in which the ferocious and the absurd are curiously blended. At the present sessions now holding in Mallow an unhappy wretch was indicted for stealing turnips from the field of Mr. Leader of Millstreet, in this county, the principal witness being the watchman, known familiarly as "Mad Tom Eagar." The attorney who defended the prisoner as "the length of himself," but upon being further pressed he coolly said - "Didn't I know what the attorney would be at, and what he'd try to make me swear! Faith I did so, and when I caught the prisoner I knocked him down and took out my knife and cut off a piece of his ear, that I might match it, next day." This terrific statement was mournfully corroborated by the prisoner in the dock, who turned his mutilated ear to the bench, crying out at the same time in a piteous tone - "Oh! wisha, me lord, sure enuf he did crap me!" The worthy assistant-barrister, who was justly horrified at the act, vented his indignation in the strongest terms, and expressed a wish that he had the witness in the dock, but the witness seemed to look upon this startling mode of procuring conclusive testimony as entitling him to a civic crown instead of meriting a judicial reprimand.-- Cork Examiner. Mr. St. George, M.P. applied by letter to the Galway Guardians for permission to pay his rates, which were very large in amount, by instalments of £50. The chairman said the board had no right to interfere with their collector, and Mr. St. George ought to be written to by the clerk to say that they could not interfere but that if he and the collector arranged it, they had no objections. Extract of a recent letter from a settler near Adelaide, South Australia - "Boys are greatly wanted here. We pay a little fellow to mind cattle and bring them to milk morning and evening, 2s. per week and feed him; he is a mere child, and does not look more than six years old. We also pay 8s. per week to a stout boy. If some gentlemen would interest themselves in sending them out, hundreds would get employment. The writer of this had hired as servants some young girls sent out from the Skibbereen workhouse. Serjeant Major Goerge Kirkman, 88th Depot, who marched through this garrison, en route from Kinsale to Castlebar, committed suicide at Tulla in his billet on Saturday morning last, after the detachment halted there, by cutting his throat from ear to ear. The cause of this desperate act is unknown to the officers and men unless that he apprehended censure for symptoms of inebriety. An inquest was held on Sunday, verdict - "Temporary insanity." The deceased was a native of Bolton, Lancashire.-- Limerick Chronicle. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 17, 1850 EXECUTION OF THE TWO BROTHERS GAVIN On Saturday we stated that a memorial had been forwarded to the Lord Lieutenant on behalf of Matthew and Wm. Gavin, under rule of execution in the County gaol, for the murder of John Ryan, at Cappamore, praying his Excellency to commute the capital punishment to transportation for life. To that application an answer was received on Sunday from Dublin Castle, stating - "His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant sees no grounds for interfering with the execution of the sentence of the law, in the case of William and Matthew Gavin." The Governor of the gaol received another communication from Dublin Castle yesterday morning stating that the Lord Lieutenant has had the case of the Gavin's again brought before him, and sees nothing to make him change his former decision, and that the law is to take its course. The final letter sealed the doom of the wretched young men, and in pursuance of the sentence pronounced by Serjeant Stock at last assizes, the ill fated brothers were executed this day at 3 o'clock in front of the county gaol. The scene was affecting as they embraced and bid a last farewell to each other in this world, with an earnest prayer to God that they may be united in the next. They made no public declaration on the scaffold. They were attended by Rev. William Bourke, R.C. Chaplain of the prison, Rev. Messrs. Bunton and Quinlan. The city police, under Sub-Inspector Williams, were on duty in front of the prison. The wretched young men, previous to execution, declared in their cell, to the Rev. Wm. Bourke, that destitution, consequent upon acts of oppression and cruelty towards their brother by John Ryan, for whose murder they were condemned to death, urged them to do the commission of the deed, which was the result of sudden anger and not premeditated, on an occasion when they accidentally met the deceased on their way home. A concourse of spectators, amounting to some thousands, mostly females, attended to witness the spectacle and though horrifying the scene, the "light fingered" community were busily engaged. Two women had their pockets cut off, while several of the male sex were relieved of their pocket handkerchiefs! The only surviving brother of the Gavins mingled in the crowd and witnessed the execution. Matthew died in agony - William ceased to exist after one convulsive struggle. The bodies having suspended for an hour were lowered from the gallows, and removed for burial within the precincts of the gaol. Ages of the two culprits - Matthew Gavin, 19 years, William Gavin 17 years.--Limerick Chronicle. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

ON ST. BRIGID'S FEAST DAY Spring's greening shawl warms winter earth ushers in the season of birth, re-generation. We bind the reeds gathered to weave St. Brigid's blessings around hearth and home. Soon the migrant swallow will return to old haunts kept safe in memory. I think of Liscannor and the swallows nested there the year before at St. Brigid's Holy Well. How wise the mother bird To fashion beginnings where cool waters splash music soft upon the stones, where the glow of hearth fires burn bright in prayers, kindling the light of hope. A light for skies darkened at summer's end by the shadow of swallows preparing to make their way. Fledglings rising in a spray of flight on wings of plenty. Swallow, and all who leave our shore, let stars and sun, the scent of familiar landmarks help you to your wintering places, make fast the map of landscape so that you never forget the path that takes you back. -- Eileen CASEY, orig. from the Midlands, living in Dublin, a freelance journalist, poet and fiction writer.

January 17, 1760 The Pennsylvania Gazette Notice is hereby given, that if Joseph Martin, who left Bally Martin, in the County of Down, near Killiney, in Ireland, on the 10th of July, 1750, and took his Passage from Lairn for New York, is still alive, and will come to the New Printing Office, in Market street, Philadelphia, he will hear of something to his Advantage. N.B. Said Joseph Martin kept School some time in the Jerseys. ~~~~~~~~~~ July 24, 1760 The Pennsylvania Gazette WHEREAS one Hugh Alexander, and his Wife Elizabeth, with three Children, named Martha, Mary and William, left Ireland, from the County of Tarone, and Town of Balamana, within 1 Mile of Cookes Town, about 21 Years ago. If all, or any of them, be alive, and will apply to Mr. William Carson, Peruke maker, in Front street, Philadelphia, may hear of something to their Advantages. N.B. Also one Mr. Toranes Moress, who came over with the said Hugh Alexander, and is lame, if he will also apply to the abovesaid Mr. Carson, may hear of something to his Advantage. ~~~~~~~~~~ November 13, 1760 The Pennsylvania Gazette NOTICE is hereby given, that if a certain Richard Kelly, Son to Mr. John Kelly, Merchant, in Galway, in Ireland, be living, who came to America in the Year 1750, and has formerly taught School near Mr. Robert McMullin, in Darby Township, by repairing to the Printers hereof next Saturday, or any other Saturday till the first of next April, and, by certain Marks, proving himself to be the same, may hear of something greatly to his Advantage. N.B. The Reason why on Saturday, and no other Day in the Week, is because the Person who can give proper Intelligence, as he lives in the Country, cannot with Convenience attend on other Days. If said Kelly is in Being, he is required to leave a Memorandum at the New Printing Office. ~~~~~~~~~~ July 16, 1761 The Pennsylvania Gazette WHEREAS a certain THOMAS BELL, from the North of Ireland, has by a Letter, dated October 1760, informed his Father John Bell, of his having been a cruising in several of the Privateers belonging to New York, and also of his Success in the same, and desired him to send his Brother William to this Country, on whose Arrival he was to apply to Mr. Beard in Water street, three Doors above Walnut street, Philadelphia, or write to him at Mr. James Smithin Milford Township; all which the aforesaid William Bell has performed; but the said Beard and Smith are said to have left the Places they then occupied: For which Reason the said William Bell takes this Method to inform his said Brother, that he may hear of him, by applying to Mr. Redmond Conyngham, Merchant in Market street, Philadelphia, or to Mr. John Crawford, in Warrington Township, Bucks County. ~~~~~~~~~~ July 7, 1763 The Pennsylvania Gazette IF FRANCIS GALLAGHER, from Letterkenny, in Ireland, who landed at New York last October, will apply to William Gallagher, in second street, Philadelphia, by Letters, or in Person, he will hear of something greatly to his Advantage. ~~~~~~~~~~ August 18, 1763 The Pennsylvania Gazette IF ROBERT STEVENSON, Son of JOHN STEVENSON, in the Townland of Cotton, Parish of Bangor, and County of Down, in Ireland, is living, and will apply to DAVID HALL, Printer in Philadelphia, or JAMES McCARTNEY, in New York, he will hear of something greatly to his Advantage. ~~~~~~~~~~ December 8, 1763 The Pennsylvania Gazette Whereas Thomas Hamilton came from Nickmany, in the County of Tyrone, in Ireland, about Thirty Years ago; these are to acquaint said Hamilton, if living, or any of his Family, that David Cockran; a SisterSon of his, came to Philadelphia about a Year ago, but can get no Intelligence of said Hamilton. If any Person will send a Letter to Mr. Patrick Anderson, in Charlestown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, for the Subscriber, acquainting where said Hamilton, or any of his Family are, they shall be thankfully rewarded, by DAVID COCKRAN. ~~~~~~~~~~ February 23, 1764 The Pennsylvania Gazette NOTICE is hereby given That there was a certain young Man, called Alexander Wilson, came from the County of Mannaughan, in Ireland, in the Year 1763, upon Redemption, with a certain Man, of the Name of Wilson, who said he knew the said young Man Father, who lives in Bert Township, in Lancaster County, and said Master did promise to deliver said young Man unto his Father Thomas Wilson, living in the above mentioned Place; but as the Father cannot hear of him, he supposes he is sold to some other Person, therefore if any Person can or will give Notice of the said young Man to his Father Thomas Wilson, or to Andrew Work, Esq; or James Marshall, shall be handsomely rewarded by either of the three Men. ~~~~~~~~~~ May 24, 1764 The Pennsylvania Gazette THIS is to inform ALEXANDER HAWTHORN, who came from about Merow, in the County of Derry, in Ireland, that he has Goods sent him from his Friends, which are now in the Hands of William Applebee, on the North West Side of the Dock, near the Stone Bridge, in Second street; where if the said Hawthorn will apply, he may receive the Goods, on proving his Property, and paying the Expences. ~~~~~~~~~~ February 14, 1765 The Pennsylvania Gazette Baltimore Town, Maryland, February 4, 1765. MICHAEL LITTLE, and his Wife and Daughter, who lately came from Belfast, in Ireland, with Mr. Ore, Merchant, and thought to have left Philadelphia the 16th of November last, are hereby desired to acquaint the Subscriber where they are, as he now lives in Baltimore Town, by directing to the Care of Christopher Curtis, Cooper. If any one would inform the Subscriber where the above Persons are, he will be much obliged to them. ANDREW COSGRAVE. ~~~~~~~~~~ June 13, 1765 The Pennsylvania Gazette IF SAMUEL HUNTER, Son of WILLIAM HUNTER, of Strabane, and County of Tyrone, in Ireland, is alive, and will call at the London Coffee house, in Philadelphia, he will receive a Letter, and hear of something considerable to his Advantage. ~~~~~~~~~~ September 26, 1765 The Pennsylvania Gazette This is to give Notice to Peter Wiley, who left Balymenough, in this County of Antrim, in Ireland, and has been in this Country two Years, that his Wife, and John McIlroy and his Wife, are come in, and have brought the Power of Attorney he wrote for. They are now living in West Nottingham, Chester County, within two Miles of the Rev. Mr. John Beald Meeting house. ~~~~~~~~~~ October 17, 1765 The Pennsylvania Gazette THESE are to acquaint David Young (Son of Edward Young of Auhagalian, near Omack, in the County of Tyrone, in Ireland, who came to Philadelphia in the Brig Dolphin, Captain Brown, about the latter End of August, or Beginning of September last, that if he will apply to JOSEPH JACOBS, in Market street, Philadelphia, he may hear of something to his Advantage. Any Person who can give any Intelligence of the said David Young is desired to inform the said Jacobs, which will be gratefully acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~ January 16, 1766 The Pennsylvania Gazette Quebec, August 1, 1765. IF HORACE BRATTAN, or BRITTAN, Son of GEORGE BRATTAN, of Tullybroom, in the County of Tyrone, in the Kingdom of Ireland, Gentleman, deceased, who left Ireland about 30 Years ago, and came to Philadelphia, or any of his Children, be living: And also if William McBride, who left Ireland about 10 Years ago, and came to Philadelphia, be living, or any of his Children, they will hear of something to their Advantage, by informing KENELON CHANDLER, and JOHN McCORD, of the City of Quebec, Executors of the last Will and Testament of Robert Britain, Esq; deceased, or either of them, by Letter, of their Names, Ages, and Places of Abode, and sending proper Certificates thereof to them. Mr. SAMUEL PURVIANCE jun. of the City of Philadelphia, Merchant, will in the mean Time give them Directions how to act. ~~~~~~~~~~ February 6, 1766 The Pennsylvania Gazette WHEREAS James Ross, a single Man, of the County of Derry, in the Kingdom of Ireland, came to Pennsylvania about four Years ago, and served his Time with one Mr. Speers, near St. George, in Maryland, and I the Subscriber, his Brother, have since come to his Country, and cannot hear where he is, if he be living, by applying to me, may hear of something to his Advantage, living with Hugh Quin, near the Sign of the Sheaf of Wheat, in Blockley Township, in Philadelphia County. WILLIAM PATTAN. ~~~~~~~~~~ March 20, 1766 The Pennsylvania Gazette Mr. JAMES RAMSEY, WHO came from the County of Armagh, in the North of Ireland, to this Country, Ten or Twelve Years since, and settled at Little Britain, in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where he usually had his Letters directed to the Care of Samuel Scott, Esq; a Magistrate for said County, from which Place the said Ramsey removed to some Part of the Jerseys about a Year ago; will hear of something much to his Advantage by applying personally to Mr. William Gilliland, Merchant in New York; the sooner he applies, the better for him. New York, Jan. 7th 1766. ~~~~~~~~~~ August 28, 1766 The Pennsylvania Gazette IF Elizabeth Murphey (the Daughter of Edward Murphey, of Arklow, in the County of Wicklow, in Ireland) who came to America, several Years ago, and lived in Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, but is said now to live in or near Philadelphia, will call at Mr. Steuart Printing Office in Philadelphia, she will receive a Letter form her Brother Daniel Murphey, of Wilmington, on Cape Fear, North Carolina; that will give her Satisfaction. She is desired to leave an Answer at said Office, directed to the Care of A. STEUART, Printer in Wilmington. ~~~~~~~~~~ January 29, 1767 The Pennsylvania Gazette IF JUDY, otherwise Susanna Cadden Daughter of Charles Cadden, of Clougher, in the County of Tyrone, and Province of Ulster, in Ireland, who came to Philadelphia about 16 Years ago, with one Robert Wallace, be alive, she is desired to write to her Brother Philip Cadden, Corporal in Captain Butler Company in Halifax; and to Daniel O'Murphey living on Maquire Bridge, near Lisnasgay, in Fermanaugh County, Ireland. And if said Judy is dead, and said Robert Wallace knows where and when she died, whether married or not, and in what Circumstances, he is requested to transmit an Account thereof to the abovementioned Persons, which will be esteemed a particular Favour. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 17, 1850 MEETING OF GUARDIANS Ballina Union. - The usual weekly meeting of the Guardians of this Union was held in the Boardroom on Saturday, Edward Howley, Esq., in the chair. The other Guardians present were, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Paget, Mr. Symes, Mr. Malley, Capt. Atkinson, Mr. M'Culloch, Mr Joynt, Captain J. Knox, Mr. G. Orme, Mr. E. Orme, Mr. J. Jackson, Mr. Gardiner, Mr. A. Knox, Mr. Wills and Mr. Cunningham, &c. Capt. Hamilton, Inspector, was present. A letter from the Commissioners was read in which they declared their intentions to issue their order for a supplemental election for Guardians for the Ardnaree South and Fortland Electoral Divisions. Mr. Quigly, one of the Guardians, brought into the Board Room two jackets and two waistcoats, the property of the Union, which he had taken off a pauper who had absconded from the workhouse. A pauper, who stated that he had worked as a labourer for about four years in the Sallymount division, and having partly lost his sight, begged in that neighbourhood during the three or four following years, applied for admission into the house. - Mr. Paget objected to his being placed on the Sallymount division and insisted upon taking the sense of the Board on the subject, when it was decided by a majority of 10 to 9 that he should be charged to the union at large. Another pauper who was born in the Ardagh division but lived as a servant in the Ballina division for two or three years was placed upon the latter. Mr. Beaty objected to another pauper and his family being placed on the union at large who were born in the division of Ardagh but had been strolling about during the last four years. The sense of the meeting was taken when there appeared to be a majority of four in favour of charging them on the Ardagh division. There were 80 paupers admitted. The following letter from the Commissioners was read on the previous day of meeting but its consideration was postponed for a fuller board:- "Poor Law Commission Office, Dublin, 3d April, 1850, "SIR - The Commissioners for administering the Laws for Relief of the Poor in Ireland have had before them answers to the usual queries respecting Mr. Henry Joynt, who has been appointed Valuator to the Ballina Union, form which it appears that Mr. Joynt is Surveyor and Clerk to the properties of Colonel Knox Gore and the Earl of Arran in the Union, and I am directed to state that before sanctioning the proposed appointment the Commissioners think it right to inquire whether the Board of Guardians have duly considered how far the circumstances referred to may operate in diminishing the confidence which it is important that all classes of ratepayer should feel in the impartiality of a person entrusted to the duty of valuing the property of the Union. "By order of the Comjmissioners, "W. STANLEY, Secretary. "To the Clerk of the Guardians of the Ballina Union." Mr. Malley considered that it would be time enough to make objections when the valuation was made as there would then be an opportunity for doing so, as the books would be open for inspection, and moreover, the valuator would be obliged at his own expense to defend appeals. Mr. Cunningham wished to disclaim having made any statement to the Commissioners about Mr. Joynt, as was reported of him. The letter of the Commissioners, he said, was of itself evidence that he did not do so. The Board appeared to be unanimous in their opinion of Mr. Joynt's integrity, and passed the following resolution:- "In reference to the Commissioners letter with regard to the appointment of Mr. Henry Joynt, as valuator of the union, it was unanimously agreed to by a full Board of Guardians, in reply to the Commissioners remarks, that he does possess the full confidence of the Board, and as such we request the immediate sanction of his appointment." Catherine Boland, one of the inmates of the Workhouse, appeared before the Board in reference to a change in her religious denomination. [ This woman was before the Board at a late hour on the last board day, and expressed a wish to have her registry changed from Protestant to that of Roman Catholic, but any decision on the Subject was postponed to next meeting, when there would be more guardians present.] She stated that she was born and bred a Roman Catholic. She was two years in the workhouse, during which time her name, according to her own wish, was entered as a Protestant. The Sunday before last she went to mass, but on the last Sunday went, as she said to church, and after coming from it was called a "turn coat" by Betty Sweeney and other paupers. She now would remain a Protestant. She told Colonel Gore on the last day of meeting that she would become a Catholic again, but she now wished to be a Protestant.- She had nothing to say against the master or mistress or any of the other officers; Mrs. Hart, the mistress, sent for her to go to church, and neither she nor any of the officers had ever called her a turn coat or wished her to go to mass. Mr. Pratt remarked that he felt called upon to say that the statement of this woman was highly creditable to the officers of the house. The Master reported that he had Betty Sweeney reported for punishment. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/

> cathy carley <cathy_carley@yahoo.com.au> wrote........................ > > Im researching my Direct Line of CLENDINNENS That came from > Ireland...Originally Spelt GLENDINNING In Scotland, Came over to Co Down > and I think also Co Derry.. > Im very Interested in the Co Derry Lot in Particular and wonder if they > connect to my Co Down Lot...Some of My Lot were Preachers and Medicos.. > Some went to Co Wexford, Some to Canada/Australia etc > Anyone researching these lot thru Ireland > Thankyou:) > Regards from Australia > Cathy:) Cathy, Has someone in your male line done the DNA testing? There are 21 of them in the YSEARCH.ORG DNA database. If you are unaware of this subject, goto http://www.ysearch.org/ and enter the CLENDENIN name in the search box. You will be able to email them if you wish. I match 24 of 25 DNA markers with two of them myself. That means a 50% chance of us having a common ancestor within 7 generations and a 90% chance within 16 generations.

MEMORY LANE: "I cannot trim the Christmas tree without thinking of my father, who always had a method. For him there was a right way and a wrong way to do everything... He had a method for attending baseball games and another for viewing the St. Patrick's Day parade. He had a method for riding a bike - a good one, which he taught me, even though he himself had never ridden a bike... We children noticed that it was not just we who called on him for help. Whenever adults got in impossible jams, my father became their Emergency Weapon. He was always helping more introverted, hysterical relatives in and out of cars, hospitals, mental institutions, funeral parlors and tax offices. He and his four brothers (he was the baby of the line) were practical guys who got things done. Like many practical people, they had little to say. My mother and her sister could talk for hours about God-knew-what, but my father and his brothers seldom communicated to one another or to anyone else. It was wasn't their maleness that made them taciturn, I knew that. Their mother, my grandmother, never had anything to say either. Once, at a birthday party for one of my sisters, the flames atop the birthday candle spread to the paper tablecloth. Grandma, silent as ever, her stout frame swaddled in perpetual black, rose from her chair with the speed of any Olympic runner and swatted those flames with her brick-heavy black pocketbook. Bam, bam! My mother returned from the kitchen to find the cake smashed and a dozen little girls in tears. "There was a fire, Margaret," said Grandma, who looked very much like George Washington, once more resuming her seat and her Mount Rushmore sile! nce. Practical. Not especially graceful. But practical. My father, the gentlest of the bunch of brothers, was the only one who could be called a gentleman. He was tough, all right, and like his brothers made for anything. But he dressed more gravely, moved more smoothly, talked more sonorously than they. He even had a playful side, though it was one he displayed only within the confines of his family... My favorite story of my father is the one he told me about the Christmas of 1940, my first Christmas. He had had to work till Christmas Eve night, returning home with his well-earned bonus and picking up a Christmas tree along the way. When he reached the tree lot, however, there was only one left. A large, imperious lady had already entered into negotiations for it. She didn't care to pay full price because she really didn't really want such a large tree. Dad promptly inserted himself into the haggle, offering to pay half and then divide the tree with the lady. Perfect, said she, provided only she should have the fuller half. Together they purchased the tree, which my father lugged to her garage. There, her husband sawed it in half. The moment the trunk snapped in two, my father picked up the top half - now a perfect little tree - wished the couple a merry Christmas and took off. As he turned the corner, he glanced back to see the two just beginning to appreciate the strang! e, pointless bush the woman had so greedily insisted on. Mary, my second sister and my parents' fourth child, was born in 1948 on December 23. Since there was no chance my mother would be home for Christmas Eve, I was called upon to stand in for her when, after the children were put to bed, the tree was decorated and the presents set forth. Before she left for the hospital, my mother counseled me to be grown-up and helpful in my new role, but I, nearly nine, had no need of anyone's encouragement. The adulthood to be conferred by staying up was a pleasure beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. What I remember of that night is not the presents we laid out for my brother and sister, sleeping unawares in a bedroom down the hall. Nor can I remember what St. Nicholas left for me to rediscover in the morning. What I remember is the quiet and the joy of working through the hours of darkness with my father. The great task was the trimming of the tree --and of course, he had a method. First, the electric bulbs, which had to be set well withi! n the branches, so that their cords would not show and their lights would not be bald but refracted and mysterious. Next, the ornaments; and last, the tinsel icicles, which had to be hung strand by strand, not flung vulgarly in clumps as impatient, tasteless fathers did. Gradually, as we labored together, the tree assumed its annual splendor, which would awe my siblings on the morrow. Many years later I learned that my father had never had a Christmas tree in his own childhood. His parents were immigrants, and his father died in a road construction accident when my father, baby Patrick, was but a few weeks old. My silent grandmother took in washing, often faced eviction and one day, in desperation, even placed my father's older brothers in an orphanage. But she returned to take them back the same day, and from that time they somehow squeaked by. My father, who became quite deaf after a serious childhood illness, was taken to be a dunce by his teachers. He was saved from academic extinction by a kindly, perceptive nun who tutored him for a high school scholarship, a course that would eventually make him his family's only college graduate, but he struggled against the deafness all his life. He once told me, during a crisis in my life, that all he had ever wanted to be was a father. I don't know, but perhaps that keen desire marshaled his abilities, as a magnet marshals iron filings, so that he was able to accomplish tasks he had no models and no preparation for. At any rate, that Christmas of the tree-trimming was nearly 50 years ago, and this past summer my father was taken from us. For many years I trimmed a tree for my own children and, more recently, instructed them in the art. As I look back, my father's method seems true art, beginning in ritual and devotion and ending in a great symbol, set in our midst, of our mysterious relation to one another - father to son, brother to sister, husband to wife, friend to friend, generation upon generation. To me the annual rite is a kind of token in the splendor and the painful beauty of the universe itself." -- Excerpts, Thomas Cahill, "My Father's Perfect Christmas - now it's mine." "Reader's Digest" magazine Dec 1998

CARLINGFORD Behind the clatter of heels and wheels I journey into this dazzling countryside of Mountain, forest and sea. This eerie fascination of towering hills Deep shades of purple and black Overpowering the preconceived mind Picturing long-long youth and hearing Sounds of laughs and screams and Thundering splashes. Only the whispers of birds and Silent breeze Occasional laps of waves Noisy locomotives brushing past For miles and miles ahead Drowned by this calm spell, I hear no sounds of life Only castles and abbeys Unspoiled by emigration. Up the bare stairs I grow close to Lords, dukes and monks, Breathing occasionally, This medieval stillness Creating a village intact Almost prehistoric. Slowly the spirit quietens by The haunting countryside The elements of the atmosphere Capturing the heart as the Fruits of creativity Slowly emerge. -- Sinead MacDevitt

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Jean that was lovely Hope you have a very happy Christmas and thank you for the wonderful poems and prose Gilly Gill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <jeanrice@cet.com> To: <IRELAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 4:28 PM Subject: [IRELAND] "The Angel's Whisper" -- Samuel LOVER (1797-1868) > In Ireland, when a child smiles in its sleep, it is said to be "talking > with > angels." > > THE ANGEL'S WHISPER > > A baby was sleeping, > Its mother was weeping, > For her husband was far on the wild raging sea; > And the tempest was swelling > Round the fisherman's dwelling, > And she cried, "Dermot, darling, oh! come back to me." > > Her beads while she number'd, > The baby still slumber'd, > And smiled in her face as she bended her knee; > "Oh blest be that warning, > My child's sleep adorning, > For I know that the angels are whispering with thee. > > "And while they are keeping > Bright watch o'er thy sleeping, > Oh, pray to them softly, my baby, with me > And say thou wouldst rather > They'd watch o'er thy father! > For I know that the angels are whispering with thee." > > The dawn of the morning > Saw Dermot returning, > And the wife wept with joy her babe's father to see; > And closely caressing > Her child, with a blessing, > Said, "I knew that the angels were whispering with thee." > > -- Samuel Lover (1797-1868) > > > ==== 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/ > >