> I've just returned from the Dromod in Kerry and am wondering how > Sister would pronounce the name Cannaboe Would the last syllable, hoe, rime with Kennedy or with our word for the gardening hoe? > Cannaboe in sight of the railway > station, that played such a vital role in our young lives. The > "buzzer" at > the station awakened us with its booming sound at 7:30 every > morning. It was > steam operated and I presume it was a signal to the workers to be > on the > job. The shunting of the train at the 'White Gates' as it go ready > for its > morning journey to Dromod, always fascinated me. The steam engine > puffed and > blew, spluttered and steamed, as its big wheels tur Michael DANAHY http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/n/Michael-C-Danahy/index.html RESEARCHING IN MA (Hopkinton), IRE, ENG ALDRICH http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~aldrichnaa/ (one m SMITH, earlier ones m CASAVANT, COMEE, http://www.familyorigins.com/users/e/v/a/Jeanne-C-Evans LOVELL, PRAY, PRENTICE, RAWSON, SEALD, THAYER); http://members.xoom.com/jaldrich/Lines/Michael.htm Aldrich Family biographies, go to http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/FamilyAssociation/AldrichBios or go to http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aldrich/ CASAVANT (who m MORAN); CURRAN (who m DANAHY) DANAHY (b. in Hopkinton and who m LENAN, siblings m. TOLAN, JOHNSON, O'CONNOR) LENAN (who m O"BRIEN); SMITH (who m CASEY); PRENTICE (who m ALDRICH) http://www.prenticenet.com/roots/prentice/robert/#R4 RAWSON (one m ALLEN, later one TORREY) http://www.rawsonfamilyassoc.org/ THAYER (Thomas m WHEELER, son Ferdinando m HAYWARD); http://members.aol.com/Sadie476/Thayer.html