May 20, 2002, Hello Sharron, On Mon, 20 May 2002 you wrote: I may even be in the wrong country with this one but hopefully people can help me in someway. There is an old verbal story in our family regarding some family members being 'chased' by the Black and the Tan. This was supposed to have happened in Belfast pre 1900. The family member who used to tell this story has since passed on but noone could get much more out of him except that they were very scared of this Black and the Tan. Could someone please tell me who they were (the Black and the Tan) and why they would have 'chased' people etc? Thanks Sharron Sharron, dear, if you wish to do a google search then you will see that there are several entries on the Black and Tans. Look up the www.google.com and in the search line type in the following words: The Black and Tans in Ireland. Just as a matter of interest, you might like to know that when I would be visiting my girl friends home as a young child I would often hear her father shouting in his sleep "the black and tans are coming, the black and tans are coming". Of course, at our young age we didn't know why he was shouting those words and if we asked we certainly didn't learn the answer. Must have been terribly scary. I also see that you mentioned Belfast. You probably know that there is a Belfast City mailing list. Regards. Joan. _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com