IRELAND We Irish pride ourselves as patriots and tell the beadroll of the valiant ones since Clontarf's sunset saw the Norsemen broken... Aye, and before that too we had our heroes: but they were mighty fighters and victorious. The later men got nothing save defeat, hard transatlantic sidewalks or the scaffold... We Irish, vainer than tense Lucifer, are yet content with half-a-dozen turf, and cry our adoration for a bog, rejoicing in the rain that never ceases, and happy to stride over the sterile acres, or stony hills that scarcely feed a sheep. But we are fools, I say, are ignorant fools to waste the spirit's warmth in this cold air, to spend our wit and love and poetry on a half-a-dozen peat and a black bog. We are not native here or anywhere. We were the keltic wave that broke over Europe, and ran up this bleak beach among these stones; but when the tide ebbed, were left stranded here in crevices, and ledge-protected pools that have grown saltier with the drying up of the great common flow that kept us sweet with fresh cold draughts from deep down in the ocean. So we are bitter, and are dying out in terrible harshness in this lonely place, and what we think is love for usual rock, or old affection for our customary ledge, is but forgotten longing for the sea that cries far out and calls us to partake in his great tidal movements round the earth. -- John Hewitt (1907-1987), poet, critic, museum official, was born in Belfast and educated at Methodist College and Queen's University. He retired in 1972 from directing the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry, England. In this poem, Hewitt explores his relationship with his harsh, lonely home.

From John Grenham's, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, 1st edition Census returns and substitues: 1641 Book of Survey and Distribution 1654 Civil Survey, Vol. VI, Kilkenny City 1659 Pender's Census 1664 Hearth Money Rolls, parishes of Agherney, Aghavillar, Bellaghtobin, Belline, Burnchurch, Callan, Castleinch, Clone, Coolaghmore, Coolcashin, Danganmore, Derrinahinch, Dunkitt, Earlstown, Eyverk, Fartagh, Inishnagg and Stonecarthy, Jerpoint, Kells, Kilbeacon and Killahy, Kilcolm, Kilferagh, Kilkredy, Killamery, Killaloe, Killree, Kilmoganny, Kiltackaholme, Knocktopher and Kilkerchill, Muckalee and Lismatgue, Outrath, Ratbach, Rathpatrick, Tullaghanbrogue, Tullaghmaine, Urlingfort 1684-1769 Registers of Kilkenny College 1702 Partial lists, St Mary's and St Canice's parishes, Kilkenny City 1715 Protestant males between 16 and 60 in St John's parish, Kilkenny City 1750-1844 Inistiogue emigrants in Newfoundland 1775 Landowners 1785-1879 Kilkenny city deeds 1797 Chief Catholic inhabitants, Parishes of Graguenamanagh and Knocktopher 1809-19 Freeholders 1811-58 Registers and Accounts of St Keran's College 1821 Extracts from 1821 census, parishes of Aglish, Clonmore, Fiddown, Kilmocow, Polerone, Rathkyran, Whitechurch 1820s/30s Tithe Books 1831 Extracts from 1831 census, parishes of Aglish, Clonmore, Kilmacow, Polerone, Rathkyran, Tybroghney 1841 Extracts from 1841 census, parishes of Aglish and Rathkyran 1841 Townlands of Aglish and Portnahully, parish of Aglish 1849/50 Griffith's Valuation 1851 Parish of Aglish 1850s Castlecomer assisted passages 1901 Census 1911 Census Most of the above can be found in books and/or film at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. Also, much has been filmed by the LDS Family History Library. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

SNIPPET: A reader contributed a memoir to the 'Yesterday Remembered' Column of the "Best of British" magazine (Dec. 1998) and his story of growing up in London in the 1920s gives us a peek into those days. He also mentions an Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924, with a pavilion for each country in the British Empire. Per Dennis - "My mother was blind when I was born and father had lost an eye in the Great War, so it was a family joke that we only had three eyes between us. We lived in Clapham, London, in a ground floor flat of a terraced house with no bathroom. My parents bathed in the kitchen in a large zinc bath, which hung on a nail in the yard when not in use. I was bathed standing up in the scullery sink. Across the paved yard at the back of the house the water closet had wall-to-wall wooden seating. The door had a gap at both top and bottom, so the wind whistled through and it was perishing in winter. The brickwork was whitewashed, and a constant watch had to be kept for spiders, especially if they were dangling over your head! It was gas lighting and a Yorkshire range for cooking and hot water. The laundry was in an outhouse in the back yard and a coal fire had to be lit under the copper to heat the water. I remember once, when my aunt was doing the laundry for mother, wh! en she squeezed what she thought was a Reckitt's Blue and it turned out to be a dead mouse! She was shattered - I thought it was great fun! There was only one bedroom, luckily a large one, and I slept in a bed in the corner facing the door, which could be left ajar for me in the early days. In the hall there were steps into the cellar with a locked door at the top, the coal being tipped into the cellar through a manhole in the pavement outside. The window at the end of the hall always fascinated me. The panes were of coloured glass - red, green, blue, and yellow - and when the sun shone through them it was like a stained glass window in church. Various tradesmen made deliveries, including the milkman with his three-wheeled push cart, who measured the milk into our jug from a half-pint ladle. The muffin man, with his tray balanced on his head, ringing a handbell as he walked along, was always eagerly awaited. At the end of the road was the usual corner shop. I start! ed shopping for mother at a very early age, with a penny for sweets fo r myself. There was no motor traffic in our street then. The streets were safe in every way and my grandfather, who lived opposite, was a policeman! In 1922 I attended Hazelrigg Elementary school, walking there in the company of older boys. One of the school's Old Boys was Herbert MORRISON, Minister of Transport 1929/31 and leader of The House in the 1945 Government. Father encouraged me to read. I knew the alphabet before I started school, which was a great help to me there. Later I used to read regularly to mother - mostly the 'Just William' series - creating an interest in books which remains to this day. We had to cross the Bedford Road to reach the school and there were many horses and carts. We lads used to hang on the back of a cart for a free ride until the other lads yelled to the driver: 'Whip behind guv'nor! He would flick his whip back at us, catching our knuckles if we weren't quick enough dropping off. On summer Sundays my parents would walk and I w! ould ride a fairy cycle to Clapham Common, where there was a pond with self-propelled paddle boats. I always loved those, trying to ignore the 'Come in number nine' call that ended it. Sometimes I went out along with dad. I remember the Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924, with a pavilion for each country in the British Empire, an amusement park and sideshows. On Saturday mornings, when allowed, I went with some older boys to the cinema in Clapham High Street. Admission was fourpence and the programme included Westerns, Charlie CHAPLIN and the inevitable cliff-hanging serial. For home entertainment we played a wind-up portable gramophone and listened to Station 2L0, which had started in 1922, on the 'cat's-whisker' wireless set. It was quite an achievement to hear anything at all! Christmas included a magic lantern show. Fantastic! There were smuts everywhere - like a railway station. For some time we had deplored the lack of facilities at Clapham and father had! been seeking other accommodation. At last, in the spring of 1925, th e big day came and we moved to a brand new semi-detached house - costing 425 pounds - at Greenford, with not only a bathroom and a garden, but a separate bedroom for me, would you believe!: Dennis STRANGE

Hi, Many thanks for all your messages hopefully Ill be able find them. Gloria. Reasearching Somers,Boyle and Lelean.

Hi Noticed your family interests and was curious because of my own. Cheers ! Ted Boyle. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gloria Addis" <g-addis@ihug.co.nz> To: <IRISH-IN-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 8:33 PM Subject: [UK-Irish] Somers Family > Hi, Many thanks for all your messages hopefully Ill be able find them. > Gloria. Reasearching Somers,Boyle and Lelean. > > > ==== IRISH-IN-UK Mailing List ==== > The Irish-In-UK Mailing List Website: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishUK/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

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THE QUEEN'S AFTER-DINNER SPEECH 'Me loving subjects,' sez she, 'Here's me best respects,' sez she, 'An' I'm poud this day,' sez she, 'Of the illigant way,' sez she, 'Ye gave me the hand,' sez she, 'Whin I came to land,' sez she. 'There was some people said,' sez she, 'They was greatly in dread,' sez she, 'I'd be murthered or shot,' sez she, 'As like as not,' sez she, 'But 'tis mighty clear,' sez she, ''Tis not over here,' sez she, 'I have cause to fear,' sez she, ''Tis them Belgiums,' sez she, 'That's throwin' bombs,' sez she, 'And scarin' the life,' sez she, 'Out o' me son and the wife,' sez she. 'But in these parts,' sez she, 'They have warrum hearts,' sez she, 'And they like me well,' sez she, 'Barrin' Anna Parnell,' sez she. 'I dunno, Earl,' sez she, 'What's come to the girl,' sez she, 'And that other wan,' sez she, 'That Maud Gonne,' sez she, 'Dhressin' in black,' sez she, 'To welcome me back,' sez she; 'Though I don't care,' sez she, 'What they wear,' sez she, 'An' all that gammon,' sez she, 'About me bringin' famine,' sez she, 'Now Maud 'ill write,' sez she, 'That I brought the blight,' sez she, 'Or altered the saysons,' sez she, 'For some private raysins,' sez she, 'An' I think there's a slate,' sez she, 'Off Willie Yeats,' sez she. 'He should be at home,' sez she, 'French polishin' a poem,' sez she, 'An' not writin' letters,' sez she, 'About his betters,' sez she. 'Paradin' me crimes,' sez she, 'In the Irish Times,' sez she.... -- "Prose, Poems and Parodies of Percy French," 1925.

Thanks so much Ciaran and John, for the time you took to send a comprehensive answer to my query. My son and I are planning to spend a week in England and Wales and then two weeks in Ireland. I want to visit both Redruth and Swansea where my Phillips are from and my son wants to go to London. I've been to Ireland a number of times but on in England with a stop over at Heathrow, so the info you both sent will be very helpful. I have decided yet our mode of transportation...car versus train. I definitely will check out all the websites to plan the trip. Thanks again. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

From John Grenham's, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, 1st edition. 1586 Survey of the estates of the Earl of Desmond, recording leaseholders 1641 Book of Survey and Distribution 1654 Civil Survey, Vol. IV, Dyesert, Killury, Rathroe 1659 Pender's Census 1756-1827 Biographical notices from Cork and Kerry newspapers, arranged alphabetically 1799 Petition of 300 prominet Catholics of Co. Kerry, The Dublin Evening Post, June 9, 1799 1821 Some extracts, Tralee and Annagh, Thrift Abstracts 1820s, 1830s Tithe Books 1834-35 Householders, parishes of Dunquin, Dunurlin, Ferriter, Killemlagh, Kilmalkedar, Kilquane, Marhin, Prior 1835 Tralee Voters 1847-51 Assisted passages, Castlemaine estate, Kiltallagh parish 1852 Griffith's Valuation 1901 Census, indexed in Jeremiah King's, County Kerry, Past and Present 1931 1911 Census Most of the above are found in books and on film at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. Also, some have been filmed by the LDS Family History Library. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

According to Grenham's, Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, 1st Edition: 1640 Irish Papist Prietors, Galway Town. 1641 Book of Survey and Distribution 1657 English Protestant Proprietors, Galway Town 1727 A Galway election list 1749 Parishes of Ahascra, Athleague, Ballynakill, Drimatemple, Dunamon, Kilbegnet, Killian, Killosolan 1791 Survey of Lourghrea town (occupiers) 1794 Catholic Freemen of Galway town 1798 List of those who suffered loss in 1798 Rebellion 1806-10 Catholic householders, Killalaghten. In the Catholic parish registers of Killalaghten 1820-1830s Tithe Book 1821 Parishes of Aran, Athenry, Kilcomeen, Kiltallagh, Killimore, Kilconickny, Kilreekill. Also Loughrea (fragments) 1827 Protestants in Aughrim parish 1829-58 Rentals of the estate of Sir George Shee, in and around Dunmore 1834 List of parishioners, Kinvara and Killina 1836 Freeholders, Co. Galway 1837 Valuation of towns returning M.P.s (occupants and property values): Galway; Parliamentary Papers, Reports from Committees, Vol. II 1841 Loughrea census fragments 1848-52 Ahascra assisted passages 1850-59 Emigrants to Australia and the US from the parish of Kilcreaste, with some from the parishes of Killigolen, Killinane, Killora, Rilthomas and Isserkelly 1851 Loughrea census fragments 1855 Griffith's Valuation 1901 Census 1911 Census Many of the above are found in books and/or films at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin. Also, many have been filmed by the LDS Family History Library. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

www.cornwalltouristboard.co.uk Hi Pat above is the tourist infromation web site for Cornwall. I was there in the summer and had a wonderful time. I must be truful the traffic jams are a nightmare but the area is all so beautiful. If you get a chance try and visit Devon as well. I am often down there as my Daughter and Family live in Paignton Devon. I also visit the Family Records Centre in historic Plymouth to research another branch of the Family tree. Regards Maureen Bartlett, Grays, ESSEX, England - grey sky, very cold but no snow in this area as yet but is expected. How I enjoyed snow as a child but only like to see it on Christmas cards now!!!

What months in spring do you intend to visit the area. The coastline can be spectacular as opposed to the landscape. Roads are narrow you need patience as a car driver if you are in a hurry. There is also the consideration of road conditions due to normal weather patterns for the time of year to bear in mind. Lots of ice mists etc. Fog can be a nightmare if travelling on the motor ways into/out the area especially in night conditions. I do not wish to frighten you off. These things can be all part of potentially great experience. . You will be travelling at a time which may be out side the tourist season which usually slowly kicks off at Easter which might restrict some of your ambitions. To enjoy the Cornwall coast line it really means walking and been windswept.The coast is lined with lots of old fishing villages and really wonderful bays and coves. Life is very laid back in these places and the villages reflect very much this aspect of life. On visits to these places there is not much to do other than enjoy the sights. If you are finding your way down to Redruth via London it is quite a journey and maybe worthwhile considering an overnight stop on route. ie if travelling from London stay overnight at Exeter You should look up the tourist board for the area on the internet via the Tourism Britain. You will have to go off main routes to get at specific coastal areas a lot of the time and this can be time costly The A30 road is the key to your travels in Cornwall. Falmouth and Truro These places are worth a visit if weather is bad a lot of things to do and see if opened. alongside Lizard Point and Lands End plus St Ives Bay Boswell Tintagel (King Arthur) for the Atlantic air. An important consideration which you need to think about are the general weather conditions you may encounter from day to day which could restrict your enjoyment of sight seeing etc. For a quick reference you should look at the BBC home page to read about the recent weather conditions. in Cornwall. ciaran colgan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Connors" <nymets11@pacbell.net> To: <IRISH-IN-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2005 5:12 PM Subject: Re: [UK-Irish] Beachcombing --England >I am planning a spring trip to England and Ireland and since my Phillips > started in the Redruth area of Cornwall, I am planning to visit the > area. Are there any suggestions as to particular beaches with > spectacular views? I am really looking forward to the visit, having > been to the West of Ireland and seen some awesome sunsets, I am sure > Cornwall has them also. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > > > ==== IRISH-IN-UK Mailing List ==== > The Irish-In-UK Mailing List Website: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishUK/ > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

SNIPPET: Travellers and writers, poets and rhymesters encountered the traditional music, song and dance of Ireland in many places and wrote down their impressions. Some of these encounters were casual and unexpected, and the spontaneous reactions can make for fascinating reading. The Deputy Governor of a group known as the Honorable Society of Ireland in London came over on official business in 1825, and wrote an account of his travels in a book called "Narrative of an Excursion in Ireland," published in London. He and his companions were staying in a hotel in Dawson Street in Dublin, and it was suggested to them that they visit the Spa at Lucan outside Dublin to sample the health-giving waters. They left at half-past five in the morning, got to the Spa Hotel but they didn't confine themselves to the waters. "We sauntered about the walks for half an hour, when a messenger arrived to say that breakfast was ready, which was composed of lamb chops, fried delicately brown as if they had come from the kitchen of the Albion; tongue, fresh eggs, cream, that a mouse might run over without being bogged, butter just emerged from the churn, bread of many sorts, and glorious griddle cake,tea and coffee, and all these good things for two tenpennies a-head! We made a royal repast, and, by way of keeping all quiet, I absorbed half a glass of most exquisite white Cognac. Our ears were now suddenly saluted with delightful music, accompanied by the voice. The sounds were sweet, though strange, and created a debate as to what and how many instruments the band consisted of. On opening the door of the room, a lad of about sixteen, of a very pensive air, and minstrel-like mien, sat in one of the recesses of the saloon, with his Irish pipes; and with these alone did produce 'the concord of sweet sounds' which we had heard. They were the wild, pathetic airs of his own dear island, and he played them with great expression and feeling. I stood bes! ide him while playing, and found, in addition to the chaunter and drone of the Scots bagpipes, there were three or four pipes of different lengths and calibre, with keys, which he pressed with the ball of his hand, and, at the same time, another, and sometimes two, with the wrist and arm; thus producing exquisite harmony, which I did not think capable of. I supposed that the extra pipes were 3rds and 5ths to the key note, and some of the others to supply the faulty notes, common to the Scots chaunter, or probably they might be semitones. I enquired, at the bar, if he were a player of any note in the country, thinking that 'His notes so wild, and ready, thrill, They shew'd no common piper's skill;' but, I was told, that they did not know him 'at all, at all' - he was just a lad that had come in from the road. I wished that I had been an Irish peer, or an Irish prelate, for the latter seem to be the richest, and I would have retained him for my own piper; but, perhaps, he mig! ht have preferred his own wandering mode of life." Who the youthful piper was at Lucan we shall probably never know. The pipes which produced the 'concord of sweet sounds' were of course uilleann pipes which are different from the Scottish bagpipes because the air is produced by a bellows under one arm, and not with a mouthpiece. -- Excerpt, Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine.

I am planning a spring trip to England and Ireland and since my Phillips started in the Redruth area of Cornwall, I am planning to visit the area. Are there any suggestions as to particular beaches with spectacular views? I am really looking forward to the visit, having been to the West of Ireland and seen some awesome sunsets, I am sure Cornwall has them also. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

I have a Margaret Heafy with a birth of 1841 here in Dungarvan Co, Waterford. Interestingly, both the surnames are associated with a particular townland in the area. Not too many Somers..the name is sometimes spelled Sumers...The Heafy family have a long history here. If I can be of help...just shout. Eddie----- Original Message ----- From: <CMARYPATC@aol.com> To: <IRISH-IN-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 3:47 AM Subject: Re: [UK-Irish] Somers family > > : > > name of Somers. Robert b 1841 and > Margaret Somers nee Heafey b 1843 were born in Ireland somewhere > married then immigrated to Jersey Channel Islands.Would like to find out > where in Ireland they were from.They had 2 sons Thomas and Daniel 1871 > census. Thankyou Gloria, Roberts gg grandaughter. > > > > There ae 8 Somers listed in 1840's in Ireland in Sligo and Roscommon - No > Robert > > Keep in mind this is a partial list that I have .. Check the Roscommon site, > may have more ... > > > Lots of Mary Healy's mostly in Sligo and Roscommon .. 1836/46 > > > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1836 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: Patritii HEALY > Mo: Catharinae NOON > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1837 Irel Rosc Loughg > Fa: John HEALY > Mo: Brigidae CORCORAN > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1838 Irel Slig Taunag > Fa: Jacobi HEALY > Mo: Margarittae ROARKE > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1838 Irel Slig Taunag > Fa: Hugonis HEALY > Mo: Mariae FOLEY > HEALY, Maria Chr 1839 Irel Rosc Boyle > Fa: Joannis HEALY > Mo: Annae BOLAND > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Rosc Kiabal > Fa: Dyonisii HEALY > Mo: Margarettae TYRRELL > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: Michael HEALY > Mo: Mariae SHANNEN > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: Michael HEALY > Mo: Brigidae MC DONOGH > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: Jacobi HEALY > Mo: Judy HORAN > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: John HEALY > Mo: Mariae GARVY > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Taunag > Fa: Manii HEALY > Mo: Honoriae CUMISKY > HEALY, Mary Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: John HEALY > Mo: Nelly MC DONOGH > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1840 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: William HEALY > Mo: Mariae RUTLEDGE > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1841 Irel Rosc Kiabal > Fa: Michaelis HEALY > Mo: Elizabeth ROCK > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1841 Irel Rosc Rosaki > Fa: Patritii HEALY > Mo: Mariae MC DERMOTT > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1843 Irel Rosc Kilaki > Fa: Lucae HEALY > Mo: Brigidae KELLY > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1845 Irel Rosc Ardatu > Fa: Johannis HEALY > Mo: Bridgidae CUMMINS > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1845 Irel Slig Aghana > Fa: James HEALY > Mo: Judy HORAN > HEALY, Mariam Joannam Chr 1845 Irel Rosc Boyle > Fa: Jacobi HEALY > Mo: Annae RODDY > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Ardatu > Fa: Petri HEALY > Mo: Catherinae > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Boyle > Fa: Jacobi HEALY > Mo: Mariae FORRY > HEALY, Mariam Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Rosaki > Fa: Dionisii HEALY > Mo: Mariae HEALY > HEALY, Mary Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Lisanu > Fa: John HEALY > Mo: Margaret DONNELAN > > > Checked marriages 1860 to 1881 no hits for either name > Checked for children - NO hits > > > ==== IRISH-IN-UK Mailing List ==== > The Irish-In-UK Mailing List Website: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishUK/ > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.7/182 - Release Date: 24/11/2005 > >

SNIPPET: In all his years, Edward HARVEY has never been able to resist the urge to trudge the shoreline and seek out whatever has been cast up; in fact, he is teased about his stoop from looking down at his feet for "treasures." Five generations ago his people were Cornish seafarers. In his schoolboy days, the early years of WW-II, he was evacuated with his London school en mass to Westward Ho in North Devon. There was an infinite possibility to roam the shore towards Clovelly and glean whatever floated in from the many ships being sunk in the Western Approaches. The U-Boats were enjoying their early successes in torpedoeing whatever ships they sighted. He and friend Mike NEWELL would cut school to spend an hour or two searching the shoreline. Apparently their none-too-observant, but brilliant and extremely kind, Welsh math teacher, Mr. THOMAS, never seemed to notice their absence and they would sneak back before the end of class. Despite all this they absorbed enough math f! or Mike NEWELL to later navigate the Spitfires, Vampires and Meteors which he later flew in the RAF, and Edward HARVEY served his years in the complexity of Airborne Radar. On that long expanse of beach they gathered all kinds of flotsam and jetsam, splintered wreckage, bits of aircraft. The most coveted of all prizes were the enormous bales of crude rubber, each weighing more than 100 pounds, from ships sunk in transit from Malaya (Malaysia). Each merited a bounty of 10 shillings from the Coastguard. That was ten weeks' pocket money! One find was a half-drowned dog whom they rescued and befriended. The truant beachcombing ended in 1943 and Mr. HARVEY's parents moved house to North Foreland in Kent after the war where Edward amassed a sizeable collection of fossils, mostly sea urchins of superb quality. They were driven out of the chalk cliffs by stormy seas in winter. His mother found fine examples of golden amber that were made into a ring still worn by his sister. When beachcombing the gleaming beaches in the West of Ireland and the shores of Connemara, he found magnificently created seashells. He searched for specimens of intensely mauve tropical violet-snail of family Janthinidae, a pelagic and specialised creature which lives on the surface of the Atlantic Ocean supported by a tiny raft of bubbles. He discovered pudding stones, small pebbles within larger pebbles, and he made necklaces from Connemara green marble, red jasper (a form of red quartz), and white quartz, and looked for rare "floating stones." When he had two he would rub them together in darkness to see mysterious, brilliant internal flashes of light. He found a piece of very rare Beryl in Galway, a flash of palest green that caught his eye; this prize became the cabochon stone which he fashioned for setting into a ring. In the summer of 1940, on a holiday in Wales, he and a friend rigged a crude mast and sail on a two-seater canoe. They sailed out to sea to scour the secluded and inaccessible coves of Dinas Head where they found an airman's life-vest. Donning it for the return journey proved to be a stroke of fate, as the wind picked up and the canoe capsized and they were flung into the sea, to swim half a mile to shore. -- Excerpts, Dublin's "Ireland of the Welcomes" magazine/July-Aug 2002

Thanks to the Irish Heritage Newsletter, another fattening recipe :-) Irish Holiday Potato's 12 medium potato's, peeled, cooked and mashed 2 Eggs; well beaten 8 ounces Cream cheese, softened 1 teaspoon Salt 1/4 cup Butter Pepper 1/2 cup Sour cream 1/4 slice Green onions 1/2 cup Milk Mix potato's with remaining ingredients. Mix well, but lightly; do not whip! Place in a greased 9~ round casserole and bake in a preheated oven for 45 minutes. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

> Can somebody help me with the name of Somers. Robert b 1841 I only found one Robert Somers in all of Ireland in the Griffiths Valuation. He was located in Knockglass More townland, Kilgobban Civil Parish, County Kerry. The GV was done in Co Kerry in 1852. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com

Hi ,Can somebody help me with the name of Somers. Robert b 1841 and Margaret Somers nee Heafey b 1843 were born in Ireland somewhere married then immigrated to Jersey Channel Islands.Would like to find out where in Ireland they were from.They had 2 sons Thomas and Daniel 1871 census. Thankyou Gloria, Roberts gg grandaughter.

: name of Somers. Robert b 1841 and Margaret Somers nee Heafey b 1843 were born in Ireland somewhere married then immigrated to Jersey Channel Islands.Would like to find out where in Ireland they were from.They had 2 sons Thomas and Daniel 1871 census. Thankyou Gloria, Roberts gg grandaughter. There ae 8 Somers listed in 1840's in Ireland in Sligo and Roscommon - No Robert Keep in mind this is a partial list that I have .. Check the Roscommon site, may have more ... Lots of Mary Healy's mostly in Sligo and Roscommon .. 1836/46 HEALY, Mariam Chr 1836 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: Patritii HEALY Mo: Catharinae NOON HEALY, Mariam Chr 1837 Irel Rosc Loughg Fa: John HEALY Mo: Brigidae CORCORAN HEALY, Mariam Chr 1838 Irel Slig Taunag Fa: Jacobi HEALY Mo: Margarittae ROARKE HEALY, Mariam Chr 1838 Irel Slig Taunag Fa: Hugonis HEALY Mo: Mariae FOLEY HEALY, Maria Chr 1839 Irel Rosc Boyle Fa: Joannis HEALY Mo: Annae BOLAND HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Rosc Kiabal Fa: Dyonisii HEALY Mo: Margarettae TYRRELL HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: Michael HEALY Mo: Mariae SHANNEN HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: Michael HEALY Mo: Brigidae MC DONOGH HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: Jacobi HEALY Mo: Judy HORAN HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: John HEALY Mo: Mariae GARVY HEALY, Mariam Chr 1839 Irel Slig Taunag Fa: Manii HEALY Mo: Honoriae CUMISKY HEALY, Mary Chr 1839 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: John HEALY Mo: Nelly MC DONOGH HEALY, Mariam Chr 1840 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: William HEALY Mo: Mariae RUTLEDGE HEALY, Mariam Chr 1841 Irel Rosc Kiabal Fa: Michaelis HEALY Mo: Elizabeth ROCK HEALY, Mariam Chr 1841 Irel Rosc Rosaki Fa: Patritii HEALY Mo: Mariae MC DERMOTT HEALY, Mariam Chr 1843 Irel Rosc Kilaki Fa: Lucae HEALY Mo: Brigidae KELLY HEALY, Mariam Chr 1845 Irel Rosc Ardatu Fa: Johannis HEALY Mo: Bridgidae CUMMINS HEALY, Mariam Chr 1845 Irel Slig Aghana Fa: James HEALY Mo: Judy HORAN HEALY, Mariam Joannam Chr 1845 Irel Rosc Boyle Fa: Jacobi HEALY Mo: Annae RODDY HEALY, Mariam Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Ardatu Fa: Petri HEALY Mo: Catherinae HEALY, Mariam Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Boyle Fa: Jacobi HEALY Mo: Mariae FORRY HEALY, Mariam Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Rosaki Fa: Dionisii HEALY Mo: Mariae HEALY HEALY, Mary Chr 1846 Irel Rosc Lisanu Fa: John HEALY Mo: Margaret DONNELAN Checked marriages 1860 to 1881 no hits for either name Checked for children - NO hits