Turtle, Gary, It would appear as if the “Maurice Kavanagh of Bauk” mentioned in the Email below may be related to the Maurice Kavanagh who lived on Cape Breton Island already in the 1700s. Read on! In the history of early Nova Scotia we find that "MAURICE KAVANAGH came with three of his sons (the most noted of them being his son, 'Lawrence', a future Catholic M.P. for Nova Scotia, electyed in 1822) who was at Louisbourg and settled in St. Peter's in 1774.” I also recall reading that this Maurice Kavanagh made his money salvaging what he could from old shipwrecks in the Fort Louisbourg area, ships who would have sunk in the vicinity in connection with the early days of the Fortress and fall of Louisbourg in 1758. During the French colonial days the Fortress commanded the entry into the Gulf of St Lawrence and French Canada. Here is a link to a Wikipedia write-up on the history of the Fortress: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Louisbourg . I also recall from elsewhere (I can't recall the source off-hand) that some Irishmen from Cape Breton went to Ireland to fight in the Irish Rebellion of 1798. The area of “St. Peter’s” on the south side of Cape Breton had a strong Irish presence already in the mid-1700s, perhaps even during the French colonial days. In particular I know of a “Thomas Nolan” who was working close to St. Peter’s as a [fishing]“servant” for the Préjean family in 1752 (when a census was taken), at a place called “La Briquerie” [The Brick Works]. I will leave you to mull over any possible family connections crossing the Atlantic. Below are also a few possibly related tidbits. Bye for now, Roger Nowlan http://nolanfamilies.org POSSI(BLY RELATED TIDBITS ======================= 1803 - Halifax, NS - Marriage ----------------------------------------- Joseph HarrettþBachelorþþþ22 January 1803þ Elizabeth NorthþSpinsterþþþ "John Griffen, cooper, and Maurice Kavanagh, both of the Township of Manchester, were sureties." After 1828 – St Peter’s, Cape Breton, NS -------------------------------------------------- Georgina Margaret (2nd dau. of Col. Henry Arthur Gladwin) md. Maurice Kavanagh of St. Peters, Cape Breton. No further record. NOTE 1: Henry Arthur Gladwin was born in Fort William, Bengal, India, 1789. Educated in Eton and Cambridge, he was Captain of the 19th Lancers, Fanes' Horse, India and later Military Aide to Sir John Sherbrooke, with whom he came to Canada. He married Charlotte Wollery Bourke Oct. 3, 1822, and in 1828 came to Nova Scotia with his wife and mother. and Charlotte Bourke ] -----Original Message----- From: Diarmot@aol.com Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2013 11:48 AM To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-CARLOW] General Thomas Cloney & 1798 Hi Turtle, I don't know about most of the men listed on the commemoration plaque except for Thomas Cloney (whose mother was from a comfortable South Carlow Kavanagh family) and two others. Col. Morgan Kavanagh was the leader of the South Carlow insurgents Previous to this he was a middle man lessee and merchant in St Mullins (probably operated a pub). He was captured after the insurgency played out in South Carlow. I've never been able to discover his fate although Walter Kavanagh of Borris, his distant cousin and landlord wrote, a letter to the authorities detailing his bad opinion of Morgan. I would assume that he was executed. Maurice Kavanagh of Bauk was of a famous line of Kavanaghs. However, his father remarried and had a son with his second wife. It's not clear to what degree Maurice was actually involved in the insurgency (although there were other Kavanagh involved-one or two also were middlemen tenants of Borris). However, his step mother informed on him (it appears exaggerating his involvement). He was sentenced to hang. His young wife obtained a pardon (I think possibly in Dublin). She rode furiously to the site where he was to be executed and arrived only moments after he died. This was detailed in a "penny novel" around 1900 by a St Mullins resident (thanks to Kevin Whelan for these details about Maurice's execution). Thus, some of the South Carlow insurgents were comfortable and not poor although I am certain that the insurgents in general were somewhat of a cross section socio-economically with many of their leaders often being men well known in the community If anyone ever runs across this "penny novel" (Shadow on the Scaffold) I'd be interested. Thanks Gary Cavanaugh In a message dated 7/23/2013 5:02:12 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, turtlehistory@gmail.com writes: Does anyone have a copy of General Thomas Clony's book ‘A personal narrative of those transactions in the county Wexford, in which the author was engaged, during 1798’? I am looking to check a reference indexed in the book to a man called Finn. I am hoping this might be William Finn of Drummin (Drummond) near St Mullins in County Carlow who I am presently researching. William Finn was one of twenty-one St. Mullins men whose names were enshrined upon a commemoration plaque installed inside the gateway of the village graveyard to mark the 150th anniversary of the Rebellion in 1948. All twenty-one men served with the United Irishmen during the Rebellion and they were all later buried at St. Mullins. The other twenty were General Thomas Cloney, John Byrne, George Dalton, John Scolardy, James Doyle, Patrick Foley, Henry Hammond, Patrick Kearney, John Lacey, Murty Lawlor, Patrick Logan, George Malone, Frank Moore, James Rourke, Sean Ruadh, Darach Doyle, Laurence O'Keefe, John Whelan, Maurice Kavanagh and Colonel Morgan Kavanagh. I wonder if these men acted as one unit and, if so, did they serve under General Cloney during the battles of Three Rocks (a victory for the rebels which gave them near total control of County Wexford), New Ross (a brutal loss for the rebels) and Foulksmills (another British victory)? Best wishes all, Turtle Turtle Bunbury www.turtlebunbury.com www.facebook.com/Wistorical www.amazon.com/Turtle-Bunbury/e/B001ITXQEY Listen to Turtle's Hidden Histories on Newstalk every Tuesday morning at 9:45am. Vanishing Ireland is on exhibition c/o the Irish Georgian Society HQ at the City Assembly House, South William Street, Dublin 2, 17 July - 30 Aug. 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