Thanks Trevor, I hope to get to a lecture at 1oc today in Trinity College , I'll pop next door to National Library to check for original copy of Carlow Sentinel. I did not realise the Clowrys mentioned in the news article were directly related to you, that leaves us related through the button-hole. Approx first-cousins 4 times removed ?. On 21 May 2013 23:00, Trevor Clowry <trevor.clowry@roomthree.com> wrote: > Mick, > > I got great enjoyment out of this transcription. > > I believe Margaret and Anne(nee Headon/Heydon/Haydon) are related > directly to me. Anne being my third great grandmother. > Her death certificate can be found here: http://url.ie/hgcy and present > at death is Margaret Snoddy. > > Margaret Clowry marriage certificate to Michael Snoddy is here: > http://url.ie/hgd4 > > If you spot any more Snoddy/Clowry tomfoolery in documents it would be > great to see them. If you know anything in particular about Anne > Clowry's family, this would also be of huge interest to me. > I think I mentioned before that Anne's husband Michael was a bricklayer > and four generations later my father was a bricklayer too. If anyone > comes across anything related to bricklayers/masons in Carlow I would be > really really interested. > > Trevor > > > -----Original Message----- > From: irl-carlow-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:irl-carlow-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Michael Purcell > Sent: 21 May 2013 10:47 > To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com > Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Clowry+Snoddy 1881. > > [ faded newspaper cuttings in the Pat Purcell Papers, case relates to my > granduncle, Michael Snoddy. ]. > Carlow Sentinel. > September 1881. > Following an assault by Michael Snoddy on Laurence Rorke, Michael was > held > in custody at Carlow Barracks , his wife Margaret Snoddy formerly > Margaret > Clowry was "summoned for a breach of the prison rules, for bringing > into > Michael Snoddy a quantity of spirits in tea". > Margaret stated that she was bringing her husband his breakfast in jail, > she had tea in a jug and William Colquohean, head warder of Carlow Jail > found that there was whiskey mixed with the tea. > There was also a case against Anne Clowry, mother of Margaret Snoddy, > for > sending in a shirt to Michael Snoddy with a quantity of loose tobacco > stuffed into the collar-band, it was claimed that the tobacco was only > used > as wadding to keep the wearers neck warm !. > Both cases were dismissed. > Assault Case. > Magistrates present - Arthur Fitzmaurice, Esquire, Chairman ; Right Hon. > Henry Bruen, Horace Rochfort, and Robert Clayton Browne, Esquires. > Case against Michael Snoddy and Francis O' Neill, both respectable young > men, appeared on bail, charged by the police with having violently > assaulted Laurence Rorke at Carlow on the 15th August 1881. The case was > twice adjourned - first in consequence of Rorke not being able to > appear, > and on the second occasion owing to the absence of Mr Malcomson. > My Tully asked for a further adjournment but further postponement was > opposed as Mr Hickson was going to America. > Laurence Rorke ( whose forehead bore traces of bad usage ) stated that > on > the night of the 15th of August between 8 and 9 o'clock he was going > down > Tullow Street when he met Snoddy and he asked Snoddy what was the reason > he > ( Rorke ) could not get a job on the railway as well as any other man. > Snoddy grabbed hold of him by the collar and the two of them got into > holts. > [ note added by Michael Purcell, June 2009. the remainder of the paper > is > faded, will check case on the microfilm in Carlow Library and complete > the > report later ]. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 3162/6344 - Release Date: > 05/21/13 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >