the first visit I would do is to the horse riding stables in carrigbeg outside bagnalstown on the fenagh road...........owned by the burgess family! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Turtle Bunbury (History)" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 22 August, 2012 10:51:53 AM Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] Cathal Brugha / Burgess - Carlow Origins? I met a man last night at the launch of 'The Sugar Factory & Carlow Remembers' exhibition who is curious to know more about the Carlow roots of Cathal Brugha (1874–1922), the revolutionary and Minister of Defence who was killed during the Civil War. Cathal Brugha was born Charles William St John Burgess 18 July 1874 at 13 Richmond Avenue, Fairview, Dublin. He was the tenth of fourteen children (four sons and ten daughters) born to Thomas Burgess (d. 1899), art dealer and native of Carlow, and Maryanne Burgess (née Flynn). Thomas Burgess was a Protestant but his wife was a Catholic, and the children were raised as Catholics. (Some accounts say he was disinherited for marrying a Catholic). Thomas Burgess was also a fervent Parnellite and may have been a Fenian. (Source: James Quinn, ‘Brugha, Cathal’, Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2009), vol 1, pp 951–954.) Given that Maryanne Burgess was previously Flynn, I believe I have located her on the 1901 census as a 57 year old widow who is resident of Ardilaun Terrace, Dublin, along with four daughters and two sons, including Charles (aka Cathal) who is described as a 24 year old commercial traveler. http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Rotunda/Ardilaun_Terrace/1330115/ Anyone with any further clues? All best for now, Turtle ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Anna!