Steve, Oh dear, mea maxima culpa, I meant Flying Columns - watching too many old cop dramas on the goggle box - one cousin was a great friend of Tom Barry. And yes, our family knew nothing about members being in the RIC, and another was a Lighthouse Keeper, off Tory Island and Mayo ( was that as bad as the police? ). Mary On 21 Aug 2013, at 18:23, Steve Brennan <steveb@dna.ie> wrote: > Hi Mary, > > There are indeed a multitude of Sullivans. Probably just aswell they didn't have to do blood tests to marry! > > Don't worry, I've come across a couple of RIC members myself in both my own and my wife's families (the shame of it!), although one redeemed himself by resigning and joining the Free State army. Interestingly, no-one had known about it - it was a shady little secret. > > Steve. > > > On 21 August 2013 17:42, Mary Simpson <marymcs@talktalk.net> wrote: > Hello Steve, > > I have an instance of a man from a staunchly non Catholic background - baptised into the C of I although originally the family were Huguenot, a Francis Dukelow born 1870, Durrus in southwest Cork, who became a Catholic to marry my great aunt Mary Ellen in Wexford Town in 1900. He was a policeman in the RIC, but on the other side of the family we had members of the Flying Squads ….. > > I also have Kerry Sullivan in my mother's family, a Julia Sullivan, born Minish 1813 to Thomas Sullivan and Gobinet Counihan, originally from Cloghereen, just south of Killarney. Also Sullivans tying in with Sheehans and Shea on another branch of the family from Cloonmore, Castlemaine / Milltown. Trouble is, there are SO many Sullivans! > > Mary > _______________ > --------------- > > Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. > > To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ > > Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
I hadn't even noticed that - given the context, I read it as flying columns anyway! I'm not sure about the social status of lighthouse keepers - I don't know if there was enough of them to merit much mention. I suppose they were just seen as 'the Establishment' as opposed to being 'forces of oppression'. Steve. On 22 August 2013 00:33, Mary Simpson <marymcs@talktalk.net> wrote: > Steve, > > Oh dear, mea maxima culpa, I meant Flying Columns - watching too many > old cop dramas on the goggle box - one cousin was a great friend of Tom > Barry. And yes, our family knew nothing about members being in the RIC, > and another was a Lighthouse Keeper, off Tory Island and Mayo ( was that as > bad as the police? ). > > Mary > > > On 21 Aug 2013, at 18:23, Steve Brennan <steveb@dna.ie> wrote: > > Hi Mary, > > There are indeed a multitude of Sullivans. Probably just aswell they > didn't have to do blood tests to marry! > > Don't worry, I've come across a couple of RIC members myself in both my > own and my wife's families (*the shame of it!*), although one redeemed > himself by resigning and joining the Free State army. Interestingly, no-one > had known about it - it was a shady little secret. > > Steve. > > > On 21 August 2013 17:42, Mary Simpson <marymcs@talktalk.net> wrote: > >> Hello Steve, >> >> I have an instance of a man from a staunchly non Catholic background - >> baptised into the C of I although originally the family were Huguenot, a >> Francis Dukelow born 1870, Durrus in southwest Cork, who became a Catholic >> to marry my great aunt Mary Ellen in Wexford Town in 1900. He was a >> policeman in the RIC, but on the other side of the family we had members of >> the Flying Squads ….. >> >> I also have Kerry Sullivan in my mother's family, a Julia Sullivan, born >> Minish 1813 to Thomas Sullivan and Gobinet Counihan, originally from >> Cloghereen, just south of Killarney. Also Sullivans tying in with Sheehans >> and Shea on another branch of the family from Cloonmore, Castlemaine / >> Milltown. Trouble is, there are SO many Sullivans! >> >> Mary >> _______________ >> --------------- >> >> Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message. >> >> To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to >> IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message. >> >> To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: >> http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ >> >> Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the >> Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a >> wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is >> at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > >