Count Lavall Nugent (1777-1862) from Ballincor, Co. Wicklow, was a field marshal in the Austrian army. He was present at the Battle of Solferino in 1859 at the age of eighty-two years. Frank Nugent was the deputy leader of the Irish Everest expedition in 1993, and Barbara Nugent is chief executive of the Sunday Business Post newspaper in Dublin. In 1764 the Faulkner family were living at Gortalowry, a townland which lies to the west of Cookstown. The head of the family, William Faulkner, worked for the local landlord, William Stewart of Killymoon and also rented a farm from him. William Faulkner had four daughters and two sons; Sam, the eldest of the family, was then aged about fifty and lived in Dublin, where he was agent for the [Wicklow, Carlow and Armagh] estates of Richard C[hapel] Whaley of St Stephen's Green [and the Wexford and Carlow estates of the Rt Hon. George Ogle of Richfield, Co. Wexford]. He also had a flourishing legal practice, and later was to become an Alderman of the City of Dublin and Sheriff of Carlow and Wicklow. What was John Tyson doing in Ireland at a time when that country was fermenting a revolt against the English? The activities of the Macclesfield Copper Company may provide a reasonable answer. This Company was formed by Charles Roe (died 1781), and became prominent when copper was discovered on Parys Mountain in Anglesey. When MCC lost the Parys lease in 1785, the Company, now under the hand of Abraham Mills, looked elsewhere for its minerals. It had held a lease on Coniston Copper Mine since about 1758, had allowed it to become idle from about 1770, had restarted it in 1791, and finally surrendered the lease in 1795. In 1787 MCC bought the Cronebane mine in County Wicklow, then producing copper. In 1796 alluvial gold was discovered nearby, and this also was worked by Abraham Mills' company. It is quite logical to expect that during the run-down of the Coniston Copper Mine, MCC would transfer some of its key workers to Cronebane. There was also a working slate quarry! at Ballinabarny, just one mile north of Cronebane. Entries in Griffiths Valuation of Ireland, 1852-53. The following Daltons were land owners. James Dalton, Kilcommon, Wicklow, 1853 James Dalton, Kilcommon, Wicklow, 1853 John Dalton, Bray, Wicklow, 1853 John Dalton, Kilmacanoge, Wicklow, 1852 Joseph Dalton, Moyne, Wicklow, 1853 Patrick Dalton, Mullinacuff, Wicklow, 1853 Richard Dalton, Preban, Wicklow, 1853 Thomas Dalton, Bray, Wicklow, 1852 William Dalton, Kilcommon, Wicklow, 1853. Lyon, Matthew (1750 18 1 1), a native of Wicklow, arrived in America in 1765. Settling in Vermont, he aided Ethan Allen in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga (1775), and represented Vermont in Congress, 1797 1801. After moving south, he was elected congressman from Kentucky, 1803 1811. Fitzgerald, Colonel John born in Wicklow served as staff officer under General Washington Bridget 'Croppy Biddy' Dolan An active participant in the rebellion in South Wicklow, Bridget 'Croppy Biddy' Dolan turned British tout and provided evidence that convicted many of her former comrades in arms. She was an perfect witness for the Brits as she knew many of the personalities in South Wicklow. She had attended many of the outdoor meetings held by them prior to the United Irishmen Rising, by which time the local unit in Shillelagh boasted 1,080 members. Born in the County Wicklow village of Carnew around 1777, she came from a poor family and was illiterate. She was a decent horse rider and learned the skill of shodding. Those skills made her a valuable asset for the United Irish army. She was by the age of 13 "an avowed and proclaimed harlot, steeped in every crime that her age would admit of; and her precocity to vice was singular''. In January 1798 she lost her position in the household of Captain Thomas Swan of the Carnew Yeomanry. This most likely caused some amount of hate in regards to the British presence in Ireland. It could have been at this stage that Croppy Biddy became a sworn member of the United Irishmen. When the Rising began she said she joined the army at Tubberneering on 4 June and remained in the field with the Wicklow rebels until August, having travelled as far as northern Meath. It is believe that she spent much of her time in the mountain base camps of the Wicklow United Irishmen under General Joseph Holt. It was stated afterwards that she had an affair with Holt before his wife Hester Long joined them. Biddy left the United Irish camp in August, when she could see that they no longer had a chance of victory, and returned to Carnew. She was not immediately suspected of insurrectionary activities, but on 16 September 1798 she was arrested by Captain William Wainright of the Shillelagh Yeomanry in Coolkenna. She agreed almost immediately to turn tout and direct the crown forces to the hideouts and weapons stashes of the United Irish rebels. She was also willing to swear anything "that she thought would please the Orange party, who supplied her with money and whiskey''. Much of her evidence to the Rathdrum court cases against United Irish suspects was certainly fabricated. She was paid for her services until at least 1803. She continued to live in Carnew until her death in 1827 at the age of 50. She was regularly stoned and abuse was showered on her by local nationalist youths for her treachery against the Irish people