Hi Judy I visit the Archives in St John's regularly, I will keep an eye out for any references to Joseph Furlong and Agnes Kavanagh. My Ancestors, as well, emigrated from County Wexford. While I knew that a great number of the original Irish emigrants came from County Wexford, I was struck by an article which appeared in todays local newspaper. The article in question was talking about early builders in Newfoundland and in particular, one name Patrick Kough who was born in County Wexford in 1786 and his name first appeared in Newfoundland documents in 1804. His claim to fame was as a builder of many of the old historic buildings erected in Newfoundland in the early 1800s and many of them still are standing today. The story goes that eventually ran for one of the seats in the legislature in St John's, Newfoundland in 1832 against another well known Newfoundlander of the time Dr William Carson. The story goes something like this, "An Irishman named Bennett came into the booth where a number of Wexford men were casting their votes. "Well, he said, I hear Dr Carson say that he did not care how it went, so long as he could bate (beat) Kough and the blooming yallow bellis (a nickname applied to Wexford Men), Mr Kough was a Wexford Man and after that he got every Wexford Vote". Kough went on to win the election and served several terms in the local legislature. Regards John Connors -----Original Message----- From: Judy Picard <judypicard@hotmail.com> To: WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com <WEXFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: November 9, 1999 6:21 AM Subject: [WEX] Jane's book >I maintain a number of websites and have been thinking of setting up an 18th >century Irish literature site to preserve some of these works. I, for one, >have a 1802 by a famous couple [I'm not home to get the name] that is about >Irish bulls. Of course, it's absolutely political. >I also have a number of works by Thomas Furlong of Wexford and have some >reviews about books of this period. >So, if you Jane, or anyone else has computerized old books, I would be >willing to format them attractively and make them available to all. Just >attach it to an email and be sure you put that it's "Old Irish Book" in the >subject. Otherwise, for safety purposes, I immediately erase any email that >I'm not expecting with attachments. > >btw, I'm looking for info on: >Joseph Furlong who married Agness Kavanagh in 1881 in St. Johns Newfoundland >in RC church. Don't know if either one was born states side or in Ireland. >Family lore is the Furlongs came from Ireland, stopped in NF along the way >and stayed in Boston. Have no substantiation. > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Judy Picard judypicard@teachers.org or judypicard@hotmail.com >Furlong site ========================> http://genweb.net/~furlong >Furlong messages =>http://genweb.net/wwwboard/Furlong/wwwboard.html >Kelly Gebert Coulter ==============> http://w3.tvi.cc.nm.us/~judyp >Windows Users Group =========>http://members.spree.com/sip/wif-nmcs >TVI-Linux Users Group ===================>http://cosmo.tvi.cc.nm.us >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >==== WEXFORD Mailing List ==== >The Wexford Surnames List is at: >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/wexford.html > >============================== >FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! >Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi > >