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Down / Re: Irish Civil War - 1922/23
« on: Thursday 03 March 05 14:43 GMT (UK)  »
going to war nothing. redcoat obviously has no idea about the irish civil war or the fight for independance that he thinks his ancestor was involved in since he is historically mixing two different time eras, locations etc.
it was a very brief snip of irish history for his benefit that could be used to assist his search and point him in the rite direction, so please dont mischief make.

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Down / Re: Irish Civil War - 1922/23
« on: Thursday 03 March 05 11:10 GMT (UK)  »
you must be an american from the tone of your letter.
The black and tans were not involved in the irish civil war.
they were involved in the war of independance between the irish and british.
on the whole they were decent x soldiers from the first world war.who had no jobs to return to after the end of the war.
they were called black and tans because when they were quickly formed they had no proper uniforms available so their uniforms were a mixture of two army uniforms
they were feared but only by the ira who were murdering people left right and centre.
the black and tans were ruthless when engaged with the ira and seldom took prisoners.ordinary people had nothing to fear from them,on the contrary they saw them as their protectors. The rest is all ira propaganda.if he was a prod and a mason he would have had nothing to fear in belfast. he most likely left because of the economic slump at that time that effected everyone, prod and catholic alike

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Down / Re: Belmont Presbyterian Church, County Down
« on: Monday 21 February 05 14:51 GMT (UK)  »
There is an area of Belfast called Belmont  which is Co. Down.
If you went onto the website for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
you could take it from there.

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Down / Re: My Dromore ancestors - Morrison, Lindsay, Murphy, Jones and McClatchey.
« on: Saturday 19 February 05 16:48 GMT (UK)  »
do you no that Poots is a very common name in the Dromore Banbridge area.
I have a lot of relations called Poots in those areas. They came from Holland originally, around about 1689
Poots is a bastardisation of a dutch name, sounding something like De Putts.

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Down / Crane family, Dromore Co.Down
« on: Saturday 19 February 05 16:38 GMT (UK)  »
I'm looking information on the Crane family from Dromore Co. Down.
My fathers name was James Henry Crane and my Grandfather David.
He was a farmer at Quilly, just outside Dromore on the Rowantree road.

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