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Jos,

Many many thanks for that fascinating information! It was really interesting particularly about many of the RC miners feeling more Irish than English. In my case this is all starting to fit together. All the people that fit into this complicated web have Irish names such as Rogan, Kennedy, McCallan. I have still not come to the point where they actually came over from Ireland but the connection is definitely there! The whole clannish thing is becoming more and more definite, with whole families just sticking together in the same place,usually in the vicinity of Newhouses, all within the same occupation  for many years. This simple fact should make it easier but doesnt!!
Unfortunately I dont have any service records,numbers or even people I can ask for info so I am trying to piece together the possibility of some of the men going to war However I would never have known or found out about the Tyneside Reg and its connections with Whitehaven.Perhaps I've been looking in the wrong place all this time.
Thanks again Jos- another piece in the giant jigsaw!!
Yogi

thanks again stan!

Was the local reg the Border Reg by the way?
Yogi

Thanks for that Stan,

I can understand a bit more of the Irish connection!
Yogi

Hi,

Does anyone have any info on this family who lived in Havant in the early 1960,s? I believe R.W Rogan worked as a chemical worker for a manufacturing chemical firm, any info on this would be appreciated! Also I believe his wife was a Jeram. Many thanks.
Yogi

Hi Maxi,

Thanks for getting in touch! Can I ask who your husbands father is? This is just so that I know we have both got the right family!

Many thanks,

Yogi