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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Glengormley House
« on: Wednesday 19 July 17 16:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi Donna,
I have extensive material plus some other good photos of Mrs Pender - too much to put across here. Perhaps we could email privately to compare notes. I'm not sure how this works, but if we could exchange email addresses we could discuss further.
Alex.

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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Glengormley House
« on: Tuesday 14 September 10 10:58 BST (UK)  »
Dear Newgent,

It sounds like we must have crossed paths at some time as we have some mutual friends judging from the names you mentioned. I lived a few doors from Dessie and Brian Finlay on the Whitewell Road and not far from Major Finlay's family, whose sons, Steven and Alan, were close friends to myself and my brothers.  I also knew James and Desmond Kelly from Kelly's farm as that's where we got all our eggs and buttermilk in the 1950's. I was born in 1944 so we are of a similar age. Glengormley House was therefore slightly out of our immediate area, but we made regular forays up to Colinward and the old Laundry buildings where we fished in the Mill dams and tried to climb the old factory chimney ( unsuccessfully, I might add ) - these areas would be very familiar to you. Sadly the whole area is now swamped by urban development and nowadays bears little resemblence to how I remember it. Still, it's nice to correspond to someone who can relate to the area as it was when I was growing up.
Best wishes,
Whitewell. 

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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Glengormley House
« on: Thursday 09 September 10 19:33 BST (UK)  »
Hi Liscoole,
Sorry I can't add too much info about the origins of Glengormley House, but like you, I can remember it from my youth as a rather imposing building, in its own grounds, looking rather out of place among the new bungalows. Incidentally, my old Art Teacher from BRA, Michael Baird, lived in one of the apartments in the 1950's-60's. He painted some of his best works from the hills above Colinward. However, I can give you an interesting quote from Mrs Pender's Family Bible, written in her hand :-   January 13, 1881.  How time flies. This old book is here yet and me too. I see some old and some new entries here, this is another. Margaret Theresa Doherty Pender has three sons and two daughters, two of the boys are at school and the rest at home.I have sent three poems to 'The Nation' and ' The Freeman' as my contribution to the cause of Irish liberty.
'Tis a wet and cold foggy day and Willie, with a yellow, curley head is running around the floor with Nora and Maggie. I have an ulster to make for Nora and a coat for John to go to school. Twenty years ago, my Mother was doing the same for me - dear Ma. Owen is at work. I have a box of geraniums inside the window and a box of snowdrops and crocuses outside Glengormley House
Do you want to know what I am like? I have on a red petticoat and black jacket with canvas slippers - working gear. My hair is tossed about my brow, I am not old looking and I don't feel old.
Willie is pulling me, I must stop.
This snapshot in time gives a brief insight to life in Glengormley House in the 1880's - Willie, Nora and John are Mrs. P's children and Owen is her husband.
Hope this is useful,
Whitewell.


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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Glengormley House
« on: Wednesday 08 September 10 20:14 BST (UK)  »
Hi Liscoole,
In researching my family tree, I found that a great aunt of mine, Mrs. Margaret T Pender
(1848-820) lived in Glengormley House around the latter end of the 19th century, from c.1875-1896. Before Glengormley House, she lived in the black-stone houses attached to Whitewell Printing Works, where her husband, Owen Pender, worked. Mrs Pender was herself a well known poet and authoress of the day and had many stories published in the national irish press from 1885 to her death in 1920. She also had several books published around this time and was considered to be one of the best writers of Irish Fiction of her day. Sadly now her work has fallen into obscurity but I have been able to unearth much of her work from old newspapers etc.
Incidentally, I grew up on the Whitewell Road, just below Bellevue steps, and lived there from the 1940's until the 1960's, so I am very familiar with the area.
Whitewell

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Antrim Completed Look up Requests / Re: Glengormley House
« on: Wednesday 08 September 10 20:07 BST (UK)  »
Hi Liscoole,
In researching my family tree, I found that a great aunt of mine, Mrs. Margaret T Pender
(1848-820) lived in Glengormley House around the latter end of the 19th century, from c.1875-1896. Before Glengormley House, she lived in the black-stone houses attached to Whitewell Printing Works, where her husband, Owen Pender, worked. Mrs Pender was herself a well known poet and authoress of the day and had many stories published in the national irish press from 1885 to her death in 1920. She also had several books published around this time and was considered to be one of the best writers of Irish Fiction of her day. Sadly now her work has fallen into obscurity but I have been able to unearth much of her work from old newspapers etc.
Incidentally, I grew up on the Whitewell Road, just below Bellevue steps, and lived there from the 1940's until the 1960's, so I am very familiar with the area.
Whitewell

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