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Cork / Re: Glengarriff: Church of Ireland church - Cooper family
« on: Tuesday 11 January 11 23:04 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Michael - great to hear from you, thanks for the rapid response...very interesting and very well informed! We did a bit of a tour of the West Cork cemeteries last time we were over and managed to find my grandmother and grandfathers' graves in the "new" cemetery in Bantry (opposite Bantry House) and great-grandfather's in the little protestant graveyard in Adrigole. Not sure of the whereabouts of the Cooper side of the family but there aren't that many protestant plots so they may well be in Bantry, Adrigole or even Glengarriff? We also requested great-uncle William's WW1 service record and medal citations, we've got a picture of him from a paper cutting of 1917 and a photograph of his grave in Poelkapelle cemetery in Flanders (could send you those and other old family photos if interested). He also gets a mention in Rudyard Kipling's epic "The Irish Guards in the Great War". Would you happen to know what happened his DCM? According to the army records, it was forwarded to his mother ("Granny Skuce") on his death.

Out of interest, may I ask where you are? I live in Edinburgh and still have family in Ireland, my Mum and twin brother in N.Ireland and my Uncle Robin down in West Cork.

Hope to hear back from you soon,

kind regards, Philip


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Cork / Re: Glengarriff: Church of Ireland church - Cooper family
« on: Monday 10 January 11 23:47 GMT (UK)  »
Dear Michael - was intrigued by your message...your great-aunt, Margaret Elizabeth Skuce (nee Cooper) was my grandmother...we've been researching the Skuce-Cooper lineage in West Cork recently, in fact we were in Glengarriff just last summer, still have some family there. Your thread answers some questions for us already...we'd always wondered what happened Sgt Cooper and his wife, now we know! Also, we've managed to find out a fair bit about great uncle William (Valentine Cooper DCM), who served with the Irish Guards in WW1. He was killed in action in 1917 and is buried near Ypres in Flanders...we hope to make a pilgrimage to his grave next month, I'm over in Belgium on business...anyway, would be very interesting to hear from you, maybe there are other family stories we can share...

rgds, Philip (Skuce)

In answer to the original thread regarding the protestant church in Glengarriff...there IS a lovely little Anglican church on the way in to the village from Bantry. I believe it was deconsecrated some years ago and is now a coffee shop...with a fabulous view!

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