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Cavan / VEIGHEY, Cavan
« on: Friday 10 January 14 00:45 GMT (UK) »
I hope this gets through! Intended for "Veighey", Please forward if nec. Mr/Madam Moderator.
My paternal grandmother was a Miss Vahey; I have traced her line to her g'father, who was Head of a school about 5-7 miles from Killeshandra, c. 1835-1845, and progressed further with a teaching career in Scotland.
He rests in Belfast City Cemetery.
He was a Cavan man, a John V??(spelled variously) was Head in 1826.
My g-uncle believed the family were Huguenot originally. My surprise, on finding that there was a small H. community at K! So small that they were below the level at which the CoI could fulfil promise to build a church for them. So presumably they attended the K. CofI parish church, whose registers survive from 1735; is this on line anywhere, preferably free of charge??
If anyone tries look at this I'd say that Any spelling/Mis-Spelling is possible!
They were intended to be a practical community, weavers & growers of flax for linen. One man got away & became a popular doctor in Dublin, never lost touch with K.
I hope that this has done more to open doors than to bring a shower of bricks down; it is the sad side-effect of breaking down Brick Walls. sincerely, Ancient Geek
My paternal grandmother was a Miss Vahey; I have traced her line to her g'father, who was Head of a school about 5-7 miles from Killeshandra, c. 1835-1845, and progressed further with a teaching career in Scotland.
He rests in Belfast City Cemetery.
He was a Cavan man, a John V??(spelled variously) was Head in 1826.
My g-uncle believed the family were Huguenot originally. My surprise, on finding that there was a small H. community at K! So small that they were below the level at which the CoI could fulfil promise to build a church for them. So presumably they attended the K. CofI parish church, whose registers survive from 1735; is this on line anywhere, preferably free of charge??
If anyone tries look at this I'd say that Any spelling/Mis-Spelling is possible!
They were intended to be a practical community, weavers & growers of flax for linen. One man got away & became a popular doctor in Dublin, never lost touch with K.
I hope that this has done more to open doors than to bring a shower of bricks down; it is the sad side-effect of breaking down Brick Walls. sincerely, Ancient Geek