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Ireland Resources / Re: Book about Irish Famine 1840's
« on: Saturday 31 October 15 01:57 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks conahy calling,

I just read that article you posted the link for.

I think that it balanced my view of things a bit to see how much money was put into play in the face of this disaster. AND clearly a lot of people were trying to do something.

 Miggs 191 - Thanks for that observation on your great grandma. Its easy to understand that if you lived through that time you might be drawn into yourself in reflection and sadness.

There is a Kerrisk memorial at Aghadowie Castle in Kerry. Its for all Kerrisks. That is my family.
Now that I am learning more about this I can understand why the descendants might feel the desire to do that.

lyndo
 



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Ireland Resources / Re: Book about Irish Famine 1840's
« on: Saturday 31 October 15 00:34 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks majm,

I went and got the book and read the chapter last night. I really appreciate you finding it and sharing it.
It shows that some people in gov't were trying to help. Just not enough.

Seems like an Enclosure Act enacted in a different way once people began suffering.

This probably gives us understanding of the French, who got fed up with their oversight, rebelled, and put them all to the guillotine -
         only the Irish were starving and dying, and couldn't fight back. :'( :'( :'(

lyndo

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Ireland Resources / Re: Book about Irish Famine 1840's
« on: Friday 30 October 15 06:07 GMT (UK)  »
Its quite amazing that in Australia right at this moment 4:30PM CST the SBS channel is playing a program on the Irish Famine!!
I am watching it with great interest.

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Ireland Resources / Re: Book about Irish Famine 1840's
« on: Friday 30 October 15 04:14 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Alison55,

I don't have the slightest doubt that this disaster was fostered by overlords once it began to develop.

I also understand that the Irish had a boot on their neck, which kept them from being able to live.

I am trying hard not to let hatred fester inside me about it.

I have German ancestry who were not allowed to leave the place they lived in, until the lord of their particular manor let them.
I have generations of English who died in their 30's from appalling living conditions and shocking jobs, which was the only way that they could keep their bairns fed.

It was an appalling time in the Anglo and Irish history.
lyndo


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Cork / Re: Collins in Cork
« on: Saturday 10 October 15 23:54 BST (UK)  »

Broken bones but nothing more serious and some bruising as well.
Not even concussion and the person who hit him not seriously injured either.

They were both lucky. Their cars broke on impact which dissipates the energy of the crash.

You can buy a new car with your insurance money but broken bodies are not replaceable.

We will get the euro 4 cert for John and Ellen.

I will come back when we find out their parents. Wish it was like Scotland where you buy it instantly and online on Scotland's People. In 10 minutes you know who they were and can just keep going.

lyndo

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Cork / Re: Collins in Cork
« on: Saturday 10 October 15 10:32 BST (UK)  »
Tara, can you tell me how a newly married couple would have usually named their sons.

I think its  the childs paternal grandpa first, then maternal grandpa next, isn't it?

Did they do the girls the same way after their grandma's.

I have started reading through the baptisms in Dunmanway and I think I have all the Denis Collins and Mary Hurley births now.

I might be off the air for a while as I just got a call while I was typing this, to say my nephew has been in an accident and the car is totalled.  Family needing support. No info on his condition.

lyndo


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Cork / Re: Collins in Cork
« on: Friday 09 October 15 23:52 BST (UK)  »

You have been busy whilst I have been sleeping Tara !!

One of the things I picked up in the Griffith land valuation was that there was a John Collins and a John McCarthy both in Cat Lane, and also all the Collins in Main St Dunmanway.

I  will work back through everything you found.
Reading those baptism and marriage records is amazing .
Every priest had a different way of doing them. Some tidy - some not. :o :o

and thanks for the tip on getting the actual record.
I think its important because sometimes transcriptions are wrong.

In the Daniel Collins census in 1901 in Wales, the transcribers never turned the page and found 3 extra people in the house - one of them Elizabeth, the wife of Head of Household.

You would think he was a widower from that transcription.  ::)

lyndo

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Cork / Re: Collins in Cork
« on: Friday 09 October 15 10:09 BST (UK)  »
I think this is the nephew Denis with his parents in Merthyr T Glamorgan in the 1891 census.

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSM2-T8P


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Cork / Re: Collins in Cork
« on: Friday 09 October 15 05:39 BST (UK)  »
I don't think its the right family.

I decided to follow them forward
to 1891 and found John Collins still in the house, but our John was already married and in the census somewhere else.

1891 Wales census.
Name
Denis Collins      44 
Catherine Collins 44
John Collins        26 Son
Daniel Collins     24   son        at 242 High St.

In 1881 Wales Census at 242 High St

Denis Collins         37
Catherine Collins   37
Marry                   21
Daniel                  17  son

lyndo    :'( :'( :'(





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