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Cavan / Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« on: Friday 29 December 23 21:35 GMT (UK) »
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Cavan / Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« on: Friday 29 December 23 00:17 GMT (UK) »
Hi there James , i need to tidy up my research, it seems all the children were given nicknames or names shortened as used within the close family ....i had an uncle "Jack" who i presumed was John ...i may be wrong but i will correct with you after i have a closer look ...cheers James
...hope you had a grand Christmas
Douglas
...hope you had a grand Christmas
Douglas
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Cavan / Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« on: Sunday 10 December 23 00:35 GMT (UK) »FOA GRIMUPNORTHO.M.G.James i am so sorry it took me this long to reply ...YES Mary Ann White ne Jardine was my Grandmother and Mary White was my Great Grandmother ...i am now 70 but i remember a trip to Cavan in the late 1960's ,we visited ederly relatives called Farley or Farreley who lived in an old house with a bg cast iron hearth on which Tea was made .My Mother was Isabella daughter of Mary Ann who i remember vividly from childhood so if Mary is your GGG Grandmother then your family must spring from one of Mary Ann's siblings ..again i must apologise for my long delay (7years) until i found this thread again best wishes Douglas GRIMUPNORTH.
Hope you are still online.
Are you related to Mary Anne White who married John Jardine on 27th February 1911?
If so, her mum, Mary White was my 3rd Great Grandmother.
Hope you get in touch.
James
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Cavan / Re: The Half Acre Cavan Town
« on: Thursday 01 October 15 13:54 BST (UK) »
These are very intresting pages re. The Half Acre.My own link being that my grandmother lived there.Her maiden name was Mary Ann White and she owned a shop ,she married twice first to John Jardine with whom she had five children William.Tomas,Jack,May and Isabella.(1900s-1920s)John Jardine was a british soldier presumably stationed in the town .Her second husband was Bobbie Owens who was killed during the war ,his grave (cwg)is in the protestant graveyard in the town .(a most forlorn little place) All three sons fought for the British during the war and i think for this reason she was burnt out of her home by the I.R.A. and migrated north to Belfast during the 1940s.(would this incident be documented anywhere?). as a footnote, which is perhaps a family myth Mrs.White was mentioned in the lyric of the Percy French song "Are you right there Micheal are you right" i may be wrong .Although the family was scattered to the wind they allways considered themselves Cavan people and had a high regard for all in the town.
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