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Down / Re: Reverend Mark Cassidy Newtownards County Down Northern Ireland
« on: Monday 23 October 17 13:38 BST (UK)  »
But it can put the family tree photo on an email attachment to you when I can contact you by PM ( I presume that is personal message) - after this third post.
We took pictures of Mark's grave when in Ireland  . That was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, acting Mark's Gospel in the church great-great-great granddad Mark built. As I told the congregation, if felt more like being home than I ever thought a fourth-generation Kiwi could imagine. Wonderful welcome on the bicentennial year.  Thanks for the news about Francis  - at Waterloo no less!  - and he was also in the Indian Mutiny according to this family tree photo

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Down / Re: Reverend Mark Cassidy Newtownards County Down Northern Ireland
« on: Monday 23 October 17 12:54 BST (UK)  »
Hi Marianne - I see I need to post three times before I can PM  - and I checked your name on Facebook  - so many to chose from >:(- I can get round this I think by putting in another couple of posts - that might do it  - anyway  I have enclosed a photo of a family tree that mentions Frederick's military brother, who appears to have inherited the estate. We drove past when in Magherafelt (still cant pronounce it like the locals) but could just see fabulous and forbidding high walls. Fascinating about the Ned Kelly link - " such is life"   - I'll post again and that might throw open the PM switch- cheers
PS  - it was the pic file was too large max 500 whatsits

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Down / Re: Reverend Mark Cassidy Newtownards County Down Northern Ireland
« on: Thursday 02 March 17 16:18 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Marianne - distant cousin. I am Geoffrey Darling and also am descended from Frederick  -my grandfather Fred Darling's grandfather. I can tell you lots and am trying to get it altogether for a visit to Ireland for the 200th anniversary of St Mark's Newtownards  - where I have been before  (2011)
and saw the Cassidy window
I am attaching a lot of stuff, including the start of my yarn about my great-grandmother Alice  -  -
I would love to find out if their migration to NZ was part of the Vogel immigration scheme to redress the balance of men and women in the new colony.
I had to put this in .txt which is the format this site handles  - hope you can convert it

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