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Family Bibles / Re: UNWANTED Family Bible - KING 1864
« on: Sunday 30 October 05 16:57 GMT (UK)  »
Apols once more to be late in replying Sandie - and guess what, I have not been the PO yet! I plead a spot of holidays & lots of clearing up to do when I got back!

But I will take some photos TONIGHT!. Can you let me have yr email address? Mine is *****- not sure if you are allowed to put email addresses into rootschat!!

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Regards
Niki

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Cork / O'Riordans
« on: Wednesday 05 October 05 15:31 BST (UK)  »
Thanks ever so for this Kate - a really useful website. It ties up with some research I have already done here in France.

For the records; the O'Riordans in Nantes & Bordeaux made quite a bit of their money (like most of the businessmen in the area around those days) from the Slave trade. I have some info gleaned from a French doctoral thesis by Patrick Clarke de Dromantin with various Irish-derived names (not just O'Riordans) to support this.

They also served in the Dillon & Walsh regiments.

Regards
Niki

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Cork / Re: O'Riordan, Riordan, Donegan, Farrisy, Sexton, Jones
« on: Monday 26 September 05 14:21 BST (UK)  »
Having come to a dead end with my own Reardons (shown on England censuses as born in Ireland in 1840s), I have been looking forther back still. I have tried to research the family legend (mentioned in a newspaper clipping some 30 years or so ago) that O'Riordans migrated to France from Cork prior to the French Revolution, and became nobles.

And have found lots of very well-researched work to support the legend (though alas the grounds their chateau stood in is now in the hands of the Rothschilds!!).

The French system did not just ennoble people for a whim. You had to provide proof of nobility as a starting point.

So - does anyone have evidence or proof or even a good guess of the original O'Riordan claim to nobility, apart from what is inherent in the name itself?

Thanks

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Family Bibles / Re: UNWANTED Family Bible - KING 1864
« on: Monday 26 September 05 14:14 BST (UK)  »
Sandie - sorry to be so long replying but had almost given up hope of finding anyone interested! Will trundle it down to the local PO & ask.

In the meantime, would you like a scan of the frontispiece & a photo of the book itself?

Regards
Niki

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Family Bibles / KING 1864 - UNWANTED Family Bible
« on: Saturday 10 July 04 13:19 BST (UK)  »
NEW TESTAMENT dated 1864, beautiful handpainted inscription in front;
"To my dearest wife Sarah Frances KING  In memory of my 60th Birth-day A.D 1864" Bible picked up in a junk shop in Hanwell, West London many years ago, for a song. Many b& w illustrations, A4 format but weighs a ton! I live in France so must ask for postage, otherwise free to interested party.

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