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Hi there,  I am a great grandson of Hubert F. Briscoe and Mary McCullagh, publicans, of Moore Street. He was also a newspaper compositor and is so listed in the 1901 census. His son Henry (a civil servant in Dept. of Finance in Dublin) was my grandfather, and his daughter Ita my mother. My mother had a brother Hubert but he changed his name to Aodhagan. I believe my great-great grandfather was James Briscoe - Seamas Mac Annaidh in Co. Fermanagh

Does the name Signor Foli mean anything to you? He was an Irish opera singer (you'll get him on google) Anyway he had a brother (I don't know his first name) who was a young police officer stationed in Enniskillen. He fell in love with a young servant girl in the chief constable's household in Willoughby Place in Enniskillen and they were secretly married - as junior police officers were not allowed to marry. She went to live with a Mrs. Jones in Barrack Lane and there had two sons. They told the chief constable about their secret marriage and although he had great sympathy for them he could not change the law. He got the young officer a promotion - a job in Newfoundland. One day Mrs. Jones got a surprise - she saw officer Foley coming into the house and going up to Jane's room and after a while she went up but there was no sign of him and Jane hadn't seen him. Some time later word came that he had died of frost-bite but he had made a will and written a letter confirming that they had been married and these were witnessed and honoured by Signor Foli who had been with his brother when he died and Jane eventually went to America.
  This story was told in an Enniskillen newspaper in the 1930s as a ghost story b y an old man who generally told true stories (if any ghost story can be true) - stories about people who actually lived and whom he remembered from his early days. I'm compiling a selection of his stories at the moment and I'd love to know if any of this means rings a bell with you. He did not know Jane's maiden name, nor her husband's first name but all the other details seem correct. - Seamas Mac Annaidh (local historian, Fermanagh.

No, I'm not related, but I'm a local historian in Fermanagh and have transcribed some of the gravestones at Rossorry Parish Church. I have also done a lot of work on the old local newspapers and have connected birth/marriage/death notices with gravestone inscriptions. Nehemiah is an unusual name and immediately jumped out at me when browsing the site last night - Seamas

Joseph weaver came to Enniskillen as a member of the Ordnance Survey. He was later a musketry instructor for the Fermanagh Militia. He continued to work as drawing maps for estates agents etc. Born c1822 died at his residence, Darling St., Enniskillen 16 December 1900. His son Alfred had a stationery shop in darling St, Enniskillen and other children were Charles, May and Lizzie.
 I am a local historian in Co. Fermanagh and Joseph Weaver's name is quite familiar to me. - Seamas Mac Annaidh