Stonemasons

[janglover]

Hi Jack,
Great to hear from you, I can definitely give your some information on Mary and William. Is is Mary that you are related to ? William was my Great grandfather's cousin. He comes from a long line of stonemasons. He was born in Currow in May 1875, he married Mary Manning in 1913. Mary was born on 8 April 1888 at Green Street, Dingle. She died before William in Dingle on 26 June 1943. She was a poet and some of her work was published in a book called "Ancient Town of High Renown - Rhymes and Poems from Dingle Town and Peninsula" compiled by Tom Fox. The book was published by Holy Stone Publications, The Mall, Dingle,Kerry. I have a copy of her death cert which I can email to you.
My late Dad remembers visiting her when he was a young fella but I'm afraid I don't have any photos. If you want to pm me your email address I can send you an ancestry link to my tree.
Kind regards,
Jan

[djvg]

Hello again Jan. First off , Thank you for your quick reply.
 William and Mary had four daughters, Nancy, Mary , Gertrude (Lynn) and Theresa. Mary lived in Castlegregory. Tess and my mum Lynn  (she did´nt like being called "gertrude") moved to the UK, Liverpool.I was the first child to be born out of Ireland in 1944.
Nancy stayed in Ireland (Dublin I think)
I was in Dingle in 1978. There I met a pub owner Tom ?. He remembers the girls.
Id love to find out more about that cottage. I seem to remember it very vividly.
My email add is djvg@icloud.com
Once again thanks a lot
Kind regards from Denmark
Jack

[janglover]

No problem Jack, keep an eye on your inbox as I have sent a couple of things to you.

[sambassi]

Hi!My name is Samantha and Mary and William were my greatgrandparents. Could you send me the link ti the family tree?How did you find out about Mary´s death date?

Thank you so much for all the info!

[janglover]

Hi Samatha,
Nice to hear from a cousin ! I have been researching my Glover family for years and William is the son of my GG Grandparents. They were William Glover and Gobnait Brosnan who married in Killeentierna in 1837. Their son William is my G Grandfather and their son George is your William's Dad. Hope that all makes sense. I found Mary's death cert when I was searching the registers for Glovers. If you give me your email address I can send you a link to the Glover tree and a copy of the death cert. Mary was a poet and some of her work is published in a book that I got in Dingle. Great to heat from you and I hope I can fill in a few gaps for you. I'm not sure if you can post email addresses here but I'll give it a go anyway. My email is sully@esatclear.ie.
Look forward to hearing from you,
Jan

[MoranD]

Hi Jan,
Having many stonemason ancestors myself I've spent considerable time trying to come up with a source of guild information. So far haven't found anything. I do know however that it was very usual for stonemasons to follow the work, whether that be building bridges during the development of the rail networks or whatever. As one poster said the UK included England, 32 county Ireland, Scotland and Wales equally and I know of some stonemason ancestors who worked freely among them. There must have been a guild to cover all. I'll keep you posted if I do discover an organisation.
Declan

[janglover]

Thanks a million for that Declan. It would definitely appear that my lot followed the work alright. From what I have discovered they were building churches in various parts of Kerry. I'd really appreciate you letting me know if you discover anything
Cheers !