Hello Gordon,
Thanks for recalling your great childhood memories of the big chill of 1947 in Belfast and sharing them with us at CTI. Gosh! You mention that your Wilkinson forebears hailed from Dungannon, Co. Tyrone and recalled that I may have an odd note on that family, so went looking anticipating that I may be successful.........this is what it is possible to offer: RANFURLY DOCUMENTS held in PRONI, Belfast Ranfurly Estate, Dungannon - Lease Book 1750-1812 PRONI, Belfast Ref. D.O.D. 235 FHL Film #0258634 No. Leaseholder Lease Commenced No. Lives Named Lives 172 HUGH WILKINSON 1809 3 lives HUGH WILKINSON, lessee, HUGH WILKINSON, son of THOS. WILKINSON of Cadien & JAMES ORR, son of JOSEPH ORR of Coolhill Is it possible that these folk are your family? Cadian lies within Clonfeacle parish: see my file of the CLONFEACLE TITHE APPLOTMENT BOOK (1833) for Wilkinson entries http://www.cotyroneireland.com/tithe/t-a-clonfeacle.html For an explanation of leases of lives see https://www.irishfamilyhistorycentre.com/article/lease-of-lives Trust this of some assistance in your quest for your forebears? Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: CoTyroneList <[email protected]> on behalf of Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 5:30:34 PM To: Tyrone Mail List Cc: Gordon Wilkinson Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] The Northern Irish winter of 1946-7 G'day listers, My Wilkinsons came from Dungannon and I have just been reading Viola's lovely report of the Fermanagh Blizzard of Jan 1947, <http://cotyroneireland.com/misc/snow1947.html> and well can I remember that winter! I lived in Belfast at the time and enjoyed tobogganing in the deep snow of that winter. Father was works manager of Patrick & Wilkinson, Engineers, Belfast, and was able to secure steel runners for our sled; steel for such frivolities being rare after the war! By January '47 the path to our front door was covered with a solid layer of ice (compacted snow) and I was instructed by my father to 'clear the gangway' after school (his father being a marine engineer). It was hard going for a young lad barely half Viola's age at that time and when father arrived home, I complained how difficult it was to shovel the ice off the slate flags (paving). "Why not cut it up into blocks and build yourself an igloo?" he suggested. I asked what an igloo was and he sketched the essentials. I built that igloo which, like Viola's snowmen, remained long after the snow had melted and was still there come Easter. 'Twas a cold winter to be sure an' all. We couldn't get to Australia quickly enough and arrived here a year later! Cheers, Gordon -- _________________________________ Nereda & Gordon Wilkinson, Hyde Park, South Australia. Web: www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon<http://www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon> Skype id: neredon Emails: [email protected] [email protected] _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list [email protected] http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com
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