Sorry... No Only ...Gibson and Porter
From: Len Swindley via CoTyroneList
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 7:11 PM
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Cc: Len Swindley ; Gordon Wilkinson
Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] The Northern Irish winter of 1946-7
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
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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
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