Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Bob the Protestant Horse.

2020-06-30 Thread Mary via CoTyroneList 
A series of books I enjoy is the Irish Country Doctor books by Patrick
Taylor, a native of Northern Ireland. They take place in fictional
Ballybucklebo near Bangor in County Down. I don't have Gordon's perspective,
and of course they are a bit romanticized, but they are good reads that
leave you feeling good.

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Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Bob the Protestant Horse.

We've mentioned "Bob, the Protestant Horse" by Michael McDonald.

Once I started to read it, I couldn't but it down. It is a humourous,
whimsical and very true description of Irish rural life in the 1950s. 
Loved his dry Irish humour. I can vouch that what the author says is true,
every word! I suspect that it is a real account of his early life experences
'down on the farm'.

The memories it brought back to me. My paternal ancestors came from
Blackwater country near Dungannon, and on the maternal side, from Portadown,
although my parents were born and bred in Belfast. Like our wee Michael in
the book, I too was not born in Ireland, but in England, and when we
returned to Belfast during the war, I was always referred to as the
foreigner. My story is so much a mirror of wee Michael's I could have almost
written it. I recall the "brown" of Belfast - clothing, decor, everything
seemed to be brown!!! Even the black & white, hand-coloured photos of our
family taken at the time are with brown clothes! The memories kept swarming
back: the wet cobble stones and square-sets of the roads, the draught-horses
slipping on the ice, the smell and noise of the city, the Saturday night tin
bath in front of the fire - coal in Belfast.

Living with my grandparents until we emigrated to Australia, I recall
G'dad's taciturn nature. He adored my younger sister, but had little time
for an over-active 6 yo.

Then spending summer holidays on Robbo's farm (the Robinsons had a farm at
Hillsborough, Co. Down) helping with the harvest, early morning chores like
milk, eggs, water from the pump in the yard - no running water, earthen
floor. I can't recall wearing anythig but wellies, except in summer when we
went barefoot. Rationing on all things except chewing gum and ice-cream,
making butter in the churn, coal fire in Belfast, peat in Hillsborough, the
new Ferguson tractor (father's business was making agricultural machinery
and selling tractors), oh the awful butter-milk which, like wee Michael, I
just couldn't stomach. Then the religious divide - so real and so
unnesessary. I think that that was one reason my parents chose to emigrate.
But perhaps the most striking feature of the story, written in
conversational style, is the phraseology. It is so like our family
conversations. The words, the expressions, the dropped letters, the way the
sentences are structured - I can hear, now, my aunt, mother and gran in the
kitchen, all talking simultaneously to each other and yet each following the
other's conversation perfectly. A lovely story, thanks for mentioning it.

Gordon

BTW, when we arrived in Australia in '48 my sister and I spent several
summers with an aunt and uncle in rural Victoria. Although the most densely
populated state, that town wasn't connected to the grid until 1968, so we
were already accustomed to the oil lamps and wood-fired stove.


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Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] CoTyroneIreland.com - New Content - Tyrone Volunteers: A List of Officers, 1805

2019-12-20 Thread Mary via CoTyroneList 
Just curious… were these men likely to be of the upper classes? 

 

Thanks,

 

Mary

 

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Volunteers: A List of Officers, 1805

 

Tyrone Volunteers: A List of Officers, 1805 
 

 

Thanks again to Len Swindley for another great addition to CTI!




Jim McKane

Kitchener, Ontario

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Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] CoTyroneIreland.com - New Content - Pomeroy Presbyterian Church, Co. Tyrone: A History 1763-1981

2018-09-26 Thread Mary via CoTyroneList 
There are some good free sites. This one is pretty low cost to view info. I
have found Tyrone ancestors here.

 

https://geni.nidirect.gov.uk/

 

In the US, this one is free:

 

https://ident.familysearch.org/

 

 

 

 

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Pomeroy Presbyterian Church, Co. Tyrone: A History 1763-1981

 

20 years ago I belonged to Ancestry.com,  and Rootsweb.  Gave them my info.
and paid the fees for several years.  Do not belong any more, so to look up
births,,  looks like one needs to belong to it, as they stop you from
looking at info.  to become a member.  b

 

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Presbyterian Church, Co. Tyrone: A History 1763-1981 

 

Pomeroy Presbyterian Church, Co. Tyrone: A History 1763-1981
 

 

Thanks again to Len Swindley for another great addition to CTI!




Jim McKane

South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario

 


 

 

 

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