Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] The Northern Irish winter of 1946-7

[Nancy via CoTyroneList]

Sorry... No Only ...Gibson and Porter

From: Len Swindley via CoTyroneList 
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 7:11 PM
To: gordon.wilkin...@ozemail.com.au ; CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List 
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  on behalf of 
Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList 
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2018 5:30:34 PM
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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/~neredonSkype id: neredon
Emails: gordon.wilkin...@ozemail.com.aunereda.wilkin...@ozemail.com.au


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Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] The Northern Irish winter of 1946-7

[Janet Fairless via CoTyroneList]

What a wonderful recollection of the Fermanagh Blizzard of 47! Thank you so 
very much for sharing your story with us. 

Kindest regards from balmy Brisbane 

Janet Fairless (nee Wilson) 

> On 18 Aug 2018, at 5:30 pm, Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList 
>  wrote:
> 
> 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, 
>  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 Skype id: neredon
> Emails: gordon.wilkin...@ozemail.com.aunereda.wilkin...@ozemail.com.au
> 
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