What is YSTOR?
Linda
On Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 03:11:42 PM PDT, Marion via CoTyroneList
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Elwyn
Thanks again for all your explanations and insight which have helped me
understand this topic more clearly. The journals I mentioned cover similar
topics to the book you described
I've just downloaded "Bob was a Protestant Horse" and I notice a few
similarities to my early days:
* It's set near Cookstown, just north of Dungannon where my ancestors
came from (or is it 'from whence my ancestors came'? :) )
* There's a Wilkinson farm just up the road. That's my name,
Elwyn,
Don't for one moment think Handfasting is obsolete. My Irish cousin (of
mature years) 'Handfasted' a few years ago in true Druid fashion to his
3rd wife. Although married in Oz they traveled to the UK to visit
Liverpool relatives (from Armagh) and for their Handfasting. I have the
Elwyn
Thanks again for all your explanations and insight which have helped me
understand this topic more clearly. The journals I mentioned cover similar
topics to the book you described and I have been able to access them through
YSTOR which is free at the moment. I have already downloaded ‘Bob
Peter,
I have come across “buckle the beggar” but not buckleberry. It looks to be
a term that must have come to Ulster with the Scots, as many of our local
words did. I have never heard it used in Ulster but it seems as though it
was at one time because I can see a couple of references on the
I must thank Elwyn for his very interesting texts about marriage and children
born out of wedlock (lovely term 'wedlock', with all it implies!). There is
another term I have come across during my research into the Sinclair families
in Cos. Armagh, Tyrone and Monaghan: 'buckle-the-beggar' or
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