Hi I'm looking for a man named Ray Dunne. I found out recently that I'm related to him and haven't been able to find him. I know he used to live in Fethard but not sure if he still does. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 

Hello

I appreciate that this message is over 2 years old, but am hoping to contact the original author, as I am researching this family. I have tried e mailing the address shown, but it no longer appears to be active.

I am researching the family for my friend, who would be your second cousin. My friend's grandfather James Thomas Higgins was the younger brother of your grandmother Elizabeth Higgins. We have a fair amount of information on the family and would love to share.

Please get in touch. Or if an adminstrator is able to put us in contact through any membership details held, we would be very grateful.

Kind Regards

Ellen

Having asked the question and having found the answer I thought I should share it with others. The Tipperary Family History Centre is the place to go for those pre-civil registration church records. For a small fee they are on the case!

Joe,
Well what can I say?My Fathers reaction to the Picture of Dan(a man who he has not seen since his school days,some 65-70 years)was one of "OH GOOD GOD, POOR OLD DAN", I'm sure I seen the glint of a tear in his eyes.
Dan frequented my Grandfather's house on several occasions,both Granfather and Dan had served in the Royal artillery so they had many a story to tell and battle to win over a cup of tea and a warm by the fire.
Dad recount's Dan's striking appearance,("like John the baptist")and tells of his school days when the younger Children,if naughty would be threatened with a visit from Dan!yet by all acounts he was a sweet man.
Many,many thanks for this picture Joe,Dad was delighted to see it.
Regards  CRAMPSCASTLE.

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G'day folks, having spent what seems like a fortune downloading civil registration records for Devlins in Fethard during the latter half of the 1800s can someone tell me whether there are any Catholic church records for Fethard prior to 1864 and how does one access them or who does one contact/employ etc to find such records. My great grandmother Margaret Devlin came from Fethard (born 1834), daughter of Edward (or Edmond), granddaughter of Bernard (1788-1872), and sister of Bernard and Richard (according to my reckoning). She came to Australia in 1855 aboard a vessel called the "Western Bride" accompanied by over 100 other young Irish women between the ages of 15 and 25 (recruited to bolster the stocks of eligible women in the colony apparently). Not that it was any bed of roses for these young women; but thats another story. Anyway would appreciate of someone could point me in the right direction.

cheers

Mick Mutton
Geelong, AUstralia

 

Hello Joe, thank you for the information and the map...at last we sem to have somewhere to start looking.

regards Phyllys

Powerstown & Lisronagh Parish is adjacent to Fethard & Killusty Parish as you can see from the attached map.
In the 1846 directory of Fethard the following were listed under Physicians and Surgeons:
Francis Burgess Carlton, M.D. Moor Street ;
John C. Flynn , Moor Street;
George Ryall M.D., Main Street.

The photograph of Dan Trehy came to Fethard, believe it or not, from Perth, Australia.  The daughter of one of the boys in the photograph, Michael Fogarty, gave it to her cousin, Vincent Murphy, when he paid a visit to Perth.

Dan Trehy, a native of the Green, served in the British Army and saw more than enough of active service during the 1914-19`8 war.  His experiences left him, like many of his comrades, badly shell-shocked.  This explains his reason for adopting what the hippies and rainbow people now call “an alternative life style.”

Dan just did not conform.  He drew his pension each week and drank it.  He slept rough, that was his way.  With his full-length beard and St. Patrick-like staff he was quite an imposing, if somewhat, unusual figure.  Also, he always wore a grain sack across his shoulders fastened in front with a six inch nail.  He possessed a fine singing voice and when in singing form he sat on one of the large square stones at “Bob Byrne’s corner” on the Green, and gave full voice to the Rose of Tralee which was one of his favourites.

Dan Trehy, for all his eccentricities, was a decent man.  He had many houses in the parish where he was always welcome to a cup of tea and a seat by the fire.  He took ill one night on the Green around fifty years ago.  The local people made him as comfortable as possible in a ruined house where the telephone kiosk on the Green now stands.  The following morning he was dead.

By an extraordinary coincidence, shortly after the photograph reached Fethard. Tom Trehy, a grandson of Dan Trehy’s brother Tom, who had emigrated to Australia around 1900, arrived in Fethard to trace the Trehy family tree.  He was amazed to find a photograph of Dan in circulation.

Before he left Fethard he said, “From what I have heard from so many, I reckon Dan Trehy was Fethard’s best remembered man of the 20th Century.”  For this to be said about a man who had lived rough and died penniless, must have a message somewhere because he was probably right.

Happy new year to fellow site menmbers,
I've just been talking to my Father about a gentleman by the Name of Dan Treahy who was well known in the Fethard area,his experiences during times with the British army were such that it affected his personality-drastically.
Dad has faint memories of the man physically,Is there a photo of Dan that can jog Dads memory a bit?
Many thanks,    Crampscastle