Monday, May 10, 2010

The Clady we were looking for.

Success today. Did a bit of country lane driving to get here. Loverly scenery so didn't consider ourselves lost at all. Arrived outside the church where Diana's Grandfather was baptised in 1885. Met a lady in the cemetery who insisted on taking us across the road to the Greenlough Bar, the local pub. When I say local pub thats all there is there. Church on one side of the road and Pub on the other. This was at 1200, we left at 1600. The publican and wife had been in the pub for 27 years and lived in the area all their lives and new the Madden name well. Any way the publicans wife got on the phone and within 30 minutes a lady her brother and a cousin turned up with so much information on Madden's. In the end Diana has now meet a new relation, got contact details for another in Perth WA. and expects a mountain of papers via post. Shortly (2100) we are off to see the parish priest and check out some of the church records.

2 comments:

  1. It's great to follow your trip. More posts please!

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  2. Great to read about your trip around Ireland, having been there and to most of those places it makes me want to go back and now Diana has finally found where our grandfather is from that is great. Brendans mother once asked me if it was the clady near belfast, I thought it was in county Derry as on mum's birth cert it has county derry. Oh the irish don't make things easy, lol!!! Am looking forward to hearing about all our new relatives. love cathy and fluffy xx

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