Monday, February 26, 2018

English Family Reunion 2002

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In 2002 the descendants of John and May (Geraghty) English met in Green Valley, AZ.  Activities included a desert death march led by Mary Cajacob Eisenberg and an Easter Sunday Brunch among other things.  The turn out was good with family coming from as far away as Germany. 

Those in attendance included:

Generation 1-  Dolores English Young, Jean English Madden
(Deceased Clare English Cajacob)

Generation 2 - Jan (Cajacob) and Bob Pohl, Kathy (Young) and Paul Raleigh, Maura (Madden) and William Donovan, Norene (Cajacob) and Larry Moser, Deceased  Robert Young, Deceased Colleen Madden Schneider Roberts, Mary (Young) and Jerry Lametti, John and Suzanne Cajacob, Cath (Madden) and Greg Trindle, Missing Tom Cajacob, Tim Madden, Kris Cajacob & Steve Chudzig, Mary (Cajacob) & Peter Eisenberg, Sean & Nikki Madden, Carol Cajacob, Patrick & Polly Madden.  

Generation 3 - Kevin Pohl, Tony Pohl, Tim and Jackie Raleigh, Cavan Donovan, Cheryl (Moser) & Bob,  Jason Young, Dee Lametti, Tia (Lametti) and  Joe Cunningham, Marin (Lametti) and Todd Wendell,  Jessica Trindle & Scott Carbullido, Andi Trindle, Mariah Madden, Tess Chudzig, Alex Chudzig, Clare Eisenberg, Saige Madden, Liam Madden, Kailee Madden and Clare Madden.

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Did I miss anyone???

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Monday, February 12, 2018

Teevinish

Do the ghosts of the past stay on the land.  Tha day we drove through Teevinish, the townlands that the Earl of Sligo sought to rid of tenents from 1857 on, our GPS went kooky.  It sent us on a wild ride and only hours of fiddling finally returned it to normal.



Teevnish is in Aghagower civil parish.  Between 1841 and 1851 the population of the parish nearly halved, from 12235 to 6509. Males and females in both years were nearly equal and the number of families went from 2292 to 1303.  In 1841 nearly 52% of the families were in 4th class houses.  In 1851 that had shrunk to only 13.5%.  84.8% of heads of household in agriculture fell to 75.4%.  Like much of Mayo, the literacy rate was very low.  Just 14.8 percent of men and 4.1% of women could read and write in 1841.  In 1851 the numbers were 24.6% and 8.4%.








Statistics from the Irish Famine Project led by Alan Fernihough of Queen's University Belfast