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MEW53
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Hi Berni,
Just been talking to my Mother May Wilson who was born in Killeshandra near Arvagh and I was showing her my photos on Rootschat for the other side of my family and we looked at your message.
My Mother told me that O'Shea made several coats for her and suits for her brothers when she was a child - The Wilsons of Coramahon near Rockfield, Killeshandra about 5 miles from Arvagh.
According to my mother there was 13 in the O'Shea family and their daughter Molly helped her father with the tailoring. Peggy was another daughter, but can't remember any more on her. They lived opposite the fair green in Arvagh where they stored the cattle on a 'fair day' possibly called Longford Road. Apparently he was a fantastic tailor and could cut out a pattern one day and have it ready for collection the following day.
A friend of my mother's called Annie Kelles (nee Morton) who is 94 had her wedding costume made by O'Shea. Annie lives in Bohora, Derrylane, Killeshandra. My mother has a painting of Arvagh Green with O'Shea's house on it.
Hope this helps
Margaret
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Veighey, Isabella Montgomery, Wilson, Haughtons & Arnolds Killeshandra, Co Cavan, Ireland
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MEW53
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Hi Berni,
I have just returned from visiting my parents and have more news for you.
My mother knew your father Sonny. She used to help her father on market day to sell chickens ( to Micky Ellis) and would then go and help Mrs O'Shea (your grandmother) cook dinner for the large family. She had a lot to tell me about the O'Sheas. I have now seen the landscape painting that she has which has the O'Sheas tailor shop in it it was quite big about 30 inches x 18 inches, the picture has never been framed, so I am going to work on this for her. The painting was painted by a local artist, Robert Scott who lived a couple of doors from the O'Sheas, his family ran the grocers shop called Scotts and my mother would take the eggs from the farm to his shop for selling. Will see if it is possible to take a photo and email it you you when I get a chance. My Mother is pretty sure that the O'Sheas were in Arvagh when she was very young at least 1931, when she about 4 years old but they may have been there longer. Other names she mentioned on the O'Sheas were Peggy, Joanna, Mehall, Bernadette.
Some of the Scott family are still alive and many still live in Ireland. My Mother and father moved form Ireland in 1950 to live in England.
My Mother really enjoyed reminiscing today, it brought back a lot of great memories, it was great to share old memories with my parents today.
Margaret
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MEW53
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Hi Berni,
Visited my parents today, more memories to share.
My Dad said that he lent his bicycle to Sonny your father when he was a lad, Sonny borrowed the bicycle go to Longford from the tailor's shop. My Dad did not realize how far Longford was from the tailor's shop (20 miles away), he was having a fitting for a suit so Sonny went on the bike and didn't come back till one o'clock in the morning.
My father told me that the O'Shea's would have known the Sheridans and the Fitzpatricks of Killeshandra who were also tailors. Perhaps you can check these names out.
You have really stirred my parents into action with old memories. There is another person that my Mother is going to contact who would have known Sonny.
Margaret
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