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Re: Lochgelly or Cowdenbeath: Gorman, Reilly, Murray
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 26 October 08 21:38 GMT (UK) »
Hi Steven-
I sent you an email with my email address on it. Please write!
This site http://www.dawnone.com/adman.html  contains photos of my family, though I haven't any of my grandfather, Edward Gorman, as of yet. My mother remembers seeing one, but I think it has disappeared.
The attached photos are:

April 7, 1955 Wedding day of Edward James Hammond (my father) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
(L-R) Edward (groom), Betty (mother) and Ralph (brother) Hammond

1988 Bridget Murray Gorman (married name Hammond, known as Betty) at age 90 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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Linda

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Re: Lochgelly or Cowdenbeath: Gorman, Reilly, Murray
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 26 October 08 21:43 GMT (UK) »
Edward's mother, Betty Hammond (nee Bridget Murray Gorman),
Age 27, Winnipeg, 1925


Last photo of Daddy and I, Sept., 2000
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L-R Linda Dawn Hammond, Edward James Hammond

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Re: Lochgelly or Cowdenbeath: Gorman, Reilly, Murray
« Reply #11 on: Monday 27 October 08 12:10 GMT (UK) »
I have e-mailed you Dawn

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Re: Lochgelly or Cowdenbeath: Gorman, Reilly, Murray
« Reply #12 on: Friday 18 July 14 06:09 BST (UK) »
I was just in Lochgelly for the day back in March. I finally got to visit the town where by grandmother was born! The photos are on my Flickr set https://www.flickr.com/photos/dawnone/sets/72157644472378132/ and there are additional sets of Scotland, Glasgow and Edinburgh there as well. I unfortunately didn't have the opportunity to finally meet my cousin, Steven Gorman of Inverness, due to a family emergency, but hope to on a future trip.
I discovered further information regarding the family upon my return, and just today found a family tree my late grandmother provided among my papers!!

http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/Indexes/1889deaths.html


http://users.zetnet.co.uk/mmartin/fifepits/starter/central/pits/c/pit-1.htm
Dunfermline Saturday Press"
2 March, 1889

Michael Reilly, a platelayer, was killed at Cowdenbeath Colliery, yesterday. He had been engaged in mining repairs on a waggon road near the coal-washing machine, when a loaded waggon approached him and knocked him down. His body was thrown across the rails, and the vehicle passed over one of his legs, causing such injuries that the man died in a few minutes afterwards.

Just discovered through the wonders of the internet how my great-great grandfather, Michael Reilly or Rielly (paternal side) died... though it was probably on Feb. 25, 1889 that this occurred. He left behind a wife and at least 3 young children. Both he and his wife were born in Ireland, but were living in Fife, Scotland. His wife, Bridget, was from County Mayo and was 14 years old when the potato famine killed their parents. She and 2 smaller siblings, the only surviving members of their farming family, had made their way to the coal mining region of Lochgelly, Fife, which I just visited on my Europe/UK trip, hoping to find their gravestones in the cemetery. I expect they were too poor to have one erected, as there was no-one by that name, or any of my other family names, Murray and Gorman,  in the old section of the graveyard, which is quite devoid of markers. Perhaps Michael Reilly is buried in Cowdenbeath. I left flowers on the stone at the entrance of the old graveyard in Lochgelly. I had already lit candles for my grandmother and her family in  St.Patrick's Roman Catholic Church upon arriving.
 
http://www.failteromhat.com/southernstar/page10.php
 Report of her husband's death in the "Dunfermline Saturday Press"
"2 March, 1889. Michael Reilly, a platelayer, was killed at Cowdenbeath Colliery, yesterday. He had been engaged in mining repairs on a waggon road near the coal-washing machine, when a loaded waggon approached him and knocked him down. His body was thrown across the rails, and the vehicle passed over one of his legs, causing such injuries that the man died in a few minutes afterwards."
Her daughter Bridget Rielly/ Reilly  (Oct.24, 1878 - Dec.5, 1918)  died of dropsy. She is my grandmother's mother. She married Edward Gorman (April 12, 1878- 1942) and they had 2 daughters. My grandmother, Bridget "Betty" Murray Gorman (born in Lochgelly, Dec. 30, 1898) married Ralph Easton Hammond in Winnipeg, Canada.   Her only sister was Margaret "Peg" Gorman (April 12, 1901). Margaret married William Walsh in Bronx, NY, USA and had 7 children.  May,  James,  Edward (died of polio), Margaret, Helen (who died age 27 and left a child, Wally), Billy and Alfred.