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Re: Wexford People
« Reply #9 on: Friday 13 August 10 08:26 BST (UK) »
Great find Nickr . At least two of them, Robert Hanton and Matthew Harpur, were well known in Wexford business circles. I also think it's safe to say that John Rutledge, both by appearance and his ,unusual for Wexford, name is the ancestor of all the Wexford town Rutledges . I'm sure the others were well known at the time as well but just who they were escapes me at the moment. Great work.

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« Reply #10 on: Friday 13 August 10 08:34 BST (UK) »
I think the James Gaul of Roche's Terrace you mentioned would afterwards move to Carrigeen St.. He was for years a member of Wexford Corporation ,serving as Alderman and  I think, Mayor . For years his house at Carrigeen served as some kind of office giving assistance to people in need .Not sure if it was some form of dole office or not. He came from a seafaring family and I think it likely he was the sailor in the 1911 census.

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« Reply #11 on: Saturday 14 August 10 10:54 BST (UK) »
Just checked both the James Gaul on the Terrace and the one in Carrigeen are the same person.

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« Reply #12 on: Saturday 14 August 10 14:03 BST (UK) »
One further reference to Roches Terrace.

Are the people in this archive newsreel film from 1920 marching past Roches Terrace?

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=20398
Dalton: Wexford Town/Ireland
Curran: Ballyvaloo/Blackwater/Co Wexford/Ireland
Clowery/Farrell: Wexford Town/Ireland
Flood: Enniscorthy & Wexford/Ireland
Ormand/Kirwan: Blackwater/Co Wexford/Ireland
Shortman: Bristol/Westbury-on-Trym/Manchester
Trull: Uley/Dursley/Glos
Cross: Dursley/Glos
Hazard: Bristol/Manchester


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Re: Wexford People
« Reply #13 on: Sunday 15 August 10 19:17 BST (UK) »
That url is fantastic - everyone interested in Wexford needs to check it out - Eisenhower vist, Our Ladys Island, football match can be accessed by typing wexford in search.
Thanks a million.
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« Reply #14 on: Sunday 15 August 10 19:23 BST (UK) »
Here are some prefects in the Confraternity
I think I have some more. I will check and post.
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« Reply #15 on: Monday 16 August 10 11:54 BST (UK) »
Wow, I think that John Leary is my grandfather!!. Never knew he was a confraternity man.  Will have to read his obit for confirmation. Kingsberry is an ancestor of our former Mayor and present Labour Councillor  George Lawlor

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« Reply #16 on: Monday 16 August 10 14:24 BST (UK) »
Great find Shorts!. The first clip appears to be in John's St. near John's Gate St. most of the others are definitely Roche's Terrace, apart from the last ones taken in Redmond Square near the railway station. The men with plumes in their hats and in uniform are members of the Irish National Foresters ,still in existence ,here in Wexford anyway.

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« Reply #17 on: Monday 16 August 10 15:42 BST (UK) »
Thanks Nickr .That was my grandfather all right. The first decent photo i have seen of him.