Helen Byrne here from Dublin, Ireland.
One of my relations, John Collins, born 1850 in Kilmacow, Co Waterford, Ireland and died in 1930 in Ballyhale, Kilkenny, Ireland. He married a Mary Walsh (always pronounced Welsh) She was from the Welsh Mountains in Co Waterford, i believe. My father, aged 90 only told me a little bit about her as follows:
MARY WALSH OF THE WELSH MOUNTAINS.
Added by byrnemt on 28 Jun 2008
Mary Walsh of the Welsh mountains in Waterford looked old to me. However, she was always very jolly person and appeared to display happiness wherever she went.
They had 5 children that he can remember, Bridie, Elizabeth (Lizzie), Johanna, John (Jack) and Margaret (Maggie) Collins.
My dad knew them all.
OHN COLLINS FROM THE HILL (BALLYHALE)
Added by byrnemt on 3 Sep 2008
John Collins was a very handy man and could turn his hand to any type of work, i.e. thatch houses, make hay, etc. He even grew tobacco one time.
He lived in a thatched cottage and he moved to a modern house near the old house, about 100 yards apart. He went back to remove an outhouse which he had built on the old premises and it collapsed on top of him and he was not found for a number of hours and he died as a result of his injuries in the 1930's. He would have been in his late eighties at the time. (His wife, Mary Walsh was always known as Mary Walsh, never Collins)
NASTASIA HICKEY
Added by byrnemt on 13 Jun 2008
Anastasia Hickey was the grandmother of Ellen Collins, born January 1897. She had six children and some of them went to Chicago, USA. Timothy and Patrick went and some of the girls, Patrick had two daughters, one called Adelaide Collins.
