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Offline john blunden

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whytes of athaboe
« on: Sunday 02 October 11 20:03 BST (UK) »
hi all,
a friend of my has being trying to piece together his family history, they are whytes of athaboe co laois, they lived at the grange there form 1870`s when i believe the house was built by robert whyte who was a retired army general, and had  as young man been a company captain at the charge of the light brigade, any help would be most welcome,no matter how small

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Re: whytes of athaboe
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 16 October 11 20:06 BST (UK) »
Whites have their own private plot with it's own wall and entrance gate in the back of Aghaboe graveyard . it contains 3 or 4 graves as far as i can recall . one the whites was a JP (judge) local petty sessions around the 1900's and a District councillor to as far as i can recall