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Kerry: The Unquiet Grave (2)
Continuing- another chapter from The Unquiet Grave (Edited by Michael Connolly). A Tale of Two Tombs: The Rise of the Catholic Middle Class is by Helen O'Carroll, Curator, Kerry County ...
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Kerry ‘The Unquiet Grave’
While we are all in lockdown hoping to evade the dreaded Covid 19 virus, the subject of graveyards might not be the most appropriate to-day. However, it is a subject ...
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Life in Kerry in the 19th century
It is important to give descendants of Kerry ancestors a picture of what life was like when your grandparents or great/great grandparents emigrated, from the county in the nineteenth century: ...
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Kerry Ancestors in U.S. Census records.
In response to my blog of 7th January Kerry Church Records Missing, one of my readers - John Patrick Sullivan commented and also added his own valuable observations on U.S ...
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