Thursday, May 11, 2006
My Father Robert (1890s)

This is a photograph of my father he was about sixteen at the
time. He was born in Donacloney Co. Armagh in the 1890's
his father and mother died at a very early age leaving him an
orphan, he had two sisters Martha and Annie. They had an
uncle and aunt who had no children so they took the three
children and reared them. At fifteen he joined the army,
which he hated but stayed the term,(three years) and married
at twenty had a son called Bobby unfortunately his young wife
died at the birth. He subsequently almost ten years later
married my mother Elizabeth two girls were born from this
marriage Maisie and Meta


