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From: Kathleen Scutt <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-KIL-CASTLECOMER] From Castlecomer to ChristianBros. school in Maryl...
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:59:44 -0500
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Jack,
My family still lives in that house on Kilkenny St. We also have 2
farms north of town towards Clogh.
Kathleen
On Jan 29, 2008, at 10:48 PM, wrote:
> The rest of the Castlecomer boys came over in July 1898 on the ship
> Belgenland which sailed from Qweenstown and landed in Philadelphia
>
> Kathleen,
>
> Thanks very much for that information, i'm sure so many slip
> through the
> cracks because they leave Ireland just before the 1901 or 1911
> census, or
> reach their destination just after a census, so it's nice to track
> down a few
> of the Comer lads. (Or lasses, I suppose quite a few Comer girls
> emigrated to
> become nuns.)
>
> I have a copy of the 1901 Castlecomer area census, and I see your
> great-grandmother Sarah is living on Kilkenny St. with the rest of
> her family. My
> Langton family came from a little up the road, in Clogh, Cloneen
> and Moneenroe.
>
> I had a look at the pictures of the institute that you
> suggested, very
> imposing it was and maybe too imposing, coupled with the well-
> known Christian
> Bros. discipline. But I guess the recent fire changed all that
> forevermore
> anyway.
>
> Thanks again for your help.
>
> Jack Langton
>
>
>
>
>
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