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From: "Margaret Enright" <>
Subject: Re: [Wicklow] Heritage Centres
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 12:58:33 -0500
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Thanks Joan;

You were very lucky.

Margaret Enright
----- Original Message -----
From: "JR Hopkins" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 2:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Wicklow] Heritage Centres


> Hi Margaret,
> I would love to have the name of your researcher in Dublin. Although I am
in contact by email with relatives in Rathnew, Co. Wicklow, you can only ask
them for so much.
> I contacted the Wicklow Heritage Centre in 1997 and could not get a
response for nearly a year, even to see what the costs were and if they
would do the research, I finally got mad and sent them a long letter and
laid out my complaints. I received a package of information from them on my
family name, maps books, baptisms, births and a booklet on the Fitzwilliam
Clearances. Really quite wonderful stuff. Trouble was it wasn't my family
line they had found but another family of cousins who had also emigrated to
Canada. From their booklet on the Clearances I was able to get in touch with
Jim Rees at the Arklow History Society and Jim proved to be absolute gold,
and I received immigration details on twenty of my Wicklow families at a
reasonable price.
>
> I paid nothing for the package I received from the Wicklow Historical
Society, I think I was lucky enough to have my letter read by an employee
with a conscience. I sent a gift of money and Canadian mementos, the
Canadian Parks Book on Grosse Isle 1847 and such, but sent it personally to
the employee.
>
> Joan
>
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