Sowing the seeds, asking for help
An invitation
- The towns of Callan and Windgap in County Kilkenny
- The townland of Ballyfliugh, just outside Windgap
- Newtown cemetery at Rathculbin
- Knockroe passage tomb
- Home of Jimmy Grace and his family
- Old Fleming homestead in Ballyfliugh
- Slate quarry near Windgap
- Hennessy farm near Rathculbin
- Old Windgap church and cemetery
My FLEMING and TORPY ancestors in County Kilkenny
There is nothing much left of the Old St Nicholas Catholic Church in Windgap. Apart from a stone altar, the church building is no longer there. The ground where the church once stood resembles the shape of a cross (pointed out to me by Jimmy Hoyne when I took the photo below in November 2017) and the outer rim of the cross indicates where the walls of the old church used to be.Excerpt from the 1853 marriages recorded in the Catholic Parish Registers of Ireland, Parish of Callan, Diocese of Ossory, County of Kilkenny
Transcription of the memorial stone:
This monument is sacred to the memory of the
Rev'd Thomas Moylan PP
Whose remains are here interred
He was Parish Priest of Windgap
During the period of ten years
Everyone loved this good gentle
zealous pastor
He was ever anxious to promote the
spiritual and temporal welfare
of the people
The schools of this parish to which he
gave liberal donations were established
by his exertions
To the poor he was a father
and kind benefactor
He was a great favourite with the
clergy of the diocese to whom he was
endeared by ties of the sincerest friends
He died on the 23rd August MCCCCMVI
in the 61st year of his age
Requiescat in pace
The townland of Ballyfliugh
Newtown cemetery at Rathculbin
My FLEMING and TORPY ancestors in Australia
Article in the Empire (a Sydney newspaper), Thursday 1 December 1853, Page 2 |
MORETON BAY
We have intelligence from Moreton Bay to the 22nd instant.
Sippey, an aboriginal native, who had been confined in Brisbane Gaol on charge of murder, broke loose from prison and intelligence arrived that he had rejoined his tribe.
Twelve seamen of the emigrant ship, Caroline, who combined to refuse duty while in the harbour of Port Jackson, and who still refused during the continued passage to Moreton Bay, were taken before the Water Police Magistrate on their arrival there. They were charged with combining to impede the progress of the ship. At first they agreed to return to their duty, but finally, after making several frivolous charges, which the Water Police Magistrate would not entertain, eleven of them positively refused to go on board, except on the assurance that nothing should be deducted from their wages for the payment of the men who had been hired to do their work. They were remanded to gaol for seven days.
The immigrants by the Caroline were all landed in Brisbane on the 21st ultimo: most of them were being quickly engaged at high rates of wages.
1. Mary (born about 1853-1855)2. Bridget (born 3 June 1856)3. Ellen (born 22 July1858)4. Catherine (born 25 Dec 1859)5. Richard (born 20 May 1863)6. Margaret (born 8 February 1866) my great-grandmother
7. John (born 6 May 1868)8. Elizabeth (born 17 Mar 1871)9. Patrick (born 19 Oct 1874)10. Thomas (born 28 May 1877)