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AN
IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH
May
there always be work for your hands to do;
May
your purse always hold a coin or two;
May
the sun always shine on your windowpane;
May
a rainbow be certain to follow each rain;
May
the hand of a friend always be near you;
May
God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
 Daughter My
Nan
Catherine
(Nunan) Benson
Born:
County Cork, Ireland Feb 4. 1880
Died:
Windsor, Ontario, Canada 1962
daughter
of John Nunan of Camden Quay, Cork
sister to
John, Jeremiah, Julia, Annie, Denny/Dinny Nunan
Julia
married David Anderson-4 sons-Archie, Johnny,Jerry, Adam--
John
Nunan
Julias'
husband David Anderson
niece
Julia
  young John died at
the age of 22 yrs. in Flanders Apr. 1916 buried in France
 Catherine (Nunan) and James William Benson
The Church they
married in St. Anne Shandon
my great-grandparents
photo courtesy of grandson John - photo taken 2002
married in Cork
City, Ireland
May 30, 1908
County
(Corcaigh. From corcach, meaning "marsh")
Cork is the largest county in Ireland,
and its size
has had an appreciable effect on the mentality of its inhabitants;
they have
been known to refer to journeys to other parts of Ireland as "
visiting the
Republic".
The county
has an extraordinary variety of landscapes,
from the
lush lowlands and valleys of east and central Cork
to the
barren magnificence of the mountains and peninsulas of west Cork.
Cork city is
the second largest in Ireland,
though not
in the minds of many Corkonians,
and is
beautifully situated at the mouth of the Lee valley.
Before the
advent of the Normans in the twelfth century,
the county
was part of the kingdom of Desmond, ruled by the McCarthys,
following
their expulsion from Tipperary by their arch-enemies,
the
O'Briens.
As English
rule in Ireland became more secure through the sixteenth century,
large areas
were granted to English "undertakers",
who
included Sir Walter Raleigh and the poet Edmund Spenser,
but the
rebellions and wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
put paid to
the scheme.
Surnames
common in Cork include
McCarthy,
Buckley, O'Leary, O'Sullivan, Sheehan, Lynch, Crowley
and, of
course, Murphy. Norman names
associated
with the county include Keating, Fitzgerald and Savage
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