John Curt(a)in was born around 1830 in rural northwestern Co. Cork. Because of the times that he lived in, little is no of his early life and their is no record of his birth or baptism to survive to the present. Because of the premature death of his father prior to his birth he was largely raised by his O'Connor relatives. By a matter of chance, or perhaps through some act of blessed providence, he was able to survive the Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor) by maintaining close ties to the Kilmallock Union Workhouse in Co. Limerick. He bravely struggled with his destiny amid the political and economic tumult of the 19th century. As an adult he found work moving cattle locally, which he was able to do with the assistance of his Irish terrier, and which brought him into different towns in the locale of Charleville, such as: Ballyhea, Ardskeagh, Buttevant, Ardpatrick and Kilmallock. He met his wife Catherine Madden before 1861, and they wed at the Church of the Holy Cross in Charleville in 1862. John resided in a humble rented cottage at '10 Newtown' in the village of Ballyhea from 1869 until 1889. John was survived by his seven of his eight children: Ellen, Bridget, Mary, John, Michael, Alice, Catherine, and his wife Catherine. His daughter Mary was with him at the time of his death.
D.P.C 3/27/16
D.P.C 3/27/16
John Curt(a)in was born around 1830 in rural northwestern Co. Cork. Because of the times that he lived in, little is no of his early life and their is no record of his birth or baptism to survive to the present. Because of the premature death of his father prior to his birth he was largely raised by his O'Connor relatives. By a matter of chance, or perhaps through some act of blessed providence, he was able to survive the Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor) by maintaining close ties to the Kilmallock Union Workhouse in Co. Limerick. He bravely struggled with his destiny amid the political and economic tumult of the 19th century. As an adult he found work moving cattle locally, which he was able to do with the assistance of his Irish terrier, and which brought him into different towns in the locale of Charleville, such as: Ballyhea, Ardskeagh, Buttevant, Ardpatrick and Kilmallock. He met his wife Catherine Madden before 1861, and they wed at the Church of the Holy Cross in Charleville in 1862. John resided in a humble rented cottage at '10 Newtown' in the village of Ballyhea from 1869 until 1889. John was survived by his seven of his eight children: Ellen, Bridget, Mary, John, Michael, Alice, Catherine, and his wife Catherine. His daughter Mary was with him at the time of his death.
D.P.C 3/27/16
D.P.C 3/27/16
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