Category: Rudden General Interest

  • Summary all Families of Knox, Co. Monaghan

    The following article is the second in a series by Jerry Strum who has been researchingĀ  his Rodden/Rudden ancestors. The first article “Rudden (Rodden) family of Monaghan and Scotlandā€ is available here Again, many thanks for sharing this Jerry. December 5th 2017 This document is based on 1827 Tithe Applotment, Completed 1861 Valuation Survey, Drumully…

  • Bridget ‘Baby’ Rudden speaks to Turtle Bunbury

    This piece of footage featured on the RTE Nationwide programme in Ireland back in 2009, and accompanied a feature in the ‘Vanishing Ireland’ book by author Turtle Bunbury.   For anyone who has not yet seen this footage its certainly worth seeing showing the village of Redhills and the countryside in Drumcor on the Monaghan…

  • The Rudden Gathering – 27th July 2013

  • The Rudden Gathering 2013

    As part of Ireland’s big event for 2013, you are invited to the first grand Gathering of the Rudden’s in a very long time…! Visit the Gathering website, and sign up to come and join us for this unique weekend. http://www.thegatheringireland.com/Attend-A-Gathering/individual-gathering.aspx?eid=1644&name=The+Rudden+Gathering+2013#.UQpjD783Y1c We are currently preparing a schedule which will be published here soon.  

  • The 1641 Depositions and their historical backdrop (video content)

    The 1641 Depositions and their historical backdrop (video content)

    The 1641 Depositions are witness testimonies mainly by Protestants, but also by some Catholics, from all social backgrounds, concerning their experiences of the 1641 Irish rebellion. It is interesting to find in a testimony by an Arthur Culme the perhaps unsurprising news that ” Henry Ashe of Cavan & Patrick Ruddin* of Cavan whom I…