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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…
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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…
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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…