I finally got around to writing more of the family saga. Being locked down has advantages. Fittingly it’s Chapter 13 – as everything went wrong for the Beattys of “Enniscrone”, Mont Albert and of Stanhope Grove over this period. Mind you a lot of other people’s lives were stuffed up during WW2 as well. I was going to call it “Camelot unravels” or somesuch, but thought maybe that’s too corny? Anyway, the section on Harold finally gives a point to the name of this website and the photo at the top of it, which is “Enniscrone”, Thornton (taken 1975) from Walker’s property looking across to Mt. Cathedral with Taggerty out of sight to the right.
I have to acknowledge the Diary of Peg Beatty as a really fabulous source. Unlike many diaries it isn’t a sounding board for her feelings and opinions, in fact she so rarely expresses either that it really gets your attention when she does. She just records every move she and members of her household make, including frequent mentions of numerous extended Beatty and Forster family that she sees or exchanges letters with, and she writes every day without fail for 55 years. Maybe I should offer it to the National Library?
I can’t write much further ahead now though I’ll think about it. My policy is the same as most family historians which is that you don’t mention people who are still alive, but you also don’t want to upset anyone – though I try to be very fair. I do have a fair bit of stuff about Harold Forster and Hilda Forster which ought to be up there and so I should get on with that next.
Good to hear you are getting back into it – I am nearly at the end of a book on both Jan and my family, trying put into a readable form, with some of the history of the times when they left and when they arrived. At the moment it’s called “One Australian Families Story – Their Origins, Ancestry and Lives”. It is also an opportunity to write down what Jan and I have done in our lives for our grandchildren and their descendants. Bruce
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Thanks Bruce, It was especially interesting to try to work out what was going on with Constance Forster, my Grandmother – who is in the photo of the Forster siblings with WM and Mary Jane.
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I’m glad to see you are back on your genealogy journey. I still have no doubt that we are related somewhere along the line. My niece has a Dna match with a descendant of an Oliver Beatty from County Fermanagh. My John Beatty Governor of Sligo Goal and his brother Richard Beatty’s father was George Beatty of Saltport Sligo. No signs of George’s birth in Sligo so quite possibly from County Fermanagh. He was married to Martha Smith. I have spent quite a bit of time on the Beatty’s but still much to discover about relationships. The George Beatty from Finod had a son who went to Liverpool. I must track him down and see if any more information there. Not got my research in front of me so I must take another look at the Beatty’s. Sue
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Hi Sue, It’s nice to hear from you. Yes, who knows. I guess if you go far enough back, most of the Beattys of Fermanagh probably came from Scotland where they’d have been related. Genetic testing indicates that my family is very closely related to the Beattys of Farnamullan in Co. Fermanagh. Does that help?
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