Conference tallis::celt

    
    Hiya,
    
    I"m from Co. Tipp and I dont know anybody with that name from around
    my locality. Somewhere or other I"ve got a map with family names
    imprinted over the area of the country where that name was prevalent.
    If I manage to find it, I"ll have a look for Lennon on it. There is
    a genealogy(sp?) notes file somewhere around as well which may be the
    best place to put this...Liam Ferrie the Emigrant author would be a
    starting place for info on this....there may well be some mention of
    it within this conference even. As for the town...I just cant think 
    of anywhere in Tipp with anything resembling Lennon but if I do I"ll
    stick it in here.
    
    Se�n
    

    The only place I have come across the name Lennon is around the
    Dundalk - Down area. Anyone have other ideas
    
    
    		MBr

    In an Irish Genealogy book the Lennons are listed in counties  Dublin
    and Armagh.
    
    -Dermot

Go raibh m�le maith agat, Diarmuid.

    
    
    Dermot,
    
      does it show the Culbert name????  I know we are some kind of
    brave, good looking, honest, kind, humble, brilliant and well you
    know what I mean.  Damn it's hard to keep the image. 8*)
    
    paddy

    
    re:-.1
    
    Nah it's not that hard to do.
    
    john
    

    Paddy
    
    References to the good name of Culbert are listed for Antrim.  Are
    you surprised?
    
    There are also references to Colbert and these are listed in Cork
    and Waterford.
    
    -Dermot

    
    
    -Dermot,
    
        Thanks, I am not the least bit surprised.  Hey didn't we go to
    the hurling simi-finals to watch Antrim blow by their opponents.
               
         Have a nice week-end I'll be doing the Black stuff well into
    the wee hours I'm sure.  Many a story will be told this week-end.
    
    Them Colberts where the ones that left when the going got tough
    and changed their names.  My dear departed grandma called then 
    "The Sooners"  never had a good word for them.  Now that I think
    about it she didn't have many good words about anybody 8*).
    
    paddy
    

    The Culbert name originated in the Newcastle area, Northeast England.
    There were two branches of the family, one, the tall and honourable, 
    who were coal miners. The second, because of their squat appearance, 
    partiality to wearing skirts and heavy drinking became accepted amongst
    the southern Scottish as harmless entertainment.......they were good
    conversationalists. But, little did they know, that though harmless in 
    appearance, "these" Culberts were all the while, selling their secrets 
    to the English for beer money.
    Rumour has it that one day in 1456, four of these rascally Culbert
    brothers came upon a monkey, floating towards the shore on the debris
    of a sunken French man-of-war. The monkey was immediately captured as
    a French spy. (The French were reported to be ugly mothers, and in 
    those days very few people had ever actually seen one). If they could
    wrench some information from him regarding the French forces they could
    make themselves a pretty penny. 
    The monkey was imprisioned and repeatedly questioned, but to no avail,
    he wouldn't speak. Nor would he eat, they tried everything, muffins,
    haggis, snails, they even caught a few frogs, relieved them of their
    legs, but the prisioner was unmoved. After more than a week, completely
    frustrated and sick to death of this Frenchman grinning at them all the
    time, the brothers took the only course of action that remained open to
    them, they hung the monkey, as the traitorous French spy he was. Hence
    the nickname "the monkey hangers".
    
    There's nothing like a bit of history on a rainy afternoon, if you
    could believe a word of it. I hope this was of some assistance, Paddy.
    
                                                                    
    
    

    
    
    	Ya .... The "Sooner" they left, the better !!!!   :-)
    
    
    
    
    	keVin_heading_back_to_the_Scotland_notesfile_where_I_belong  8-)

    Paddy,
    
    	There is also reference to the name Culbert in Antrim. They
    must have been sent there for sheep stealing.
    
    		MBr