Any Irish Beeks?

[riverbee]

[brooksbeefarm]

A quarter Irish on my mothers side, grandfathers last name was Haynes, he liked all types of booze even made some of his own.It didn't take much to set him off and when it did it was like a Donald Duck Fit. :laugh:He was a street car driver for Springfield, Mo. (started with Mules). Hard worker had 7 kids, nick name (Stiffy,) his brother uncle Roy, nick name (Rubber) never had childern When i got older i figured out where the nick names came from. The Irish are in a class of there own Jack

[Slowmodem]

No Irish here.  But consider that most old mountain music that has evolved into current bluegrass music has Irish music (as well as some medieval minstrel) roots.

[Jen]

Yup! a quarter Irish. My mother's maiden name was Emily McEuen, she was a lovely redhead with green eyes. She was pretty patient mother, but could fly into an Irish temper unexpectedly, and we had better dive under the beds.

You know what they say about redheads? ... You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a readhead. She had four children, I was the last and the brat   

[riverbee]

"The Irish are in a class of there own Jack"

they certainly are jack! and they do like the drink.......
i am irish, primarily on my fathers side some on mothers side;  now you know why i'm a fiery little squirt...........
luck of the irish? in our family we call it 'the cloud'.......

my father, (unlike my mother's family) never knew who his gg grandfather/grandmother was, let alone his name.  i set out some years ago to track his family, as he is up in age and wanted to give him that info. doolin/dooley, how irish can one get? 
joseph and martha.  turns out jack, my ggg grandfather hails from your neck of the woods, born in shawnee, bates county, missouri (son of an irish immigrant) and signed up for csa military service while he was living in warsaw, benton county missouri. 

cool part of this for my father (a southerner), his gg grandfather served in military service for missouri, and during the civil war as a cannoneer for bledsoes battery. (captain hiram bledsoe).  in the history books, and history on the internet, one will find accounts of the battle of raymond, mississippi. during that battle, one of three cannons exploded on may 12, 1863, it was a whitworth rifle/cannon. there was/is speculation on whether the whitworth was breech loaded or muzzled loaded, and why it exploded, (speculation too hot) and other unanswered history questions. 

through a great deal of research and records, and from his pension papers and supporting statements/documents by those who served with him, my ggg grandfather loaded and fired that whitworth cannon. it left him pretty much deaf. he made it through that entire mess (civil war), and passed on well over the age of 90.  i found his almost unmarked grave site, and had a military headstone placed.

i hope someday to visit his grave site and cuss him out for the 'irish cloud'...........

[Jen]

Aahhaha! That was a great bit of history telling Riv. Enjoyed that very much 

[Ray]

I'm an American Mongrel!
A little Irish (darn little), Welsh, Scotch, Swiss, French, German (mostly Saxon), Dutch and English, and Canadian (doesn't really count ).
With the Angles, Saxon and Danes, and then the Norman French taking over England.
With the Danes roosting in the low countries. Then add the Irish mercenaries (The Wild Geese) fighting for Spain, along with Moors and Spaniards, against Dutch Independence.
Then go back to Rome and all their Auxiliaries, don't forget the Huns, and then there was Suleiman and his Moslem Invasion.

[Jen]

Well Ray !! Everyone loves a mut 

[brooksbeefarm]

Squirt, Been to Warsaw many times fishing below Truman dam for Walleye, White cat, and Crappie, will be going there in a couple weeks it's that time of year. My ggg, grandfather ( Asa Brooks (1792) fought under Capt. Hull co. US infantry war of 1812, said to of had at least 16 children. one of his sons Elias Brooks, my gg grandfather fought in the Civil war with Sherman must have drank alot. (the wrong side) his grave is in Texas co. Mo. (Licking, Mo.) had a civil war head stone, my brothers and i went to it two years ago and someone had stole it and left a wood cross in it's place. May sign up to one of those ancestor sights to check on my mothers side, almost afraid to (Irish and German) Jack

[Bakersdozen]

A maiden name like Haney makes me Irish.
My mother in law's maiden name was McManus.  She always tells with pride that her people were tailors when they came to America.  They had a skill, unlike so many others.  The family story goes as such.  I don't know how many generations back sailed for America, but we have pictures of him in front of the tailor shop and he looks like a leprechaun.  He had built a stone house in Lisnaskea, County Fermanagh, Ireland.  The British came and commandeered the house.  He went down the road, built another house and the British did the same.  He left for Dublin, where he met the gal he would marry.  They came to America and settling in the West Bottoms in Kansas City.
Last summer we went to County Fermanagh.  We were able to find the oldest cemetery I had ever seen with the ruins of a church.  A sign on the church(what was left of it) said that it had been rebuilt in the 1500's!  Anyway, we found some McManus names on tombstones, so that was good enough for my husband.  If I find the pictures of the cemetery, I will post.

[LogicalBee]

I love Potatoes, does that count? 

That and my mother's maiden name was one of those Mc ones 

[Jen]

Logic! Whaaaat? 'Mc ones?!?  You mean you don't know your mother's maiden name? 

[LogicalBee]

Maybe I've had one too many of those Irish refreshment tonight 

[Ray4852]

Scotch English on my fathers side and Irish on my mothers side with 11 percent italian  mixed in.

[Bakersdozen]

Logic! Whaaaat? 'Mc ones?!?  You mean you don't know your mother's maiden name? 

Maybe he is a product of a famous fast food chain?  His new name could be McLogic! 

[riverbee]

neat story bakers, i have never been to ireland, my mother has, someday i would like to go.

jack, that's sad about the headstone, but you can get it replaced, courtesy of the federal government......

funny thing about names, if you do any digging around, your last name is probably not what it originally was.  kinda hard though to misspell BROOKS though, unless it was BROKE and was changed....

[Jen]

Bakers- "Maybe he is a product of a famous fast food chain?  His new name could be McLogic!

      Maybe they serve logical food, with a logical playground out front? 

      Just playing with ya Logic, always listen to your posts my friend 

     

[Ray]

   one of his sons Elias Brooks, my gg grandfather fought in the Civil war with Sherman
and just when I was beginning to like you 

I had 2 G.G.G. grandfather with the 5th South Carolina Cavalry.
But then I had one with the 3rd Michigan Infantry (reorganized)

[Slowmodem]

I love Potatoes, does that count? 

That was my exact thought!