Monday 23 July 2012

d27 c-- Jul23 Mon Cork-Bandon-Cork

Took the bus to Bandon, birthplace of my mother's father, who'd emmigrated to Swansea.
Made contact with relatives, at the same shop, with the family name Reen, as in 1959.

In 1959, I was with a troop of boy scouts from Mumbles who camped just outside Bandon at an old mansion/castle.   The lady I met in 1959, drove me and her parents to one of the W Cork beaches for the day.   I remet the same lady again today.

Together with her daughter we recreated some of the family tree.   Here is her father driving the first model T Ford in Bandon.

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