My main interests are my family which consists of my wife Maureen and two sons
who are both married. Shaun the oldest married to Amanda, they have two young
girls Rebecca and Laura, my youngest son Michael who is married to Elaine have
three children Declan, Siobhan, and Erin - Pictures in the Photos Section.
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Arnold is my home town. It lies a few miles north of Nottingham on the main road to
Sherwood forest, home of the legendary Robin Hood,and the DUKERIES, a name
given to a district in the N.W. of Nottinghamshire, England; included within the
ancient Sherwood Forest (q.v.). The name is taken from the existence of several
adjacent demesnes of noblemen, and the character of the Forest is to some extent
preserved here. On the north is the Sheffield-Retford branch of the Great Central
railway, serving the town of Worksop, connecting at Retford with the Great
Northern railway, while on the south the Great Central railway serves the small
market town of Ollerton, and connects with the Great Northern at Dukeries
Junction. The following demesnes are comprised in the district. Worksop Manor
formerly belonged to the dukes of Norfolk. Welbeck Abbey is the seat of the
dukes of Portland, to whom it came from the Cavendish family (dukes of
Newcastle); the mansion is mainly classic in style, dating from the early 17th
century, but with many subsequent additions; the fifth duke of Portland (d.1879)
built the curious series of subterranean corridors and chambers beneath the
grounds. Clumber House, the seat of the dukes of Newcastle, is beautifully placed
above a lake in a fine park. Thoresby House is the seat of the earls Manvers, to
whom it came on the extinction of the dukedom of Kingston; part of this demesne is
a splendid tract of wild woodland.
Below is information of my Fathers Family home village of Faughart in Co Louth
Ireland, a place of much history and legends also a place of pilgrimage.The old
cemetery of Faughart has the graves St Bridgit and of Edward Bruce
of Scotland who was the
brother of Robert the Bruce of Scotland who defeated the English at the battle
of Bannockburn on June the 23 -24 1314AD and also my grandmother Ellen
Murphy
