To find long lost relatives in the Kilcoo and surrounding area
Hi my name is Michael McCrickard and I interested in my relatives from the Moneyscalp, Bryansford, Kilcoo, Castlewellan, Tullymore, Newcastle areas. McCrickard's, Duggan's, McKevitt, Cunningham's, Brannigan's, Rush, Rogers, Grants, McAvoy (McEvoy) and many more. I am now going through my old family photos and have lots of really good photos of my family in those areas but would really love to get back in touch with relatives, If anyone of these names are on the Forum or if any of the Forum members in those areas knows of any of my relations, please do get in touch with me. Hopefully after this horrible virus is irradiated and we are free to move about I do intend to revisit my childhood memories in person and hopefully meet up with long lost and new relatives to catch up on the crack which is so badly missed. My father John McCrickard was born in Newcastle on the 16/07/1921 in a house on the Castlewellan Road, it was a beautiful house which unfortunaly was knocked down and in it's place is now a Petrol Station. The house my father was born in which belonged to my Grandfather James Vaughan McCrickard 04/06/1891 - 06/1940 unfortunaly the house ended up in the hands of his brother my Granduncle John McCrickard 28/09/1900 - 02/01/1979 born in Tullymore who married Bridget King from Newcastle, the McCrickard house and all the McCrickard land behind the house and over the road backing onto the Royal County Down Golf Couse evenly became housing estates. Anyone out there who can help me, it would be appricated in the first instance.