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Margaret Moore

Margaret Vida Dorman Moore

Margaret was born in Southern Ireland in the town of Kinsale Co Cork – growing up by the sea. She loved rowing and with her two sisters would enter the 2 oars boat race on Regatta day.
On one occasion when in the lead she spied a porpoise and started shouting porpoise, porpoise; needless to say we did not win.
She was a tom boy of the three sisters and particularly daring; she would climb the highest trees and would walk into the deepest caves walking through dense seaweed to get there. Her elder sister who hated sea weed would be happily piggy backed in.
She had no fear of heights, climbed cliffs bare footed and helped her two sisters reach the top.

Playing horse and cart using three of us she was always the cart, carrying her elder sister while the younger sister was the horse. A very happy childhood.

Each morning a walk to the tiny school in the next village where 3 – 9 children attended up to the age of 11 years. When her grandmother died we all had to move from the large house we shared with her. At that time her father was not well and died two years later. Margaret was sent to boarding school at ‘Rochelle’ in Cork with her sisters.

 

Added by: Neil McElwee on 2nd February 2012.

 

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Neil Mcelwee writes [9th March 2012]:

When 16 years old she left Kinsale and went to Northern Ireland and staying with an Uncle in Armagh prior to commencing nursing training at Jubilee in Belfast and Newtownards going on to do her midwifery training Adair House.

Margaret married Samuel Moore in Kinsale in 1978 and lived at 6 Portavogie Road until Samuels death in 2002. Samuel had a yacht ‘Mary Jane’ and Margaret and he sailed around the Hebridean Islands regularly as well as sailing around Ireland.

Margaret enjoyed taking ... [read more from Neil Mcelwee]

 

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