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Frances Derham (clarke) asks the following questions:


1. trying on clothes from a jumble sale Me Ma would often say?If an article of clothing didn't fit either to small or to tight "take that of you look like"Half hung Mc Nutt" Who was "Half hung Mc Nutt" or if the garment was to big she would say "That would fit "Paddy Dean" ?And names like?Tojo, sixty-niner, Gander,Butcher, any information of the origin of these people and how they got there nicknames

 

Replies>>??2. Does anyone remember the wee man who used to come to visit in Springtown I'm sure he did'nt live there. He had no legs and used to use his hands with wee blocks to move about?
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Willie Deery asks the following question:
Does anyone know where the Family of wee Johnny & Gracie Saunders are. I never heard a word about them since they left the camp in the early 60's
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Glenn Mitchell asks the following question:
As a son of a springtowner i know about some of the ways in which people lived at the ?camp,my connections are the Mc Laughlins and the Mc Monagles,my wife on the other hand ?knows nothing what so ever about her granny and granda Kelly.She was called Ellen he was ?called John,we were wondering does anyone know anything about them and their time in the camp. Ellen Kellys maiden name was Jackson and the Jacksons were also in the camp we think that she had three children of five at the camp there names were Tom,Henry and John ?yours Glenn
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