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Fhirtearaigh an Bhaile Uachtaraigh
Causation trumps randomness, every time. That events emerge as consequences of precursors, and are formed by myriad related influences that also extend from predecessor commissions and omissions seems without refute. Our lives also then, take certain form under the influence of innumerable actions and reactions extending back into time immemorial. Channeled and directed in more or less greater ways by all that has happened before, we make our choices, and in doing so set in motion the context of the future. Not all those factors at play in our lives have emerged from human activity, and those human influences are in turn the sum of... Read More
Know Your Ancestors
Sister Helen Theresa Ferriter
b. October 8, 1870
d. November 17, 1945
Helen Theresa Ferriter was born in 1870 to immigrant parents from the Dingle Peninsula area of Ireland. She was the tenth child of Nicholas and Mary Ann (Sullivan) Ferriter. Her oldest brother, Michael James Ferriter, was 17 and working in the coal mines along with his father. Her youngest sibling was John Joseph Ferriter, age 5. Four of the nine children born before her had not survived childhood, with one dying as an infant and three dying as toddlers. Barclay Village no longer exists. At one time, it was a very busy community that sprouted up in 1850 around the coal mines and the rail... Read More
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