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Timeline of Early Ferriter Family Leadership
The following information attempts to provide a bit of illumination upon the deep past of the Ferriter Family in Kerry. What has been done here is to create a timeline of sorts, with the known and suspected heads or chiefs of the Ferriter Family called out upon it. First a bit of background: Several sources exist that identify individuals in the early record. These sources either extend from the Calendars, (summary abstracts made of records later destroyed in the Four Courts fire of 1922), or are from records outside of what had been in the Public Records Office when the fire occurred. A list of... Read More
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Patricia Clare Ferriter
b. April 25, 1909
d. December 31, 1994
Patricia Clare Ferriter was born on April 25, 1909, in Dickinson, North Dakota, to John Ferriter and Katherine McNertney. She began painting as a child when she was in bed for a full year with an illness. In the late 1920s, Clare attended the Massachusetts School of Fine Arts. From 1931-1933 she lived in the Philippines, where her father was stationed as an Army captain. Part of the time she worked worked as an illustrator for The Manila Times, an English-language newspaper. It was at this job that she dropped her first name and from then on used the name "Clare Ferriter" exclusively. She... Read More
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