The Lucknow Sentinel, 1972-01-26, Page 28ebster Vkits Clan:
Tipperary Ireland
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EDITOR'S NOTE-
Mr. and. Mrs. Jack Webster of
Edmonton recently completed a'
trip to Europe and the British Isles
arid the Webster Clan's original
home in. Ireland. We'asked Jack
"to write of his experiences know-
ing that his many friends here •
would be interested. •
8350 - 76th Ave
Ednionton, Alberta,
December 12, 1971.
Dear Donald,
As-I mentioned some months
ago, I was to make a sojourn to
Europe And the British Isles and
when I arrivedhome I kind of
got cold feet about.writing you as
you requested, and was going to
renege, but so many of the Web-
sters have written about it I weak-
ened.
First Of all we left. Edmonton
and landed in. Greenland and en-
joyed our -short stay there; espec-
ially the natiVs, some of whom
rru'ist-have-a-lot-of-Eskimo-bloodo—
Then on to London and points
of interest, Buckingham Palace ,
Piccadilly, Trafalgar Square,
.and enjoyed every minute of it.
We took'the train to the north
east coast of England and the
boat to Dublin arid what a city.
Talk about your Irish brogue
that's where it really is' spoken.
FroMthere we. iourneyed to
Arklow down in. the Wicklow hills ,
and the . Valley of*Avoca where
Moore really tells us about .it in
the Meeting of the Waters - a
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seventeen and if any olyou young
people would 'like to drop her a
line, as she loves pen pals, her
address is Catherinerebster "St.
Joseph's", St. Miegel St.', Tip-
perary , Eire. They are a wonder-
ful family, believe nie.
When I mentioned that we
were going to Belfast to take the
boat to .dlasgow , everybody J.
thought we were crazy. We arriv
e e fast on a u
Bernice and khad just come back
from the .Parliament Buildings
and had just walked by this gaol
I,. I
had not seen water fOr months and
were bare footed, Well you can_
picture it,. We left - ".•
Amsterdam by bOat for 'England ,
London and home and sure did
love to haveseen it
before I get too old.. ,pur,high-
'lights for Bernice were Ireland:,
•Paris aneGermany..- For yours .
truly it ,was Ireland,' the Highlands
the English countryside and Germ-
any. • . '
The:hospitality of the Stedman's,
Kilgotirs, and the Will Webster's
was beyond all our dreams and I
know the day lily Grandparents
and t .---E5-71. amily'lert tie old sod
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truly beautiful valley and the where some of the•I,R,,A.- yid
country side like a giant checker ers were, not five minutes before,
board and so green. The Avoca when they .blasted it, We were in
Mining CoMpany have an opera- the hotel not three minutes when
tion there and the management it went. Bernice said "What Was-
and' staffaie displaced. Canadians that?" and I said ,"dynamite and
and old and dear friends of mine. no mistake"..
for many years in the Mining' • From Belfast to•Glasgow to.
field. • • Fdinburgh'and the festival Was in
'We were in Tipperary twice full.'swing, We took in all the
andhis family, also .
the old Web- Sights and were down where Mary and contacted a William• Webster
ster home which is now a retreat Queen Of Scots had her Castle, and.•
they still call if FrenchTown,
When Lintroduced Myself as a and the archives where I traced
historical society for Roman Catholic clergy. Then off to the •
Canadian, and that my grand-
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father had left. there with his fa..M. the Websters back to the fifteenth
ily the time of the potato famine,
cenl
ivtul'y. are a branch of the Mcrar ,
he said "Jack you don't haVe to. lane Clan who were mostly weav-
tell me. as I have a brother who • ers. They had ,quite a land, grant
Lom-
I thought . when I was bora they and and according to 'the archives
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the West coast of LoCh
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is your. twin". And all the time
.1,Droke .the - Well' We. had they were a fighting, troublesOrne
a real visit With. Will, Maureen .Clan. • , •
and. family. They. have two boys. . Eventually Scotland took their
and a beautiful daughter Cather- land away from them and split
ine who has never walked since. them up and sent them'to differ-
she had the measles. She is eni British, Colonies. They have.
aMcFarlane .Clan in Northern
lrelaFid an. e,oiga11 Zed-t-he--on.-i
Glasgow in nineteen-twelve;, And
there are a lot 'of Websters' around
Inverness but .I did not .get a • •
chance- to. meet. theni..
'•.We. also attended the tattoo at .
Edinburgh Castle and :with the
Amphitheatre in darkness:, and.
'that..Lorie piper'carne out one'
Of the top turrets and the 'spot --
-light went orthirri' ,
you'll never knOW what it did to
my old. ticker,. "The emotion I
felt is, something no One 'can .des.,
cribe tilL-he.goes through it,' but.
it will never, be' fOrgotten, • From .
'EdinbtirghWe.took the flying
Scdtsrnan to London and believe
me our railroads .can take a les- .•
son from the ones we were on..
They really fly and dining cars •
on them all are clean and tidy.,
Hundreds of thern.leave London -
dailyandhow they..ge(SoMany
in and out' in a day is a' mystery '
tome.
.• From London We, took the train -
to over and thehovereraft•over
the .Channello Calais. -It was,
short but quite rough and we, were
thirty-five inintites crossing the
channel. ..From Calais to'Bolongne
toParis,where I had to put Bernice:
ina straight jacket to,get her out
Of the.city. .• • .
We visited The Eiffel Tower,'.
Napoleon's Tomb, saw where so
_many of the-nobil4y died the time.
of the French revolution and one .
could Spend a Month there and not
'see it all.
Frdm Paris by train to
burg, Frankfurt and Wurzbitrg,
down in the, valley. Vineyards
are away up on the mountain side,
how they get them-down is beyond
me.
. We visited with Jerry Ilarfst and
his family. He is-with the Inter-
national police ,and Jerry worked
for meat Uranium City years.,.
ago.
He had Laborday weekend Off
arid he took us'all over Nopthern
Bavaria, the walled city Of Rotten-
bdrg and points of interest heyond
our fondest dream.
FrOrn Wurzburg we Went by
train to Amsterdam , and I sure
wasn't thrilled with thatcity,. To
me there were hippies by the ,
thousandS, even had their own
house bbats .on the canals and lay-
ing around sonic of the city parks
and montinients where there were
pigeons by the thousands and thest•
filth: (human beinzs?) sleerirft. in i dle filth, 1 know,some of theft..
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• Mrs. Flowers served for .five
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a new National,
Secretary. Tbis'is Mrs , Betty
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their OttaWa office' in Japtiary ,
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.ing her adult. life ,she been
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of her most intereStin:• Jobs' was,
Working, as SeCCetar, re,!surer for
tihn eL6Cnao%a:nd...aonnCtaOriii onc. it Mind •
continued . her echica Lion 'at A7tliewers
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happy 'holiday,
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creative writing ,• ION/15 .iuu sic ,1111-1
poetry and outdoor ,Ictivitics and
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this here and now' as.
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