Bandon:

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Belding, Michigan:

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This site has the Memoir of Sam Bird, Bandon from the 1870s his father’s fondness for a glass of grog at night, The old Irish Church, The King’s James Bible Translated from Irish, Shooting Snipe, Anti Home Rule Politics, the family decimated by TB, Methodist Preachers, writing with the Non de Plume Brian Boru

Click to access Sam_Bird_Memoirs.pdf