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Woulfe Family of West Cork , 1720-1998, 10 Generations

Courtesy Clarke family Canada 1999.

One the families most famous Descendants Danno Mahoney:

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Danno Mahony, World Wrestling Champion, July 1936, Triumphal Homecoming to Ballydehob, West Cork with Brother and Sister, Undefeated after 154 Wrestling Matches, 800,000 Spectators, Gates of over $2 million.

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William Wood Wolfe (1871-1960), 1905, The Bridge, Skibbereen, eldest surviving son of William John (1836-1894), farmed 500 acres , shopkeeper, ed St. Faughnans, Rosscarbery, Methodist, agnostic in 1911 census later became Catholic, brother of Jasper Wolfe Crown His mother described his wife, a Catholic as a ‘low wretched barmaid Prosecutor later TD,  Skibbereen UDC, only Non-Catholic to chair UDC in 1910, listed 1913 at Snugville, Skibbereen, listed 1921.  Received IRA threats to withdraw just before Truce in July 1921.

1938Doctor Sarah WolfeMedical Missionary of Skibbereen, West Cork and Chungsiang, Hupeh, China, on recovering from…

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