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General Discussion / The Way to Deal With A Really Dangerous Fox Coat Change

« on: December 22, 2023, 05:25:51 AM »

In 1853 the "Banner of Ulster" reported that two scripture readers of Borris were pelted with mud by a big crowd of furious Catholic women and youngsters in Graiguenamanna. His eldest two kids who lived past infancy were christened in a Presbyterian church. His second son, William H. Gale (1806-1870) was a school trainer and scripture reader who lived in Borris, Co. Carlow. Discharged with the rank of captain, he married twice, and the title of his second spouse is unknown. At a time when photography was novel enough to be exciting but in addition accessible enough to be potential, he carefully commissioned actual painted portraits (not unhealthy ones, both) of himself and his wife. As we have seen, by the point he first seems within the records in the mid 1840s, William Gale Breene was associating himself with Presbyterianism. By the time the young couple arrived in Dayton, there was already a profusion of Christian denominations working there, including Methodists, Episcopalians and indeed Roman Catholics. And then, admittedly on the more colourful end of the spectrum, there is Lt Col Anthony Gale, born in Dublin (1761 or presumably 1782) but undoubtedly linked with the Gales of Queen’s County - I think he should have been a first cousin of William Gale of Ballyroan - who became the fourth commandant of the US Marines, was court-martialled for a rich variety of offences including blasphemy and visiting a brothel, became increasingly drink-sodden and mentally sick, lived for a while simply north of Philadelphia earlier than, in the 1830s, shifting to Kentucky, the place he died in 1843 and is buried in an unmarked grave.