While doing online research on the Needham family I came across the following statement in an article from the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Tribune from 1901. Mr. Needham owes his conversion to the great religious revival which swept over Ireland in the year 1861. Mr. and Mrs. … Continue reading Kerry Revival 1861
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Thomas Needham, wandering Kerry boy
Out of the wandering Kerry boy He was to fashion a man of God whose chief delight it henceforth should be to preach that gospel which is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. (From Cannibal Land to the Glory Land, p.51.) … Continue reading Thomas Needham, wandering Kerry boy
John Christopher Hickson (1848-1945)
Donald Robinson, a former Archbishop of Sydney, writes (around 1960): The Hicksons were an old Protestant family whose Hickson forebears had crossed to Ireland from England in the time of Cromwell. Their ancestral seat was "The Grove" at Dingle, 30 miles or more west of … Continue reading John Christopher Hickson (1848-1945)
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