I was delighted to hear from our successors at Skryne Castle and have been in touch with them. Below is a copy of the email
Month: November 2010
Elizabeth Hickey retired from teaching while still in her late fifties, she “needed time for the many things she had to do”. High on her
Our paternal grandmother was Isabel Barron. Her father was Dr. Gerald Barron of Hollymount, Co. Mayo and Ascot. Isabel’s mother was Nannie Sydney Falkiner and
We have, passed on to us by our mother, Elizabeth Hickey, a huge collection of photographs and letters of the Woodhead family from Brighton. Our
Elizabeth Hickey, our mother was a prolific writer. In this chapter we refer to her publications which include; – I Send My Love Along The
Our grandmother was Agnes Pennycuick (1887-1948), her grandmother was Sarah Farrell (1820-1876), daughter of The Rev. James Farrell, Rector of Rathcline, Co. Longford and Scholar
In this chapter we give an outline of us five siblings; Robin Hickey, Peter Hickey, Eoin |Hickey, Netta Hickey (Kealy) and Caroline Hickey. We go
Derrygooney is a townland in Co Monaghan and Derrygooney Lake is an idyllic place therein, adopted and beloved by our mother, Elizabeth Hickey from the
During the sixties our mother, Elizabeth Hickey embraced the latest technology – a new, heavy, two nine inch reel, electric tape recorder. We have in
Elizabeth Hickey, our mother, taught for about twenty years from the early 1960s. We record her time in a special new school for disruptive girls
Our parents, Noel Sydney Hickey and Elizabeth (Malet-Warden) married in 1941. Robin and Peter the twins and Eoin were born while they lived at 18.
In Dear Grandchildren here we write about our grandfather, Edward Cecil Malet-Warden (1887-1964), his natural father Col. Edward Malet deCarteret, Seigneur of St. Ouen, Jersey,
Thomas Hickey, Artist (1741-1824) was our great x 3 uncle. He is probably best known in Ireland for his many portraits which hang in the
Our grandfather Robert (1854-1936) was the youngest of nine children of Rev. Noah Sydney Hickey, Rector of Taughmon, Multifarnham, Co. Westmeath and Elizabeth Buchannon D’Arcy
Noel Sydney, our father was born in 1916 in Moydrum near Kinnigad. Noel was a border at St. Columba’s College in the early 1930s. Our