CAVAN / PART 7/1916 – 1950
1916 The Easter Rising in Dublin The Proclamation of the Republic
1918 World War I ends
1920 The ‘Black & Tans’
1921-22 Civil War
1928
Civil Bill
1C-91-53
National Archives,Dublin
Bernard Soden v. Hilly
Map of part of Drumard
7/2/1928
from Four Courts,Dublin
The case is concerned with boundary rights particularly at the entrance of their respective properties.
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1938
December 31
Page 6
Anglo-Celt
A big advertisement for Soden’s ,Main Street,Cavan
1939-1945 World War II
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1942/43 Cavan Electors’ List
Pollamore Near
Soden Bridget
Soden Mary
Soden Patrick Jnr.
Sean McDermott Street
Sodenk(sic) Mary
Pearse Street
Soden Mary My Aunt
Soden Peter Grandfather
Soden Esther C. Grandmother
Soden Seamus Father
Source – Cavan Town Roots by The Anglo Celt.(1992)
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1942 The UCD De Valera Folklore Collection
There were 2 Soden contributors,JAMES SODEN (73) and
his wife,of Galboly, Lavey and JOSEPH SODEN(30), Virginia Townland,
Lurgan parish,Castlerahan barony.
Volume 1176 pages 401-452
Volume 1197 pages 199-248
talks about ’99’s’,_pieces of land and their frequency
Volume 1209 pages 88-98
pages 105 ff
pages 409A ff.
pages 478 ff.
Mrs.Soden,Rantavan,Mullagh
James Soden (65), Galbolia, Lattaghlohan, Lavey talk about banshees
Volume 1222 pages 101-204 passim
pages 309-412 passim
general topics of persons and places
Volume 1410 pages 235
James Soden discusses his family.
James had 1 brother and 3 sisters who went to America. He was 1 year old when Rose and Tom went in 1883. Tom was 20 and Rose 19 . Rose returned and went back and married a German American,Theodore Fund and they had a family. Tom married a girl called Doherty.
Susan was 20 in 1898,she married a Larancan from West of Ireland. They had 2 children and she was still alive in 1942.
Mary emigrated at 21 and married but had no family.She went at 15 years of age to America according to Larry Pidgeon, a local, in 1882 or 1883 and married John Smith. Henry St., Bailieboro, Cavan. Annie went in 1892 at 20/21 and married Pat Smith,Bailieboro, there. They died there. Brigid went in 1905 at 20 and married twice. The second husband was called Greene. James did not recall the first husband. All the family went to Chicago.
Terence was first to go at 20 in 1889 or 1890. Tom,the brother,went in 1898/1899 at 30 years but came back to a friend’s place at Mullinacross,Kingscourt. He sold it after a while and returned to America but was killed in the 1914-1918 war.
James Soden had an uncle,Pat Clarke of Ballynamona,who went to America in 1865 and was a sergeant in Pinkerton’s Protection Association. He never married .His brother,Tom was in the PPA.Terry was foreman in a car – wheel foundry. The eldest sister stayed with her uncle and she got his place. The other 2 sisters were engaged in housework.
Volume 817 pages 235 ff.
1945
January, 20th
Anglo-Celt
Article: The Kevin Cooney Presentation Fund
Subscriptions:
2s. 6d. P.Soden,Lattaghlohan with many others.
Lee,Geraghty,….
P.Soden
B.Soden
J.Soden
All 3 from Behy
P.Soden, Aughadreena
1945
3rd February
Anglo-Celt
Cavan GAA Congress
P.Soden
T.Gilroy
J.Rudden
Stradone Delegates
1945
page 5
same
Anglo-Celt
Stradone Gaelic Football Congress
Annual General Meeting
Pat. Soden presided,VC
1945
3rd March
Page 1
Anglo-Celt
Mr.P.Soden,draper,has resigned his position as P.C.
&
Irish Red Cross Society
Gift Auction
from a long list of donors including
Mrs. P.Soden,…
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1948
February 28th
Anglo-Celt
Acknowledgement by the family of the late
Patrick Soden,Lattaghlohan of the sympathy
expressed to them in their recent bereavement.
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June 26th
Anglo Celt,
under ‘ Lavey News’
Presentation to Bertie Soden in AOH hall and
a ceilidhe on Sunday night by the the Lavey Gaelic Football Club.
Tribute was made to him as a playing member and best
wishes to him and his bride
Bertie Soden thanked all for the presentation.
1950
Marriage Certificate of James J. Soden & Rose Anne Connolly,
(my parents,your grandparents.)
Dublin South,
Nr. 2 – 822
GRO,Lombard Str. Dublin 2.
Killagarry Church,Lavey,Co.Cavan
Burial Place of the Sodens of Lavey and Cavan Town/Soden 2002
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