In this episode Olive and Iris continue to tell us about the Weir family (well, mainly Olive does!). The story of the Weirs that we're telling starts with Olive and Iris's grandparents (my great grandparents) Robert W Weir and Elizabeth Ann Fisher Ambrose. Their 9 children were:-James Daniel Weir (1876-1954)Robert Edward Weir (1877-1957) married Annie Bird (my grandparents)Samuel Stuart Weir (1879-1945)Edward Ambrose Weir (1881-1929)Elizabeth Weir (1883-1890)William John Stuart Weir (1887-1970)Frederick Joseph Weir (1889-1956)Richard Ambrose Weir (1891-1973)Ethel isabel Stuart Weir (1894-1969)
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Episode 7 - Olive & Iris
Olive and Iris continue with the background to the Bird family. Here is the family tree, starting with John Bird and Elizabeth Good, who were first cousins. John and Elizabeth Bird are the grandparents of Olive (Leslie), Iris (Colin), Stuart and Joan (Wilson) Weir. They are also the grandparents of David, John Christopher and Richard Bird (Episodes 2, 3 and 4).John Bird (1853-1927) married Elizabeth Good (1855-1921). Their 9 children were:Rev. Richard Bird DSO (1882-1957)Eleanor Georgina Bird (Elsie) (1883-1963)George Edwin Bird (Edwin) (1885-1957) and twin John Bird (Jack) (1885-1958)Annie Bird (1886-1939) married Rev. Robert Edward WeirMinnie Ann Bird (Ina) (1888-1963)William Bird (1890-1956)Jason Grant Bird (1893-1957)Thomas Hewitt Bird (1898-1965)
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Episode 6 - Olive & Iris
Olive Leslie and Iris Colin, the two eldest children of Robert Edward Weir and Annie Bird, discuss their recollections of their parents, grandparents and aunts and uncles and their lives growing up in Irishtown and their happy memories of Ballydulea, Ballybricken and Rossleague.
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Episode 5 - John Colin
In this episode John Colin talks about growing up in Irishtown during the war (when his father was away on active service as a Chaplain in the RAF). He also tells about his trips to Cork (to Ballydulea and Ballybricken) to spend holidays with his Bird cousins and aunts and uncles.We also have an introduction to the Weir family; the children of Robert William Weir and Elizabeth Ann Fisher Ambrose, including our grandfather, Robert Edward Weir.
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Episode 4 - Richard Bird
John Wilson is talking to Richard Bird about his life in the Army and his father, Jason Grant Bird, a doctor, who after service in the RAF at the end of World War 1, settled in Reading where Richard and his siblings were brought up.
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