This web site attempts to document the Sandes family members and their ancestors who lived or originated in County Kerry, Ireland from the time of the invasion by Oliver Cromwell in 1649 up to the present day.
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In May 2013 we are going to visit Ireland for a week for a holiday and to visit the places in Dublin and County Kerry that were associated with the family.
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Land, and the ownership of land, was to dominate Ireland's history in the Nineteenth Century. The problems caused by who owned the land was partly responsible for the terrible impact of the Great Famine from 1845 to 1847. Gladstone attempted to resolve the land issue but by the end of the Nineteenth Century not a great deal had been done which specifically improved the lifestyle of those who worked on the land.
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You might have been forgiven for getting totally confused on your last trip to Newtownsandes in County Kerry. Although many of the signposts and some of the older ordnance survey maps still show this town, all roads lead to Moyvane. The village originally got its name from George Sandes who was the owner of the lands upon which it was situated. George Sandes and later
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Great with Smartphones — responsive web design makes this web site easier to read with a minimum of scrolling and resizing on small resolution devices like smart phones. That also means we can design the site to be wider (1200 pixels v. 960 pixels) for higher resolution devices like laptops, PCs and tablets.
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The definitive book about Flora Sandes launched in Edinburgh on 24 June 2013 and I was fortunate enough to be invited. So I drove up to Edinburgh and met its rather wonderful author, Louise Miller.
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The letter was handwritten on the back of a photograph of the author taken around March 1937 at Wau, Territory New Guinea and was addressed to his son Samuel Dickson Sandes and his wife Joan Airey. Reference is also made to their daughter Zia Allison Flora Dickson Sandes. Zia's younger brother Richard Samuel Dickson Sandes was not born at the time of this letter.
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He was born 1913, son of Robert Dalrymple Sandes and Ruby Hilda Lamb. To his friends and family he was affectionately known as 'Mike'. He had two elder sisters, Phyliss (b. 1908) and Lorna (b. 1911), two younger brothers, Robert (Robin) (b. 1915) and Raymond (b.1919) and a younger sister Pamela (b. 1925).
He returned to Britain from India with his entire family in 1923.
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Lay my rifle here beside me, set my Bible on my breast,
For a moment let the waning bugle cease,
As the century is closing, I am going to my rest,
Lord, lettest Thou thy servant go in peace,
But loud through all the bugles rings a cadence in my ear,
And on the winds my hopes of peace are stowed,
Those winds that waft the voices that already I can hear
