tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8654583219820488735.post8646644082726955035..comments2023-10-24T09:30:28.489+01:00Comments on WINDSONG: IzibongoRoger Derhamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11227097521861499134noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8654583219820488735.post-70969768342161919692020-06-06T02:52:25.613+01:002020-06-06T02:52:25.613+01:00In 1908 Osman served 7 days in Galway Gaol for ass...In 1908 Osman served 7 days in Galway Gaol for assisting ‘one John [or perhaps Tom] Caine to desert from the 88th Connaught Rangers.’ According to the prison records he was born in 1885 (not 1889 as per the 1911 census) at 'Tumtutu [sic] / French coast Africa.' The records list his next of kin as his father 'Achubu Tissanne [sic] / North Africa.' I think it's fairly certainly he wasn't Zulu. Nicholas Lynch probably began employing him as his 'native boy'' while he was serving in the Muri Mountains in West Africa. According to Wikipedia 'he died on 2 June 1920, in the Ballinasloe Asylum, of pulmonary congestion,' which is fairly specific but no source is given. The Irish Civil Deaths Index does however confirm the death of Osman Joseph Tissani, aged 33 (born 1887), at Ballinasloe in the last quarter of 1920. (If the Wiki date is right the death ought to have been recorded in the second quarter of the year). jabezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07039575899902222410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8654583219820488735.post-76373633864560945872014-05-25T22:22:45.673+01:002014-05-25T22:22:45.673+01:00Hi. This was very interesting to me. I vaguely re...Hi. This was very interesting to me. I vaguely remember my grandmother mentioning a black man in Barna. Her mother was a servant in Barna house so she would have had first hand knowledge of him. Her uncle was one of the farmers to get a land commission plot beside Barna Gardens. I wonder did you get some of your information from his son, her cousin? My grandmother unfortunately moved away from Barna and never told us anything about family history.angellanoreply@blogger.com