While writing some Christmas cards last evening in the shop I was just writing an address for Karen Sanders Roe from San Jose California when Sarah Price came in.
Showing the name to Sarah she immediately recognized Karen as one the the distant cousins. Back in 1998 Karen and her husband Chuck came to Shannonbridge on a family tree trail.Her grandfather was Frank Belton from the Navigation Office who emigrated to America ending up in California and dying there.Frank brought many happy memories of his youth in Shannonbridge with him and wrote a lovely poem called Memories of Shannonbridge which can be found under Famous People on this website. Anyhow Sarah Price's grandmother was a Belton and a sister of Frank, Paddy and Jimmy. Karen Noe met the Price family and Sarah tells us that she went to visit them in California a couple of years ago. Karen will be glad to know that Sarah is doing fine in her studies and recently passed her driving test.
The Memories of Frank might need some adjustment as The Strand just upstream from the quay wall has been incorporated into the carpark for the new floating jetty.