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Sources
1. Title:   Collection: Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes 1845-1958
Page:   Film number 101168 Volume 2 Page 638

Notes
a. Note:   Was a baker by trade and worked until he retired for the DBC (Dublin Baking Company).
 He loved opera and would sit listening to opera on the radio when the opportunity arose.
 He also loved army bands and brass bands. He frequently attend the the Dublin Horse show and the Spring fair at the RDS so that he could listen to the army bands.
 He loved visiting graveyards and reading the headstones and would visit graveyards on the way to the Silver Strand just outside Wicklow town were he got to know locals with the surname Earls.
 When his older sister died in 1928 along with her husband due to a gas leak he along with his sister Kathleen reared their children in Williams place, Dublin.
 He loved children and frequently brought his nephews, nieces, grandnephews and grandnieces on excursions to parks, shows and the seaside. He had great patience with children and I remember one time were waiting for a bus and I wanted to only get on one of the new square shaped buses in early 1970's. He waited at least another half an hour just to please me despite others going to our destination stopping during that time. He was a very placid man, always good tempered and didn't fall out with people. In fact he always seen good in everyone and make excuses for them always saying "you never know what goes on behind closed doors" He was extremely generous and would give his last penny. He paid for his mother's funeral and grave. He also paid for the funeral of his younger brother James who died in Coventry, England. When he went out he invariablely got talking to someone and once when he took myself and my sister to Seapoint in Blackrock, Co. Dublin in 1971 he got talking to a Portuguese student called Abilio Gaspar Nunes a student of English and the priesthood. Father Abilio Gaspar Nunes remains my friend to this day. He like a flutter on the horses though he was never a serious gambler. I regret that I never recorded the many stories he told me not appreciating them at the time. I remember him telling me stories of him be caught out after curfew following the 1916 rebellion, and stories involving the DMP (Dublin Metropolitan Police). I never regret the time I took to visit him every week when I was a student in UCD.
 He was a keen gardener and especially loved roses and marigolds. He loved the botanic gardens and any other formal gardens he could visit. He helped his thought to be younger sister(Chistina O'Neill) with a deposit for her house after his mother died. I now know that she could not have been his full sister as his father had died at least 3 years before she was born.
 Freddie or Unkie as the kids affectionately called him was definitely not the man for DIY. He once painted the walls of my grandmother's kitchen and painted around the the kitchen table rather than moving it.
 Freddie never married though he was very smitten with a girl called Nora Coughlan whom he fould had been two-timing him with a colleague of his at work. He lived with his brother Patrick and sister in law Emily for the rest of his life after he finished rearing the Mc Evoys of William's place.
 He had great respect for Michael Collins and was probably on the pro-treaty side on the formation of the free state. He told me many stories about the cruelty of the black and tans which I unfortuanately cannot remember now.


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