{"id":3206,"date":"2005-03-17T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T16:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/17\/top-o-th-mornin-to-ye\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T10:47:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T18:47:28","slug":"top-o-th-mornin-to-ye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/03\/17\/top-o-th-mornin-to-ye\/","title":{"rendered":"Top o&#8217; th&#8217; mornin&#8217; to ye!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8680,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001I55SI\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/asin\\\/B0001I55SI\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8681,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.guinness.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20200825040512\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.guinness.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:39:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:39:54&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/asin\/B0001I55SI\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Darby O'Gill and the Little People\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Darby O'Gill and the Little People\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2005\/03\/graphics\/darby.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"199\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s day, folks!<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere way, way back in our family&#8217;s lineage we actually have a wee bit of Irish blood &#8212; no big surprise if you&#8217;ve ever met me, given my so-pale-it&#8217;s-translucent skin and red hair. However, while I got the traditional Irish look, it&#8217;s my mom and my brother that acquired the taste for beer so dark it needs to be served with a knife and fork. I&#8217;ll stick to a very non-traditional Dr. Pepper.<\/p>\n<p>So hit the pub, hoist a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guinness.com\/\" title=\"Guinness Beer\">Guinness<\/a>, do your best (or worst) brogue, wink at a pretty lass &#8212; and if you find that pot o&#8217; gold, toss a piece or two my way, would you? ;)<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> Mom fills in the details on our Irish heritage in an e-mail&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  From Ressie Wills&#8217; family history records:<\/p>\n<p>  Robert Hamilton   b 5-16-1760 Banbridge, Down, Ireland<br \/>\n  M 4-30-1781 Pa<br \/>\n  Susianiah Keane   d 11-15-1790 Warren Co. Oh.<\/p>\n<p>  Robert Hamilton came to America in 1774 to make his home in Old Lancaster, Pa., with his uncle, who was a blacksmith by trade.  After the death of his uncle when he was 14 years of age he enlisted in the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<p>  At least several generations ago!<\/p>\n<p>  The catch is, though, that County Down is Northern Ireland &#8212; the Orange folks, not the green ones.<\/p>\n<p>  But &#8220;Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Patrick himself is buried in County Down, outside of Ulster.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More details behind the cut, if anyone&#8217;s interested.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s what I know:<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hamilton (1760 &#8211; 1844) \/ Susaniah Keane (? &#8211; 1790)<br \/>\nRobert W. Hamilton (1788 &#8211; 1829) \/ Nancy Parrish (1787 &#8211; 1870)<br \/>\nJoseph Keane Hamilton (1817 &#8211; 1911) \/ Elizabeth Jane Purdum (1817 &#8211; 1884)<br \/>\nWilliam Joseph Hamilton (1854 &#8211; 1932) \/ Sarah Francis Williams (1853 &#8211; 1919)<br \/>\nRobert Orson Wills (1884 &#8211; ?) \/ Ressie May Hamilton (1887 &#8211; 1960)<br \/>\nHarold Reynolds Ward (1916 &#8211; 2005) \/ Arlene Maude Wills (1911 &#8211; 2005)<br \/>\nJohn David Hanscom (1946 &#8211; ) \/ Roberta Lee Ward (1947 &#8211; )<br \/>\nMichael David Hanscom (1973 &#8211; )<\/p>\n<p>Assuming that Mr. and Mrs. Rbt. Hamilton are the only Irish in our lineage (they&#8217;re the only ones we know of), I guess that&#8217;d make me 1\/128th Irish. Or so.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, that&#8217;s practically pure leprechaun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So hit the pub, hoist a Guinness, do your best (or worst) brogue, wink at a pretty lass &#8212; and if you find that pot o&#8217; gold, toss a piece or two my way, would you? ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}