My great grandfather was born/baptized in County Down in 1835..
My grandfather was not married until he returned from South Africa so he was already older when his 15 children were growing up..
My mother was born in 1912, in the middle..
My great grandmother died in the 1920s I believe. My great grandfather died in 1948. Lived a good long time. I think he used to talk a lot about the Fuzzy Wuzzies (there’s a good ole racist name, lol!) and how Africans would tie their enemies down on red ant hills. My mother was crazy about him - he was Irish but spoke with a Cockney accent because he was in the army with a London troop. He called her “Ducky” which is a very old English term of endearment.