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What is the cost of freedom? Perhaps John Philpot Curran said it best:

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
-John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. (Speeches. Dublin, 1808.)

Since 9/11, this has run around the periphery of my conscience, I knew this quote and had forgotten it. I stumbled across it today while googling something completely unrelated. Eternal Vigilance. Every moral human's duty. Don't look away, don't stand for oppression of the weak of mind or body. An eternal burden.

let me know if you are somehow related to the curran homestead in maine.

another curran here. descendent of john curran, who was the father of monica, sean, lucy, taige, and deardrie. im the son of sean. im sorry if i spelled the names wrong. havent associated with you in a long time!

Authored by: beckoz on Friday, October 13 2006 @ 06:19 AM EDT

His name is James Curran.

In 1949 James Curran was in the British Army, stationed in Austria.

He was a Scottish military policeman; I believe he was a sergeant but I do not know which regiment/unit. 

In 1949 my grandfather was approximately 40 years old give or take a couple of years.

There are not many James Curran’s in Scotland,and ones that were in the military police in Austria.

He apparently went on to serve in the Korean War after his post was completed in Austria.

Please email me if anyone knows of him or is a relation or friend.

Rebecca Taboada

I am a Curran in Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, if there r any more Currans in England email me at j.curran@hotmail.com

Henry Curran & Margaret White, larne Ireland to Vic Australia abt 1852

Searching for ancestors, descendants any info family please email amandacurran@bigpond.com

1. Henry1 Curran was born in Larne, Northern Ireland, and died 1884. He married Margaret White 17 Apr 1852 in Old Larne-Kilwaughter, Antrim, Nth Ireland Presbyterian Church. She was born in Larne, Northern Ireland. Immigrated abt 1852.

   Notes for Henry Curran: Henry drowned while on his way home . He fell into the river . He was very drunk at the time.The year was 1884. After that the widow made financial demands on Thomas until Thomas' wife said no more as they needed all their money to raise their own family.

   Henry & Margaret Buried in the Rothwell Cemetery, Little River along with the eldest son Robert

   More About Henry Curran and Margaret White:

   Marriage: 17 Apr 1852, Old Larne-Kilwaughter, Antrim, Nth Ireland Presbyterian Church

   Children of Henry Curran and Margaret White are:

2. i. Polly Mary2 Curran.
3. ii. Robert Curran, born 1852; died 1900 in Prince Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
4. iii. John Curran, born 1853; died 1931 in NCote, Victoria, Australia.
5. iv. Thomas Samuel Curran, born 27 Feb 1857 in Werribee, Victoria, Australia; died 1944 in Kburra, Victoria, Australia.
6. v. Susan Curran, born 1859 in Wyndham, Victoria, Australia.
7. vi. Margaret Curran, born 1861.
8. vii. Elizabeth Curran, born 1864 in Little River, Victoria, Australia.
9. viii. James White CURRAN, born 02 Dec 1865 in Duck Ponds, Victoria, Australia; died 1948 in Osbost, Victoria, Australia.
10. ix. Jane Matilda Curran, born 1868 in Duck Ponds, Victoria, Australia; died 1943 in Bton, Victoria, Australia.
11. x. Anne Curran, born 1869 in Duck Ponds, Victoria, Australia; died 1908 in Penshurst, Victoria, Australia. She married Augustas Hildebrandt 1893 in Little River, Victoria, Australia.
More About Augustas Hildebrandt and Anne Curran: Marriage: 1893, Little River, Victoria, Australia
12. xi. Henry Curran, born 1871 in Duck Ponds, Victoria, Australia; died 1938 in Korumburra, Victoria, Australia.
13. xii. William Curran, born 1872 in Little River, Victoria, Australia; died 1955 in Offl, Victoria, Australia.
14. 4 xiii. George Curran, born 1874 in Little River, Victoria, Australia; died 1948 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
15. 5 xiv. Fanny Sarah Curran, born 1876 in Little River, Victoria, Australia; died 1961 in Haml, Victoria, Australia.

In 1954 journalist Edward R. Murrow phrased a warning to an earlier generation, at a time when politicians thought they (and they alone) knew everything, and branded those who disagreed, "confused" or "immoral."

"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty," he said. "We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear - one, of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men; Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were - for the moment - unpopular."

I'm in the middle of a two week trip to Hong Kong with my brother Bob. It has been awesome so far: Golf at Mission Hills in China, Stanley Market in the mountains, shopping at the Temple Street night market and cruising the harbour. Going to Lantau island to see the big Buddha tomorrow. FLICKR picture links :        Link to Lantau     Link to Land Between         Link to Hong Kong

 

Walt Disney's 1956 time-capsule letter to the future From Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing: The Disney company has unearthed a 1956 time-capsule containing a letter from Walt Disney to the future, on stationary bearing the legend "NO AGREEMENT WILL BE BINDING ON THIS CORPORATION UNLESS IN WRITING AND SIGNED BY AN OFFICER." Walt's letter to the future speculates about the future of entertainment and is at once profoundly wrong and profoundly right.

Walt predicts that the world will be overturned by technology, all the old order remade. At the same time, he assumes that what will come in on the tails of 1956's mass media will be...more mass media! Even though Walt himself predated truly national media, he can't conceive of the age of mass media waning and being replaced by a mass medium -- a channel like the net -- crowded with a never-ending confusion of micro-media. Walt, in other words, didn't predict the long tail. [...O]f one thing I'm sure. People will need and demand amusement, refreshment and pleasant relaxation from daily tasks as much in your day as they have in ours and in all the generations of mankind into the remote past. What the exact nature and implementation of these mass entertainments may be, doesn't make much difference, it seems to me.

I am looking for any information that will lead me to building my family tree.. I am from Newfoundland, Canada and would love any information on anything about the Curran name and how they came to Canada and settled in Newfoundland. Please feel free to email me at laners@rogers.com