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Adam Hutchinson Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 09 April 2012 at 11:28am | IP Logged | 1
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Fun little bit of history there.
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Lars Johansson Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 09 April 2012 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | 2
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It's the same facial features or what you call it if I'm looking at the right person.
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Michael Penn Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 09 April 2012 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | 3
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...my Dad ..., when he was City Clerk, circa 1982.
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About the same age as you are now, JB, right? Do see yourself getting more or less like him as you get older?
His dark hair and white beard lent an air of the aristocrat about him, surely!
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John Byrne
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Posted: 09 April 2012 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | 4
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Dad took a lot of ribbing from his co-workers, when his beard came in snow white while his hair stayed so dark. "Time to stop dying it, Frank!"Thing was, his beard had been white since he was in his twenties, while his hair stayed naturally dark deep into his seventies. His Celtic blood, maybe! (In its original form, "Byrne" means "raven". Gotta think that means a lot of ancestors with black hair, not a bunch of bird enthusiasts!)
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Brian Miller Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 09 April 2012 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | 5
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Sometimes I wonder if they are in any way aware of me -- of their "famous" relative. More likely I vanished completely off their radar when my parents and I moved to Canada ************ Do they share the family name? Maybe they've reached fame, too, and you have no idea about them. You look a LOT like your Dad.
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John Byrne
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Posted: 09 April 2012 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | 6
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On the Byrne side, my cousins are female. I know the married name of one -- tho I don't know if that's still her name. The other was born after we left England, so we have not met. I know nothing of her, aside from her given name. You folk with nuclear families have experienced something quite alien to me. I grew up with all my blood relatives (other than my parents) 6000 miles away. Strangers, for all intent.
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Shaun Barry Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 09 April 2012 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | 7
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(Amusing little "time warp" in the 1982 photo... the woman to your father's far right looks like she could've stepped out of 1962!)
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John Byrne
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Unlocking this thread for an observation.When Dad died, I realized there was no further need for me EVER to return to Calgary! Friends I have who are still there would much rather come here, to visit New York. Just the other day, I was chatting with a friend and former neighbor, whose mother, age 98, had just died. He noted that as he got on the plane to fly back to Connecticut, he realized, like me, that there was no further reason for him to ever return to his childhood home. It's a kind of microcosm of life in the 21st Century. Not so very long ago, it was unusual for people to travel far from where they were born and grew up. Especially unusual for them to actually relocate to distant cities. Birth, marriage, children, death -- all happened within a few miles of the same place. Now, I look on my own life, and I'd crossed the Atlantic three times before I was eight years old, zig-zagged across most of North America, and, by eventually landing in Connecticut, returned almost half the distance back from whence I came! By comparison, my late mother-in-law (born 1911) lived her whole life in the same house!
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Michael Todd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 25 December 2012 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | 9
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I guess it's strange that my siblings on my father's side two half sisters and a half brother all still live right here in our hometown, my half brother lives one house down from me, though we seldom see each other. My two half sisters and half brother on my mother's side all live in different states. I have no full brothers or sisters, being the only child of my parents second marriages.
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Jesus Garcia Byrne Robotics Member
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Interesting. I've lived nearly my entire life in Montreal and from time to time feel the need to revisit (from the outside) places I've lived, gone to school to, or worked at: all on the island of course. Dunno why, other than I find it comforting knowing I've never strayed very far from my place of birth.
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Thomas Moudry Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 25 December 2012 at 9:47pm | IP Logged | 11
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I left my hometown to go to college for 4.5 years, lived in Tennessee for 3.5 years, and moved back to my hometown to teach for two decades. Now, I'm in South Dakota. Big change after essentially 39 years in the same place.
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Stephen Churay Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 26 December 2012 at 1:16am | IP Logged | 12
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I realized there was no further need for me EVER to return to Calgary!
====== I'm quickly running into a similar scenario with the city of Pittsburgh. My father's family is from there and we go up there to visit for two weeks every summer. Growing up, I had both Grandparents, an Aunt and three cousins there. Now I'm down to the Aunt, who's in here late seventies and one cousin who's a bit of a drunk. Soon, (not too soon I hope) all I'll have, is my love for the area.
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