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- Living with Grandparents in Dandy Corner Cotton 1871 & 1881
At the time of his marriage Arthur was a Soldier of Beggar's Bush Barracks, Dublin.
Married: 2 NOV 1887 in Catholic Chapel, Haddington Road, Donneybrook,Dublin South, Ireland.
Arthur was a bachelor of full age and Anna was a minor.
Witnesses to the marriage were Peter Thompson and Rosanna McCoy.
Arthur was brought up in Cotton by his grand parents.
Margaret Skuffham has a letter from John Scuffins of Dublin dated February 1997 regarding his grand father, Arthur Scuffins.
"My mother remembers him as a very handsome man, very straight and honourable, very artistic (it's in the family), liked a pint, tell a joke and sing a song or two (that';s in the family too).
He turned catholic when he married and was quite devout in thet respect - never missing a mass on Sundays. He was very fond of mother who he called Peggy and he never lost his English accent."
Arthur was known in Mallow as George and had the name George inscribed on his headstone.
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