Paddy has a new brother, "Charlie."
Virtual iDiaries for:
February, 2010
AND
March, 2010
Paddy's sixtyone yearold Great Aunt Sally Brenane writes in her diary.
Friday, March 10, 1854
3 Arthur Terrace, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland
Dear Diary,
My favorite nephew, 36 yearold surgeon, Charles Hearn, dropped by today to say goodbye.
After six months stationed at the Portabello Cavalry Barracks, Charles has received orders to proceed with three other AngloIrish officer surgeons of the British Army's Queen Victorian Regiment to report to the British military hospital, Scutari, in Constantinople.
Charles leaves tomorrow on the HMS Cambria troop ship.
The British Government requisitioned HMS Cambria as a troop transport to Varna, Bulgaria, to the Ottoman Empire's Constantinople, and to Crimean Peninsula ports.
Charles had astounding news for me. Rosa is four moths pregnant!
Charles said that Rosa wishes to visit her relatives on the Ionian Islands and wants Paddy to be in my charge while she is gone.
Rosa misses the sunfilled Ionian Islands during these cold and damp Irish winter months when the Rathminnes skies are overcast and smoke belches from chimneys. As a result, Rosa has been suffering from depression affecting her mentally.
After a few weeks of rest in the Dundrum mental hospital, Rosa has been living with her interpreter, Miss Butcher, in a small house in Portabello near the Portabello Cavalry Barracks where Charles is stationed.
I have an Irish nurse maid, Kate Ronane, looking after Rosa to cope with her violent mental attacks.
Rosa complains bitterly that English is impossible to learn, that she understands nothing of what people are saying in English and that nobody speaks Italian except Miss Butcher.
Rosa is lucky to have an interpreter of English to Italian like Miss Butcher whom my Paris artist nephew Richard Holmes Hearn brought to Rathmines together with Rosa and Paddy.
However, as for nephew Richard, I never approved of his Parisian bachelor artist lifestyle.
Anyway, I assured Charles that I would take care of Paddy and furthermore, I would finance a Summer roundtrip cruise to the islands. In addition, I said I'd hire a nursery maid to accompany Rosa.
Charles was relieved and thanked me profusely.
Sally Brenane writes in her diary..
June 29, 1854, two days after
Paddy's fourth birthday.
Today Paddy and I were at Port Dublin. to see his Mother off to Kefalonia.
Paddy stood between his Mother and her nurse.
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Rosa gave Paddy a charm and said to him:
"Paddy, you must never, never lose this charm because it will keep you young and it will give your Mother power to return to you".
Rosa wept.
Rosa and her nurse turned and boarded the ferry for Liverpool where they will sail to Malta, the island home of Rosa's Mother's family, the Tessimas. From Malta, a ferry will take them to Port Argostalis, Kefalonia.
Editor:
That day was the last time Paddy saw his Mother. Rosa never returned.
Paddy's Mother, 31 yearold Rosa Antonia Kassimatis Hearn, of noble Cerigate lineage through her Father, Antonio Kassimatis, writes in her diary.
August 12, 1854
At cousin Carlos's home on the sunny island of Kefalonia.
Dear Diary,
Today, Charles Kassimatis Hearn was born and I am fine.
Next week my brother Demetrius and my sister Diamanta will come to Kefalonia to take "Charlie" and me to our family home in Kapsari, Cerigo Island.
Editor: Today, Cerigo Island is known as Kythira Island. As an aside, onehundredthousand Kythira Island descendants live in Australia
Editor::
The above iDiary data verifies that Paddy's younger brother was born on the Island of Kefalonia August 12, 1854.
Three years later, Charlie's name was changed to James Daniel Hearn.
"Jim" Hearn lived to be nearly 80 years old. He was a successful Michigan farmer.
"Jim" is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, St. Louis, Michigan, USA.
Based on the scenario in the above iDiaries, it's believed that 1853 on Jim's tombstone is probably an error and should read, 1854.
Thanks to Jim's granddaughter, Mrs. Margery Hearn Bebow of St. Louis, Michigan, for kindly sending the editor a photo of her "grandpa's" tombstone.
"...And though his body mouldeth here,
His soul is safe in heaven."
