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Arthur Helps

Arthur Helps,
Edmund Arthur Helps, born 1888.
He mar Lucy Laura Wycliffe-Taylor [born 1894].
He was a writer.
He retired to Ireland.
Around 1946 he bought Creggane Manor, on the coast to SE side of Rosscarbery, Co.Cork.
She died 1971.
He died 1974, think not 1976.
They had issue:

Peter Helps.
He had issue:
1. Sarah Helps.
2. Dominic Helps.
John Helps.
Stella Helps.
Ann Helps.

DNA matches

Peter Helps is DNA match with all of the following:
- Fuller line: Ed Stone and Sarah Helps and Patrick Hughes-Games and Terence Stokes and Adrian Stokes and Teresa Stokes.
- John the Evergreen line: Jacqueline Ryder and James Ryder and Polly Winser.
- Earlier Blennerhassett line (Edward of Rossbeigh): Jennifer Andersen and Leonie Liveris and Tery Griffin.
- Even earlier Blennerhassett line (Black Jack): Sue Gun.
Sarah Helps is DNA match with all of the following:
- Ed Stone and Sarah Helps and Adrian Stokes and Terence Stokes and Tery Griffin and Sue Gun.
Dominic Helps is DNA match with all of the following:
- Ed Stone and Sarah Helps and Patrick Hughes-Games and Adrian Stokes and Terence Stokes and Teresa Stokes and Jacqueline Ryder and James Ryder and Polly Winser and Jennifer Andersen and Leonie Liveris and Tery Griffin and Sue Gun.
Stella Helps is DNA match with all of the following:
- Fuller line: Ed Stone and Sarah Helps and Patrick Hughes-Games and Terence Stokes and Adrian Stokes and Teresa Stokes.
- John the Evergreen line: Jacqueline Ryder and James Ryder and Polly Winser.
- Even earlier Blennerhassett line (Black Jack): Bronwyn Gasking and "diannetam67" and Sue Gun.
Ann Helps is DNA match with all of the following:
- Fuller line: Ed Stone and Sarah Helps and Patrick Hughes-Games and Terence Stokes and Adrian Stokes and Teresa Stokes.
- John the Evergreen line: Edward Collins and Jacqueline Ryder and James Ryder and Polly Winser.
- Earlier Blennerhassett line (Edward of Rossbeigh): Jennifer Andersen and Leonie Liveris.
- Even earlier Blennerhassett line (Black Jack): Sue Gun.

Creggane House, Creggane townland, on 1829 to 1842 map.
A new "Creggane Manor" was built here in 1871.
Creggane Manor survives.
See it for sale in Irish Times, 16 July 2009, p.29.

The gate lodge to the N is in Burgatia townland (NOT in Castlefreke townland).
The gate lodge survives. See NIAH entry.