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My father is under a headstone with an incorrect name

IN MY search for my late father’s two brothers I was fortunate to trace the son of one of them.

My father is under a headstone with an incorrect name

Tue, 30 Dec, 2003 - 00:00

He explained that his father was still living in Cork.

But my happiness at this news was short-lived as he explained that his father had a brother named William Christopher O'Driscoll (born 17/12/1919). However, William Christopher lived all his life in Cork and, unlike my father, was never in an institution.

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