Kevin Anthony Rafferty
December 1921-September 2016
Kevin was the youngest of eleven children, although he never knew his older sister, Margaret, who had died in 1917, when only 12 years old, three years before Kevin was born on 7th December 1921.
Kevin recalled being told that his sister had been on a school outing to Bitts Park in Carlisle. A storm struck the area during the day, in which the party was caught, with the party sheltering from the worst of the weather under a tree.
As a result of being chilled, Margaret had developed pneumonia, and died shortly afterwards.
c.1924
Kevin and his sister, Agnes.
The earliest photo of Kevin currently available.
From the oval clearly shown on the picture this has been a photo that was framed at one time.
Kevin outside Stormont.
Daniel Rafferty, on the
Giant's Causeway, in Antrim.
c.1928
Agnes and Kevin
in the backyard of the family home in
Grace Street, Carlisle.
In later years, Kevin was heard regularly to comment that he was very close to Agnes and missed her greatly.
When he was nine or ten, Kevin was taken by his father on a trip to Ireland.
Kevin recalled that this was a journey that he and his father made together, with no other family members.
Although unable to recall the reason for the visit, while there he was taken to places
such as
Stormont
and the
Giant's Causeway.
Kevin, seated on the basalt of the Giant's Causeway.
c.1930
Daniel Rafferty,
One of a number of pictures of his father
that are likely to have been taken by a young Kevin.
This picture is thought to have been taken at Belfast Zoo.
Kevin, the picture assumed to be taken at Belfast Zoo.
From school days to military service at the end of the Second World War.
