CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF MEXICO 1934-1946
by Martin Ough Dealy
The Ough family has been involved with Mexico now for three generations. It all started when Sydney William Ough emigrated to start a new career in 1903. He was a metallurgist and a mining engineer who sought his future in the silver mining industry. He married Florence Glanville at Christ Church in Mexico City in 1903. From then on there has always been an Ough family presence in the country. Members of the family have left their mark one way or another in places like Mexico City, Guanajuato, Pachuca, Chihuahua, Los Azules amongst others.
The Ough family established strong links with the famous familia Rule through the marriage of Amy Ough to Cecil Rule. That provides another rich lode of family experience of Mexico because the Rule family's association with Mexico have been for an even longer period .....back to the 1820's in fact when Cornishmen first appeared in Mexico to revive the mining industry, especially in places like the mining village of Real del Monte 10000 ft high in the mountains behind the state capital and Pachuca itself.
I was born in The Cowdrey Hospital, Mexico City in April 1934. My parents were Margaret and Walter Ough. Their history is recorded elsewhere on this site, but suffice to say that I spent most of my early childhood in various parts of Mexico where Dad had work. The majority of these, for me, halycon days, were spent in Pachuca., the capital city of the state of Hidalgo and the centrre of a very large mining industry. The mines were worked mainly for silver and gold, but there were other minerals to be exploited. The following stories are about those days and are recalled through the hazy mist of memory separated from that childhood by over 70 years.
The following links give access to a variety of records, papers written about the family's involvement in the country in one way or another.
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