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One observation (noted by staff at NARA, and indeed by own experience) is that the index cards for some courts in New England are more complete than others. The US District Court in Boston rarely (if ever) provides the additional details contained in associated dexigraph (as the above example illust...

An example of an index card and its associated dexigraph are attached. Index Card (see attached): Family name: MADIGAN Given name or names: JOHN Address: Leominster Mass Certificate no. (or vol. and page): 19-94 Title and location of court: USDC BOSTON MASS Country of birth or allegiance: Ireland Wh...

The article cited above discusses two important topics: the indexing project of the original court records held by 301 distinct Federal and State/County/Local courts in five New England states: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont as well as the individual "dexigraph" photog...

Eventually more Clare-specific information will be added to this topic. For now, an excellent description and history of the information on the above captioned topic held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Boston Office (Waltham, Mass.) is the following article by Walter V. H...

Regarding the County Clare Carney's mentioned in the book: Henry, Patrick, Thomas-- Henry Carney Marriage, 31 Mar 1861, Marriages recorded in Gardner: v. 146, p. 163, item 3 Groom: Henry Carney, W[white], res. Gardner, 21, chair maker, b. Clare Co. Ire., parents: Patrick & Mary Carney, First marrria...

When I first joined in to this forum (not long ago) I read through the entire list of posts, just to familiarize myself with the place. I cannot be more pleased that this thread bubbled up to the top again because I now reread it with a greater awareness of how this might relate to my Madigan ancest...

My apologies !! - I should have said 'DED - District Electoral Division - of Kilfiddane - this includes Killofin - which looks to be a small area - just a peninsula with the River Shannon on one side and Clonderlaw Bay on the other. Perhaps the Madigan family are just a stone's throw from Labasheed...

All three of these old folks have birthplaces that specifically mention a location in County Clare. n.b.: "Fitchburg" is in the state of Massachusetts, USA WEST FITCHBURG. Death of Michael Cusick. Michael Cusick, aged 75, died at this home on Princeton road, at 11 o'clock this morning, after a few d...

According to Census of 1901 - Ellen Madigan, age 81, living with her son Pat and family at Cloondrinagh, Kilfiddane - - to see more info on this go to http://www.clarelibrary.ie - Genealogy - Research Support, - Civil Parish Index - and select Kilfiddane - this is the name of parish which includes ...

Yes, that was what I was thinking. Thank you.

Attached is a snippet of an 1850 US naturalization document for a John Maddigan showing a birthplace in "Kildisser County of Claire" 1820.

Is there a placename Kildisser?

Thanks again!

JohnInMass

Thank you! I wonder where the rest of them are? They all seem in place by 1855.

Thank you for the Killuran placename. That looks like it! I should probably post a bit more about James Madigan and his family here in the US: When he arrived in the US he was already married to Anne McNamara and they had children Matthew, Martha, Patrick, Margaret, and John. All of the children wer...

Hello, I'm new here. I live in Massachusetts in the US. I'm trying to figure out the County Clare birth place name in the attached document snippet. Can anyone help me? Thank you. Names in complete document: "James Madagin" b. 15 Nov 1814, Kxxxxxx County Clare "James Clifford" and "John Madigin, wit...