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by mgallery
Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:01 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Surname Lennon becomes Leonard
Replies: 1
Views: 15195

Re: Surname Lennon becomes Leonard

I have seen Linnane become Leonard, Maybe these Lennons were originally Linnane
by mgallery
Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:58 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Quinlivan of Ballyroughan
Replies: 13
Views: 81970

Re: Quinlivan of Ballyroughan

there are an awful lot of Quinlivans - I am no expert but i did have access to a few descendants dna along with others of Kenny descent and used it to expand the trees. Laurence Quinlivan who married Margaret Kenny had a son Michael (m Dundon) who had two sons priests. Either could be the Rev Mr Qui...
by mgallery
Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:07 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Toonagh commons ?
Replies: 0
Views: 31310

Toonagh commons ?

Hi Does anyone know can I associate a 1901 and 1911 census entry for Toonagh commons with a current house ? (Sweeney) thanks Margaret
by mgallery
Thu Apr 28, 2022 6:28 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Surnames in Irish in 1911
Replies: 39
Views: 52876

Re: Surnames in Irish in 1911

Re Murray from Miltown Malbay in one of your posts above, you state that Murrihy is sometimes Murray according to McLysaght. In fact the Miltown Murrays came from Scotland and did not derive their name from Murrihy. They know the village they came from in Scotland and went back there some years ago ...
by mgallery
Wed Sep 08, 2021 9:49 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: lucy mcNamara journal
Replies: 0
Views: 32014

lucy mcNamara journal

I have come across some pages(3) of Lucy McNamara's journal posted online. One refers to my gt gt grandfather Martin Taaffe of Ruan and says he was married to a relative of, hers McMahon. I had not known he was married twice but his first wife was McNamara, his second Molony. I can see some of the p...
by mgallery
Mon Aug 09, 2021 4:12 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick
Replies: 51
Views: 128636

Re: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick

30 Sep 1873: Marriage of Wm. Henry Molony, Ennis, Co. Clare, aged 22, Grocer, son of Andrew Molony, deceased, Grocer, to Mary Fitzgerald, Ennis, daughter of Maurice Fitzgerald, Farmer, in St. Michael’s Church, Limerick; witnesses: Thomas Fitzgerald, Mary Fitzgerald: https://civilrecords.irishgenealo...
by mgallery
Mon Aug 09, 2021 12:52 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick
Replies: 51
Views: 128636

Re: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick

One of Susanna Quinlivans sponsors in 1850 was Eliza Barry. I have been looking for Barrys who were related to the Kennys/Powells/Quinlivans and had a bishop of Florida mentioned in Catherine Powell Meehans obit in the Clare champion Feb 20 1937 where it says she was a cousin of the most rev Dr Barr...
by mgallery
Mon Aug 09, 2021 9:46 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Grogan and Quinlivan of Kilrush and Limerick
Replies: 51
Views: 128636

https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/167750836/family/familyview?cfpid=142176401403 Adele McDonnell has a Broadford McDonnells tree online. She says Susan (Sue McDonnell married a Harte and lived in Ca. Her Daughter Sue married J. Byrne. She sent me a handwritten tree her relatives in Broadford...
by mgallery
Thu Jul 08, 2021 2:39 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Question Kilfenora ? Ennis ?
Replies: 1
Views: 2433

Question Kilfenora ? Ennis ?

Hi I have John Lawrence Lingard aged 38 (I think he was a little older) applying to join the army reserves in 1917. He had already served in the Royal Artillery. He says he was born in Kilfenora, has lived out of his fathers house for three years and lives at 27 Whitechapel road. Where is Whitechape...
by mgallery
Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:28 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Mungovan Magowna and Rathkerry Inch
Replies: 0
Views: 31551

Mungovan Magowna and Rathkerry Inch

HI I have been desultorily looking at Mungovan - which is not very numerous even in Clare My gt grandmother was Mary Ann Mungovan from RathkerryInch. She married John Quinn of Knock House Inch and she lived through tough times with a difficult man. She held the family together. Her parents were John...
by mgallery
Tue Jun 08, 2021 4:31 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Lysaghts from Ennis living in Missouri
Replies: 7
Views: 5579

Re: Lysaghts from Ennis living in Missouri

thanks Shiela I have a few lysaght connections actually and was looking at a chain migration to St Josephs Buchan Missouri Patrick Powell who married Margaret Lysaght dau of Walter Pawnbroker of ennis (Patrick powell descends from Edmund Kenny as do I) and also at the Stacpoole Lysaghts descending f...
by mgallery
Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:19 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Lysaghts from Ennis living in Missouri
Replies: 7
Views: 5579

Re: Lysaghts from Ennis living in Missouri

Thanks there is a lot there. I don't think the widow of the late T Lysaght is the same thomas - though it may be as he lived in Kilshanny. Thats not in the immediate vicinity of the town. There are several different branches of Lysaghts - all with Walter as a name so all probably related going back....
by mgallery
Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:26 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Lysaghts from Ennis living in Missouri
Replies: 7
Views: 5579

Re: Lysaghts from Ennis living in Missouri

Thomas Lysaght of Carrowkeel Kilshanny was brother of Walter Lysaght pawnbroker Mill street Ennis . The american trees say his wife was Mary cassidy. I havent checked this. Three of his sons went to St Joseph, Buchanan Missouri. John Joseph Thomas D and Daniel Thoms. John Joseph's was a merchant. Hi...
by mgallery
Mon May 31, 2021 6:59 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Lysaght inheritance for James, NYC 1900
Replies: 1
Views: 5515

Re: Lysaght inheritance for James, NYC 1900

James Walter Lysaght was the son of George Stacpoole Lysaght and Bessy Lingard whose sisters are mentioned in the recent postings on Nund going abroad to conneticut in the 1870s
by mgallery
Mon May 31, 2021 5:57 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Recruitment to religious orders abroad, or from abroad
Replies: 27
Views: 20355

Re: Recruitment to religious orders abroad, or from abroad

On the nameless nuns who went to the US in 1872, 2 of those were Lingard sisters from Cooga Ruan (one went in 1876 to Meridien Conneticut. Kate Lingard Sister Maria de Pazzi (1876) and Susanna Lingard Sr Mary Ignatius . The Mercy archives who are very very helpful had fulled me in on this before The...