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- Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:25 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Doonass and Trugh Catholic Parishes
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Re: Doonass and Trugh Catholic Parishes
Hi CityFitz - Just checking in if you are carrying out this work ? I would be particularly interested in the Truagh Catholic records. Hi Friends of County Clare I wish to notify you my intention to transcribe related Parishes to Cratloe. Doonass and Trugh Catholic Parishes I expect to have completed...
- Sat Apr 13, 2013 12:30 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Converts to Catholicism in Clare/Limerick (Spaight Name)
- Replies: 7
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Re: Converts to Catholicism in Clare/Limerick (Spaight Name)
Thanks to all for the very interesting information. And thanks to Lenc for the PM. Declan makes an interesting point - it is possible/probable that the Catholic Spaights originated from the children bourne as a result of a marriage of a Protestant Spaight and a Catholic. When I was searching for the...
- Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:48 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Converts to Catholicism in Clare/Limerick (Spaight Name)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16023
Re: Converts to Catholicism in Clare/Limerick (Spaight Name)
Thanks Polycarp and mgallery for your replies and information. I think the Samuel Spaight you referenced, was a great great grandson of James Spaight (Woolich, Kent) who landed in Coleraine in the 1650's and later in East Clare. Samuel Spaight would have been very much protestant, so it is interesti...
- Fri Jan 04, 2013 5:00 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Converts to Catholicism in Clare/Limerick (Spaight Name)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16023
Converts to Catholicism in Clare/Limerick (Spaight Name)
How common would it have been in the 17th/18th century for members of the English Protestant descendry in Ireland to have converted to Catholism ? Would any records of same be kept anywhere ? I am trying to traces the origin of the Spaight family surname in Ireland. There are several sources that st...