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by mwoolgen
Sun Mar 21, 2021 3:50 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Sheila I'm still here and regularly check this forum for any updates or related posts - as well as for the general information that is shared. I haven't progressed much on this side of the ancestors but your discovery has given me a boost and I shall see what more detailed investigation of Michae...
by mwoolgen
Sat May 25, 2019 6:53 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi followers of this topic I thought I'd update the Collins part of the story with some recent information that Viv has uncovered. To recap, we have been interested in John Collins who married Honor Cunningham (1847) and together, with one or more children, made the dangerous journey to Canada towar...
by mwoolgen
Sat Feb 23, 2019 6:02 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Viv and other followers I've had a pretty lean time of it regarding the Collins/Connell connection also. It's good to hear that you have confidence in the John Collins/Canada connection. It gives us the marriage document describing Thomas Collins and Elizabeth Carter as John's parents. I haven't ...
by mwoolgen
Tue May 01, 2018 3:26 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Thanks Sheila It seems like a reasonable outcome - supported a bit more as I have, in my recent explorations, found a Margaret Collins, died in 1879 also aged 80, widow of a cooper and present at death was John Collins. A John Collins, also a cooper, was married to Mary Nash in 1875 and John's fathe...
by mwoolgen
Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:03 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Deidre and others While the Connell connection with The Borheen mob is quite possible, I can see from the Ennis Parish baptism register that my Patrick and Jane were probably resident in Drumbiggle in the 1850's, so, while it is always good to have a bit of spice to add to the family history stor...
by mwoolgen
Thu Mar 29, 2018 6:39 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi all Finally made the time to visit my library where I snooped around for some time before coming across an Ancestry family tree that named John and Honora Collins (Cunningham). This John I believe is closely related to my Jane/Jeane. I have been speculating that this John is Jane's elder brother....
by mwoolgen
Fri Mar 16, 2018 1:48 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Deirdre Sorry for the delay - just back from a lightening visit to NZ to help celebrate my brother-in-law's 80th. Thanks for your offer. While I can access FMP at the library, having another pair of (experienced FMP) eyes on the case would be great. I'm wondering about a scenario where Pat Connel...
by mwoolgen
Fri Mar 09, 2018 7:05 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Sheila and others I have also found that Connell/O'Connell is a pretty common name in the Limerick area. I now have found two John Connell coopers in searching civil records for marriages of John and Margaret's surviving daughter Mary. There is a marriage on 19 Sept 1917, at St Joseph's in Limeri...
by mwoolgen
Mon Mar 05, 2018 7:29 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi all Thanks for the responses - nice surprise when I looked up the forum this morning. Great idea to look at the Limerick coopers Deirdre - thanks. The cooperage line of investigation has been handy - a bit more specific than farmer or labourer. Thanks also Sheila for tracking down John and Margar...
by mwoolgen
Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:33 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Jimbo Thanks for your continued interest and efforts - having been the catalyst for Viv and I connecting on the forum in the first instance. Your suggestions regarding the O'Connell's of NSW certainly bear some more follow-up. I have actually been trying to nut out the Collins families back in Cl...
by mwoolgen
Thu Mar 01, 2018 8:04 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Viv I figure that we have a few things to talk about - compare our journeys and see what information we have that may - combined/compared - allow us to navigate some of those currently hidden pathways to the past. My focus has been to discover who my ancestors are and to understand something of t...
by mwoolgen
Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:06 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Jimbo The things one learns ... Thanks for joining the dots for me as I probably wouldn't have considered the derivation of the name Delia. Interesting CP post to read. Also useful to know that library editions don't allow contact - as I did look in the library a few days back - but failed to hit...
by mwoolgen
Fri Jan 19, 2018 2:57 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Jimbo, others and 'Bridget Connell relation' if you are watching ... As previously mentioned, the fit for Bridget as a sister to my Mary seems promising - pretty good age match (according to Western Monarch passenger list), birth place Innis (Ennis I guess - according to the newspaper article bel...
by mwoolgen
Fri Dec 29, 2017 5:27 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Season's greetings all and thanks again for your interest Jimbo. I've been off the air over Christmas and not yet followed up your leads ... Give me a little while to follow them up and I'll report back in.

Mike.
by mwoolgen
Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:47 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140753

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Update ...

The marriage was there all the time - just wasn't concentrating. 1884.

Mike