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I think I have found what happened to another child of John Vandeleur and Johanna Keane. Their son John, born around April 1850 according to parish records, had moved to the United States and had lived in Pennsylvania and western New York. Some time ago I saw a newspaper article reporting the June 1...

Thank you, Kerry! I've found an article in the Coolgardie Miner reporting the death of James Vandeleur of typhoid fever. He and his brother - the article does not mention the brother by name - had been working at the Mt. Burgess mine. It's also stated that they were former residents of Herberton, No...

I'm grateful for the replies concerning John Vandeleur's son Walter who emigrated to Queensland. Since Walter's baptism must have been recorded on one of the missing Kildysart pages, I might never have heard of him otherwise. I purchased and downloaded Walter's death certificate, which shows him to ...

I found this on the Clare County Library website, Kildysart cemetery headstone transcriptions, #368 O'BRIEN: ... Erected by Johanna Vandeleur alias Keane of Clonsnaughta in memory of her beloved husband John Vandeleur who died March 17th 1881 aged 58 years also her son Joseph who died 10th February ...

Hi Miriam, no problem at all. I'm grateful you mentioned my post to Paddy and I've PM'ed my email address to him. I see that Cornell University Library - a few hours away from me by car - has a copy of McGuane's book on Kilrush. Looking forward to reading it ... Dawn

Hi murf, thanks for the tip on John, son of Mathias Vandeleur and Mary McCarthy. I've had my eye on Mathias. There are two of them. One appears in Napa County, California records beginning around 1880, and there's one who went to Queensland a few years after that. In the civil register of deaths - 1...

Hi Miriam, thank you for all the information you have provided. I suspect there is some connection between my John Vandeleur and the Kilrush family. The Kilrush family were Protestants, so perhaps in earlier times one of the sons converted or married a Catholic woman and their descendants continued ...

I did not know that, Sheila. Thank you very much. - Dawn

I believe that John Vandeleur (1823-1881) of Cloonsnaghta is my great-great-grandfather. I've compiled as much info as I can from American censuses, Kildysart baptisms, and Irish civil records and censuses. I have some specific questions I'm seeking help with: 1) Could there have been more than one ...