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and quite possibly my Arthurs as this the same region they all settled........ Oh for a crystal ball!!!

Hi Sharon yes, some of the names are reused but in this family there is no naming for mother/father/grandparents etc. It makes me a bit wary about committing findings to paper - at least my software alerts me to the more glaring mistakes such as dates but with names confusion reigns. Oh well, as I s...

Aaaand - why no naming patterns as in Tipperary family or Scottish family - no Michael, no Brigid - is it not normal in Clare? Any ideas? Also learnt a little geography since adding to the emigrant list - Cashel? naughty moi - it was the Hacketts who were from that area.

Margaret F

Hi Sheila last question first - those are our McNamaras - Patrick being the brother of Elizabeth and Brigid Arthur. Yes, they came in waves and helped each other as they settled. I am uploading a couple of letters you might enjoy - Patrick's granddaughter called her house in Bendigo Krusheen and she...

Goodness me Sheila - I don't need to tell you anything - how on earth did you get all this info - I have only just discovered Ellen's will!! I am called after one of her nieces, Margaret Ellen Patterson Hackett who is my g grandmother. I found out that Ellen had married again from another McNamara r...

I am a little unsure as to whether one should do this at night as confusion reigns - however, my Arthur antecedents have left little in the way of information but have discovered with all this material now available that my GG grandmother Margaret Arthur was born at Cragard and as everyone there app...