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by smcarberry
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:08 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Inchicronan Tithes - help needed with one word
Replies: 6
Views: 163

Re: Inchicronan Tithes - help needed with one word

Absolutely, Sheila, attend to what you need to do in real life, which I am sure you will do with your usual great attention and effort. I hope all goes well, and then in due course you will feel able to return to a more active mode here. In the meantime, enjoy whatever light we may shine on the olde...
by smcarberry
Mon Mar 25, 2024 1:26 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3268754

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

Jimbo, I usually hold back and wait for Sheila to post her reaction to one of your expository deep-background posts, but I must say that this time you have produced a model of such a one, in that I had little need to read the whole thing but did so. Your encapsulation of the Franciscans' time in Enn...
by smcarberry
Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Inchicronan Tithes - help needed with one word
Replies: 6
Views: 163

Re: Inchicronan Tithes - help needed with one word

Well, I will go ahead anyway (since Sheila is saying she needs to divert off to study of tithe system for its administrative structure) because the name that stumped Sheila is actually one in a topic I brought up in 2007 when I reported finding at a U.S. university some Irish governmental records of...
by smcarberry
Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:40 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Inchicronan Tithes - help needed with one word
Replies: 6
Views: 163

Re: Inchicronan Tithes - help needed with one word

If I perceive the right place that you need, indicated by your ??? as you transcribed the phrase, the word is "thirds" so that the the entire phrase is "excepting the two thirds of..." It's just that at that point in applying ink to paper, the writer was using pressure too light to adequately cross ...
by smcarberry
Sun Mar 17, 2024 4:30 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3268754

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

As well, I must do this quickly but I send greetings of the day. I will expand soon on a recent discovery of a McNamara of Newmarket-on-Fergus in NYS (location named in the court order, allowing notice by publication of the decedent's siblings in Clare), found when doing the AI-based searches of wil...
by smcarberry
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:47 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: University of Galway's Imirce collection of emigrant letters, mostly mid-1800s
Replies: 0
Views: 69

University of Galway's Imirce collection of emigrant letters, mostly mid-1800s

Newly online this week and searchable with the collection's own search engine are about 7,000 letters collected by a Missouri (USA) university professor who also has a teaching role at the Galway educational institution. Prof. Kerby Miller was paired with a UG techie to present his collection in two...
by smcarberry
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:06 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3268754

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

Jimbo, I am not sure where Tom McDowell was for his 520 Killuran graveyard entries, as the Library's links no longer work on that webpage, to see either his photos taken of gravestones or the Ordnance Survey map section for the graveyard. Dates Tom recorded as being on the stones don't reach back in...
by smcarberry
Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: John McNamara (c.1764–1822), Coolnahilla, Killuran.
Replies: 3
Views: 2524

Re: John McNamara (c.1764–1822), Coolnahilla, Killuran.

There is a English-language obituary for old John in the 11 September 1822 edition of The Limerick Chronicle. That obit is listed under the incorrect townland spelling of "Coolneballa" but otherwise referenced correctly as Barony of Tulla, Clare, at https://www.limerickcity.ie/media/Obituaries_%20de...
by smcarberry
Wed Mar 06, 2024 9:23 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Full-text search now online for filmed U.S.wills & deeds, free via FamilySearch.og
Replies: 3
Views: 155

Re: Full-text search now online for filmed U.S.wills & deeds, free via FamilySearch.og

Kurt, that is a huge number of results. My 4900 were all I got by inputting only "County Clare" as a search term. So, all I can advise is to be sure you have quotations around your search term. If you have a specific Clare locality in mind, try using just the locality name (one word) as the search t...
by smcarberry
Wed Mar 06, 2024 6:33 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Full-text search now online for filmed U.S.wills & deeds, free via FamilySearch.og
Replies: 3
Views: 155

Full-text search now online for filmed U.S.wills & deeds, free via FamilySearch.og

The era of AI (artificial intelligence) has arrived for family historians -- the FamilySearch.org website is making available a search engine having that capacity to return results corresponding to a search term inputted by anyone having a FamilySearch account (which has no cost). The search engine ...
by smcarberry
Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:55 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3268754

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

I am keeping this posting to a bare minimum, in the interest of getting out basic info on the "universe" of McNamara families in and around Kilkishen currently under Jimbo's scrutiny. There is a lot more information on hand (in my files) regarding the 6 Dec 1849 eviction - the chain of leases involv...
by smcarberry
Tue Mar 05, 2024 5:43 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3268754

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

First, I second Sheila's praise for doing so much on this portion of the McNamara families in and around Kilkishen, for what seems to be the most original lineage(s), with the inter-relationships as outlined among the men both named John McNamara in 1871 when Michael was murdered. I have some news i...
by smcarberry
Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:16 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Thomas J. Madigan, Sergeant Major U.S. Army, born in Kilrush
Replies: 43
Views: 85775

Re: Thomas J. Madigan, Sergeant Major U.S. Army, born in Kilrush

Jimbo had wondered: How likely is it that an Irishman in the United States has no siblings or cousins or other relatives? . No one has yet brought up the existence of another Thomas Madigan b. Dec 1875, who also had a significant connection to Ireland and Jersey City, New Jersey, where he was born. ...
by smcarberry
Tue Feb 27, 2024 9:41 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Thomas J. Madigan, Sergeant Major U.S. Army, born in Kilrush
Replies: 43
Views: 85775

Re: Thomas J. Madigan, Sergeant Major U.S. Army, born in Kilrush

Jimbo's query: One news article above stated...that Thomas J. Madigan had died "without relatives". Was this true? How likely is it that an Irishman in the United States has no siblings or cousins or other relatives? As Sheila Duddy asked, I provide a best guess for John Madigan who (eventually) arr...
by smcarberry
Fri Feb 23, 2024 5:01 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Thomas J. Madigan, Sergeant Major U.S. Army, born in Kilrush
Replies: 43
Views: 85775

Re: Thomas J. Madigan, Sergeant Major U.S. Army, born in Kilrush

I have started reading this thread very, very late to the game, and I am only on page 1 of the postings. You all may be far past this point in the research still needed, but I would be remiss not to mention the resource I found so useful when researching Manitowoc County WI for the Co. Clare immigra...