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I have now gone beyond Australia in my quick & brief survey of Culligan emigrants. Mrs. Bridget Quealy's husband John age 55 died 1896 in a runaway horse incident described at length in a Bendigo (Victoria, Australia) newspaper which also described the husband John as from "near Ennis," Co. Clare; B...

Please share the names of Bridget's and Mary's husbands. If Bridget's married name was Quealy, I do have something on hand, in both Australia and a prior country midway to the husband's final continent. Also, while the Tithe Applotment list (1820s) has "Ballynte" as the spelling, the Griffiths Valua...

Key to finding information on this matter is the name of the Clare man who emigrated to the U.S. and acquired what the newspapers called a 5-million- dollar estate, apparently from his multiple occupations of attorney, "oil man" (investor), and real estate owner: Michael Francis O''Dea. He apparentl...

Douglas, it is great to see you posting about your Hardgrove-McInerney heritage. By way of doing my own Clare research, I have collected some material potentially useful for your goal, although my direct Clare lineages were only socially related to your ancestors, in the same RC parish of O'Callagha...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...