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by smcarberry
Thu Dec 12, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 1879 Pennsylvania obituary, Mrs. Catherine Brew Schnell b. 1816 Clare
Replies: 5
Views: 367

Re: 1879 Pennsylvania obituary, Mrs. Catherine Brew Schnell b. 1816 Clare

Great additional details for any Brew (or Curtin) descendants to have, so thanks very much Sheila. i do have to note that the FamilySearch.org entry made by Julia P. includes a death date of 1875 for Thady/Thaddeus b.1876, and that is supported by the censuses as well as this burial memorial which i...
by smcarberry
Wed Dec 11, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 1879 Pennsylvania obituary, Mrs. Catherine Brew Schnell b. 1816 Clare
Replies: 5
Views: 367

Re: 1879 Pennsylvania obituary, Mrs. Catherine Brew Schnell b. 1816 Clare

As it turns out, Catherine's life in western Pennsylvania as the wife of Joseph Schnell is well documented in censuses (entirely within Centre Co.) from 1850 (the first census that would show her specifically, not just numerically as a member of the household head's family). As well, her 9 children,...
by smcarberry
Thu Nov 28, 2024 2:16 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 1879 Pennsylvania obituary, Mrs. Catherine Brew Schnell b. 1816 Clare
Replies: 5
Views: 367

1879 Pennsylvania obituary, Mrs. Catherine Brew Schnell b. 1816 Clare

While browsing a historical Kansas (USA) newspaper database, I found mention of this decedent, whose adult son A.C. (Austin ?) apparently lived in Kansas, with a brother T.C. who was by 1879 a resident of Chicago, Illinois. The Kansas paper published an abridged version of the Pennsylvania obituary,...
by smcarberry
Thu Nov 28, 2024 1:51 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 1872 Francis Maroney of NY, news on inheritance
Replies: 0
Views: 125

1872 Francis Maroney of NY, news on inheritance

While browsing articles in a Kansas (USA) historical newspaper database, there was mention in a Wyandott KS newspaper, as to a New York immigrant's apparent good fortune. This is it, in full, without any later article on the man's success in securing what was in 1872 a very substantial amount: Franc...
by smcarberry
Mon Aug 26, 2024 7:17 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Sinon Culligan and Catherine Waters of Kilrush
Replies: 5
Views: 3525

Re: Sinon Culligan and Catherine Waters of Kilrush

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...
by smcarberry
Sat Aug 24, 2024 12:53 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Sinon Culligan and Catherine Waters of Kilrush
Replies: 5
Views: 3525

Re: Sinon Culligan and Catherine Waters of Kilrush

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...
by smcarberry
Mon Jul 22, 2024 10:55 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The O'Dea Millions
Replies: 2
Views: 3732

Re: The O'Dea Millions

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...
by smcarberry
Fri Apr 26, 2024 12:54 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Hardgrove Hargrove's of County Clare Tulla and Sixmilebridge
Replies: 2
Views: 4366

Re: Hardgrove Hargrove's of County Clare Tulla and Sixmilebridge

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...
by smcarberry
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:08 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Inchicronan Tithes - help needed with one word
Replies: 7
Views: 11132

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: 865
Views: 3982951

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: 7
Views: 11132

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: 7
Views: 11132

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: 865
Views: 3982951

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: 10240

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: 865
Views: 3982951

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...