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Thank you for this Jane. I was interested in the marriage of Michael Nash and Jane Tate.
Are you researching them?

My grandfather, Michael O'Brien, emigrated from Scarriff, Co. Clare, to South Australia in 1857. His older sister, Bridget O'Brien and her cousin, Denis Nash, arrived in 1854 aboard the "Confiance" having been sponsored under the R.B.Collie Land Scheme. I have been unable to discover anything about ...

Thank you. It looks like Capt William Taylor had 3 daughters married between 1849 and 1852. I wonder if he was a brother of my gg grandfather. The generation would be the same. Will try to find out more about him.

Seeking info on my great-grandparents, Cornelius O'Brien and Bridget Nash of Scarriff. They would have married about 1830. Their 6 children (Mary, Bridget, Martin, Margaret, Michael and John ) all emigrated to South Australia in the 1850s, and Bridget, when widowed, also emigrated in 1859. She died ...

Thank you. They are lovely photos. I'll keep searching .

Sorry, I have not come across that particular Robert Taylor, but he may be connected. Am at a bit of a standstill with my Taylors. I believe they were related to Baron Hugh Massy and have discovered that in 1774, Catherine, daughter of Col Edward Taylor, married Hugh Massy, but i am having trouble c...

Thank you, Paddy , for your help. I did write to a Whelan family in Coolisteigue and they had been in the area 200 years but could not help, except to say that all their relatives are buried "at Doonass graveyard in Clonlara". I had previously written to the parish priest at Clonlara as I thought El...

According to family history, my gggrandfather, John Taylor (b.c1810), left his home at Coolisteague, Clare, to emigrate to America, after his first wife, Eliza Whelan , died in 1835. He left his infant son, Robert b 1835, to be raised by an aunt. That baby, my ggrandfather, eventually emigrated to A...

Hi murf, Sorry, cannot help you with the origin of Boree Log, but Father Hartigan was also parish priest at Berrigan in the Riverina in 1916, near where my Clare-born grandfather farmed (Micheal O'Brien born Scarriff 1841, son of Cornelius O'Brien and Brigid Nash). I was raised in that environment, ...

Am tracing my gggrandfather, John Taylor b.1805, of Coolisteague, near Clonlara. His wife, Eliza Whelan, died a week after giving birth to my ggrandfather, Robert Taylor in 1835, and John emigrated to America, leaving his sons to be raised by an aunt (they both came to Australia in 1855). I wonder w...

Dear Polycarp,
Thankyou so much. The article sounds wonderful.

Dear helpful library staff:
How can I read this article on-line from Australia?
Cheers,
Gabrielle?

Thank you, Paddy; that is fantastic information!
I'll try and get hold of a copy of Hardiman'd Deeds.
Will also keep trying to find out more about the Castle's 19th century history.
Thanks again,
Gabrielle

Would love to know more about Cooastyke (Coolisteige) Castle, near Clonlara. My great-grandfather, Robert Taylor, was born there in 1835. His father later sold the Estate to a Mr Maloney, and emigrated to America. Robert came to Ausralia in 1854. From photos, it looks like a ruin. Would it have been...