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Following Paddy's advice as outlined above, we met six of my wife's first cousins once removed (and several of their grown children) in the family home in Crossard and had a delightful reunion. Pictures were taken, light refreshments were had and acquaintances established. Everyone was so gracious. ...

I do not know if Clare library has that info. I contacted our local parish here in the States.

We were fortunate in that the geographic locales we knew about were relatively small, although I still have not located the one set.

Good luck.

George

We have had good preliminary -- partial -- success. From the 1901 and the 1911 Census, we identified what we believed was the home of one set of my wife's great-grandparents, as the name of her grandmother was on the 1901 Census, listed as seamstress in that household in Crossard and we knew the gra...

Thank you very much for your additional information. What I seem to have found is that Patrick and Margaret Tuohy (correct first names of the maternal great-grandparents according to my brother-in-law) were residents of Cappaghaunpark, Moynoe Parish and were listed in both the 1901 and the 1911 cens...

Thank you, Paddy, for the search advice. It is possible Patrick had already come to the States at that point, as we know he got here around the turn of the 20th century. He died and is buried in New York, so he is not the one who died in England. Would those sources allow you to track descendants wh...

We (husband, wife, adult son) are arriving in Shannon on September 18 for our first trip to Ireland. We would like to see if we can locate any of my wife's living relatives. What we know is that one set of her maternal great-grandparents was Honore Mitchell and William Ryan of Kilnaboy, Corofin, Cla...