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Gabrielle In your search for your Taylor ancestors, have you ever come across any information about Robert Sambrooke Taylor (born in England 15 Nov 1789, died here at Killaloe 4 Feb 1866)? He farmed in Essex before moving to Killaloe. A mutual cousin is looking for more information about him. Paddy ...

I have come across a few other Taylors in the parish of Kiltenanlea and nearby parishes who may be of interest to you: As early as 1821, Captain William Vere Taylor was living at Burtonhill, in the parish of Killeely, County Clare, later the residence of Edward Hodges Goggin, his son-in-law. See art...

For those who have not seen the good news buried in another thread - late August really did mean (very) late August - the 1911 census of Clare - and of numerous other counties - is available online at long last!

I just stumbled on an interesting list of Clare farms at: http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0288/D.0288.197602170044.html The Irish Land Commission had taken possession of lands in the places listed from the families named because due to death, old age, infirmity or other cause the registere...

There is a blog at http://labs.familysearch.org/blog/ which allows people to post comments with feedback to the LDS site designers. Several people (myself included) have already requested that the Irish Civil Registration Indexes be made searchable on all fields, or specifically on the Year, Quarter...

That's not the worst - Risbuingham should read Lisluinaghan!
It's pronounced and often spelled locally Lislanahan.

When I recently got the death certificate of Robert Sambrooke Taylor (see thread at http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=410), I was surprised to find that it was registered in the District of Annicariga (sic) but that he died in `Killaloe, Killaloe'. Killaloe is an ancient town boast...

That sounds like the death register for the Catholic parish of Fanore - i.e. the register of all funeral services held in the church or churches in that parish, regardless of where burial or cremation subsequently took place. Such registers were not kept by the Catholic church in the 19th century bu...

I have always confused Charles Bianconi (1786-1875), the Italian-born founder of public transportation in Ireland (who married an Irishwoman and settled in Ireland) with Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), the Italian-born developer of wireless telegraphy (who was the daughter of one Irishwoman and marri...

There is a similar list from the following year at http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie ... 30044.html

I am sure that I speak for all on this forum in offering my condolences to our second most prolific contributor Paddy Casey on the death of his mother last Friday. May she rest in peace.

Don't try the main tourist office in Dublin for your Discovery Series maps - they don't sell them and don't know that the nearby Hodges Figgis and Waterstones bookshops do! I paid EUR8.50 a few weeks ago in Carrick-on-Shannon for the map of that area, where my Waldron ancestors may have originated. ...

At http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Limerick/Limerick_No__4_Urban/Connolly_s_Range/630633/, I found a 1911 census return for John Parker (b. Co. Limerick) and his wife Bridget (b.Clare), who said that they had been married for 32 years. I was asked to explain how I had determined Bri...

I have been looking in the Irish Civil Registration Indexes for the deaths of my GGgrandmother's first cousin Thomas O'Halloran and his wife Bridget O'Halloran. They were born in 1841 and 1848 respectively and lived in Rhineville House in the townland of Rine in the parish of Quin. Both were alive i...

Many thanks Michael. My question is answered at http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Tulla/ In 1907, the overcrowded condition of the District Lunatic Asylum at Ennis led the Clare County Council to propose the amalgamation of the Tulla and Scariff unions, with the Tulla workhouse then being converted into ...