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Hi Sheila, On google street view when you look over the stone wall surrounding the auxiliary workhouse (Plot 13 on GV), there is indeed "a two-story ruin partly viewable behind overgrown shrubbery". Given the context of my posting, the implication to a reader, as well as my own assumption, would be ...

Hi Sheila, The timing of when the Great Famine ended appears to differ between sources, so I reckon there is no need for you to "atone for saying that the famine was over in 1850". Wikipedia states that it "was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852". If you check th...

Hi Sharon, thanks for the clue that Anne Walker of the 1850 census might have a brother James McNamara in Virginia. Hi Sheila, thanks for the link to the Ireland Reaching Out article on the Tulla Union Workhouse located in Garruragh townland. It clarified for me that "Tulla Union comprised the follo...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for that feedback and especially to the link to the article "Floundering with Valuation Maps" by John Grenham where he stated, "One feature, though, has caused grief to users over the years, the mismatch between the printed records [Griffith Valuation] and the maps that accompan...

Hi Sheila, The two Walker sisters, one of whom ended up in Australia, also reminded me of Anne Walker who was living in the 6th Ward of New York City in the 1850 Census with her young son, Michael Walker, as well as Honora McNamara (age 60) and Eliza McNamara (age 15). "The Bloody Ould Sixth Ward" i...

OBITUARY MR. MACNAMARA. A wave of sincere regret passed over the city this morning when it became known that Mr. Michael Macnamara had passed into eternity. Though pertaining to the staid or quieter side of human nature, it might be said that he took a keen and active interest in all matters concer...

Hi Sheila, Thank you very much for the discovery of the death record for John McNamara, the shoemaker. With his death in January 1891 at the age of 76, he would have been born about 1815. I thought this John McNamara might have had a connection to a John McNamara family of Glandree. But with his age...

Hi Sheila, With regards to James Madigan, the shoemaker, who married Mary McNamara in 1860, while the 1871 census of Barnsley, Yorkshire, reported his birth as Limerick, later in both 1881 and 1891 census years, James Madigan was reported as born in Clare. See screen prints on page two. It is still ...

Hi Sheila, I agree that the Elizabeth McNamara, who married John E. Toohey in New Haven in 1927, might have been the daughter of (the missing) Thomas McNamara and Anne Glynn of Derryhumma. And that the timing of her arrival in 1910 would be perfect for the Elizabeth McNamara living with her Glynn gr...

Sharon, your latest newspaper clipping for "Michael Duinlevan", who was reported as "Michael Quinlan" on the 1929 passenger listing, highlights the difficulty in tracing individuals in both the historical records and newspaper archives. Sheila, thanks for your additional research into the McNamara's...

Hi Sharon, thank you for that feedback. I can't overemphasize how common of a surname that "Reidy" and its variants is throughout Ireland and among Irish-American immigrants. Just in Washington DC there were two men of a Reidy variant whose first born son was a Bartholomew. Irish born Maurice Ready ...

SECOND DVISION OF THE CLARE ESTATES Comprising Lots No. 94 to 185 Inclusive, to be sold on the 9th of December 1857 . . . [94 through 171] . . . 172 Drumcullane, cr Drumilane: 347 acres 173 Ballyea, West: 307 acres 174 Ballyea, East: 409 acres 175 Ballyea, Middle: 234 acres 176 Ballyea South, calle...

Hi Sharon, Thanks a million for providing such a small snippet of a clue, an address in an obituary, which proved not only that Johanna Reidy of Washington DC was from Newgrove, but her brother Thomas Reidy had also lived in DC. And a belated thank you for sharing the news of the New York City vital...

Hi Sheila, thanks for the various feedback which has now been reflected in edits of my prior posting. Commenting on your most recent postings first: Regarding the Peter McNamara baptized in 1816 to Michael McNamara and Bridget Carney of Rathclooney. Having researched the McNamara's of Rathclooney in...

Hi Sheila, The child baptized on 28 June 1835 appears to me as "Py", so I would agree that "Peg" is the most likely name. Even trying to find this one baptism entry was a challenge for me. I could make out "James McNamara" as the father, but "Hehir" was difficult. If you had never heard of this surn...