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Thanks, Sheila. The story you quoted from the Sliabh Aughty Journal with Irishmen jumping from a motorboat in the middle of the night and then "surreptitiously" returning to Canada sounds very dramatic. The border between the USA and Canada isn't exactly the Berlin Wall. I know the source is an Iris...

Hi Sheila, With regards to the Irishgenealogy.ie search engine, I should clarify that it appears to pick up "MacNamara" when searching for "McNamara" baptisms and marriages, but it was only for the death records that didn't include MacNamara and McNamara in the same search results. Thanks for your e...

Hi Sheila, Thank you very much, I think you provided the best explanation for the Bridget McNamara household in Lahardaun as of 1901. And your reminder that Mary McNamara Madigan resided in LiscuIlaun Townland in 1861 is interesting as it is just north of Derrymore East. And thanks also for the prev...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for that feedback. I tried to minimize the speculation, but you are correct that the witness at Michael McNamara's marriage was not necessarily Margaret Murphy McInerney, so I've edited accordingly. There were indeed several other Margaret McInerney's living in Lisofin: (1) Marg...

Hi Sheila, With regards to baptism sponsors and marriage witnesses, I find it unusual that Michael McNamara of Uggoon would have two witnesses from Lisofin: Michael McNamara of Uggoon married Margaret Halpin of Ballyoughtra in Tulla Parish on 30 January 1853. Their witnesses were James McGrath of Li...

Hi Sheila, Good find with Patrick McNamara, I had searched unsuccessfully. Typically, the death records appear to be fairly accurate on the reporting of ages. But that might be because we only find the ones that are accurately reported. Perhaps when the informant is the youngest member of a large fa...

Hi Sheila, I'm glad you are now on board with Matthew McNamara and the location of his land was the vital clue. I knew that someday the importance of land to the McNamara's, or to anyone with a drop of Irish blood, would come to you. There is no getting away from it if you are Irish. Of the eight de...

Hi Virginia, Your request for information on the Guerins of County Clare is a bit of a "cold case". In the last 10 years a lot of Irish records have become available, including the transcriptions of the Tulla baptism records by Sheila on this forum, that might help solve this mystery. I had a theory...

Hi Sheila, thanks for all your feedback on the McNamara's of Kilmore and Uggoon. Interesting to see that the name "Daniel" ("Teige, son of Daniel Reigh MacNamara") was associated with Kilmore all the way back to 1641. I made a mistake on 1855 Kilmore Townland. Plots 3 through 5 of Kilmore in Griffit...

Patrick McNamara, born about 1770, of Curraghnatoo Townland at the 1827 Tithes, and possibly of Kilmore Towland at 1855 Griffiths Valuation, and his Unknown Wife (but most likely a Mary, Bridget, Anne, or Honorah) have a great number of descendants in Kilmore and Uggoon, Tulla Parish : 8.0 Jane (Jo...

Hi Sheila, I'm now looking at the McNamara's who lived in Kilmore for which you nicely described the geographic location below. When researching the "Widow McNamara" who was evicted in 1891 from Uggoon (discussed on page 10), I initially failed to find any later records for several Uggoon McNamara f...

Hi Sheila, thanks very much for pointing out that Denis McNamara was reported as a widower on his 1873 marriage to Catherine Digaden, and also the discovery of the death of Timothy McNamara at Lisdoonvarna in 1915. I've edited my prior post to make these changes. It can be challenging to find the Ir...

Hi Sheila, As you suggested, I continued the Maley story in the thread you've linked from your last posting. Have now put my focus on the Townland of Magherabaun in Feakle Parish as I believe it reveals important clues in the search for the missing Thomas McNamara of Glandree. As noted previously An...

Hi Michael, Great photos for Edward Quinlivan, the carpenter. And interesting bird carved between his E.Q. initials on the family crest on the wooden box. These postings were awhile back and I had to confirm that the "younger" Edward Quinlivan was indeed the Edward who got the US passport in 1890: E...

Getting back on track to Sharon's original posting about Michael Malley, Sheila had written awhile back: The Michael Malley who was sentenced to penal servitude in 1882, and for whose wife and young family a fund was being raised, must be the same Michael as the one in Paddy Casey’s posting of 2008:...