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by pwaldron
Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:16 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Inheritances, bequests by Clare emigrants to U.S., Australia
Replies: 14
Views: 64006

Re: Inheritances, bequests by Clare emigrants to U.S., Australia

Thanks a million for that one, Sharon. I wonder is this the Palmer Hotel in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_House ? Or is there another one in New York? There is an advertisement in the 1896 edition of The Standard Guide: St. Augustine, East Coast, Indian River and Lake Worth by Charle...
by pwaldron
Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:46 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Inheritances, bequests by Clare emigrants to U.S., Australia
Replies: 14
Views: 64006

Re: Inheritances, bequests by Clare emigrants to U.S., Australia

My greatgrandfather John McNamara of Moveen, parish of Moyarta, co. Clare was one of the numerous heirs to the so-called Talty Millions, the estate (actually worth only in the low six figures) of his first cousin T J Talty (first name variously rendered Theodore/Thadeus/Thady/Timothy). T J was proba...
by pwaldron
Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:11 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Kelly of Clare, with help from Paddy Waldron
Replies: 3
Views: 10116

Re: Kelly of Clare, with help from Paddy Waldron

In Surnames of Ireland, MacLysaght notes under Queally (Ó Caollaidhe) that the `confusion which has arisen between Queally, Keally, Keeley, Kiely, etc. is discussed in' his other book, More Irish Families. I don't have my own copy of the latter book, but he does not list Kelly among the names which ...
by pwaldron
Wed Jul 29, 2009 7:11 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Bp. Anthony Butler, 1830 - 1901
Replies: 1
Views: 4862

Re: Bp. Anthony Butler, 1830 - 1901

For more on Bishop Butler, see
`Anthony Butler --- Soldier-Bishop' by Sir H W B Blackall, Journal of the Butler Society, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 93 (1969).
by pwaldron
Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:59 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Release of 1911 Clare census online
Replies: 1
Views: 5389

Release of 1911 Clare census online

Those of us who have been anxiously trying to figure out what "mid-July" means in the National Archives have had their answer this week with the following new announcement at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/about/futureplans.html : We now expect to be placing the first listed tranche [includin...
by pwaldron
Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:09 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
Replies: 24
Views: 58074

Re: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare

I cannot find any mention of Paddy Austin's death in the Clare FM obituaries at http://www.clare.fm/obituaries; searching that site for austin (http://www.clare.fm/search/node/austin) produces only one hit, but I suspect that the archive goes back only to the latest redesign of the site in April thi...
by pwaldron
Mon Jul 06, 2009 4:27 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: The Boree Log at Lisseycasey
Replies: 13
Views: 37350

Re: The Boree Log at Lisseycasey

I too have a copy of "Around the Boree Log" on my shelves - a 1980 gift to my late father from a second cousin returning from Sydney to the Irish homeland of his grandfather. The present Boree Log in Lissycasey is a public house (bar) on the main road between Ennis and Kilrush. A Google search sugge...
by pwaldron
Sat Jul 04, 2009 7:54 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Cuimhneamh an Chláir - Clare Oral History & Folklore Group
Replies: 0
Views: 3632

Cuimhneamh an Chláir - Clare Oral History & Folklore Group

Members of this forum may be interested in this new group, "an independent, voluntary group of mainly young people from across County Clare, who have come together in an attempt to rescue the remaining memories that connect us to an older and fading way of life in Clare." For more, see http://www.cl...
by pwaldron
Fri Jul 03, 2009 11:33 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
Replies: 24
Views: 58074

Re: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare

I was in Kilfearagh Cemetery outside Kilkee today and transcribed the following inscriptions from two separate stones on the Austin grave there: 1. Erected by Mrs Austin Doonaghboy [sic] in memory of her beloved husband Tom Austin who died June 19th 1919 aged 74 years R.I.P. 2. In loving memory of T...
by pwaldron
Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:13 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Quigley, Green, Doloughty, McNamara, Hynes, Magrath, Cunneen
Replies: 6
Views: 12872

Re:Doloughty, Hynes

For the full story of the execution of Francie Hynes for the shooting of John Doolaghty see `Outrage at Drumdoolaghty: The Francie Hynes Affair' by Philomena Butler in The Other Clare, Vol. 30, June 2006, pp.15-22.
by pwaldron
Mon Jun 15, 2009 9:11 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Irish Civil Registration Indexes at familysearch.org
Replies: 24
Views: 77659

Re: Irish Civil Registration Indexes at pilot.familysearch.org

Further thoughts: I have always concluded when I found a birth indexed under `male' or `female' that the unfortunate newborn infant probably died before its parents agreed on a name. A recent example has persuaded me to change my view. Sadly the great indexing work of Naoise Cleary and his followers...
by pwaldron
Tue Jun 02, 2009 12:30 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Old IRA in West Clare - anyone able to help?
Replies: 5
Views: 10670

Re: Old IRA in West Clare - anyone able to help?

There are interviews with several Clare people in `The IRA in the Twilight Years' by Uinseann Mac Eoin, which covers the period that you are interested in.
by pwaldron
Thu May 28, 2009 2:40 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Verlins near Tulla - use of term Alias in Parish Register
Replies: 9
Views: 18417

Re: Verlins near Tulla - use of term Alias in Parish Register

Could you be looking at an adult baptism? A married woman converting from another religion? Someone gave me a photocopy of the list of freeholders many years ago. I think the original of this one is in the National Library of Ireland. A google search will direct you to various online extracts, e.g. ...
by pwaldron
Tue May 26, 2009 2:24 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Four airmen buried in Miltown Malbay, December 1941
Replies: 13
Views: 55914

Re: Four airmen buried in Miltown Malbay, December 1941

At the request of those who do not read Irish, here is a translation of the above programme description: In this programme, Pádraig rows around the Loop Head Peninsula on the Coast of Clare. On his trip, he meets Brendan Garvey, who worked in lighthouses. He tells us of the sort of life he had worki...
by pwaldron
Tue May 26, 2009 2:18 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Verlins near Tulla - use of term Alias in Parish Register
Replies: 9
Views: 18417

Re: Verlins near Tulla - use of term Alias in Parish Register

Typically this means that one surname was her maiden name and the other her married name. I can never remember which was which, or whether 'alias' can be interpreted in two different ways. The word frequently appears on old tombstone inscriptions in Clare. The (unambiguous) French 'née' (meaning 'bo...