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- Tue May 26, 2009 2:05 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Irish Civil Registration Indexes at familysearch.org
- Replies: 24
- Views: 78045
Irish Civil Registration Indexes at familysearch.org
The forthcoming issue of Irish Roots magazine will have a short article on this topic by Steven Smyrl. I compiled some notes on my own experience with this website and sent them to Steven when he was writing his article. Paddy Casey has encouraged me to post my critique here as it is "laced with Cl...
- Sun May 17, 2009 9:07 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Four airmen buried in Miltown Malbay, December 1941
- Replies: 13
- Views: 56076
Re: Four airmen buried in Miltown Malbay, December 1941
Clare Past Forum regulars might also like to watch the Muintir Na Mara episode from 10/5/09, in which regular forum contributor moc66 makes an appearance!
- Sun May 17, 2009 8:52 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Four airmen buried in Miltown Malbay, December 1941
- Replies: 13
- Views: 56076
Re: Four airmen buried in Miltown Malbay, December 1941
I should probably have posted the full story of the Doonbeg air crash here as well as sending photocopies to Paddy C. He summarised the story as follows in an e-mail to me: The account of the survival of Sgt. Masterson was particularly moving. Imagine it ! The guy crawls out of the sea, exhausted an...
- Sun Apr 05, 2009 8:45 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Augusta Blood dies 25-Jan-1860
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4900
Re: Augusta Blood dies 25-Jan-1860
Augusta was Maria Augusta Persse. See Blood pedigree at http://bloodfamilytree.com/blood_cranagher.php If the date of birth there is correct, she married very young; the indexes at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable reveal that she marrie...
- Sat Apr 04, 2009 11:39 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Rev. Huleatt (Ballyvaughan, Nenagh) returns wounded (1859)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10899
Re: Rev. Huleatt (Ballyvaughan, Nenagh) returns wounded (1859)
Yes, Paddy, the dates make it fairly obvious that your last two references are to the uncle, who, by his two wives, Ellen Pennefather and Eliza Brew, was (according to the 1892 letter) father of twenty-one children, only fourteen of whom reached maturity. The vicissitudes of the family continued bey...
- Fri Apr 03, 2009 8:46 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Rev. Huleatt (Ballyvaughan, Nenagh) returns wounded (1859)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10899
Re: Rev. Huleatt (Ballyvaughan, Nenagh) returns wounded (1859)
I have a transcript of a letter written in September 1892 by Rev. Hugh Brady Huleatt (1822-1898) which appears to refer to the above incident: on declaration of war in 1854 ... I applied for and obtained a Military Chaplaincy. I was sent in the Steam Transport `Prince' to the seat of war on the Heig...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:18 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
- Replies: 24
- Views: 58311
Re: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
Don't waste your time making any more phone calls until Wednesday.
Everything in Ireland will be closed on Tuesday, March 17, because it is St Patrick's Day!
Everything in Ireland will be closed on Tuesday, March 17, because it is St Patrick's Day!
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:41 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
- Replies: 24
- Views: 58311
Re: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
I believe that you can order the certs using the form on the website at http://www.groireland.ie/ but I get them by visiting the office in the Irish Life Centre in Abbey Street in Dublin. There is a local office in Sandfield in Ennis where people in Clare get them. As far as I remember, the charge i...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:29 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
- Replies: 24
- Views: 58311
Re: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
Dear Stuart You have found out an awful lot in the four days since your first post! I'm curious to know who did the research which you quoted in your second post. I thought at first that I was reading a report from the Clare Heritage Centre in Corofin, but the `somewhere in the house' reference sugg...
- Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:32 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
- Replies: 24
- Views: 58311
Re: Looking for AUSTIN family FROM Kilrush co 'Clare
Dear Stuart I have distant cousins named Austin in west Clare, where Austin is a very unusual name, so your message caught my eye. A search for John Austins of County Clare at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=1408347;p=collectionDetails;t=searchable suggests that these are you...
- Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:06 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Newspapers online via National Library of Australia
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7356
Re: Newspapers online via National Library of Australia
It never ceases to amaze me how widely it is reported that Shackleton the explorer was born in Kilkee, Co. Clare; it is now well-known that he was from Kilkea, Co. Kildare. There is even a `Shackleton Terrace, Kilkee' named after him, some of the locals having fallen for the incorrect version of the...
- Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:21 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: John Joseph Markham and Mary Sullivan Markham
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16822
Re: John Joseph Markham and Mary Sullivan Markham
Once you get used to the standard Irish naming patterns (e.g. first two girls after their grandmothers, third girl after her mother; first two boys after their grandfathers; third boy after his father), the repetition of names actually makes things easier, not harder!
- Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:19 pm
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: John Joseph Markham and Mary Sullivan Markham
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16822
Re: John Joseph Markham and Mary Sullivan Markham
Michael O'Brien of Creegh South married Bridget Markham shortly before the start of civil registration in 1864. Bridget appears as a widow in the 1901 census living with three sons in Creegh South; see http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/1901census/creegh_ded_creegh_south82_11.htm Bri...
- Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:50 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: Barack Obama's Clare connection
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13713
Re: Barack Obama's Clare connection
The plot thickens: The often notoriously unreliable Clare Champion on 23 Jan 2009 published a report by Peter O'Connell entitled `President Obama's link with Killaloe' which states: `Joseph Kearney ... married Sarah Healy ... in Killaloe in 1761. The wedding ceremony was held in an establishment bel...
- Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:23 am
- Forum: Clare Past
- Topic: catherine spellissy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7924
Re: catherine spellissy
I had a quick look at http://pilot.familysearch.org but cannot find a match for the marriage - there is an entry for Catherine Spellissy in Ennis in the second quarter of 1927, but no matching entry for John McPolin. There are only 10 entries for McPolin in Leitrim, Ireland, all of which appear to b...