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by Sduddy
Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:43 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Anything to read on the making of the 25 inch map?
Replies: 22
Views: 55266

Anything to read on the making of the 25 inch map?

Having read a little on the making of the 1842 Ordnance Survey map, I would like to read a little about the making of the later 25-inch (now called 1:2500), which began in 1888 and continued until 1913. I love the 1842 map, but I love this one even more, mainly because the pathways are marked in. Th...
by Sduddy
Sun Mar 18, 2018 11:35 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: A scene from Glenomera 1828
Replies: 2
Views: 6885

Re: A scene from Glenomera 1828

If the trig station looks like it’s made of cement, that’s because it is made of cement. I’ve been reading “If Maps could Speak”, by Richard Kirwan (Londubh books, 2010) - a mixture of memoir, history and story - and he tells of starting work in the early 1970s with the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, f...
by Sduddy
Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:20 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Parish Records - Transcribers Register
Replies: 67
Views: 285741

Re: Parish Records - Transcribers Register

Hi Murf As you know, !’ve completed Kilmurry McMahon, except for the deaths, which I will come back to soon when I decide that Kilmurry McMahon people don’t mind me trampling all over their records. In the meantime I am well into the Knockera baptisms and hope to have them ready sometime next week. ...
by Sduddy
Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:03 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3314126

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

That very fine building is a nice surprise. Thanks for those pictures. Thomas Mack was boarding in a very respectable place indeed. I had imagined a building that was thrown up hastily in a very fast-growing city. Chapter 11 of ‘The Great Hunger’ by Cecil Woodham-Smith (first published in 1962 – and...
by Sduddy
Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:56 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Kilmurry McMahon baptisms and marriages (& deaths 1841-1848)
Replies: 2
Views: 6266

Re: Kilmurry McMahon baptisms and marriages (& deaths 1841-1

Here is my transcription of Kilmurry McMahon marriages 1836-1881: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634742#page/1/mode/1up Sheila The transcription, which was attached here, has been tranferred to Donated Material: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/bmd/rc_marriage_r...
by Sduddy
Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:25 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3314126

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

Hi Jimbo again - Sorry about my confusion there. I see now that it is just an amazing coincidence that the preview of that book mentions Patrick Kean, the head of household (in 1870) of the boarding house that Thomas Mack was living in – the same Thomas Mack that you had previously found in the 1870...
by Sduddy
Sun Mar 11, 2018 12:14 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,
Replies: 843
Views: 3314126

Re: Information is wanted of Thomas McNamara, of Glandree,

Hi Jim, that’s magic – it’s not so mad to think that Thomas Mack might have been in Company C. How could he have escaped it! But whether or not he really was, your posting is very interesting – and a bit of an eye-opener for me. After I posted my musings I began to doubt very much that the residents...
by Sduddy
Fri Mar 09, 2018 9:46 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140828

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Hi Mike My first thought was Jeepers. Then I looked at the second John in both censuses* and saw that he was from Co. Limerick. Which is his only distinguishing feature, because, would you believe it, the record of his marriage in 1894, to Bridget Keating (registered in Newcastle, Co. Limerick), sho...
by Sduddy
Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:11 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Kilmurry McMahon baptisms and marriages (& deaths 1841-1848)
Replies: 2
Views: 6266

Kilmurry McMahon baptisms and marriages (& deaths 1841-1848)

Here attached is my transcription of Kilmurry McMahon baptisms 1845-1881: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634742#page/1/mode/1up There are some gaps where pages may have fallen out of the register. Or maybe the register was mislaid for a while. Also, recording of births is very uneven at t...
by Sduddy
Thu Mar 08, 2018 11:02 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140828

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Having sown the idea that Stephen Connell might have been a son of John Connell (who was listed as Cooper in Slater’s Directory for Limerick), I feel I must un-sow it before it takes root. I found Stephen’s birth, after all, in 1865, in Palmerstown, and it shows that his father, John, was a soldier,...
by Sduddy
Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:45 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Question about Birth Cert
Replies: 10
Views: 17872

Re: Question about Birth Cert

Hi Kate I’ve been bothered about that reply I posted - it was inadequate. I focused too much on the length of time it took to register the birth and on explaining that. And I’m not happy with the explanation I gave as to why “March second” (the words would have been written in full – not given in nu...
by Sduddy
Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:18 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Question about Birth Cert
Replies: 10
Views: 17872

Re: Question about Birth Cert

Hi Kate The law is that a birth must be registered within three months of the birth, so the gap you mention is not unusually long at all. Lots of people missed the deadline and then they had to tell a fib about the date of birth, but a fib was not necessary in this case - the informant was well with...
by Sduddy
Mon Mar 05, 2018 10:16 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140828

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Yes, Mike, more images of the civil records have come online since page 1 of this thread. For instance, the marriage of John Collins in 1875 (look back to an earlier posting by me – John Collins, Cooper, was living in Ennis in 1901 and 1911) to Mary Nash is viewable now and shows that his father was...
by Sduddy
Sun Mar 04, 2018 4:02 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140828

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

Well, I found that Catherine O’Connell (Kitty the bridesmaid), of 4 Davis Rd., married Thomas Collopy in St. Joseph’s Church, Limerick, in 1927, and the record shows that her father was Stephen O’Connell, Porter. One of the witnesses is John O’Connell, 2 Little Barrington St., Limerick (most likely ...
by Sduddy
Sun Mar 04, 2018 2:36 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff
Replies: 65
Views: 140828

Re: Connell / Collins - Drumcliff

John Connell and Margaret Shannon had two daughters in 1901, Mary and Margaret, but only Mary was still living in 1911, aged 18. She was married in St, Joseph’s Church, Limerick, on Aug. 26, 1922, to Edward Hannis (Harris?), Labourer, whose address was 1 Paradise Terr., Chipping, Norton, Oxon, Engla...