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Hi Jimbo

That is Far and Away the best possible explanation for the McNalty mistranscription. Well done!
And thank you for the story of Andrew and Ellen (from Co. Cork) in San Francisco; a sad story, but also a tribute to the kindness of Adjutant J.H. Banberry of the Salvation Army.

Sheila

Hi Jimbo That is wonderful (your discovering that McNamara was transcribed as McNalty). That is a bad transcription indeed. This morning, I looked that the name McNulty in the different Unions in Co. Clare (online), and it became clear that only “McNalty”, and not McNulty, indicated a mistranscripti...

Hi Jimbo, No, I can’t find the record of the death of Denis McNamara in Coolnahilla on 31 Dec 1871. The 1911 census shows the three Coolnahilla McNamaras, Myles, Mary Kate and Daniel, who benefitted by the will of Mary Kate McNamara, Santa Barbara: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cl...

I won’t interfere with your MNamara project. I hope it goes well and the problem resolved. Thank you for that explanation of how Andrew came to have savings in a San Francisco bank. I had been imagining that Andrew never left Ireland, but had a brother who lived in San Francisco and who had left And...

Hi Jimbo, I found your post regarding the separation of the surname “MacNamara” from “McNamara” in the G.R.O. transcriptions online. On Apr. 25 2019 you wrote: Thu Apr 25, 2019: With regards to the Irishgenealogy.ie search engine, I should clarify that it appears to pick up "MacNamara" when searchin...

Hi Jimbo and Sharon As you both know, the surname Mack in Co. Clare is a variant of McNamara/MacNamara, but in other counties it may stand for some other surname beginning with “Mc”, so it is understandable that the G.R.O. records online treat Mack as a surname in its own right. There were quite a f...

Hi Jimbo, Firstly, well done discovering that McNamara has been transcribed as “MNamara”, and so often. The online transcriptions of the G.R.O. records usually allow for some variations, so I am surprised to hear that “MNamara” was not recognised as “McNamara” and was treated as a separate surname. ...

Moneen seems to be another name for Clooneylissane – the baptism records for Mary, Thomas, Patrick and Michael Madigan give Moneen as the address. Kilimy is another name for Killimer – see variants for Knockera Catholic parish here: https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/0792 Emily, the homeplace of Marg...

Hi Jimbo I am not sure that Catherine McNamara, whose death in Kilkishen in 1874 was reported by a Margaret McNamara, is more likely to be the wife of John McNamara (1800-1869) than is Mary Walsh. The Kilkishen address is a point in her favour, but the description of her as married comes against her...

Good work, Sharon, tracing that Matthew Madigan family to Denver, Colorado. I agree that John, who applied for the headstone, may be a son of Matthew. In the meantime I’ve been looking at another Madigan family living in Clooneylissane, Knockerra (usually called Kilimer) with a son, Thomas, born May...

Thank you, Sharon, for joining in the search for the relatives of Thomas Madigan who died in Denver, Colorado, in 1921. As for myself, I must admit to feeling lost at this stage, and of no great help. Hi Jimbo, thank you for the story about Michael Brew, demanded by me in my last posting. I must adm...

I notice that I did not do a very good job transcribing that list of priests. I stopped short at the end of the left-hand side. I should have noticed that there were more names on the right-hand side. I've now added them to my transcription

Sheila

I notice that I did not do a very good job transcribing that list of priests. I stopped short at the end of the left-hand side. I should have noticed that there were more names on the right-hand side. I am now adding them here: Rev. Michael J. Hehir, present P.P. Rev. Charles Culligan P.P. Appointed...

Hi Sharon You mention Rev. Laurence Considine in your initial post, above, and, in a later post, show that Considine served in Crusheen parish 1844-1848. I notice a Laurence Considine among the assistant priests listed by Fr. Ryan in the Kilmacduane parish baptism register. According to that list Co...

Hi Jimbo I am giving up on finding out the fate of the Garruragh McNamaras. I’ve now received the last two of four death records for John McNamara (registered in Tulla between 1864 and 1870), and neither show a death in Garruragh: 11 Nov 1869, Kilkishen: Death of John McNamara, married, aged 69, Lab...