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The Local Studies Centre's Dunboyne Abstracts (online, Library site) seems to provide Fr. Fahy's forename, in his sister's death mention: Limerick Chronicle 14 June 1845 "At Toonagh House, Quin, county Clare, Mary, wife of James O'Halloran, jun. Esq, sister to the late Rev. Charles Fahy, P.P. of New...

With a good nudge from Kerry Barlow to hit the parish records and this weekend's free access to Ancestry.com's and MyHeritage's UK records (through May 8th), I am supposing you will be busy. However, the following may assist in finding the earlier generation of your extended family, who likewise fou...

Having a Melbourne VIC death notice already on hand, I should add it to round out what Jimbo just posted: ...the eldest son was John Whelan, who was married to Eliza McNamara, of Formerla, daughter of Michael Sheedy McNamara and Mary Molony, born in 1836. While John of this Whelan-McNamara couple wa...

Jimbo, one small detail for changing during your editing window to do so, so that your remarks are complete and as you would have them. In your 1st paragraph: When McNamara McNamara of Derrymore died in 1876, he was a married man. Your eyes were not allowing you to see that "McNamara McNamara" was m...

Sheila, some comments on this: I’ve looked at Denis Byrnes who was visiting those Clogher McNamaras in 1901 and described in the census of that year as a nephew. He is the son of Michael McNamara's sister, Anne, who had married 31 Jan 1874: Marriage of Pat Burns, Farmer, Ploughlands, son of Thady Bu...

Sheila, you are adding to this thread faster than I can get back here to post another source for you -- the one which I announced on this Forum when the National Archives (Dublin) first put online the 1905 Teachers Census. Arranged alphabetically by teacher's surname, you will find James Duggan age ...

Sheila said: However, Glen South is a very small townland and the adjoining townland of Glen North is also very small, so I’m doubting that Patrick McNamara would have called Glann a parish. Your input on local usage of "Glann" for a location with a more formal name based on the spelling Glen is inv...

JohnMac1952, your words of appreciation are fine but it is disturbing to see your most recent posting about your family history that you have had prior to your first posting here. When you request free research, you are obliged to do your best job of reciting what you already have on hand. I am your...

Sheila and Jimbo, All this analysis is the indispensable key to unlock these records so that johnmac can ever break through to what he has been searching for his Clare roots. That you are persisting in refining your findings in view of the various jurisdictions and commonplace references to the land...

Jimbo, your findings are illustrating for johnmac how very interwoven his people were around the turn of the century, before the younger generation left for the U.S. Sellernaun is close by Woodpark where Timothy McNamara was born, unlike his siblings who had Curracloon for their birthplace. That's t...

Sheila, I fully accept the 1889 Kilclaran wedding whose civil registration you found for Timothy's parents Michael McNamara & Mary Rodgers. That year better fits the first-born John's birth in 1890. I am not sure why that 1889 event didn't pop up for me but maybe I stopped short after searching only...

Sheila and johnmac, I started the unraveling process by focusing on Timothy McNamara, which is a less-used forename for McNamara in that end of Clare in that time period. I can't show all that readily-accessible records provide but johnmac can access those and note what he wants to preserve. One que...

Paul, Your sincerity and willingness to discuss family dynamics are admirable. I already knew about the Springfield MA and Michigan aspects, because I had looked into those post-1870 years. I assure you that my advice was made after careful and full consideration of what you have on hand, i.e. what ...

Paul of Michigan, I have been staying on the sidelines while Jimbo and Sheila have provided their input into your knotty dilemma of how your Patrick McNamara fit into the Cleveland McNamara families of the 1870s. You are now indicating that you cut out of that discussion before it ended back about p...

In the newspaper the Boston Pilot a singular death item appeared amid ordinary death mentions on 13 March 1858 for a man there called Kinney whom I want to believe is Kenney. I also want this poem to be original, so that it stands as a wonderful creation in memory of a friend. That’s inspiring, and ...