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The family of John and Catherine McNamara of Roslara has been discussed at length on page 30 of the search for the missing Civil War soldier Thomas McNamara of Glandree. The whereabouts of their son Timothy or Thadeus, born on 1 March 1882, are still unknown. There was some speculation that he was t...

Hi Sheila, Thanks for providing a link to the headstone transcriptions of The Hill graveyard in Ogonnelloe. I've now split out "Mary Anne", so John Sheedy has two daughters and not just the one. The civil birth record for "Anne Sheedy" in 1874 was written as "Anne Sheedey", and properly transcribed ...

Hi Sheila, The mystery how Matt Sheedy and Timothy McNamara could be cousins has been solved. They were not. Timothy McNamara was a first cousin of Mary McNamara, daughter of Daniel McNamara of Tingaree, and granddaughter of Mary Mulcahy Devitt Sheedy. Mary McNamara was accurately reported as the ni...

Jimbo, in your account of the Fossa More McNamaras, you say “John Mack”, of Tingaree, married Winifred Mingoue but the address is Fossa More, not Tingaree. The address for Winifred McNamara, who died in Jan. 1901, is also Fossamore, not Tingaree: Hi Sheila, the widower "John Mack" married Winifred ...

THE EXTRA POLICE TAX. (BY TELEGRAPH) Ennis, Friday. At Ennis Petty Sessions to-day, Mr. Thomas Green presiding, Timothy Griffey and eleven others, farmers, residing in the townland of Cappamore, were brought before the court by the police for refusing to pay the amount of police tax levied for the ...

Hi Sheila, Good job discovering that Tingaree was in Fossa More townland, also known as Waterpark. After searching and failing to find "Curracloon" in the 1901 census (upon reading the original posting), I didn't try to find "Tingaree" beyond looking at an alphabetical listing of Clare townlands. Mi...

Here is Mary McNamara, the sister of your Irish born grandfather (John, I think, but you've never shared this) in the 1911 census, age 7, a "visitor", in the Long household in Sellernaun, East: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Clare/Inishcaltra__North/Sellernaun__East/369437/ Martin ...

FEARFUL MURDER IN THE COUNTY CLARE. A cold-blooded and diabolical murder was committed at Rathclooney, about a mile from Spancilhill on Saturday night. The victim was a respectable tenant farmer named Michael Molony. Between seven and eight o'clock p.m. he was sitting in the parlour of his dwelling...

Hi Virginia, No need to apologize. My last posting from 2019 was a decade after your original posting. It would have been better form on my part if I had sent you a message that your thread had been updated. If I was writing to you today with the theory that your Guerins might have been from Tulla p...

Hi Sheila Thank you for researching and sharing your discovery that Patrick McNamara of Knockreddan married in 1919 and died a widower in 1947 at the grand old age of 97 years. Many Crusheen civil records are in Ennis Parish, we might find the death record for his wife, Mary Clancy McNamara, in that...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for posting another poem that referred to Crusheen. The Australian poet Marion Miller Knowles (1865 - 1949) has a biography on wikipedia. She was born in Australia, so the poem "Crusheen" about leaving Ireland has a fair bit of "poetic license". I suspect that Knowles had no con...

Hi Paul, I'm glad that you agree that "Pat Mahana" in the 1870 census was your great-great-grandfather. Thanks for providing the registry with "Parish of Gland, County Clare" on the FamilySearch website. As you are no doubt aware, it is still not possible to load attachments on the Clare Past Forum....

The first trial in March 1878 of Patrick McNamara for the murder of Patrick Kearney was very interesting in the large number of witnesses. In comparison, the moonlighting attacks of the 1880's appear to have had very few witnesses who were willing to come forward. This witness testimony at the trial...

CLARE SPRING ASSIZES, 1878. CROWN COURT—Wednesday The Lord Chief Baron took his seat on the bench in the Crown Court soon after ten o'clock this morning. THE CRUSHEEN MURDER CASE. Sergeant Sherlock intimated the Crown were ready to proceed with the trial of Patrick McNamara , against whom true bill...

CRUSHEEN Do you remember, Crusheen in far- ___ off County Clare? Ah, 'tis always, and 'tis always I ___ am wishing I am there! When the morning sun is making ___ dewdrop diamonds with its sheen, Oh, my heart is with the shamrocks ___ that are shining in Crusheen! O 'twas I that had the bounding fee...