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In my families I found several people who were baptised weeks or months before they were born. I ruled out errors in the dates given in the baptism registers because the entries in the latter were in chronological order. I was subsequently told that in an agricultural community ploughing and harvest...

I think “Fineborens” is an old name for the diocese of Kilfenora and Kilmacduagh. Sheila Browsing through Lateran Regesta. Vol. CCCCLXIV (fn. 1), 4 Nicholas V., De Regularibus under 1450, 12 Kal. Sept. (21 Aug.) Fabriano (f. 58d.) I read "...To the abbot of Corcomroe (de Petra fertuli, rectius de P...

The attached article from the Other Clare journal on the Vesey-Fitzgerald family ("The family records are traced back to the Fitzgibbon family...") was sent to me some years back by Sheila Duddy (I was interested in the Vesey-Fitzgeralds because they were my paternal ancestors' landlords in Tubber)....

... they originally came from "Luckid"/ Tubber. This area is largely in Galway, in the parish of Rathwilladoon... Just to summarise the geography here: Tubber (An Tobar in Irish) is a large rural area and community without officially defined borders that one would find on a map, i.e. it is not a to...

Shannon,

You might like to speak to Matthew (Mattie) Corbett who lives on the Tulla Road in Crusheen. His mother was Kathleen Fitzgibbon (who married a Corbett). I'll send you his phone number by PM.

Paddy

To muddy the waters a little, in Thomas Coffey's book The Parish of Inchicronan (chapter 20, p. 104) it says "The Fitzgibbons and Ashes were close neighbours, and this union produced one son whom they named Maurice Fitzgerald, dropping the name Fitzgibbon there and thereafter. Maurice married...". S...

shanndiego wrote:...my email and my Ancestry.com account name for my public tree if anybody wants to get on and have a look at what I have

Shannon,

Can you post that Ancestry.com account name here so that the forum members can take a look at it ?

Paddy

Dropping the letter in the mailbox is so surreal. Hi Shannon, I was wrong about that printout being dropped in the mailbox. I should have washed my ears out. The truth is even better. It was handed personally to one of the Shranagalloon Fitzgibbons so the chain of communication is complete, i.e. th...

My paternal family is from the Tubber/Crusheen/Ruan triangle area so I've done quite a bit of research on the families around there. I have not researched the Fitzgibbons directly but in the course of transcribing church records and gravestones I have come across numerous Fitzgibbons (see www.clarel...

I would suggest "The Other Clare", the annual journal of the Shannon Archaeological and Historical Society. They have a Facebook page but no website... Secretary was listed in 2009 as Peter Wise, 33 Ballycasey Crescent, Shannon, V14VP04, Ireland. E-mail: peter.wise.ie@gmail.com (the '.ie' is import...

In http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie (ref. CSO/RP/1818/440, Case of Judith Lynch, who was allegedly forced to board an emigrant ship at Kilrush, County Clare, by magistrate Lieutenant William Burroughs) we read "File relating to investigation of case of Judith Lynch, who was allegedly taken witho...

At http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie/ (ref. CSO/RP/1818/24) we read "Petition of Jacob Bennett, Mill street, Ennis, County Clare, addressed to Chief Secretary’s office, requesting passage for himself and family to British North America. He is prepared to sacrifice a proportion of future pension e...

The Baker family in the Ballyline-Corofin-Tubber triangle is one of my research targets. I found the following at http://www.csorp.nationalarchives.ie which is an amazing trove of local history and, being full of family names, is very useful for genealogists looking for family members in the first h...

Your 1,000th posting, Sharon, and all of them meaty and full of chapter-and-verse. I'm sure the other participants will join me in thanking you for your contributions, particularly the numerous members whom you have helped over the years.

All the best for the next 1,000 postings !

Paddy

Great stuff, Sheila. Flagged on the news scroll on the Clare Roots Society website at www.clareroots.org

Paddy