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Hi Jimbo and Sharon, Thanks again for your invaluable help. I have, almost certainly, found Patrick living away from his mother in the 1880 census, with four children. One of them is Mary, who I found on FamilySearch Cook County births of her Farrell children, was herself named Mary Isabell (sic). S...

Jimbo - Ye gods!! is all I can say. You have turned my whole story upside down! It never crossed my mind that the mother would have misinterpreted the question of who was living me her to that extent. If a common event, it could call many census records into question. I had, mentally, queried the pr...

Hi Jimbo Thanks again for your continued interest. I'm afraid the new link to the illinois records doesn't work either. I hadn't realised that some websites only worked in the US, and even going through a World subscription to Ancestry gets the same result - zilch! I should explain that this is not ...

Hi Jimbo Fortunately I have no intention of travelling to Chicago, but thanks for the warning! Looking again at Sharon's post, it does look very like the family I'm looking at. I was too easily scared off by the deceased father. I tried the links to the Illinois marriages and deaths but they seem to...

Thank you Kurt, Jimbo and Sharon for the interest you have taken in my query. i can't quite get my head around a street being long enough for classy houses at one end and labourers' houses at the other end, but that simply shows the difference in expectations between Chicago and Dublin! We do small ...

Hi, Is there anyone on the forum who is familiar with the streets of Chicago? I am tracing a family named Kane/Keane from Furoor who emigrated to Chicago in 1865. From biographical information of one of the family who became a nun it is known that they were living in the Holy Family parish. I have b...

Hi Murf Church of Ireland (Protestant) marriages had civil registration from 1845. The William Morton marriage is entered on irishgenealogy.ie but unfortunately those records haven't been scanned yet so the image of the marriage cert is not available. Because it is a civil registration, the registra...

I knew I had seen the pupils in the censuses but could not find them when I was writing the last post - thanks Sheila. The nuns were enumerated in Arthurs Row.

As Sheila says, not an answer to the immediate question but may be of use to someone elds.

Lucille

Susan I would be really interested in the answer you get from the Ennis convent. Some years ago I remember reading online about a past pupils gathering in the secondary (second level) school where the records after 1920, I think, were available, which seems to imply that there were no records before...

Hi Blondie You may not find more specific records in the local history centre BUT they have put together a fantastic collection of odd sources and indexed them on old fashioned card indexes - they recently got another set of drawers as the number of card entries had grown so much. Peter and Brian go...

Hi Matthew, I am currently putting together a book on Women born in County Clare, one of whom is Captain Kennedy's daughter (my only cheat - she wasn't actually born in Clare!). As Sheila mentioned, Ciarán Ó Murchadha's book is excellent on his work in Clare. While waiting for my book to be publishe...

Hi Sinead Some solicitors'records made it to the National Archives in Bishop Street in Dublin though I believe an awful lot of those have not been catalogued and are mouldering away in storage. The rest are scattered around the country and probably many have been destroyed to make space for more. Do...

Thank you Murf for that suggestion. It's a very full article but worth taking time over.

I'm happy now that my pair shared great grandparents.

Thanks for your help

Lucille

Thank you Sharon. Now just have to work out how they were related!

Lucille

Hi I have a 1860 marriage in Miltown Malbay from the NLI records, where written under the names of bride and groom is "the above were dispensed 3rd & 3rd". I understand that they were within the 3rd degree of consanguinity or relationship which required a dispensation from the Bishop (I think?) befo...