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Hi Sheila, There indeed appear to be a few Molony's in Tulla parish. But don't worry I'm only interested in Michael Molony of Uggoon who married Mary McNamara, the daughter of Matthew McNamara, granddaughter of Andrew McNamara and Bridget McNamara. About the McNamara House being in Plot 8B instead o...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for your timely review of my analysis of the two Andrew McNamara's. Your corrections are very satisfying. I never liked the idea of an 18 year old granddaughter being the informant for Margaret Clanchy McNamara in 1890 when she had several adult children still living. Ellen McMa...

Thanks Sharon for sharing your Ulster County NY findings. The search for the missing Thomas McNamara of Glandree will get back to NY research fairly soon. But first a few loose ends need to be resolved in Tulla Parish before I bid adieu to the fairest spot in Paddy's land, the Hills of Sweet Glandre...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for your feedback. I wasn't too surprised that you didn't approve of my suggestion that a widower Matthew McNamara might have married his sister-in-law Anne Halpin. My greater willingness to accept or even consider that an Irish widower would remarry does beg for a cultural expl...

Thanks Sheila and Sharon for the explanations for why a priest might make so many name mistakes in the marriage and baptism registers. Knowing more about the Tulla priest who was doing the recording would certainly be helpful (age, was he new to the parish etc). One thing to consider is that of my "...

Hi Sheila, Your transcriptions of the Tulla baptism and marriage registers are excellent. I'm not sure how you could have possibly made sense of such messy handwriting. Thank you for your tremendous effort. The search for the missing Thomas McNamara would never have been undertaken without your tran...

Hi Sheila, Thanks as always for your feedback. I wanted to get back to Thomas McNamara #1, the son of Michael McNamara and Mary Cunningham born in 1833 in Glandree and comment on your earlier feedback. My theory was that this Mary and Michael McNamara only had 3 children due to Mary Cunningham becom...

Hi Sheila, Thanks for explaining the term "Sheedy McNamara" as you had previously mentioned this a few times and I had wondered if there was any significance in the term. Your discovery of seven Sheedy McNamara's in the Tulla baptism register is a great find. I need to study your new information fur...

Thanks for the feedback as well as the Nora Meehan Carroll obituary and having a look for John Meehan's obituary in New York. I might have another look for John Meehan another day, but for now will focus on the search for the missing Thomas McNamara of Glandree. I checked the Tulla marriage and bapt...

Hi Kerry, Valkenburg would have to be one of the less common Irish names! FamillySearch has all the documents you requested for free, it just now requires you to register. Below is a search result which includes the census reports, a marriage, the military records, his immigration in 1906 and a bit ...

Hi Sharon, Thanks very much for providing the Meehan obituaries from the New York Times as they provide some interesting new clues worthy of further exploration. Hi Sheila, Yes, the bifurcation of John McNamara and Mary Kelly into two separate families in Glandree and Derryulk leads to lots of new p...

Hi Sheila, Thank you for researching the family of Anne McNamara and John Meehan of Derryulk. Looks like all their children made it to New York except the eldest son Michael Meehan. Elizabeth McNamara Hornbeck died in Wawarsing in February 1910. She was always a long shot to receive relatives immigr...

Hi Sheila, My apologies as my last paragraph was indeed confusing. Yes, of course, if Thomas McNamara the missing Civil War soldier is Thomas born to John McNamara and Mary Kelly in 1832, then Margaret is his younger sister and her children are his nieces and nephews. What I was trying to convey was...

Hi Sheila, Julia O'Neill McNamara died in Pennsylvania on 19 January 1910; her parents were listed as Michael O'Neill and Catherine Casey; birth date as 6 February 1834. The death record was most likely completed by her husband Thomas McNamara who died in 1925, so more likely to be accurate than if ...

Hi Sheila, I'm not sure that your mother was necessarily incorrect in the story she told you. Perhaps she was referring to a time in your ancestry when the rules were less strict, and a widow would indeed marry a sister of his deceased spouse without a dispensation. Perhaps this was common in the fi...