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Women not going to funerals was correct and was not an irish or a West of Ireland thing it was also in the UK. I dont know if you saw cranfield based on the Eliza Gaskell book which one of the episodes was all about women not going to funerals and how revolutionary it was for a woman to follow her f...

Lucille I have a fair bit on the Shannons of Kildimo. Freda Shannon who is Paddy's cousin does not think they were related. However Denis is a name in her family she has a brother Denis. She told me the house the Shannons lived in - another family have it now. She said they were local landlords and ...

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The Mercy Archives here in Dublin are incredibly helpful info@mercyarchives.ie and keep record of Mercy nuns who went to the states. They helped me out with my own family

I suggest getting onto them

Margaret

Denis Shannon is mentioned twice in the 1807 presentments as repairing roads in the right area (near Annagh). He is also mentioned with the Mahons which could mean he is related to the Cragaknock Shannons but may not. Paddy Waldron gave me a completely unfollowable courtcase which talks about the cr...

Thanks that is interesting. There is a book of his poems in the NLI.

One on Kilrush including mention of the school he went to there. He seems to have travelled a fair bit he is coming home from the Carribean (I think)

Its not mentioned on this link although lough doone is - doesnt mean it wasnt there - the road to Ennis 1844
http://www.aughty.org/pdf/3roads_ennis1844.pdf

I am sure you know that Michl is just a short way of writing Michael as Edwd for Edward, Chas for Charles and Jno for John (I know why other but they did)

Shiela I am related to the Knockaderry Glynns (someone else mentioned one who lives in Kilrush on this forum). they say that they are not related to the Kilrush Glynns but i f they had a Bartholemew then they might be. I will pm you and put you in touch with some of the other cousins who said they w...

Edel is not a distant cousin of yours. She was Glynn married to Glynn her Glynns are different Glynns. (shes my second cousin hence my knowledge) Her dcd husbands side of the family are the Glynns you want, she may be able to put you in touch with them, I doubt she will know re family trees and dist...

The name Donlan was probably modern day spelling Donellan if that is of any help. There were Caseys who were a landowning family around Quilty Kilmurry Ibricken and also in Kilfarboy. You will find them in Burkes peerage. If they were the same family it couls be why robert called himself gent. If yo...

What I mean is the family honoured the will by paying the bequests but the will was never proved and would never have ended up in the calendar of wills

If you have a Reilly vault you know other members of the family went into they are most likely buried there. Not everyones names always got added to a gravestone. This is not always about money its about someone organising the inscription. I know my gt gt uncle is buried in the Kenny vault in Kilmur...

I dont know Sinead but I have also seen a copy of a will that was never actually proved and so would not be in the calendar. It was honoured.

That is what I was talking about

Margaret

For one family I am researching a distant cousin collected copies of wills in early 1900s. For some well off relatives they made wills, the wills were honoured but never proved. Also in many cases people gave their children and grandchildren their inheritances while they were still alive. You dont a...

Someone just got in touch with me who is related to the Reidys who Father Tom came from. He is Brown. Two Powell sisters married Moloney and Reidy. Their father was Patrick Powell married to he thinks Margaret Kelly Kenny. That is obviously untrue. She was either Margaret Kenny or Margaret Kelly. Th...