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by murf
Mon Mar 12, 2012 12:49 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: looking for O'Shaughneesy, Finucane roots
Replies: 7
Views: 12510

Re: looking for O'Shaughneesy, Finucane roots

One small clue here may be the fact that John O'Shaughnessy was a tailor. Certain occupations were often handed down within families through many generations. I notice that husband and wife Patrick and Mary O'Shaughnessy were tailors in Kilrush in the 1901 census. Could be a possible connection?
by murf
Wed Mar 07, 2012 3:49 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: McInerney's Ballyea/Teermclane---O'Neill--Newmarket on Fergu
Replies: 2
Views: 5686

Re: McInerney's Ballyea/Teermclane---O'Neill--Newmarket on F

Paul If you haven't already I suggest you check out the Teermaclane National School registers at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/tiermaclane_ns/tiermaclane_ns_register.htm where a number of McInerney children from Ballyea are listed. Of course these are apparently the next generat...
by murf
Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:50 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Byrne from Ennis
Replies: 2
Views: 5321

Re: Byrne from Ennis

I have a distant relative by the name of John Burns who is variously recorded upon the baptism of his children in Clondagad Parish as Burns, Byrns, Byrne and Byrnes. John and his wife Ellen Phillips did have a son Michael who was born in 1872, maybe no connection. The family lived (1901 census) in t...
by murf
Wed Feb 01, 2012 12:01 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Shoemakers named Mahon
Replies: 2
Views: 5949

Shoemakers named Mahon

Recently I had cause to return to the Tiermaclane School registers at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/tiermaclane_ns/tiermaclane_ns_register.htm In the accompanying article author Aoife de Buitléir mentions his gg grandfather Patrick Mahon, son of shoemaker John Mahon of Killerk. ...
by murf
Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:27 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Looking for family of MARY O'SHAUGHNESSY Ennis, Co. Clare
Replies: 5
Views: 10029

Re: Looking for family of MARY O'SHAUGHNESSY Ennis, Co. Clar

The Ennis Parish Baptism Register at http://www.ennisparish.com/genealogy/ lists a baptism of baby Nancy to parents Andy Shaughnessy and Margt Armstrong on 30 Dec 1843. This could be another sibling of your Mary, but as the Register only commences in 1841, I'm not sure how much help this is. I notic...
by murf
Wed Jan 11, 2012 10:12 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Luke SHINNERS and Mary LIDDY - marriage date and children
Replies: 4
Views: 8351

Re: Luke SHINNERS and Mary LIDDY - marriage date and childre

Hi again Red, are you still there? Just a thought that if you wish to learn more of your Ennis connections you may do well to browse through all the goodies on the Clare Library website. Although your ancestors emigrated in 1852, traces of the families they left behind still remain. Taking a quick l...
by murf
Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:43 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Luke SHINNERS and Mary LIDDY - marriage date and children
Replies: 4
Views: 8351

Re: Luke SHINNERS and Mary LIDDY - marriage date and childre

Hello Red The Ennis Parish website at http://www.ennisparish.com/genealogy/ opens up with the Baptismal Register search box. If you click on the grey box above, the Marriage Register search box appears. Entering Shinners for SURNAME and Liddy for WIFE MAIDEN SURNAME and 1841 comes up with a nil resu...
by murf
Thu Jan 05, 2012 10:33 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Letters after a name
Replies: 5
Views: 9200

Re: Letters after a name

Thanks for those inputs. District Councillor fits with those people listed with that appendage. Incidentally Paddy C, I neglected to mention that all of the mourners listed appeared to be male. Women did not rate a mention either in the "General Attendance" or amongst the "Chief Mourners", ie immedi...
by murf
Thu Jan 05, 2012 5:14 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Letters after a name
Replies: 5
Views: 9200

Letters after a name

I have been trying to identify individuals in a long list of mourners attending the funeral of Honor Murphy(1835-1902). I have the advantage that this funeral took place only one year after the 1901 census, so the census becomes particularly relevant for cross-matching the names. Many of the names i...
by murf
Fri Dec 02, 2011 12:04 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: British Newspaper Archive launched today
Replies: 6
Views: 10261

Re: British Newspaper Archive launched today

Regarding my Murphy search above, I first put "Edmond Murphy" in the search box and came up with (amongst other things) the following excerpt from the Cork Examiner: “ Mr.Edmond Murphy, of Mount, in the parish of Clondigad, has been fully committed to the county jail.charged with conspiring to attac...
by murf
Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:17 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: British Newspaper Archive launched today
Replies: 6
Views: 10261

Re: British Newspaper Archive launched today

With a small amount of searching I turned up an 1844 article stating that one of the Ballynacally Murphys had been committed to jail. I have yet to obtain a copy of the full article, but it looks like opening up a whole new juicy line of research.
Happy hunting.
Murf
by murf
Mon Aug 22, 2011 7:15 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Dispensary and Registrar's Districts
Replies: 23
Views: 61928

Re: Dispensary and Registration Districts

In "Murphys of the Ballynacally Area" http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/fam_his/murphy_ballynacally/main.htm I make reference to the dispensary at Ballycorick which my gg grandfather Edmond Murphy Sr rented to the Killadysert Union. My article states that there were five su...
by murf
Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:50 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Why was February so popular for marriage?
Replies: 4
Views: 8660

Re: Why was February so popular for marriage?

Thanks for that info. Certainly I remember Pancake Tuesday during my upbringing, but I wasn't aware of its implication for Irish marriages. Taking another look at the Kilmihil marriages it is obvious that they come in a rush. A good example is Feb 1857 when 17 weddings took place, culminating with f...
by murf
Tue May 31, 2011 1:59 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Why was February so popular for marriage?
Replies: 4
Views: 8660

Why was February so popular for marriage?

Recently I was examining genealogical data for Kilmihil Parish available at http://www.kilmihil.com/?page_id=17. Because of the data format it is a simple matter to arrange it by month, so I thought it might be interesting to look at the most popular months for marriages to take place. Marriages bet...
by murf
Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:33 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: National Probate Calendar
Replies: 1
Views: 4131

National Probate Calendar

Many thanks to Tom McDowell for his extractions of Clare names from the NPC which have just appeared in the Library's What's New Box. This listing is just bursting with useful genealogical info. I feel sure that many researchers will be able to extract from it their own snippets of data as I have ju...