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The James R. Reilly explanation is very good, but one thing puzzled me: in most cases the red boundary lines of plots follow the boundary lines of fields, but in some townlands these red lines cut straight across the fields (these are especially noticeable when you zoom out). The later 1887 - 1913 O...

Just now I happen to be reading Ignatius Murphy's "Before the Famine Struck", about life in West Clare 1834-1845. On pg.53 he writes about Shrove Tuesday, "Shrove Tuesday was the greatest day of the year for marriages, and Mason remarked that the Roman Catholic priests in West Clare were generally o...

Hello Gerry

You have taken a lot of trouble over my query. Thank you very much.

Sheila

Hello Gerry

Thank you for your help. That's all I needed to know and more!

Sheila

I would like to find out the first name of a Mr. McNamara, mentioned in a newspaper cutting that I found among some bits and pieces left by a Clare relative. The cutting is torn (along the crease mark I think) and only the second half remains (see attach.) and there is no date. The back of the cutti...

Thanks Pwaldron for your explanation, which makes perfect sense. I didn't know about there were latin equivalents available to priests.

Sheila

As if the variations on surnames and placenames were not confusing enough, the variations on first names can be added to our difficulties. Looking at the Family Search.org website I found a Bridget O'Keeffe's birth registered on 19 Sept. 1874, whereas she is on the Crusheen Baptismal records as "Del...

On the thread of Theobald Butler's wife - I have her In Memoriam card, which says, "Mrs Theobald Butler, Ballyline, died 12th July, 1901, aged 43 years" - just a couple of months after the census was taken. The fib about his age, told by Fr. Laurence Browne, interests me, because I had been told tha...

Paddy, Kilbakey Church is very close to Kiltoola Church, where you outran the bull. Thomas Coffey gives some information in his book, The Parish of Inchicronan (Crusheen), p.70. He thinks, because it is so close to Kiltoola, the two churches may have had some association in the past. He does not giv...

Hello Brian. Another jeweller, not German, was Dillons of Galway, who famously, in Galway at least, had a clock outside giving Dublin Time. So Galway people going to town got extra data to bring home.

Paddy, first, as a newcomer, I want to say thanks for all your work, including transcribing records, which has helped me with my own family tree. As to German immigrants and WWI, my feeling is that the German immigrants assimilated very quickly. They seem to have married Irish people. I think these ...

A tangle in this thread - my post sent September 29th was caught in the time warp and went in under Sept. 27th. Just a small note to add: the 1901 census shows Nicodemus Weiphar, clockmaker, assistant to Joseph Hartman, Jeweller, Limerick, but the 1911 census does not show him. Looks like he might h...

A few watchmaker-jewellers seem to have come to Ireland from the Blackforest area in the late nineteenth century. In 1898, Lizzie McNamara married one Adolph Heim who had a watchmaker and jeweller shop at 5 Patrick St., Limerick. He was very friendly with the Hartmanns who had a watchmakers shop in ...