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Hi June - in my experience you have to use every record to hand to work out any connections between these two Hallorans. I trawled the baptism and marriage records, once I had worked out the church parishes that aligned with the civil townland. The interconnecting families then gave me a good idea o...

Thank you again Sheila for another huge effort. I am trying to trace where the many Kierce and Hehir emigrants to Ballarat (and environs) came from in Clare. Your work has proved invaluable, yet again.

Kerry

Sharon, thank you for this trail. I have Callinan and Cahir as sponsors at some Kierce related families in the 1820s/30s/40s, also Mullins related to Griffy family, all in townlands adjacent Commons South. I would love email address of the people looking for a Robert Kierce, Co Clare, as I believe m...

Hi Sheila - yes that book is very depressing, but there are other books which throw more light on the wider range of convicts who survived to live ordinary, and sometimes successful lives. The Michael Hynes convicted along with his Hehir relatives, would appear to have married Catherine Hehir in abo...

Further comment to Sheila's re Michael McMahon stating the possibility that the Kierce families (amongst others) may have arrived in Clare after about 1800 (following the Battle of the Diamond, Co Armagh). Several of my Kierce forebears, around Commons South townland, certainly appear to have been o...

Thanks, Sheila, for that clarification of McMahon's comments re possible Ulster background of some family names in Clare by early 1800s. I will post further comments under Kierce of Rath KIllinaboy

Kerry

Thank you for the note about the possibility of the Ultach names in Co Clare, in which Kierse/Kierce is mentioned. My gggg grandmother was a Kierce from near Corofin, and I wondered why there were so few in the Tithes Books in this part of Clare. I think her brother was a Francis Kierce, married to ...

Hi Sheila - yesterday I found The birth of a child to Catherine Hehir & Michael Hynes, which confirmed my sleuthing about Michael Hynes (transported to Tasmania in 1852, his indent showing wife as Kate and 1 child). He was convicted same date as Catherine's sister, mother and 2 cousins; Your hard wo...

Many thanks are owed to you Sheila - what a huge job, so valuable to many of us, some who do not know it yet!

regards, Kerry

Hi Sharon - thank you for those references. White certainly thinks the O'Hehirs are Dalcassian. The earlier history of the O'Hehir is stage 2 of my project, and I keep getting side-tracked by new info as it arrives, including the exciting genetic genealogy material! Haven't completed stage 1 of the ...

Hi Sharon, in trying to ascertain the lineage of the O'Hehir tribe, two sources say they are not Dalcassian, but of UiFiginte background. This group were located in Limerick and pushed into Clare by the McNamaras. By 1100 AD located in UiCaisin (I think this is the Islands/Inchiquin) locality (Frost...

Wow, such a sterling effort Sheila. Thank you so much for your hard work on these - and having sort by townland is fantastic - enables us to see all those close connections. Have found at least one baptism showing a guessed connection between the 3 family names of those transported for the same "cri...

Hi Kierce seekers, the following is my transcription of the birth of a John Kierce: 11 April 1832 John Kierce son of Thomas & Nancy of Longafolla; sp=Robert Kierce of Corrofin & Honora McKierney (?). I have seen in my own tree that Ann and occasionally Hannah were "shortened/nick-named" to Nancy. Ke...

How wonderful to have these Sheila - thank you so much for this "labour of love". I hope your eyesight is still in tact! Is it going to be posted to the "What's New" at the Library sight, so more people can find your efforts?

Kerry

In researching my Hehir family, I have come across a thesis dealing with Irish families who settled at Baker's Flat, Kapunda, SA. As there are 104 names, many of them Clare names, I thought others researching their family members who migrated, may find this research interesting and useful. Arthure, ...