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Hi Mick O

Thank you for letting me know about that site.

Sheila

This notice appeared in the The Clare Journal on September 7th, 1882, and was copied by The Irish Canadian: Kelly: On Tuesday, aged 63 years, at Port House, Ruan, in this county, Jeremiah Brew Kelly Esq J.P. The deceased gentleman was a member of an ancient Irish race & on the maternal side was the ...

Yes, I am fairly sure that Michael was a younger son of Denis Glynn and Anne (Nancy) McNamara of Knockaderra. Doora-Kilraghtis parish records (which include baptisms for Templemaley) show the baptisms of two older sons, Bartley (of Denis Glynn and Nancy McNamara) on 22nd August, 1837, and Denis (of ...

Hi all It has taken me a couple of days to come around to accepting that women did not attend funerals in the late nineteenth century. I've been talking to a few people and one person says that this practice continued in Donegal until well into the twentieth century. I think Murf is right in saying ...

Hi Lucille. You might be interested in this column by John Grenham in The Irish Times from 20 April, about gaps in transcriptions:
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/herit ... -1.2178591

I think women attended funerals in the late nineteenth century also, but that only the names of male mourners were noted by the newspaper reporters. In Ulysses , Leopold Bloom attends the funeral of Paddy Dignam. At the cemetery “Mourners came through the gates: woman and a girl …Girl’s face stained...

I think that women did attend funerals - at least in the early part of the century. One of the stories in William Carleton’s Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (first published anonymously in 1830) is ‘The Party Fight and Funeral’. In this story the coffin is carried by four men, but the wido...

Hi Lucille

I have found the same in the Ennis registration district. Strangely, it seems it was not necessary to have registered a death in order to probate a will. Was a newspaper notice/report of the death a substitute, I wonder.

Sheila

A great many priests did not state whether the father of the bride (or bridegroom) was dead or not. In the case of my own ancestors, it is rarely that "dead" or "alive" is entered after the father's name. There was no heading, or column, in the certificate to prompt the giving of this information. S...

Clooneylissane is spelled "Clooneylissaun" in the 1911 census. Tim is 74 and Margaret is 72. Two of their children are living with them - Denis, now head of household, and Jane. The form shows that Tim and Margaret have been married 41 years, and have had seven children of whom only two are living. ...

Hi Kevin The inscriptions for the Killimer [Burrane (Old)] graveyard donated to clarelibrary by the Kilrush Youth Centre/Senan Scanlan, include a Madigan-Clohessy headstone (no. 88): " Erected by Timothy Madigan, Clooneylissaun in memory of his beloved father Patrick Madigan who died March 22nd 1852...

Hi Declan I am interested in the Knockaderry Glynns, especially Bartholomew Glynn (1837 – about 1880), whose father was Denis Glynn. Bartholomew lived at Greenhill, in the townland of Cahercalla, in the 1860s and 1870s. There's headstone in Corrovorrin graveyard for Dennis Glynn P.L.G., who died in ...

Thanks, Kurt, for your help. I've now used that button to send my message.

Sheila

Hello Lisa

My great grandmother was a sister of your g. g. grandmother, and I can give you some information on their mother, Ann Mungovan. If you wish to contact me by email, the administrator of this forum can it give you.

Sheila

I think the acres in Tithes were Irish acres, whereas the acres in Griffiths are statute acres. One Irish acre is equal to about 1.62 acres (according to Wikipedia).

Sheila