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by pwaldron
Sun Feb 07, 2010 7:57 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Clare roots of Muhammad Ali
Replies: 4
Views: 8329

Re: Clare roots of Muhammad Ali

The Irish edition of the Sunday Times newspaper today laid out the arguments of all sides to this debate. Apparently the evidence that Abe Grady was born in Ennis was found not in Ennis but in America. See http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/w ... 017717.ece

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by pwaldron
Wed Feb 03, 2010 4:31 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Clare roots of Muhammad Ali
Replies: 4
Views: 8329

Re: Clare roots of Muhammad Ali

Fame and fortune in the Irish media awaits anyone who can come up with the facts about this one. I look forward to seeing Sharon's work making the front pages. It's highly suspicious that the Guardian article gives such detail of the Griffith's Valuation record, but no details at all of the apparent...
by pwaldron
Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:30 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Clare roots of Muhammad Ali
Replies: 4
Views: 8329

Clare roots of Muhammad Ali

Last night, I listened to a debate on Clare FM radio about the veracity of the claim that Muhammad Ali's great-grandfather Abe Grady was from Ennis. The participants were Ennis councillor Brian Meaney, supporting the claim, and author Sean Spellissy, arguing against it. Neither cited much in the way...
by pwaldron
Mon Jan 25, 2010 10:53 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Land Commission 1976 and other years
Replies: 7
Views: 13503

Re: Land Commission 1974

This question was probably asked in the Dail at least once a year. The 1974 list is at http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0271/D.0271.197403270013.html Again there are serious typos - Risbuingham is presumably Lisluinaghan and Kileasgean is Kilcasheen. Someone with more time and energy than I...
by pwaldron
Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:48 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Some articles from The Other Clare now online
Replies: 3
Views: 8836

Some articles from The Other Clare now online

I have often referred here to articles in The Other Clare ; others have almost equally often lamented that the back issues of this excellent journal are not available online. The Tables of Contents of back issues have long been available at http://www.xs4all.nl/~tbreen/Journals/Clare.html Now, thank...
by pwaldron
Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:27 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: TAIT FAMILY FROM KILRUSH, late 1800s
Replies: 7
Views: 29740

Re: TAIT FAMILY FROM KILRUSH, late 1800s

I just spotted a mention of Rev. Tait while browsing through `Clare: History and Society', edited by Matthew Lynch and Patrick Nugent (Dublin: Geography Publications, 2008, ISBN 978-0-906602-393). Chapter 8 on pp.175-198 by David J. Butler is `Reaching "The Unawakened Multitude": Christian Evangelic...
by pwaldron
Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:21 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: O'Regan sixmilebridge and or Labasheeda
Replies: 6
Views: 16027

Re: O'Regan sixmilebridge and or Labasheeda

By coincidence, I just came across a James Regan as census Enumerator in 1911. The Enumerators were usually members of the RIC. This James Regan signed the census return for a Clare family who had moved to Cork: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Bishopstown/Haggarts_Land/402697/ ...
by pwaldron
Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:49 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Land Commission 1976 and other years
Replies: 7
Views: 13503

Re: Land Commission 1956

There is an earlier list of estates in County Clare in the hands of the Irish Land Commission from 1956 at http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie ... 70006.html
by pwaldron
Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:21 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: O'Regan sixmilebridge and or Labasheeda
Replies: 6
Views: 16027

Re: O'Regan sixmilebridge and or Labasheeda

There are some remarkable coincidences here. In the 1911 census, there was a Nora O'Regan aged 29 in Sixmilebridge and a Nora O'Regan aged 28 in Labasheeda. The Nora O'Regan in Sixmilebridge had been married for two years with one child born, one child still living (Mary Rose, aged 1). She was one o...
by pwaldron
Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:32 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: TAIT FAMILY FROM KILRUSH, late 1800s
Replies: 7
Views: 29740

Re: TAIT FAMILY FROM KILRUSH, late 1800s

There was a query about Rev. Tait a few years ago over at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/t ... 1036945068

I have information on the descendants of his predecessor in Kilrush, Rev. Williams Sorsby, but unfortunately I cannot help on Rev. Tait.

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by pwaldron
Mon Jan 04, 2010 1:48 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Tregillgas of Labasheeda to Sydney NSW, related to Frost
Replies: 1
Views: 5286

Re: Power of Labasheeda to Sydney NSW, related to Frost

Hi again Sharon More wonderful stuff! I think you should perhaps edit the title of this thread, though - the Tregillgas family is from Cornwall; it is the Power family that came from Labasheeda. Jennie Frances Tregillgas nee Power and her husband and five sons appear in the photograph at http://memb...
by pwaldron
Mon Jan 04, 2010 12:52 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: BYU website w/hundreds of family histories, including Talty
Replies: 4
Views: 10621

Re: BYU website w/hundreds of family histories, including Talty

Hi Sharon Have you tried the Dallas Morning News Archives 1885-1977 at http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives/?p_product=DMEC&p_theme=histpaper&p_action=keyword ? I took out a one day subscription ($9.95 for 1 day, 50 downloads max) about three years ago and found an enormous amount about the ...
by pwaldron
Sat Jan 02, 2010 11:26 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: BYU website w/hundreds of family histories, including Talty
Replies: 4
Views: 10621

Re: BYU website w/hundreds of family histories, including Talty

Many thanks for all this Talty information, Sharon. You must be psychic - I spent half a day during the week trying to figure out after whom the town of Talty, near Dallas, Texas was called. Your links above have filled a number of gaps. I discovered that Talty, Texas was previously known as Irish R...
by pwaldron
Wed Dec 30, 2009 12:50 pm
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: 1911 census now searchable on all fields
Replies: 0
Views: 3905

1911 census now searchable on all fields

The National Archives site has now been re-developed to include full transcription of all of the data on the household forms for 1911, including religion, occupation, relationship to head of family, literacy status, county or country of origin, Irish language proficiency, specified illnesses, and ch...
by pwaldron
Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:40 am
Forum: Clare Past
Topic: Griffiths Valuation maps viewable free at AAI
Replies: 5
Views: 14193

Re: Griffiths Valuation maps viewable free at AAI

I have been informed by people who should know about these things that the AAI maps are not contemporaneous with the printed Griffith's Valuation. The maps may be several decades more recent. Thus it is not at all surprising that people are having problems reconciling the printed listings with the o...