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Hello again Sheila, As indicated in my last email, I have now followed up my old contacts, but did not get anywhere due to a combination of their old age and illness, death in one case and so on. I will continue to pursue but it becomes more difficult with the passage of time, and also with the pass...

Thanks Sheila, Yes I noted those records for John Considine in the various records on Considines generally, as I checked the usual Christian names when checking through findmypast.ie. You had also mentioned them in previous posts, I think. It is hard to make sense of all these relationships but will...

Thanks for that Sheila - you have covered a lot of points which show indeed the depth of the research you have done. Maybe you might write it up sometime for a wider public. I am a member of the Genealogical Society of Ireland who are always looking for interesting material like this (www.familyhist...

Thanks for that Sheila - you have covered a lot of points which show indeed the depth of the research you have done. Maybe you might write it up sometime for a wider public. I am a member of the Genealogical Society of Ireland who are always looking for interesting material like this (www.familyhist...

Many thanks Jimbo for all that information and perspective. On a gentle note, I am not confusing political and social status. I worked with politicians for much of my life and they come in all forms of social and wealth status but high political clout and achievement do not rule out a biological rel...

Thanks Sheila, I'm finding it difficult to see any significant difference in social standing between Michael G. and Patrick Considine of Mill Street, grocer and spirit dealer in 1867 per the Directory - big? deal then to appear there? He and his family consistently describe themselves in the records...

Hello Sheila, Thanks for reply. I replied an hour or so ago and message appeared and then disappeared. Here goes again. Yes, Henry and Coughlan's directory available in findmypast records. My father's friend is clearly a descendant of Patrick Considine and Lizzie Rickard - see baptism of Michael, da...

Hello, Deirdre Carroll here, daughter of Joe Carroll (1916 to 1999) who lived at 44 Abbey Street and later in the Borheen, son of Michael Carroll, club steward. I have been following this interesting discussion intermittently and recall that my father often mentioned over the years his various good ...

Thanks for that useful update Beth. I will follow up in the records that Donoghue name. Rosemary Manning and her husband Gene visited us in Ireland practically every year over a fifteen year period, with their daughters visiting also on occasion. Christy, her father, kept in touch with my father ove...

Hello Beth, Deirdre Carroll here - you will have seen my earlier messages about my family's connection with your Fitzgibbon family. Another connecting family were the Mannings (written in earlier times in Crusheen as Manion, later Mangan) who lived on the same street as your family and also came fro...

Hello folks again, I noted a Patrick Connell in Griffith's Valuation at number 50 in The Borheen - not too far from Drumbiggle. Mary Connell is at house 54. In the Petty Sessions records, there is a Michael Connell from Ennis in Limerick prison with his wife Anne in 1865, convicted of stealing oats....

Hi Folks, I would be happy to do some more research on Connell coopers in Limerick on say findmypast.ie but I am heading off early tomorrow to Sydney, Australia for three weeks! I am happy to return to it when back. Limerick and Ennis are so near that possibility of a relationship quite likely? Also...

Hi Viv,

That's looking good! Once I saw cooper as the the trade, I thought of all the coopers I had come across when researching Carrolls! Quite likely they knew one another!

Deirdre

Hello Folks, Have you considered possible connections with Connells in Limerick City, not far from Ennis? There were coopers there with the name Connell. My Great Grandfather Bernard Carroll was born in Limerick in 1831 and came to live in Ennis, working as the coachman on the mail coach. From resea...

Hi Folks again, An interesting twist is that Lahardan House later became the home of the Griffey family. One of this family Anna was my grandmother's best friend and she often spoke about her. I understand that there is a lake called after her in the area. Anna lived to over 100 years, dying in Gort...