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Sheila, thanks for the additional data on postmaster Thomas's younger children with his 2nd wife Anne, which does in fact include the Mary Kate present in the 1911 household but not the 1901 listing. To keep my prior posting streamlined, I had mentioned only the Molony and Keating cluster of houses ...

I thought to do maybe a half-hour of follow-up on a New York news item, to confirm the published surname by a quick check of the 1901 census for Feakle. I suspected that Mahony in the news item might actually be Molony, but I had no clue that my quick look would turn into more than 3 hours and would...

Jimbo, I may have a 1936 article listing Michael Quinlivan of Brooklyn joining in song with several Clunes at his friend James McMahon's wedding. This was filed under McMahon in my saved e-files but found when using Clune as a search term: Popular Clare Wedding Held in Brooklyn A pretty marriage was...

David, I am trying to tread lightly here with this part of the county, which is not my family's area. However, the civil registration which you had for your target Michael, son of John O'Neal of "Inagh Islands" in its full form labels the father John as a "small farmer" and pensioner, indicating som...

Jimbo, this is my second attempt to post a reply reacting to your research based on my old saved D.C. obituary for Thomas Reidy. My first one disappeared when I somehow clicked out of this Forum website while still typing. This attempt will be shorter, but be aware that I may have more info to share...

Jimbo, you have been concerned that your evidence on Johanna Reidy Mealy' is a bit thin. I can add something from my saved obituaries, most of which are on an e-file and thus easily searchable. While I have no connection to Reidy and though Johanna is not listed by name in the below obit, the K Stre...

Sheila, I have used Google Books to reach some historical material that may provide the insights you seek and/or may inspire further curiosity on your part. I have been aware of the Society with the long name regarding promoting education for the Irish poor, also known (for short) as the Kildare Pla...

Sheila, the subject of education in old, rural Ireland is both fascinating and essential for gaining a true grasp of how, county by county, Ireland joined the modern world and left behind its status as fit primarily for plantations. I had to start down the path of educational reform in Clare because...

Matthew, I am asking for additional questions on the topic of American military service to be directed to me by "private message" (see the upper right corner of your computer screen, under the large whtle search box set into the Library Forum blue banner). Although I was able to find the birth recor...

Matthew, I am right there with Sheila in appreciating context for the era involved in your posting. She added links to imagery. I went back into my old e-files and found a Google Books snippet (screenshot) from an even earlier time preserved by William Shaw Mason in his series of publications 1814, ...

Those links are great ways to enhance the ease of reaching the involved extracts & drawings for old Clare available thru NUI/Galway. Thanks, Sheila, for taking the time to lay those out here, for our confirmed and budding antiquarians. Readers have a fine way to while away the hours awaiting better ...

Sheila and Jimbo, Another cascade of information and obscure data that could never be unearthed without your near-endless fount of determination and acquired knowledge from previous forays into the mysteries of rural old Clare and how many ways an Irish name becomes mangled or otherwise evolved over...

This is a fairly major development, because this database provides, quite instantly, legible images of whatever a court file has on an individual naturalized on a given date. You can read for yourself the actual typing or handwriting, exactly as it was incorporated into the court record -- not a tra...

I have no choice but to be interested in Thomondgate, particularly when the year 1852 is mentioned. Until NLI's filmed RC baptismal registers came online, I had to accept vague references to my 2x greatgrandfather Patrick Carberry's first children's births in Ireland (before he with wife Catherine a...

To ensure the broadest possible dissemination of the current status for accessibility to the Ordnance Survey-era Name Books, associated Letters, and any related treatments (such as a version produced under the direction of Fr. O'Flanagan) on a very "granular" level of place names known in the era be...