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Miriam, Some of the original old Kilrush C Of I registers are kept in the Representative Church Body Library in Churchtown in Dublin. According to John Grenham's Tracing Your Irish Ancestors, the RCBL has baptisms 1741-1840, marriages 1766-1841 and burials 1742-1841 for Kilrush. The National Archive...

Many thanks, Paddy eile, for your typically detailed research. I momentarily thought on receipt of the above e-mail yesterday that my long-held belief that I had already paid for the IFHF databases through my taxes was just a figment of my imagination. I am glad to learn that my mental faculties hav...

I recently received the e-mail below from info@rootsireland.ie and thought that some readers of this forum might find it of interest. I will resist the temptation to make any further comment. Our online database research system is a facility for those wishing to research their own family ancestry us...

Burke's Irish Family Records (1976, p. 587) merely says "Charles (Rev), ordained 1690". Recent generations of the Hickey family have been Catholic and I may well have jumped to a hasty conclusion in using the word `priest' and thinking that the Hickeys of 1690 were also Catholic. Cornelius, Roman Ca...

Hi Fiona

On p.67 of Houses of Clare, you will find Anthony John Parker of Ballyvalley described as `Atty'. So I vote for Anthony.

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My attention has been drawn to a record in the new "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881" collection at pilot.familysearch.org which does not appear to be in either the old "Irish Civil Registration Indexes" collection or the IGI. This is the birth of Denis to Daniel Sullivan and Mary Harrington i...

The Hickeys of Ballycuneen are mentioned in the following articles: author = {Patrick Hogan}, year = 1948, title = {Thady {O'Halloran} of Ballycunneen, Co. Clare. (1727--1798). His Common-Place Book Edited, with a Pedigree and some Notes}, journal = {North Munster Antiquarian Journal}, volume = 5, n...

I paid my first ever visit to Ruan yesterday, which prompted me to review this thread on the famous local schoolteacher. The Clare Library website at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/kilchreest_graveyard_inscriptions_sectiond.htm has the following bilingual inscript...

The "Ireland Births and Baptisms, 1620-1881" collection which can be searched at http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#c=fs%3A1584963&p=collectionDetails appears very similar to a collection which could be searched at http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/igi/search_IGI.asp?clear_fo...

I just noticed when glancing through the recent published tombstone transcriptions from Old Shanakyle in Kilrush at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/shankill_graveyard_transcriptions_east.htm that a lot of those buried there are described as "Enfant de Marie" or "E ...

Just came across this in my grandmother's diary for Tuesday 2 August 1949: `Letter from Cissie O'Neill [née Clancy] about some legacy left by a Thomas Joseph Clancy R.I.P. of Rockhampton, Queensland. The Guards are enquiring of Uncle Michael [Clancy, Cissie's father] if he knows anything about him &...

I agree about the gobbledy-gook. For example, the word `marriage' in the search results has (hopefully temporarily) reverted to `residence', which appeared briefly when the database first went online. I have edited my original posting above to reflect the slight change in the URL for direct access t...

Hi Noel Welcome to the Clare Past forum! I agree that there appear to have been two Capt. William Taylors in the 28th Regiment, both with connections in Limerick and south-east Clare. Ann Royse's husband, apparently the older of the two, as he married in 1774, is also mentioned in the Limerick Stand...

Clare County Library has begun publishing transcriptions of West Clare tombstone inscriptions at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/index_graves.htm This collection covers every cemetery southwest of a line running roughly from Miltown Malbay to Lissycasey. It was com...

Caitriona Crowe of the National Archives spoke about the census project at the Family History Day at the Dublin City Library and Archives a couple of weeks ago. There are thousands of corrections to the census transcriptions being submitted via the website, as I presume you have done with the Sheeha...